Mr. Felipe Abreu Salles joined the team as an external partner, a defense consultant, cooperating with MEREGE, case by case basis, on key projects approach. His arrival leveraged a much wider scope of business opportunities to be addressed, throughout ARMY, NAVY and AIR FORCE weapons, vessels, aircrafts. Mr. Salles is graduated on Administration through Universidade Candido Mendes (1994), has also a Master degree on Maritime studies through EGN-CEPE (Escola de Guerra Naval – Naval War School). Has large professional experience on international Defense equipment and strategy. Owner & Publisher at ALIDE (Agência Linha de Defesa), Defense content developer that runs, among others, BASE MILITAR (www.basemilitar.com.br ) since early 2004, constantly traveling, both inside Brasil and to dozens of other countries, covering multilateral military exercises. UN peace missions, international Defense industry trade shows etc.