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Sandro Mesquita

Head of the Americas

Sandro is Head of the Americas at GeSI, where he leads the expansion of the organisation's activities and deepens its strategic relationships across the region. He brings more than three decades of global leadership experience spanning corporate responsibility, sustainability, marketing and brand management, research and intelligence, corporate communications, and sports business. He is widely recognised for building and scaling high-impact programmes, developing multicultural and multidisciplinary teams, and aligning strategy with measurable business and societal outcomes. Most recently he served as Assistant Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at AT&T, where he ran the BELIEVES employee engagement platform, which earned two Guinness World Records, and The Achievery, an ed-tech platform reaching more than 930,000 students. Earlier in his career he led corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability across Latin America at DIRECTV-SKY (Vrio) and AT&T Mexico, and held senior roles at The Gallup Organization, including General Manager of Gallup Chile. He combines strategic vision with operational execution and a consistently purpose-driven approach to leadership.

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