Alexsandro Broedel is currently Group Finance Director and Investor Relations Officer of Itaú Unibanco. He is a Fellow Chartered Management Accontant (FCMA, CGMA), member of the Accounting Standards Advisory Forum (ASAF) of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), board member at IRB Brasil Resseguros and IIRC (International Integrated Report Committee). He also is Professor at University of São Paulo (Accounting and Finance). Graduated in Law and Accounting in University of São Paulo, has PhD in Accounting and Finance from Manchester Business School. Previously he was Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil.

Was born in 1939 in Stettin, Gemany, and has lived in Brazil since 1948. Graduated at High School of Economy in Germany in 1966 and became a Brazilian citizen in 1980. Since August 1969 he has joined at Companhia Melhoramentos de São Paulo – Paper Industry – as Financial Director’s Assistant, developing his business life in financial and administrative area and also had been elected Chairman of the Company’s Board from 1984 up to 2002. Actualy he is member of Melhoramentos Company’s Administrative Board.

Main institutions that joins in parallel:

• Associação Comercial de São Paulo (São Paulo Trade Association) - Lifetime Member of Superior Council.
• COSEC’s (Higher Council of Economics) member (FIESP).
• ABRASCA’s (Association of Brazilian Publicy-Held) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
• CIESP’s (Center of Industries of the State of São Paulo) Vice President.
• CPC’s (Accounting Committee) Coordinator for Institutional Relations.
• FIESP’s (Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo) Director of Economy, Competitiveness and Tecnology department.

Foundations and philanthropic organizations that joins actively:

• Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz (Oswaldo Cruz Germany Hospital) - Councelor.
• Sociedade Beneficente Alemã (German Charity) - Councelor.
• Fundação Visconde de Porto Seguro and Instituto Martius-Staden - Superior Councelor.
• Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo – Redeemed Brother.
• ITACI (Institute for the Treatment of Children with Cancer) - Superior Councelor.

Institutions that joined in a private sphere:

• ABRASCA  (Brazilian Association of Publicly-Held Companies) – Chairman from 1997 to 2007 and Chief Executive Officer from 2007 to 2017.
• CRSFN (Resources Council of the National Financial System) – Vice President.
• Abigraf Nacional (Brazilian Association of Graphic Industry) - Chairman from 2008 to 2009.
• Abigraf Regional (Brazilian Association of Graphic Industry) - Chairman from 2001 to 2007.
• Associação Comercial de São Paulo (São Paulo Trade Association) - Vice President.
• Bovespa (São Paulo Stock Exchange) - member of Administration Board.
• Fundação Visconde de Porto Seguro - Superior Councelor since 1970 (lifetime position) and President & Executive Officer from 1989 to 2011.
• Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz – Fiscal Council.

Significant honors received:

• Ordem do Mérito 1ª Classe, by Federal Republic of Germany in 2002 from the President of Republic.
• Prize “Líder Empresarial do Setor de Papel e Celulose” (Business Leader of Pulp and Paper Industry) conferred by Gazeta Mercantil in 2003.
• Prize “Líder Empresarial da América 1996” (Business Leader of América 1996) by Conlatingraf (Latin American Confederation of Graphic Industry) and by PAF (Printing Association of Florida USA).
• “Entrepreneur of Year” in 1995 and 1997 by São Paulo’s Trade Association.
• “Graphic Communicator of the Year 1995” by Abigraf Regional (Brazilian Association of Graphic Industry).
• “Cidadão Paulistano” – received by Municipal Council of São Paulo in 06/06/2008.
• “Colar Visconde Porto Seguro” (Visconde de Porto Seguros’ Nacklace) in 2015, second proclamation nº 61.678 by State of Government of São Paulo.
• Certified by the strict compliance of the Ethics Code over 40 years by Conselho Regional de Corretores de Imóveis do Estado de São Paulo (Regional Council of Real State Brokers).

• “Presidente de Honra” (Honor President) by Visconde de Porto Seguro Foundation’s Council in 2017.

April/2018

Antonio Castro has been President of the Brazilian Association of Public Companies (ABRASCA) since 2007. He joined the entity in 2001 and was Vice-President between 2003 and 2007.

Currently Castro is Chairman of the Companhia Souza Cruz’s (a publicly-held company controlled by British American Tobacco) Fiscal Council (since 2008), Main Board Member of the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (IBMEC), Member of the BM&FBovespa (Stock Exchange) Advisory Committee for Listed Companies  and Member of the Supervisory Board of the Association of Investment Analysts and Professionals of the Capital Market (APIMEC). He is also a Board Member of the Brazilian Accounting Pronouncements Committee (CPC) and Chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in Brazil.

After doing his graduate studies in Economics in the University of California – Los Angeles, Antonio Castro returned to Brazil in 1973 to work for Brascan Corporation, initially in the Project Management area and subsequently in the Financial area.

In 1980 he joined Companhia Souza Cruz and has worked for the company (listed since 1946) for 25 years, holding several functions in financial and management positions.

Between 1988 and 1995 he was a Main Board Member of Aracruz Celulose (first Brazilian Company to issue ADR`s) and between 2001 and 2005 he was Investment Director of the Souza Cruz Pension Fund.

Ary is a partner of the firm who is on temporary leave from the Brazilian Bar Association and the firm to dedicate his time entirely to the academic life. He is a full time senior professor at the law School at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.

EXPERIENCE
He served as the Chairman of Brazil's Securities Commission (CVM), a judge of the Administrative Court of Taxes and Rates of the State of São Paulo, a member of Brazil's National Monetary Council (CMN), and the President of the Federal Commission for Fiscal Reform. He currently serves on the board of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) and the Brazilian Capital Markets Institute (IBMEC). Ary Oswaldo was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and he is a former Dean and is a current senior professor of the Business School and the Law School at Fundação Getulio Vargas.

EDUCATION
• Bachelor of Laws, Universidade de São Paulo
• Specialist in International Taxation, Harvard Law School
• Master of Laws, Harvard Law School
• Master of Laws, Universidade de São Paulo
• Doctor of Laws in Taxation, Universidade de São Paulo
• Post-doctoral Researcher, Harvard Law School

Mr. Marinelli joined the company in 2005.

In this period, he has occupied prominent positions in the company in the following areas: new businesses, strategy, innovation and sustainability. In 2012, he assumed as executive director of Fleury brand, expanding it, improving the business model management, and leveraging the results of this brand. He has a bachelor and master degree at Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (EAESP FGV) with extensions by the University of Texas in Austin and ESADE Business School in Barcelona. His educational background also includes executive education by London Business School and INSEAD. Carlos Marinelli worked at Unilever, Grupo Promon and Grupo Pão de Açúcar before joining Grupo Fleury. 

Daniela has broad professional experience in research, asset valuation and has acted in important transactions to raise equity and debt, M&A as well as identified new business opportunities for over a dozen companies and participated in some of Brazil largest and most important transactions in the consumer and retail sector in Brazil. Daniela worked as a sell-side analyst for 17 years covering retail and consumer sectors in Latin America. She worked for some of Latam largest and well-recognized banks, including Santander, Goldman Sachs, Citibank and Raymond James.

In 2013, Daniela transitioned to Investor Relations. Her first role as IRO was in Magazine Luiza where she worked for three years and restrutured and repositioned the company's thesis within the investment community. When Daniela joined Magazine Luiza (MGLU3) shares were quoted at R$7.00 per share and when she left the shares were at R$100.00. The shares have gone up more than fivefold since then. Daniela is the director of Investor Relations at Brazili largest food retailer - Grupo Carrefour Brasil - since June 2017.  

A Brazilian citizen, born in November 1956 and the father of four children, David Feffer is a member of the third generation of shareholders in the Suzano Group, where he started working in 1974. Today he is president of Suzano Holding and chairman of the board of directors of Suzano Papel e Celulose.

Feffer studied Company Administration in Brazil and completed specialty courses at Harvard Business School (USA), Columbia University (USA), IMD (Switzerland), The Aspen Institute (USA), Singularity University (USA) and Stanford University (USA).

He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Brazilian Forestry Industry (IBÁ), and of various social and cultural institutions.

The Suzano Group is one of Brazil’s oldest corporate organizations. It is prominent in the pulp and paper industry and also operates in insurance and reinsurance broking, risk management, real estate development, software and computer products and services.

Mestre pelo IMD (Suíça), especialista em finanças pela Fipecafi/USP, e também bacharel em direito pela PUC-SP. É atualmente CFO e IRO da Ingresso Rápido e foi executivo da Lopes, AES, OAS e Suzano, tendo construído sua experiência nas seguintes vertentes: estratégia, finanças e desenvolvimento de novos negócios. Também é mentor de mais de 20 startups em diferentes países e membro do conselho de administração do Instituto Brasileiro de Relações com Investidores. É professor da Casa do Saber, foi professor da FGV e FIA/USP, além de ter publicado dois livros. 

With more than 25 years of experience in Finance, Edmar has worked in national and multinational companies, and holds a degree in Civil Engineering from UFRJ. Before joining Movida, Mr. Lopes worked at Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., where he joined as Capital Markets Officer in 2011 and later became CFO and Investor Relations Officer. Previously, Mr. Lopes worked at Organizações Globo for 13 years, having served as treasury officer at Net Serviços de Comunicação S.A. from 2005 to 2011 and as planning manager of Fundação Roberto Marinho between 1998 and 2005. Edmar Lopes joined Movida in October, 2016 as CFO and Investor Relations Officer. Edmar Lopes is also the Chairman of the Board at IBRI.

Formado em Administração pela UERJ, ingressou no mercado de capitais na Bolsa de Valores do RJ, onde foi o Superintendente responsável pelo lançamento pelo primeiro mercado de derivativos de sucesso no Brasil.
 
Posteriormente, foi Diretor Executivo do CODIMEC - Comitê de Divulgação do Mercado de Capitais e o primeiro Superintendente de Desenvolvimento de Mercado da BM&F - Bolsa Mercantil de Futuros, participando de sua criação.

Atualmente, é Presidente Executivo da ABRASCA - Associação Brasileira das Companhias Abertas.

Chief Financial Officer – Energética Suape II S.A. (2009-2014); Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer – Senac Rio (2005-2009). Chief Financial Officer – Universidade Estácio de Sá (2003-2004). Currently is chief of the Risk Based Supervision at Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – (SBR/SPL/CVM).

M.Sc. in Business Administration (COPPEAD-UFRJ); Graduate in Capital Market Regulation (IBMEC-RJ); B.Sc. in Business Administration (UFRJ) and BSc. in Law (UERJ).

Movile's Founder & CEO, Fabricio Bloisi turned Movile from a startup in a garage in Brazil into a global player in mobile marketplaces. Currently, Movile has over 1600 employees, 16 offices - based in 6 different countries - and serves monthly more than 150 million mobile customers worldwide. Bloisi majored in Computer Science at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and concluded a Master degree in Business Administration at Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP) - his thesis gathers High-Growth startups, Innovations and Strategy. Bloisi has also concluded the Executive Program for Growing Companies, Strategy, Finance, Leadership for companies in the growth phase at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His dream is to create a company that make's 1 billion lives better through our Apps

Gilson Finkelsztain has been CEO of B3 since May 2017.

He was Chief Executive Officer of Cetip S/A from August 2013 to April 2017, and a member of the company’s board from 2011 to 2013.

He worked for 20 years in international banks such as Citibank, JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Santander, and held positions on executive boards in Brazil and abroad, focusing on the currency, fixed income, equities and commodities markets.

He graduated in Civil Production Engineering at PUC - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1994) and has a post-graduate degree from INSEAD-Advanced Management Program (2011).

Guilherme Setubal Souza e Silva graduated in Company Administration at PUC-SP, and holds an MBA in Finance from Insper. He worked in the financial market for 14 years, in the Treasury and Corporate Banking areas, at Banco Modal, HSBC and CCF. He is currently manager in charge of IR, Credit and Insurance, Risk Management and Internal Controls at Duratex S.A.

Graduated in Business Administration at FAAP, he had experience in the Market Risk area at Itaú. He coursed the prestigious Executive Program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley and now is Sales Executive on Looqbox, a startup based on Cubo.

Partner in the areas of Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity at Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados. He has frequently been recognized as one of the main lawyers in Brazil by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500. Currently, he is the managing partner at the firm.

He represents banks and other foreign and domestic financial institutions, investment funds and private equity funds, foreign and domestic companies and other investors in public offering transactions, issuance of debentures, issuance of bonds, structured financings, mergers and acquisitions, sale of assets and joint ventures in various segments of the economy.

He holds a degree in Law from Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and a Master’s degree in Law (LL.M.) by the Law School of the University of Michigan. He was an international associate at a major New York law firm between the years of 1998 and 1999.

Lojas Renner
São Paulo, SP Brazil
April 2017 – Present

• Board Member and Member of Audit and Risk Committee.

• Public company, listed in Brazil. With more than 50 years of history, Lojas Renner S.A., headquartered in Porto Alegre (RS) is the largest fashion retailer in Brazil. The company has five business units: Renner, Camicado, Youcom, E-commerce and Financial Products operations. Lojas Renner has over 19 thousand employees, 27.4 million Renner cardholders and source its products from almost 2,000 direct and indirect suppliers, both in Brazil and abroad. The company is present in all states in Brazil, with over 450 stores, and just recently opened its first store abroad, in Uruguay.

Duratex
São Paulo, SP Brazil
June 2016 – Present

• Board Member and Member of Audit and Risk Committee.

• Public company, listed in Brazil. Duratex has two business divisions, Deca and Wood – Duratex manufactures and sells products serving the civil construction finishes and furniture sector in Brazil and abroad. With a 64-year history, 12,200 employees and 15 industrial units spread throughout the South, Southeast and Northeast regions of Brazil, in addition to four other units in Colombia, the company has a diversified product portfolio that includes fiberboard, MDP and MDF wood panels, wood, vinyl and ceramic flooring, sanitary ware and metals, valves, and electric showers and faucets.

Arezzo&Co
São Paulo, SP Brazil 
July 2013 – Present

• Board Member and Chair of Strategy Committee.

• Public company, listed in Brazil. Arezzo&Co is the leading company in the Brazilian women's footwear, handbags and accessories sector. With over 42 years of history, the Company sells more than 9 million pairs of shoes per year, besides handbags and accessories. It holds a solid portfolio of renowned brands - Arezzo, Schutz, Anacapri and Alexandre Birman – which stand out in the market for their prime quality, design, comfort and innovation. Through its flexible and competitive distribution channel comprised of own stores, franchises and multi-brand retail stores, Arezzo&Co's products can be found in all Brazilian states as well as in several countries abroad.

Endeavor
São Paulo, SP Brazil 
Jan 2015 – Present

• Endeavor is an organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world. With the support of a network of seasoned business leaders, Endeavor works to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs worldwide.

• Board Member at Uatt?? a company led by Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Active mentor of a number of other entrepreneurs.

Itaú BBA
São Paulo, SP Brazil  
July 2013 – July 2017

• Consumer Sector Specialist - Senior independent advisor to Investment Banking Department.

• Working with top management of Brazilian corporations (listed and privately-held) to design scenarios and formulate long term strategy.

• Coaching privately-held companies that intend to IPO

• Advising Private Equity Groups in strategic investments.

• Board-level/Top management discussions of the Brazilian Consumer and Retail sector competitive landscape.

Itaú BBA Corretora
São Paulo, SP Brazil 
March 2007 – June 2013

• Senior sell side analyst, covering Retail, Consumer, Healthcare and Education sectors, including Beverage and Food companies.

Deutsche Bank
São Paulo, SP Brazil
September 2004 – March 2007

• Director at Deutsche Bank, covering Latin American Food & Beverage and Retail companies.

Itaú Corretora S.A. / BBA Creditanstalt S.A.                                    
São Paulo, SP Brazil
June 2002 – September 2004
• Senior sell-side analyst covering Brazilian Retail, Food, Beverage and Tobacco companies.

July 2000 – June 2002.
• Second analyst in sell-side team covering Brazilian Telecom & Media companies.

JGP Hedge Fund
Rio de Janeiro, RJ  Brazil
October 1998 – July 2000

• Emerging markets macroeconomic co-strategist in a hedge fund, designing macro investment theories for fixed income (forex and bonds) and equity markets.

Banco Pactual S.A.
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
June 1997 - August 1998

• Buy-side macroeconomic analyst responsible for designing strategies in international (ex-Brazil) research team.

Banco Icatu S.A. 
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
May 1996  - June 1997

• Trainee at the sell-side Brazilian macroeconomic research team, responsible for statistical and econometric analysis.

Is the Principal on the Market Intelligence & Strategy team at BNY Mellon’s Depositary Receipts division.

She brings more than 17 years of investment banking experience to the team’s efforts, helping clients to understand and navigate the equity markets and to reach investors across the globe. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Karen was the Head of Equity Capital Markets for Daiwa Capital Markets America, where she focused on helping clients maximize their cross-regional profile and investments, and on execution of cross-border transactions involving the Asian region. Prior to joining Daiwa, Karen was a Director in the equity capital markets group at Citigroup, where she was responsible for the execution of equity offerings for non-U.S. based issuers looking to access the US equity market. She has experience in IPOs, privatizations, REG S and 144a offerings, convertible securities, block trades and more, for companies of all sizes and geographic regions. Karen began her career at Santander Investment in New York in the equity capital markets group. Karen holds a B.A. from Vassar College and is a member of the Women’s Syndicate Association and the Financial Women’s Association.

Technical Account Manager/ MIFID II Ambassador, Brazil

Tenure: 4 years.

Other Positions: Sales Director, Sales Engineer (Orc Software) 2011 – 2015 Relationship Specialist 2008 – 2011 (BM&FBOVESPA – Brazilian Exchange).

Experience: +10 years of experience on Brazil Financial Markets, focussed on tecnology for trading, Market Data, Compliance and Regulation.

Profile

Leading partner of the Reorganization Services practice in Brazil, actively participating in Financial Restructurings, Performance Improvement and related multifunctional initiatives as well as acting as a Judicial Trustee for a number of relevant cases within the New Brazilian Corporate Bankruptcy law. Entrepreneurial background.

Experience

• Development of the Brazilian RS practice from its inception:

• Deloitte has helped shape the use of the Brazilian Bankruptcy Law (published in 2005), by working closely with law makers, judges and law firms.
• Performed special training sessions for judges, business executives and business and law school students.
• Organized events to promote the benefits of the new Law.

• Expertise in complex restructuring cases, involving multidisciplinary teams within Deloitte and using external consultants.
• Experience in Distressed M&A and capital raising.
• Debt restructuring through out-of-court (“extra-judicial”) settlements.
• Debt renegotiations on behalf of companies across several industries.
• Financial and operational turnarounds for companies in several industries, including textiles, distribution/logistics, retail and agribusiness.
• Preparation of Restructuring plans/ financial projections and negotiation with creditors prior to Creditors’ Meetings for companies in agribusiness and manufacturing, under the Brazilian bankruptcy law.
• Implementation of exit strategy for major multinational consumer products company.
• Successful development of the Judicial Trustee Services, having been appointed in cases in aviation, agribusiness (sugar & ethanol, soybeans, etc.), food & beverage, computer manufacturing, construction, among others.
• Entrepreneurial experience as a founder and manager of clothing design/ manufacturing company for over 10 years.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
• MBA in Corporate Finance from IBMEC, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Languages

• Portuguese – Native speaker.
• English – Fluent.

Marc Goedhart is a senior expert in McKinsey & Company’s Amsterdam Office and one of the leaders of the Corporate Finance practice in the Benelux. In addition, Marc is a full professor with an endowed chair in corporate valuation at the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University in The Netherlands. He focuses on corporate strategy and valuation, value-based management and capital structure. Marc has worked for clients in pharma & healthcare, consumer goods, energy and transportation across Europe.

Marc is an author of “Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Valuation of Companies” by T. Koller, M. Goedhart and D. Wessels, which was published in its 6^th edition in 2015. He is a member of the editorial board of the quarterly journal McKinsey on Finance and has published extensively in the McKinsey Quarterly and academic journals. Marc has also been a regular contributor to academic courses in finance at various academic institutions in Europe.

Prior to joining McKinsey in 1996, Marc was a assistant professor in the Finance Department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam (NL) and worked for Royal Nedlloyd Group. Marc received his Ph.D. in finance at Erasmus University in 1994 and served as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy.

Marcelo Barbosa is the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil (CVM), as well as the CVM representative on the IOSCO Board. He has a seat on the Financial Stability Board and on the IFRS Monitoring Board and is a member of the Brazilian Technical Commission of Currency and Credit (COMOC), of the Brazilian Market Regulators Committee (COREMEC), of the Brazilian Council for Private Insurance (CNSP) and of the Brazilian Committee of Financial Education (CONEF). Mr. Barbosa is an attorney by formation, with relevant experience on corporate law and securities markets, and has acted as arbitrator in numerous arbitral proceedings. Mr. Barbosa served as a professor of Corporate Law at Rio de Janeiro State University and teaches a seminar on Topics of Capital Markets Law  at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. He was the chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fundação Estudar and a member of the Columbia Global Centers Latin America Advisory Board and of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee (CAF). Mr. Barbosa was also a member of the audit committee at Lemann Foundation.  He has written several articles on corporate law and securities markets and has participated as a lecturer at conferences in Brazil and abroad. Mr. Barbosa has a bachelor’s degree in law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and an LL.M from Columbia University.

Quoted companies editor for the Valor Econômico newspaper for some 16 years, he is responsible for coverage of balance sheets, governance and corporate legislation. In recent years he has been heading the team reporting on quoted companies on the real-time platform Valor PRO.

From 1993 to 2000, he was industry and quoted companies editor for the Gazeta Mercantil, which is no longer published.

He was a reporter and program producer for the BBC’s Brazilian service in London between 1990 and 1992. Before that, he reported on raw materials for Gazeta Mercantil for four years. He is 55 years old.

Graduated in Business Administration by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul,  he also got his Master’s Degree by the Southern Illinois University.Through out the years he attended a reasonable number of short duration courses among them one offered by Harvard Business School focused in management strategies for senior management. 

Currently he is a member of the following Boards:

LOJAS RENNER S.A. -  it is a  public company that operates in the retail market of fast fashion. He is a Board member since 2012 and became Chairman since  2013. He is also the president of two committees: the Nomination Committee and the Strategic  Committee. Besides that, he has been a member of the Financial Committee since 2012. 

SLC Agrícola S/A. - it is the largest  Agriculture Company listed in the Brazilian Stock Exchange and dedicated to the production of agriculture commodities. He has been a Board member since 2013; 

Estácio Participações S.A. - It is a public company  holding of an Education Institution with more than 600.000 students in 100 different campus through out the country. He is a board member and president of The Audit and Financial Committee since 2016;

CMPC - it is a chilean company that operates in different countries in Latin America and produces celulose and paper. In Brasil it controls Celulose Riograndense. He is a Board member since 2016; 

MARCO POLO - it is a company dedicated to the construction of buses for public transportation in cities ( urban mobility) and for long distance trips as well. It has assembly lines in Brasil and abroad. He is a board member since April 2018.  

Advisory Boards 

SLC Participações - it is a private  family controlled holding company that controls the SLC Group which  comprises companies in the  agriculture commodities production, food industrialization, and in the agriculture equipment distribution. He has been a member of this Advisory Board since 2017;

BOARDS OF NON PROFITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (PRO BONO) 

He is currently a member,  but since 2013 until March 2018, he was the  Chairman of the  American Chamber of Commerce of Rio Grande do Sul and Vice-President of The American Chamber of Commerce of São Paulo.

EXECUTIVE POSITIONS

As an executive he worked with Gerdau Group a steel producer with operations in 14 countries and more than 9 million tons of crude steel capacity,  from 1986 through January of 2013, when he retired. In this Group he  started as  financial Director and after that became an Executive Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee that  used to run the Group. 

Before joining Gerdau,  for almost ten years,  he worked for the Iochpe Group in many different positions such as investors relation manager, Director of International Operations in the Bank when Bankers Trust was a relevant share holder, Executive Director of a Leasing Company and finally as Director of the M&A Área. 

Through out his carrear he has been invited do speak in  domestic and international events related to capital markets and more recently about Corporate Governance. 

In parallel to his activities as an executive,  he used to teach for almost ten years  at the Federal University  in aundergraduated and graduated courses. 

He has been awarded with prizes such as the “ Equilibrista” granted by Instituto Brasileiro de Executivos Financeiros  due to his performance as a financial executive and was elected twice as the best “CFO” of Latin America by Institutional Investor Magazine when he still was, when he still was an executive.

Paulo Cezar Aragão is one of BMA’s founding partners. His practice is focused on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, commercial arbitration and international transactions.

Paulo has been named for more than five years a “star individual” in Corporate Law/M&A according to Chambers Global and Latin America Guides. Over the course of his career, he has taken part in some of the biggest mergers and acquisitions in Latin America, and his clients include major national and international companies doing business in a variety of sectors, such as energy, education, food & beverages, mining & metals, stock exchanges, hygiene and beauty & cosmetics.

Paulo was during several years the Geral Counsel and Managing Director of one of the largest and most successful private equity firms in Brazil (GP Investments). He also acted as General Counsel of the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM – Comissão de Valores Mobiliários).

PH Zabisky is a partner and CEO of MZ, one of the world’s largest investor relations companies and leader in Brazil, in which the private equity fund Jardim Botânico is a partner. He graduated in Company Administration at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP-SP), holds an MBA from IBMEC/Insper São Paulo and specialized in Negotiation and Leadership at Harvard Law School (Boston, USA).

Roberto Dias Carneiro is a partner in BMA's Corporate Law practice area. He joined the firm in 2004 and has extensive experience in corporate law and M&A. His previous experience includes work as an intern and then as a corporate attorney in private practice (1997-2004), as an intern in the controller's department of the investment firm Banco InvestCorp S.A., and as an intern with the economic consulting firm Galanto (1995-1996).

He acts for national and international clients and has taken part in some of the largest M&A transactions in Latin America. His clients do business in sectors such as financial services, steelmaking, textiles, construction, energy and agriculture.

Joined Gerdau in 2008 and is now Senior Investor Relations Manager, responsible for Gerdau’s quoted company registration in the capital markets of Brazil, the United States and Spain. He also provides services for analysts and global investors. His professional experience includes a further four years working in investor relations for two other global companies. Maia is a graduate in Computing Science and holds an MBA in Finance from FGV, São Paulo.

Ronnie Nogueira, with background in Economics and Communication, is founding partner of IMF Editora; publisher and editorial director of RI - Relações com Investidores magazine.

• CEO of Great Place to Work^® Brazil
• Entrepreneur in the areas of healthcare and wellbeing
• Lecturer in a number of countries and columnist in various publications on business, management, technology and human resources
• Production Engineer and holder of a Master’s degree from the USP Polytechnic School
• Specialty courses in the USA (Wharton), Switzerland (IMD), Japan (AOTS) and Spain (IESE)
• Officer of national and multinational companies in various market segments, and coordinator of start-ups: Dow Chemical, Diageo, Telefônica, Claro, GVT
• Elected IT Executive of the Year in 2002; awarded 6 other national and international prizes
• Author of the book “Qualidade no Atendimento e Tecnologia de Informação” published by Editora Atlas, and co-author of “Transformando a Cultura do Ambiente de Trabalho” published by Primavera Editorial and “Temas Avançados em Qualidade de Vida” published by the Brazilian Quality of Life Association
• A member of the LinkedIn team of Influencers

 

Simone Azevedo is a founding partner of the magazine Capital Aberto, the first independent publication providing coverage of the capital market. She started her career in 1997, at Agência Estado, as assistant editor for the Quoted Companies online service. She then moved to Gazeta Mercantil, where she worked as a reporter covering quoted companies. She left Gazeta Mercantil in 2003 to found Capital Aberto. She has an MBA in capital markets from FIPECAFI/USP and she was awarded a Bovespa Journalism prize in 2000 and 2003, the Animec Press Prize 2005, Successful People in the Press category (Banco Hoje magazine) in 2005 and Apimec Press Prizes in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Tiago Isaac is a superintendent at B3, responsible for building up the primary capital market in Brazil in both the debt and equities (IPOs) segments. Coordinates B3’s relationships with listed companies, investment banks and private equity companies, and heads market initiatives for the Novo Mercado, remote voting and liquidity promotion. He is currently coordinator of the Advisory Chamber on Listing, a member of the ABRASCA Steering Committee and a member of the Advisory Council to ABVCAP. He was formerly Strategic Planning executive in various companies, including B3 and Bunge Alimentos. He is a graduate in Company Administration and specialized in the areas of Governance and Strategy.

Valder Nogueira is Managing Director of the wholesale banking division (Global Corporate Banking – GCB) at Banco Santander. His responsibilities include heading the investment analysis team in equity research, since 2012, and he also leads the Latin American companies analysis team for TMT (Telecoms, Media and Technology). Valder headed Santander’s TMT team from 2005 to 2008, and returned to the bank in 2010. Between 2008 and 2010, he was head TMT analyst at Banco ItauBBA.

Before starting his career as an investment analyst, Valder worked in investor relations at Embratel and Brasil Telecom. Prior to that, he worked for Banco Pactual (now BTG Pactual), where his jobs included investment analyst, institutional clients salesman and editor. Valder started his career as an intern at Merrill Lynch (in Austin, Texas). He graduated in Finance at the University of Texas, Austin, in 1993.