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Nizan Mansur de Carvalho Guanaes Gomes (Salvador, May 9, 1958) is a Brazilian advertising executive. He is a co-founder and partner of ABC Group, a holding company that comprises 18 companies with operations ranging from advertising and marketing to content and entertainment. ABC Group is the largest communications holding company in Latin America and the 18th largest communications group in the world, according to Advertising Age. Nizan was voted one of the five most influential Brazilians by Financial Times in 2010; one of the world’s 100 most creative people by Fast Company in 2011 and in 2014, Man of The Year, in Leadership’s category by GQ. ==Biography== Nizan Guanaes was born in 1958, in Salvador, Bahia. He studied at Colégio Marista and graduated from Universidade Federal da Bahia with a degree in business administration. He began his career as a copywriter in his home city. Years later, he moved to Rio de Janeiro and worked at Artplan, a Brazilian advertising agency. When he moved to São Paulo in 1985, he built a reputation as a skilled advertising copywriter at DPZ and W/GGK, nowadays W/McCann. In 1988, he won the Gold Lion award at Cannes Festival for the memorable television advertisement “Hitler,” created for the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo – considered one of the 100 best advertisements of all time. In the next year, he bought and took over DM9, advertising agency of Duda Mendonça. The agency was associated with DDB, becoming DM9DDB in 1997. In 2000, DM9 was acquired by DDB Worldwide. In the same year, Guanaes founded internet portal iG, the second largest free internet portal in Brazil. Two years later, in 2002, Nizan created ABC Group with business partner João Augusto (Guga) Valente with Icatu Group as a investor. In 2004, with Oskar Metsavaht, he founded the Association of Entrepreneurs Friends of UNESCO focusing to promote quality public education, culture and conserve the national historical heritage. Since 2010, Nizan is a member in high level commission of UNAIDS, a program from United Nations (UN) that creates and debates solutions to prevent HIV. Nizan is also a member of following non-profitable foundations: Clinton Global Initiative, created by Bill Clinton, with the stated mission to "strengthen the capacity of people to meet the challenges of global interdependence"; World Economic Forum, based in Switzerland and committed to engage leaders of society to shape global agendas, including health and environment; Endeavor, that identify valuable entrepreneurs to world’s sustainable growth; and Women in the World Foundation, that helps non-governmental organization (NGOs) offer solutions to build a better life for women and girls. Nizan also contributed to create, in 2011, the Together for Girls,” a project developed to identify and combat sexual violence against girls and its social effects. Nizan writes in Folha de S.Paulo on Tuesdays, every 14 days, on “Market” session. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nizan Guanaes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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