(ATR) The Brazilian Olympic Committee has completed the top of its new chain of command with the hiring of two new directors.
The journalist Manoela Penna takes over communication and marketing while Luciano Hostins is in charge of the legal department.
"We finished the hiring for the high echelon with the arrival of Manoela and Luciano, and I am convinced that our board of directors is made up of professionals with extensive experience in their areas and ready to work together at a time of major restructuring of the COB," said Paulo Wanderley, the COB president.
Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Manoela Penna, 40, started her career as a reporter in the newspaper LANCE!, in 1998. In 2002, she founded the Media Guide, a press consultancy specializing in sports.
Throughout the years Penna covered several Brazilian Olympic Confederations, and for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, worked with 14 clients involved in the competition, including the United States Olympic Committee and the International Badminton Federation. She was also director of media for the International Judo Federation.
She also created a line of collaboration with several sponsoring companies.
Luciano Hostins, 46, is the lawyer for the city of Florianopolis and has been working for 21 years in the area of Sports Law.
In December 2016, he was elected president of the Brazilian Anti-Doping Tribunal. In elections held last Friday his young colleague Tatiana Mesquita Nunes, replaced him in that position.
Hostins was attorney of the Superior Court of Sports Justice of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
He also did other legal work in different national Confederations.
The current directorate of the COB also includes Olympic champion of judo in Barcelona 92, Rogério Sampaio (general director), Jorge Bichara (sports), and Vitório Moraes (administration and finance).
The position of communications director now occupied by Penna had been empty since General Augusto Heleno resigned after the arrest last October of the then COB president Carlos Arthur Nuzman.
Written by Miguel Hernandez
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