Ricardo Dias

Ricardo Dias has had a non-traditional career path to the top of the marketing and business world. In 2001, he started in a junior sales position at Ambev in Brazil, learning the business from the ground up. Ricardo is a true citizen of the world, having worked in a variety of roles and locations, including England, Canada, China, Mexico, and AB InBev's global office in New York. After 14 years abroad, he returned to his home country in January 2018 as Ambev's Vice President of Marketing. For two years, he led the team of one of Brazil's largest advertisers, being named one of the country's best CMOs by Forbes magazine, and ended his two-decade career at AB InBev/Ambev by seeing the company crowned Advertiser of the Year at Caboré, the most coveted award in the Brazilian advertising market. In December 2020, he co-founded Adventures, a venture builder that creates brands with celebrity partners in the Beauty and Wellness space.