Thomas Strauss

Graduated in Social Communication, University of Brasília (UnB), Thomas has been working in communication’s market in the executive and creative areas for 23 years, and founded Major Tom in 2010.

From 1998 to 1999, he was the president of UnB’s  junior publicity company Doisnovemeia. Thomas also was a founding partner of DUO 3 Publicidade e Marketing and, in 2000 and 2001, was its creative director. From 2002 to 2004, he was an art director at RBM Propaganda. Since 2005, he has coordinated his own company Strauss Comunicação.

Thomas has experience in both government and private market projects. Among the clients it has served, the main ones are: Ministério da Cultura, AMBEV, SICOOB, CACB – Confederação das Associações Comerciais do Brasil, Concessionárias do Grupo Jorlan, Fecomércio DF, ABRASEL, Convention Bureau, FENAPRF, FENAPEF, UPB – União dos Policiais do Brasil, WAN – Negócios Imobiliários, Companhia de Negócios, Rome – feiras e eventos e SERPRO.

In addition, he is vice president of the ADVB/DF, director of the ACDF and director of the Instituto Illuminante de Inovação Tecnológica.

Marcelo Strauss – Executive Producer

Graduating in Social Communication – Publicity and Propaganda, Marcelo works in the events area as a producer, working in the coordination of ceremonies for over 5 years. He has structured events such as Inovapol and Inovamed, being at the forefront of organization, management and relations with participants.

Today, he is part of the communication team at Strauss, focusing on customer service and public relations. At Major Tom, he holds the position of executive producer.

Bruno Bandeira – Executive

An executive at Major Tom, Bruno holds a degree in Social Communication, University of Brasília (UnB), specializing in Publicity and Propaganda. Involved in entrepreneurship for 22 years, he has worked in the communication, market research, civil construction and food markets.

Bruno worked as the president  UnB’s  junior publicity company Doisnovemeia, researcher for the CNPq, acted as an account, planning and media executive in local and national agencies, was a professor of CPRTv at UNIP, technical consultant responsible for integrating the communication units of the National Industry System by GI&P Consultoria in 2006 and, by invitation, coordinated the national communication of SENAI and SESI successively.

He also coordinated the publicity of the FIBRA System (SESI, SENAI, IEL and FIBRA) in the DF.

Prof. José Leite – Scientific Consultant

Postdoctoral in Biochemistry by EMBRAPA – Genetic Resources and Biotechnology; and also by the Green Chemistry Network at the University of Porto.

José has been coordinator, professor and researcher of several projects, in addition to leading the foundation of the Research Center in Biodiversity and Biotechnology at UFPI.

He is currently a professor at the University of Brasilia (UnB) in the Faculty of Medicine and advisor of the graduate program in Tropical Medicine, Medical Sciences and International Consultancy.

Salejandra Alves –  Innovation Consultant

Professional with extensive experience in Innovation, Management, Communication and Marketing, with emphasis on organizational strategy, publicity and advertising. Operates in consulting, instruction, strategic planning, project management, media planning, live marketing and events.

Salejandra developed, coordinated and produced several publicity campaigns for entities and unions, in addition to many others for the public and private sector, at local and national level. In his continuing academic training, she has taken several specialization courses in the areas of management, communication and marketing.

She has taught Strategic Marketing Management; Media in Image Construction; Advertising, Publicity and Promotion; Digital Business; and Advertising Management.

Gabriel Arruda  – Communication Manager

Graduated in Organizational Communication, University of Brasília (UnB), he has been working in the area of ​​communication for 7 years.

Over the years, Gabriel has developed projects for public agencies, private companies and the 3rd sector. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as Communication Manager and Innovation Manager at Indústria Monjolo. From 2016 to 2019, he also worked as Communication Manager at FDA/DF. In addition, he attended “Introduction to Strategy Creation and Execution” and “The Internet and Business”, at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Online.

Recently, at Strauss Comunicação, he was coordinator of the ANEAA metaverse for the Airport National Meeting event; communication coordinator of the International Congress of Children with Complex Health Conditions, held by HCB (Hospital da Criança de Brasília); podcast’s online content coordinator for Central IT; coordinator of the international campaign for the Candango Literature Award, among others.