Cesar A Costa

Cesar Costa is an Electrical Engineer with a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan. He also has complete extensive training from Harvard University, the University of California at Berkley, and Escola Politecnica da Universiade de São Paulo (USP).

He currently holds Florida licenses as a Realtor , Property Inspector , Mold Accessor , Pest Control Operator (WDO – Termite Inspection), and Certification on Level One Thermography, among others.

Cesar is a certified instructor, holding a license as a Continuing Education Course Provider with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DPBR). He has 5 registered courses, and during the COVID-19 epidemic of 2020, he trained more than 1,000 realtors on how to take better advantage of property inspection services, including how to assess mold and termites. He also upskilled Realtors® in Question-Based Selling, Harvard Negotiations, Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills, and more. In addition, he is a Florida Realtors Certified Instructor (Faculty Member) and teaches courses at Local Boards, including Miami Realtors® and Broward, Palm Beaches, & St. Lucie Realtors®

Cesar is the owner of a HouseMaster (HM) franchise, operating in Broward County. He has been nationally recognized as one of the most relevant franchisee and admired home inspection businesses. With a fully staffed company including Back Office staff, and Marketing and Property Inspectors, he performed more than 1,000 inspections in 2020, with an average review score of 4.9 out of 5 stars on Google. In 2020, he was awarded nationwide recognitions for top performance: HouseMaster Presidents’ club and HouseMaster Century Club.

Cesar Costa has worked in Marketing, Sales, and Business Development roles at multinational companies such as Lucent Technologies, Yahoo!, Global Crossing, Intel, and Laureate International Universities. At the latter, he launched new products and services, created brands, developed strategic partnerships, and expanded business into new markets and accounts. Cesar also has leadership experience with large sales teams when it comes to recruiting, training, and developing, including managing more than 250 salespeople at Epay. Cesar Costa was an MBA professor for more than 18 years at Business School São Paulo (BSP), a leading institution in Brazil. After starting as a Business Economics professor for the executive MBA courses, he developed the “Doing Business in Telecom” and the “MBA in Telecom” blockbuster programs in 2001. These became very popular during the Brazilian telecom privatization boom and enabled BSP to differentiate in the market through customized in-company courses. Successively, he developed the unique “Master in Sales” post-graduation executive MBA program and created and taught the innovative course “Complex Sales Strategy”. Cesar was also the graduation project advisor for many of BSP’s MBA students and he also served as an MBA candidate recruiter and interviewer for the University of Michigan.