MARVIO PORTELA is a Brazilian executive with more than three decades of international leadership experience in the technology sector, and a tireless advocate of the idea that extraordinary results and humane environ ments are inseparable concepts.
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Portela began his professional journey in sales at Xerox, a school that, in his own words, shaped an entire generation of professionals driven by targets, discipline, and rankings. It was there that he learned the value of productive pressure, and, in time, also the limits of overly aggressive cultures. From Xerox, his career would take him to leadership positions at major global corporations, including Unisys, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, and SAS.

Portela is married and the father of two daughters. He is a triathlete, and his discipline in endurance sports directly shapes his leadership philosophy: results are built through consistency, discipline, and joy.
As a thinker, he has been a columnist for Forbes Brazil and has also written for MIT Technology Review. In these articles, he distills what he considers his main contribution to the management debate: the idea of radical commitment to delivery, but in environments where people work with a sparkle in their eyes. For Portela, no one should have to choose between being results-driven and being people-centered. The companies he most admires, and the teams he has most successfully led, are precisely those that refused to accept that false choice.