JBS appoints new director of communications

16/09/2014
Packer and tanning group JBS has appointed Wilson Mello Neto as its new director of communications and government relations.

Mr Mello will report directly to group chief executive, Wesley Batista.

Before taking up his new position at JBS, Mr Mello was responsible for corporate affairs at retail group Wal-Mart Brasil.

On announcing the appointment, Mr Batista said Wilson Mello was an example of JBS’s determination to keep strengthening its executive team and to keep making the company “more and more professional”.