About Paulo

Paulo Lino was a special agent of the Federal Police Department (PF) in Brazil, a training and education consultant at UNODC, an active member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) through which he still serves as International trainer, conducting effective training courses on the use of technology for justice and law enforcement agencies. He has extensive experience in training and education initiatives at more than 50 government agencies and business entities around the world. By representing class entities, such as the International Chamber of Commerce, he presents solutions for the protection of intellectual property, the use of security technologies in business and the training of human resources. Paulo Lino was responsible for the local units to combat money laundering and cybercrime at the Federal Police. For his dedication, in December 2002, Mr. Lino was appointed as a Consultant for the Organization of American States in a training program for Financial Intelligence Units whose mission was to combat transnational organized crime and terrorist financing in Latin America. With extensive investigative experience in high-tech crimes with a global reach, in 2004 Mr. Lino accepted a position at NDS, an Israeli satellite security company, later acquired by Cisco Systems in California. As Cisco Systems Director of Operational Security for the Americas, Mr. Lino was tasked with proactively neutralizing technological threats against Cisco and its customers’ technology in complex, sensitive, multi-jurisdictional environments. In 2017, Mr. Lino was responsable for the HP’s Anti-Counterfeiting Program in Brazil, where he achieved the most relevant results in the history of the Program in the Americas, being recognized by management in Houston, Texas. In 2021, during the pandemic, Paulo Lino assumed the position of Director of the Texan Chamber of Commerce in Brazil, a non-profit entity through which it promotes rapprochement between Brazil and the United States with Texas as the gateway, the state more attractive for business in that country. Mr. Paulo Lino has a degree in Law from UFRGS, master’s degrees in Criminal Justice, Information Technology, Project Management and an LLM in Information Law and Intellectual Property Rights. Mr Lino is a certified fraud expert (CFE) in Austin, TX with various training and specialization courses in the USA, Japan, Canada and Israel. Mr. Lino is an enthusiast of the interaction of technology with intelligence and human behavior, always in search of improvement and its practical application.