Mônica Mascarenhas
Edwards Lifesciences

Mônica has been a nurse for 20 years, widely experienced in Intensive Care. She has worked in medical equipment manufacturers for 11 years. At the moment she is a Product Manager HVT/CSS at Edwards Lifesciences in Brazil.

Book: "The Monk and the Executive"

Hobby: Traveling

Lucky Number: 2510

City to visit: Taorina, in Italy

Political Party: hard to answer

Current Challenge: to reach professional goals

Future Challenge: to get old with dignity

Guilherme Rodrigues
Danone

Rodrigues is a manager, a professor, researcher and consultant for food concepts creation. He is in charge of Scientific Affairs and Claims at Danone in Brazil.

Book: "Thus spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche.

Hobby: to ride my own Harley Davidson.

Lucky Number: all of them.

City to visit: Paris, in France.

Political Party: I see the political parties as I see religions, at a distance.

Current Challenge: to consolidate the probiotics market in Brazil, from the consumer's point of view as well as regulatory.

Future Challenge: to set up conditions so that lower-class consumers can afford to buy functional foods. This will cause a real impact on health conditions as a whole.