Mr. Cid is Master of Sciences in Artificial Intelligence by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and graduated summa cum laude as Computers Engineer by IME, the Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil.
Dante works for Elsevier since 2002 and today, as Vice-President of Strategic Networks for Latin America, represents Elsevier as President of the Brazilian Publishers Association, Vice-President of the Pro-Livro Institute for Literacy, and in several organizations such as: the Brazilian Association for Copyrights, the International Publishers Association, the Innovation Workgroup of the National Confederation of Industries in Brazil, and the Americas Business Dialogue of the Inter-American Development Bank.