Mariana is Brazilian and graduated as a Full Translator from the Translation and Interpretation course at Associação Alumni, São Paulo, Brazil. Her professional journey includes years of teaching English as a second language, a two-year-specialization-course in Marketing in Perth, Western Australia, and a trainee program at a market research agency on the team responsible for the international projects, where she had the opportunity of working with clients such as Unilever, Shiseido and Kraft/Mondelez. Mariana joined The Drake’s team in 2012 and in 2015 she moved to Recife to open The Drake's branch in the Northeast.