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Bridging Business, Culture & Creativity

Bruno lino

Resumé

core capabilities

End-to-End (E2E) Marketing & Platform Architecture

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Integrated Blueprint Design: Connecting audience insights, creative messaging, media strategy, and shopper experience into a single execution layer across global and regional markets.

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Brand Architecture & Portfolio Scaling: Codifying global brand value architectures and local adaptation frameworks across Sparkling, Stills, and Hydration portfolios.​

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System Alignment & Agency Ecosystem Leadership

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Multi-Agency Ecosystem Orchestration: Briefing and managing global Agency-of-Record (AOR) network platforms, including orchestrating OpenX agencies (Ogilvy, VML, EssenceMediaCom, Landor).

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Matrix Negotiation & Stakeholder Buy-In: Navigating global-versus-local tensions, aligning bottling partners, and embedding shared briefing workflows across commercial, PR, and marketing teams.

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Cultural Foresight, AI Integration & Operational Transformation​

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Multidisciplinary Team Scaling: Building strategy and insights operations from scratch, leading 20+ person cross-functional hubs spanning data science, media planning, creative strategy, and digital anthropology.

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Real-Time Intelligence & AI Workflows: Integrating AI/GenAI, natural language processing, and social intelligence into creative and insight routines—accelerating insight-to-brief turnaround and driving real-time crisis response.

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MY FOUR GUIDING PILLARS

Culture & Creative Transformation

I combine a passion for brand magic and cultural intelligence with the structural rigor required to transform global matrix organizations. Creativity and culture are the ultimate mechanisms for human connection, organizational alignment, and business growth. By decoding how communities organize around shared identities and cultural symbols, I bridge the gap between corporate vision and authentic consumer realities, successfully negotiating priorities across complex corporate environments.

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Global Ecosystem & System Mastery

With decades of experience navigating complex matrix ecosystems, I align central teams, regional operating units, business partners, and multi-agency networks, including  WPP, IPG, and Havas. I translate global brand intents into locally resonant cultural executions, mastering the political and operational negotiations required to balance global scale with the nuanced, lived realities of local markets.

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Organizational Leadership & Scale

To capture real-time cultural shifts, I build and direct large, multidisciplinary teams spanning data science, creative strategy, media planning, and digital anthropology across multiple countries. By integrating natural language processing and social intelligence with creative intuition, my teams decode complex consumer dynamics—from the digital materialization of modern brand identities to the specific communication styles of Gen Z—turning raw human truth into actionable business intelligence.

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Cross-Cultural Integration

Leveraging multilingual fluency in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, I drive brand coherence across Global, LATAM, and European regions. By understanding how different urban tribes and subcultures connect with passion points like music, sports, and arts, I utilize these cultural anchors to build borderless, highly effective creative platforms that unite international teams and audiences alike.

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Experience

2020

Yöne for Electrolux and XP

Cultural Strategy Advisor

 

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Temporary Professor - Undergraduate Courses

Advertising Planning, Consumer Behaviour, Media Planning

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

2018-2019

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Content Strategy and Data Insights Director
 

Havas

2019

2021

McCann World Group

Head of Connections and Digital Culture Insights

 

2022

WPP OpenX 

Global and Regional Strategy Lead LATAM/Europe

 

2018

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National Director of Business Intelligence
 

Artplan Brazil

2017

Independent

Brand Strategy and Insights
Helping PasseiDireto.com (global chegg.com) define a value proposition to back its shift in business model from penetration to signature.

2013-2016

The Coca-Cola Company

Human and Cultural Insights Manager

Brand Concepts that backed game changing innovation platforms, both in  base business and in breakthrough projects.

2016

FutureBrand

Sr. Brand Strategy Consultant

Revamping love brands from the 80's and transforming traditionally analogical brands into digital ones.

2012

D!fferents Co-Creation Partners

Independent Consultant
Insights detection, concept and ideation for a shared value business models in emerging middle class neighborhoods.

2007-2011

Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Scholarship on Vocational Diplomacy

Studies on international relations and the social and political reality of Latin America and Brazil.

The Coppead Graduate School of Business and ESSEC Business School, Paris.

2005-2007

McCann-Ericksonn

Insights and Analytics and off-line Media Planner

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2003-2004

Master of Business Administration - Marketing and Consumer Behaviour

1998-2001

Advertising

The School of Communication at The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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CONTACT

Find me on LinkedIn, ask for my portfolio or send me a message.

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bblino@gmail.com

Tel: +55 21 99176-4402

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