Robert Phillips, the founder of Discover South America is a US citizen born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He spent most of his non-adult life living throughout South America – Brazil (Amazon, Salvador and Rio de Janeiro), Bolivia and Colombia. After receiving his BS and MS at Auburn University in Alabama Robert worked as an electrical engineer in things as far fetched as space power and oil exploration in Kuwait. He then ventured to the business side working for Bayer Pharmaceuticals after receiving his MBA from Thunderbird – The Garvin School of International Management in Arizona, and then to Salvador, where he has developed tourism and entertainment projects for Odebrecht. Robert has enjoyed putting together vacation packages for his group of friends for many years. The last few have taken them to rafting the Grand Canyon, exploring Alaska, and discovering Peru and its mystic Machu Picchu. Roberts entrepreneurial spirit has led him to developing Discover South America with the intent of doing what he loves and sharing some of the South American experiences he has been fortunate to have had.
Luana Oliveira- Travel Consultant
Luana Oliveira was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She has a BA in International Business Administration from the University of Northumbria, England. She is about to finish her MBA in Strategic Marketing at Faculdade Ruy Barbosa. Luana is one of the Discover South America international travel consultants responsible for making your trip to South America a wonderful experience..
Kalu Costa - Travel Consultant
Luciana Schardong - Operations
Luciana is a Brazilian citizen, born in Salvador, Bahia. She was raised in Salvador but traveled often to other states mainly in the southern regions. After finishing her Degree in Tourism, she worked with Salvador´s Official Government Tourist Office - Emtursa and with Varig Airlines as an agent. She then decided it was a good time to travel outside of Brazil. She spent a year living and getting to know Portugal while getting an Advanced Degree as a Tourism Quality Auditor in Lisbon. Having returned to Brazil, she is responsible for the Operations department at Discover South America. Luciana assures the quality and pricing for all tourist services we offer. Most people describe Lu as having a bubbly personality, outgoing, friendly and professional.
Roberto Rozino- Corporate Travel
Roberto Rozino was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he has a course of Accounting and worked as Consultant of International trips in Kontik Franstur, Avipam Tourism and American Express of Brazil. In Nikkey Travel Tourism, he has worked as an Regional Manager N/NE and responsible to administer the bill of Petrobrás and the whole team of Consultants. He lived in Italy 02 years and he speaks Italian fluently. He is responsible for the Cooporative Department in DiscoverBrazil.
Liliane Noblat - Finance/Administrative
Liliane Formigli Noblat was born in Paulo Afonso, a rural area in the state of Bahia and has lived in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil for the last nine years. She has BS in Business Administration and has worked as an Administrator, Financial Analyst, and Commercial representative at companies such as Exxon Chemical, Danone, Alstom Power, Cetrel, IGASE Group, and BAND Radio and Television. She speaks English and Spanish fluently and has a basic understanding of French. She is responsible for the Administrative and Financial department at Discover South America.
Geisa Ferreira - Finance/Administrative Intern
Geisa was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and is currently studying towards a Business Administration degree at Helio Rocha University, in Salvador. Her main responsibilities are keeping Discover South America´s day to day administrative and accounting activities in good order.
Miguel Chandler - On-Line Marketing and Quality Control Leader
He has a Bachelor of Science degree from New Mexico State University and worked for a Fortune 500 Life Sciences Company for 10 years before deciding to pursue his interests in travel. Before joining DiscoverBrazil he spent the previous two years traveling throughout South America including Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil learning about the local cultures. Miguel was born in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico and grew up in New México along the Continental Divide..
Patricia Braga - Web designer - Search Engine Optimization
Patricia has spent all of her life in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She has a degree in Social Communications with emphasis in Advertising and Marketing. She is also a design specialist in web applications. Patricias primary responsibility is making all of Discover South Americas websites and pages be the best they can possibly be. She is also responsible for our Search Engine Optimization.
Raphael Martins - Web Programmer - Search Engine Optimization
Raphael is our Software Development Intern, PHP programmer, database administrador and much more. He is responsible for making sure our web systems and databases function correctly.
Our Brazil Office
We are located on the 21st floor of the North Tower (building on the right) of the Salvador Trade Center - the newest business buildings in Salvador.We have excellent views of Salvador and its beaches.
Come visit us when you are in town.
Av. T Neves, 1632 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Tel.: (55)(71) 3113-4205
Fax: (55)(71) 341-0728
Photos of our last Team Building Exercise - April 2004
On Saturday, April 3rd, 2004 the Discover Peru Team went on a Team.Building Exercise that included one of the rafting tours and cable river rides (called “Tiroleza”).
Arthur, our Financial Manager, unfortunately was sick and was not able to go, therefore we are already planning our next adventure team exercise so that he can have the team experience.
