Mário Ricardo Farias Gomes

Mário Ricardo Farias Gomes, é amazonense, nasceu em Manaus, começou a trabalhar aos 12 anos, com seu pai num escritório de representações. De lá fluiu o seu tino empresarial até os dias de hoje.
Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes aos quinze anos de idade estudou na Wyoming Public School, no Estado de Michigan nos Estados Unidos, e difundiu o Estado do Amazonas (Brasil) nos anos 70 pela America do Norte.
Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes participou do programa de intercambio cultural Brasil/Estados Unidos, pelo YFU – Youth For Understanding, e hospedou-se em Farmington/Michigan com a família de Henry Mellema.
Seu “pai americano” era um veterano da Segunda Guerra Mundial pilotando caças de guerra.
A família de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes no Brasil é reconhecida pela grande hospitalidade cordial de toda sua família com as pessoas que visitam Manaus, sejam do Brasil ou do Exterior.
Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, nasceu em Manaus, adora a floresta e a cidade. Sempre com muito sucesso em  setores diversos,  tanto comercial, serviços e na área  industrial.
 Em 1984 fundou a MACHICAL LTDA, quando nascia um novo bairro em Manaus, o  Belvedere, instalando ali uma Panificadora para atender a comunidade, distribuindo em seguida os produtos fabricados para revenda em pequenas e micro empresas.
Com visão, Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, expandiu distribuindo pães e lanches para o PIM- Pólo Industrial de Manaus.
No final de 1985 começou a administrar restaurantes (Refeições Coletivas) também das mais diversas empresas industriais instaladas na Zona Franca de Manaus.
Colecionou no portfólio de seus clientes, grandes empresas como Pirelli, Sony, Thompson, Itaú, Yamaha, e outras empresas multinacionais.
Dez anos depois a empresa de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes já produzia em redor de 30.000 refeições/dia.
MACHICAL LTDA, de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes tornou-se também o primeiro franqueado Bob’s e Pastello na região Amazônica fazendo quatro lojas na capital do Amazonas.
A cadeia de fast food Bob’s é a segunda maior do Brasil, hoje com quase 700 unidades entre lojas e quiosques.
Sempre cultivando conhecimentos no mercado americano, criou em 1989 a empresa Support Financial LLC, e iniciou a fazer investimentos mais precisamente no Estado da Florida, onde os mantém até hoje.
Em 1997 vendeu as operações de alimentos para a Puras do Brasil, permanecendo a MACHICAL LTDA com os imóveis, tornando-se a partir de então uma empresa Patrimonial, com bons resultados provenientes da receita da locação dessas propriedades.
A MACHICAL LTDA continua comprando imóveis, e os colocando no mercado para locação.
Em 1998 fundou a única empresa/sociedade anônima de Factoring no Estado do Amazonas, e foi a primeira no Brasil e na América do Sul a ser certificada pela norma ISO-9000, tendo a liderança de faturamento no mercado até os dias de hoje.
As empresas na área financeira construíram uma carteira de mais de 2000 clientes.
Continuando a expansão de mercado, Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, fundou com outros três sócios a PLATINUM CONSTRUÇÕES LTDA, hoje uma das empresas de construção reconhecida no mercado pela qualidade e pontualidade na construção de imóveis residenciais.
Em final de 2007 a PLATINUM lançou um mega projeto, www.skyeplatinumconstrucoes.com, um empreendimento de mais de U$80milhões de VGV, que foi um sucesso de vendas, e serão prédios que farão um diferencial na cidade de Manaus pela forma arrojada e moderna de arquitetura dos mesmos.
Todas essas empresas fazem parte Holding MRG Sociedade de Investimento Ltda, que continua sua expansão com participações em outras empresas, www.grupomrg.com.br
 Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes,  exerce a Presidência do SINFAC/Am, Sindicado de Factoring do Estado do Amazonas, Vice-Presidente da ANFAC, Associação Nacional de Factorings, Diretor da ACA-Associação Comercial do Amazonas, e Rotariano há mais de 20 anos do Rotary Distrito Industrial, exercendo a presidência de 2004/2005.
Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes tem duas filhas, Maitê e Mariah, e é casado com Neybe Rosana dos Santos Lents.
Seu pai Mario Cardoso Gomes, atualmente com mais de 80 anos de idade, é ex-diretor de Banco, funcionário de carreira do Banco do Brasil, atuando nos últimos 20 anos num  grupo empresarial do Norte, com grande atuação no engarrafamento de produtos Coca-Cola e atualmente também na venda de veículos.
Derly Farias Gomes, sua mãe é reconhecida por ter cozinhado para o Papa João Paulo II na sua estada em Manaus nos anos 80, além de ser excelente na preparação dos mais diversos pratos, seja da cozinha regional como da cozinha internacional.
Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, formou-se em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Amazonas, graduando-se em 1980, sendo em seguida aprovado e conseguido sua licença da OAB.
No ano 2000, realizou o MBA em Team Management, pela Fundação Getulio Vargas.
Além de Inglês, Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, estudou no Institute de Français, em Villefranche –sur-mer, na Coté D’Azur em 1976, dominando a língua Francesa.
Na sua estada em MICHIGAN nos Estados Unidos, Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes fez amigos que perduram até hoje, - como Mark Hartmann atualmente General do Exercito Americano.
Divide o seu tempo atualmente entre Manaus onde morou durante toda a sua vida, e Surfside/Florida, onde a família possui uma segunda casa de veraneio.





Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes was born in 1956, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, the second child of Mario Cardoso Gomes, a director of the State Bank of Amazonas, and Derly Faria Gomes, who had given up studying law to be a mother and housewife. Precocious and energetic, Mario grew up in a middle-class home in what was then a rather provincial, torpid and remote state capital in equatorial northern Brazil in the center of the gigantic Amazon rain forest.

Mario was an avid and talented student from the start of his formal education, and was always restless for activity and challenge. In 1967, Manaus was designated a free trade zone by the Brazilian government and a package of attractive financial incentives was offered to certain industries to establish manufacturing operations there. Overnight the sleepy river-port city was transformed into a hustling and bustling boomtown which it remains to this day (in 2006, over US$20 billion worth of goods were manufactured there). A year later, 12 year-old Mario, sensing a golden opportunity and with the help of his father, started importing electric slide projectors and selling them to small retail stores in Manaus. He thereafter expanded his product line to include other small consumer electronics. Mario had discovered his vocational identity – a natural-born entrepreneur!

At 15, Mario participated in a student exchange program whereby he spent a year going to high school in Wyoming, Michigan, and U.S.A. Living with a host family he became acquainted with American culture and consolidated his English language skills. He loved it all, from pancakes to snow skiing (no such thing in tropical Amazonas) to TV sit-coms. He continues to stay in contact with surviving members of his host family and his best school buddy of the time, Mark Hartman, who, after high school, went on to West Point and is today a general in the U.S. Army.

Back home, Mario reached university age and decided to study law. He gained admittance into The Federal University of Amazonas School of Law, the second oldest law school in Brazil. He excelled in his studies, was elected class president, and graduated at the top of his class in 1978 as that year’s Valedictorian. The next year, he passed the Brazilian Bar Exam on his first try with the highest score of any examinee in Manaus and received his license to practice law. Just 23 years-old, Mario was now Doctor Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes in accordance with Brazilian nomenclature.

Taking a break after the Bar Exam, Mario made the grand tour of Europe and spent three months in France studying French. He kept up his practice in the ensuing years and is today fluent in French, his third language after Portuguese and English. In a pinch, he can also get by in Spanish.

Coming home, instead of setting up a law practice, he opened a bakery, Brazilians love their bread and in Brazil, bread means FRESH bread. Every morning millions of Brazilians make their way to the corner bakery to buy it. The process is repeated in the evening. Since man does not live on bread alone, they usually also pick up some butter, ham, cheese, coffee, milk, and maybe a coffee cake, all of which Mario kept well stocked. A good bakery in Brazil can turn a tidy profit. There are a lot of well-off bakery owners in Brazil. Of course, Mario knew this so he rolled up his sleeves and put his hands in the dough, so to speak. Up each morning at 3:00am to see that the product was coming out of the ovens, he was off in his van by 5:30 to deliver bread to commercial customers while his employees minded the retail counter at the home base. He soon expanded the bakery to include a catering kitchen and landed a contract to supply a company with 125 breakfasts, lunches and dinners five days a week. This business grew steadily as Mario acquired new clients, principally electronics factories in the Manaus Industrial District. By the time he sold the business in 1997, to Puras International, French multinational, it was preparing and serving as many as 25000 meals per day.

In 1988, while dining on fish at the La Barca restaurant in Manaus, Mario met a charming and very pretty young lady, Naybe Lents. It was love at first sight, for Mario at least, and he immediately set about with his usual daring and determination courting her. Some of his friends thought he was engaged in a lost cause. A herd of young Manaus bachelors had their eyes on Naybe. She was much too beautiful for Mario. Well, today Mario and Naybe split their time between Miami and Manaus along with their two daughters, Maite and Mariah.

In the mid-90s, Mario expanded into other retail food service areas. He brought the first Bob`s fast food franchise (the second largest in Brazil after MacDonald`s) to the north of Brazil which he opened in the Amazonas Shopping Center.

A little earlier, Mario had gone international but in a completely different direction. Just as he had inherited a lawyerly bent from his mother, he took a bit of the banker from his father. He bought himself an apartment in Miami Beach, Fla. and started Support Financial, a factoring company. He recruited a local bank manager, John White, to join him and run the day-by-day operations. Starting small with a conservative approach to making accounts receivable collateralized loans, the business increased each year and today has clients nationwide. It worked out so well, in fact, that Mario decided to get into the same line back home in Manaus. In 1998, he started Rio Claro Trust and Receivables which is today one of the largest and most respected factoring companies in the north of Brazil. Its management is now in the hands of Mario`s long-time right hand woman, Elizabeth Coelho. Mario is a member in good standing of The National Association of Factoring of Brazil, as well as The National Syndicate of Factoring, and he has served as the Vice-President of the former and President of the latter. He is also a director of The Commercial Association of Amazonas, an organization along the lines of The American Chamber of Commerce, and an active Rotarian in the Manaus Chapter of The International Rotary Club.


The year 2000 found Mario’s various enterprises thriving. He was now 44 and financially set - time to kick back a little. But that is not Mario. When he learned that The Getulio Vargas Foundation from Sao Paulo, one of Brazil’s finest graduate schools of business and finance, was offering the very first MBA program in Manaus, he jumped. With all his practical, real-life experience in business, he probably should have been teaching the course. Indeed, the other students in the program constantly sought him out for assistance and advice. Nonetheless, he assumed the role of student again with enthusiasm and intense interest. In 2001, he completed the program with the top honors and added one more title of academic distinction at the end of his name, Master of Business Administration.

Somehow with all his businesses to oversee, a family to care for, and the heavy work load of an MBA course, Mario found the time and energy to get started in yet another totally different type of business. He and two partners began The Platinum Construction Company in 2000. Manaus was growing fast and the demand for mid to upper price range residential, high rise apartments there was outstripping the supply. Ever with the eye for opportunity, Mario went for it. 100% capitalized with Mario`s and his partners` money, not a borrowed penny from a bank, investor or stockholder, PLATINUM bought land, contracted architects, designers, engineers, tradesmen – everything needed – and started building. Since then, Platinum has emerged as one of the principal players in Manaus residential real estate development with over 1000 units completed and sold to-date. It recently launched a luxury condo project in Boa Vista, the capital of the Brazilian state of Roraima, which lies north of Amazonas. There are several new projects on the drawing boards at Platinum including a large scale tract home development.

What is next for Mario? Whatever it may be, you can be sure that whether Mario is at his lovely home in Manaus, cruising the Amazon River in his yacht, enjoying a cigar and scotch on-the-rocks on his beachfront apartment balcony with a panoramic view of the Atlantic Ocean in Miami, or skiing the slopes of the Swiss Alps, he is contemplating some new, ambitious enterprise.


Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, à l’âge de 15 ans, a étudié à la Wyoming Public School à Michigan où il a diffusé l’Amazonas dans les années 70.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, lors d’un programme d’échange du YFU (Youth For Understanding) a vécu à Wyoming (MICHIGAN) avec la famille Mellema. Henry Mellema, son « père américain » était un ancien pilote de la Seconde guerre mondiale.

La famille de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes est reconnue comme très accueillante pour des Américains qui visitent le Brésil.
 
Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes passe la plupart du temps en travaillant dans son bureau mobile, entre sa maison à Manaus, son beau bateau sur le fleuve Amazone et son balcon à Surfside (Floride), d’où il peut avoir l’une des plus belles vues du monde.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes est né à Manaus (1956) et adore la forêt et la ville. Il a des affaires très positives dans plusieurs secteurs. PLATINUM CONSTRUÇÕES LTDA, l’une de ses entreprises, est connue par sa haute qualité dans la construction de bâtiments à Manaus.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a passé 3 mois à Villefranche-sur-mer (France). Selon lui, l’un des plus beaux endroits de l’Europe où, à l’âge de 20 ans,  il a suivi un cours intensif de français à l’Institut Français. Il a été reconnu comme le meilleur élève en raison de son français courant.

Le premier cours MBNA de l’une des meilleures écoles brésiliennes de management est arrivé à Manaus. Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a fréquenté ce cours et a obtenu les meilleurs résultats de sa classe. Il a donné des instructions spéciales et a conseillé tous les étudiants de sa classe.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, à l’âge de 18 ans, commence à participer à des associations et, dès lors, il est membre de plusieurs associations.
L’an dernier, il a fêté ses 30 ans comme directeur de l’ACA – Association Commerciale d’ Amazonas – une association de 150 ans.

Comme président du Rotary Club d’Amazonas, Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a augmenté le nombre de membres. Il a aussi consacré son temps à aider les personnes défavorisées. Cela lui a valu la reconnaissance du Rotary International pour son grand travail social.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a commencé à travailler à l’âge de 12 ans et dès lors, il n’a plus jamis arrêté. Il commande plusieurs entreprises au Brésil. Ses principales qualités sont l’organisation et le professionnalisme.

Comme Vice-président de l’ANFAC – Association Nationale de Factoring - Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a défendu plusieurs points d’intérêt de la classe.

RIO CLARO TRUST DE RECEBÍVEIS S/A est le leader des affaires de factoring à Manaus (Amazonas). L’entreprise va avoir 10 ans l’an prochain. Pendant 7 ans, Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a été son président. Grâce à son travail, RIO CLARO est la plus importante entreprise régionale financière de la ville. Actuellement, c’est Elisabeth Magalhães Coelho qui la dirige, donnant suite au grand travail de son ancien président.

GRUPOMRG (www.grupomrg.com.br), controllé par Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, bâtira plusieurs bâtiments résidentiels et commerciaux en 2008.

Mario Cardoso Gomes, le père de MARIO RICARDO FARIAS GOMES, a été le directeur général de la Banque de l’État d’Amazonas. Il a aussi travaillé pendant presque 30 ans à la Banque du Brésil. Après sa retraite, Mario Cardoso Gomes travaille toujours comme conseiller spécial du groupe Coca-Cola à Manaus.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes est aussi le président de SINFAC – Syndicat National de Factoring – où il réalise un travail dans le but de mieux développer l’activité de Factoring.


Derly Farias Gomes, la mère de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, était la chef de cuisine du Pape Jean-Paul II, lors de sa visite à Manaus. Elle a préparé tous les plats de Sa Sainteté le Pape Jean-Paul II.

Zermatt (Suisse) est l’endroit préféré de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes pour la pratique du ski, après avoir visité plusieurs coins du monde. Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes pratique le ski depuis 40 ans.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a été le premier franchisé du nord du Brésil de Bob’s Fast Food System.
BOB’S est la deuxième entreprise de fast food au Brésil. L’amitié et le contact avec BOB’S continue et, tous les ans, il passe un week-end avec la Direction Générale pour discuter du système de BOB’S. L’actuel président de Bob’s International. M. Ricardo Bomery, est l’un de ses meilleurs amis.
Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a vendu l’entreprise en 1998 où il a consolidé ses affaires financiers et son entreprise de construction résidentielle et commerciale.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a fini ses études en 1979 à l’Université Fédérale d’Amazonas, la deuxième plus ancienne école de Droit du Brésil.
Il était le leader de sa classe et lors de la cérémonie de formation, il a été le maître de cérémonie.
Compte tenu de la loi brésilienne depuis l’Empire, Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a le titre de Maître.
 
Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a passé l’examen d’OAB – Ordre des Avocats du Brésil – une Association Fédérale qui délivre le permis pour qu’un avocat puisse exercer son métier. Il a été le meilleur classé de cet examen.

Vicki Scuri est considérée l’un des meilleurs designers des États-Unis. Elle a réalisé plusieurs projets pour d’importants aéroports. Quand elle vient au Brésil, elle héberge dans la maison de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, sa « famille brésilienne », d’après elle-même.

Mark Hartman a fréquenté l’Académie Militaire de West Point et il a eu un passage très honorable dans l’Armée américaine. C’est l’un des meilleurs amis de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes à l’école de Wyoming où ils ont étudié ensemble au Michigan. Mark Hartman parle toujours du Brésil, l’un des ses sujets préférés. Selon lui, Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes lui a beaucoup appris sur le Brésil.

Antonio Carlos Cascao, le principal directeur de l’Hôpital Albert Einstein, le meilleur de l’Amérique du sud. Il a vécu à Manaus pendant 8 ans.
« Je considère Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes comme quelqu’un qui connaît très bien son pays, sa région, ainsi que sa forêt et son peuple. Il respecte et est très respecté par sa communauté. J’en suis très impressionné. », déclare Antonio Carlos Cascao.

Pour développer l’Amazonas, le gouvernement brésilien a créé en 1967 la Zone Franche de Manaus. Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes avait 11 ans à cette époque, mais il se souvient très bien des réunions et nouvelles sur ce projet. A l’âge de 12 ans, il a commencé à vendre des produits importés. La Zone Franche de Manaus a beaucoup contribué pour développer l’Amazonas et Mario Ricardo Faris Gomes est devenu un expert dans les domaines commercial et industriel. Actuellement, la Zone Franche de Manaus a à peu près 100.000 employés.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes a une grande sympathie envers le Swaziland (Afrique). Il a beaucoup étudié sur cette nation. Sa fille, Maite Rosana Lents Gomes, par coïncidence, est devenue une amie de la Princesse Temaswati Dlamini. Elles ont étudié en Suisse.

Connie Mellema Cross, la « soeur américaine » de Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, a déménagé pour l’ Oregon pour faire un grand travail social avec les gens qui ont besoin d’attention spéciale quand ils quittent l’hôpital, après avoir subi un traitement de maladies croniques. Sa ville reconnaît l’importance de l’excellent travail social qu’elle mène.

Le GRUPOMRG, groupe d’entreprises créé par Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes, suit toujours sa philosophie, même s’il ne dirige pas directement toutes les compagnies. Les compagnies possèdent la certification de qualité ISO 9000. Le groupe est très engagé en ce qui concerne la responsabilité sociale à Manaus, la base de toutes les affaires de GRUPOMRG.

Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes appréciait les courses automobiles de Michigan Lake dans les années 70 quand il habitait à Grand Rapid. Son « frère américain », Patrick Mellema était toujours le vainqueur. En raison d’une compétition, ils ont travaillé pendant 48 heures sans dormir pour réparer une Capri Z-240 rouge qui devait participer à une course le week-end. Patrick Mellema a gagné. Son copilote était son « frère brésilien » Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes.

Ademir Maximino, vice-président du groupe italien PIRELLI a été accueilli à Manaus en 1980 par Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes. Il a déclaré : « Nous étions vraiment en bonnes mains. Nous avons franchi plusieurs pas, grâce à Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes. J’avais déjà rencontré des gens sérieux et corrects mais jamais tellement  sérieux, correct et informel comme Mario Gomes. C’est un grand plaîsir de travailler avec Mario Ricardo Farias Gomes. 

 
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