ABOUT
Araucária mkt | biz | pr
We are a boutique firm specialized in investments and communications consulting.
Araucária is ready to advise your business, invest in your idea and help you build relationships.
As advisors, we can assist you with your reputation, your brand and your communications. Our mission is to generate healthy business, build and strengthen your key relationships and influence the minds of those who matter to your company.
As investors, we are open to your ideas and projects. Through our network of global investors, along with our partners, we want to be not only the ones to put money into your project but ultimately the co-builders of the business from scratch, participating in the management and helping you with strategy creation and execution.
Get in touch with us today if you are looking for seasoned professionals and consultants in the areas of Business Development, Marketing, Communications, Corporate Affairs and Entrepreneurship. It will be our pleasure to help.
Our Team
Marcio Y. Ishikawa
Senior Partner
Phone: +5511 99249-4708
+20 years of professional experience (including Fortune 500 companies) in the areas of corporate affairs and communications (media, PR, investors, government), business development, brand management, customer relationship, social responsibility, sustainability and journalism
Held executive positions in the following companies: Rolls-Royce plc, XP Inc., Nubank, Oxitec Ltd., Honda Motor Company Ltd., BankBoston Brazil, MCM, SPTuris
Educated in the following institutions: University of Cambridge, Duke University, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-RJ), PUC-SP
Former Visiting Lecturer at the University of Manchester
International background: born in Brazil, high school graduation in Canada and several corporate and academic missions abroad (Europe, Asia and Americas)
Fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish
Marcio Ishikawa is a journalist graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, PUC-SP
He has completed several extension courses focused on digital content
With more than 20 years of professional experience, has worked in various content agencies in São Paulo, the technology hub in Brazil
Marcio has dedicated 15 years of his professional life to Editora Abril, the Brazilian editorial conglormerate
There, among other key positions as an expert in digital social media and technology, he worked for six years as editor-in-chief of the site Quatro Rodas, the most admired automotive website in Brazil, covering therefore one of the top five industries in the country, the car industry, a passion for Brazilians
Fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish and a little bit of Japanese