Filipe dos Santos Piumbini — Co-Founder & Director, Freedom to Belong

Co-Founder & Director FTB · Volunteer USLN

Co-Founder & Director, Freedom to Belong · Team Leader · Volunteer · Sales, American Photonics

Filipe
Piumbini

Freedom to Belong · American Photonics network · Florida & international markets

Filipe dos Santos Piumbini is a business executive who unites communication leadership, international sales, and hands-on entrepreneurship. As Co-Founder & Director of Freedom to Belong, he helps a 501(c)(3) mission reach immigrants and communities with clarity and dignity — while bringing commercial experience from design business ownership, granite industry leadership, and sales work for American Photonics.

Volunteer · US Legal Now Co-Founder & Director · FTB Team Leader · Volunteer · FTB Sales · American Photonics Freedom to Belong International sales Nonprofit leadership Design entrepreneur American Photonics network University of South Florida

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About Filipe

A communicator who understands business — and a commercial professional who understands mission.

Filipe dos Santos Piumbini is Co-Founder & Director and Team Leader · Volunteer of Freedom to Belong, the Florida-based 501(c)(3) dedicated to education, community, and support for immigrants. In that role he shapes how the organization speaks — to students, donors, volunteers, and partners — so that belonging is not only a program outcome but a message people can trust.

His professional path combines international sales experience with entrepreneurship. Public records associate him with Granite Forever USA (corporate officer), design leadership as owner of a Lakewood Ranch kitchen and bath studio (SRQuality Kitchens and Baths), and commercial affiliation with the American Photonics network — including sales commission structures reflecting active market development.

Educated in the Florida ecosystem at the University of South Florida, Filipe operates across cultures and markets with the same family standard that defines the broader Piumbini leadership circle: results with respect, ambition with integrity.

Communication is not decoration on a mission. It is how a nonprofit earns trust — and how a commercial brand earns the next customer.

Why organizations value Filipe

Mission communication

Director-level ownership of how Freedom to Belong is understood — clarity for immigrants, donors, and partners without losing humanity.

International sales DNA

Business executive experience across international sales contexts — useful wherever products, services, or programs must cross borders.

Entrepreneurial judgment

Founder/operator experience in design retail (kitchens & baths) — real P&L instincts, not only messaging theory.

Industry network

Works in sales for American Photonics, plus prior granite manufacturing/import leadership via Granite Forever USA.

Multilingual / multicultural fluency

Speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish, and Italian — a natural bridge between Brazilian, U.S., and European audiences, essential for FTB, US Legal Now adjacent work, and global product stories.

Next-generation leadership

Part of the Piumbini leadership generation carrying forward enterprise, community, and professional standards with contemporary execution.

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Roles & milestones

Co-Founder & Director · Team Leader · Volunteer — Freedom to Belong

Leads organizational communication for the 501(c)(3) mission: education, citizenship pathways, community programs, and public trust. Business executive experience applied to nonprofit storytelling and outreach.

Volunteer initiatives — Italy, in partnership with Rotary

Leads volunteer initiatives in Italy in partnership with Rotary, sharing knowledge with people who want to become U.S. or Italian citizens.

Sales — American Photonics

Works in sales for American Photonics Inc., developing customers and markets for its precision infrared and laser optics.

Designer / Owner — SRQuality Kitchens and Baths

Opened a Lakewood Ranch design studio (San Marco Plaza) focused on kitchens and baths — entrepreneurial leadership in design, client experience, and local market presence (public coverage, 2016).

Corporate officer — Granite Forever USA, Inc.

Florida corporate records list Filipe S. Piumbini among officers of Granite Forever USA — experience adjacent to import, manufacturing, and installation markets in Southwest Florida.

University of South Florida

Higher education foundation in the Tampa Bay / Florida professional ecosystem — LinkedIn-associated academic background.

Focus tags

Strategic communication Nonprofit leadership International sales Brand storytelling Customer development Design entrepreneurship Cross-cultural markets Immigrant community mission Commercial partnerships