João Barion

Who is João Barion?

João Barion is a Brazilian race car driver. Barion started his career in karting at the age of nine, continuing in karts until 2003 when he landed a seat at South American Formula Three team AmirNasr. In 2004 he moved to the Avallone team, before joining the Piquet team for 2005.

In 2006 Barion moved from the races to the Business World. He started his studies in Business and got his degree in 2010 at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi.

TRAJECTORY IN BUSINESS - Currently Barion is a shareholder of the company BRICS that works with entrepreneurship, investing on innovative and sustainable businesses. His trajectory in business started yet in the days of racing, where he began lecturing, achieving a total audience of more than 47.000 people. In 2006 his first job was at UNIVEM JR, a consulting firm where he was responsible for attracting new partners and develop new projects. From 2007 to 2009 Barion worked in the company of his family Dori Alimentos. After this period Barion left the family Business and started a new journey searching for new opportunities and business. His first own business was a company of electric skateboards.

EDUCATION - after graduating in business, Barion attended several courses in various areas and institutions. On the last year attended a course in Business Communication at Harvard University and Psychology, Project Management, Competitive Strategy for dynamic environments at Boston University.