Plinio Kato occupied executive positions in Sharp do Brasil S.A., Spirax  Sarco, Sanyo da Amazônia and Galaxy do Brasil (DirecTV). With Mechanical
Technology background, was responsible for the Logistics, Supply Chain
Management, Purchase, and Process departments. His works on process mapping and improvement, in addition to his wide knowledge of the integrations needed between the different processes across the Companies, gave him a strategic vision on systems implementations. Plinio Kato got his Technology degree from FATEC/SP and MBA (in Operations Management) from Politécnica School of USP foundation (FCAV), and his article Discussing the Integrated Planning of a  remanufacturing in a closed loop of Supply-Chain was selected to be presented in the XXIV ENEGEP National meeting of Production Engineering.