Ana’s career starts from an early age being born in a family of entrepreneurs, watching, and learning from her family business in the furniture industry.

She moved to England to study at the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the age of 18. After seeing the opportunities in trade opening up within her country in the early 90’s she was eager to bring the international trade standards she was learning back to her country.

Upon her graduation she returned to Brazil and began educating the local trade commissions to be able to participate in international markets and the EU just as her country began to open up its valuable commodities to the world. With such a specialized education and background in international trade she became an invaluable asset to the industry by structuring commodity deals that successfully fit the new rules of the European Union that had previously kept Brazil from participating.

From there she founded her own trading company specialized in prospecting new markets for national companies interested in initiating or growing their sales abroad. International missions and trading fairs around the globe taught her a new business approach. Her expertise as a consultant encompassed the entire exporting industry, dealing in everything from sugar and fish to fine luxury goods and beverages.