Marcelo Marques is a graduate of FASP (Brazil) in businessadministration, with further degrees in business from the GetulioVargas Foundation and in marketing from Trevisan. He currentlyprovides IT-related services to a number of multinationalcompanies. In 2001, he developed a business plan and, with threepartners, founded the company 4Linux. The company launched theinnovative HackerTeen project, where Marcelo teaches entrepreneurshipand marketing. He then assumed the presidency of LPI Brasil, createdentertaining talks on open-source software and Linux, and wrote thecomedy play "Blue Screen" as well as the fantasy content of the graphic novelHackerteen. Currently he serves asDirector of… Strategy and Marketing at 4Linux and HackerTeen.