Vinícius Scaramel, formerly an innovation area manager at construction materials producer InterCement, joined Brazil-based business management software provider Grupo Benner in September this year.
Scaramel has taken an innovation and products manager role at Grupo Benner and is responsible for implementing innovation processes, promoting intrapreneurial culture, and accelerating and leading innovation projects to maximise Benner’s results.
The group offers software, services and business process outsourcing for diverse fields including transport and logistics, health management, corporate governance, tourism, business intelligence, human resources and enterprise resource planning.
In his two-year role at InterCement, Scaramel coordinated and managed its open innovation schemes in Brazil, Argentina, Cape Verde, Egypt, Mozambique, Paraguay, Portugal and South Africa. InterCement mainly works with civil construction firms in a Brazilian market that still adopts little disruptive technology and which has comparatively few startups.
Prior to his involvement in the innovation ecosystem, Scaramel had been an entrepreneur himself, founding waste management consulting firm Bakuara in 2008 and co-founding construction waste management system provider ConstruSave in 2015.
ConstruSave received funding from Aceleratech, the Brazil-based accelerator also known as Ace, in 2015, and later a seed investment from InterCement, before Scaramel was hired by the latter in 2016.
Photo of Vinícius Scaramel courtesy of Medium.
