Marcos Prospero

biography

Marcos is Managing Partner of Robert Wong Executive Consulting, Cornerstone's member office for Brazil located in Sao Paulo.

He studied at Escola Vera Cruz and Colégio Santa Maria, graduated in Economics from Universidade de São Paulo, and holds an MBA degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.  He also took the Harvard Business School extension course in Strategic Human Resources Management.

Marcos started his professional career at Unibanco and, during 15 years, accumulated experience in Human Resources, Supply, Real Estate, Customer Service, and Special Projects.

He was Vice President of Human Resources at Walmart from 2007 up to 2011 and also a member of the Walmart Staff Team (Board) and a Walmart Institute Board Member. During this time he was responsible for the working welfare of approximately 80,000 employees during a period of business expansion, change management, integration of acquired companies, and management of organizational development, including an aggressive redirection of the incentive compensation plan

In 2010, he was nominated by the magazine Você RH one of the top Human Resources Managers in Brazil.

In 2011 Marcos joined Robert Wong Executive Consulting as Partner working on R4U projects of the Executive Search Division. He is President of SORRI Brasil, a NGO focused on the inclusion of handicapped individuals in the labor market and is also an active member of Grupo Diógenes de RH, part to the ABRH -Associação Brasileira de Recursos Humanos.