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Belo Horizonte, Mg, Br

• Reporting direct to the CEO, BoD, and the Group´s CFO (The Netherlands), leading 6 direct reports (Heads and Managers) and 36 indirect FTEs;• Take responsibility for all cash management, investments, insurance, budgeting, anti-fraud, and financial reporting, and help drive the company’s financial strategy. Maintaining and developing strong external relationships, including with banks, investors, and other stakeholders;• Monitor business performance with tracking tools, establishing corrective measures as needed, and preparing detailed reports for the Investors, management team, and rest of the company;• Ensure cash flow is compatible with operations by overseeing day-to-day accounting, recording, reporting, and internal-control activities of the company. Managing a R$ 250 million annual budget.Main Achievements: o Crafted the restructuring plan, increasing the GTS by 15% (pre-pandemic), and 78% in FY22 and FY23, respectively. Combined with a 35% reduction in SG&A, which allowed Sympla to reach the breakeven. The EBITDA increased from a negative R$20,1MM(Mar/21) to a positive R$5,7MM (Mar/23); o Led the anti-fraud restructuring plan, reducing the chargeback by 40% and maintaining the sales conversion high;o Conducted tax planning which recovered more than R$ 25 million in tax overpaid.

Osasco, São Paulo, Br

•Reporting direct to CFO and dotted line to Controller’s Prosus Group (Food – The Netherlands);• Oversee the operations of the Accounting, TAX, Treasury, Assurance Revenue, and Digital Transformation of Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. • Establish the cross-communication among Finance, Logistics, Banking, Customer Service, and Tech areas.• Sitting on the audit committee of iFood Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina.• Lead 8 direct reports (3 Heads and 5 Managers) and more than 50 indirect reports (analysts, and assistants), including Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina operations;• Foresee the outsourcing company's assurance of the quality, timing, and accuracy of deliverables;• Manage weekly cash-flow forecasts and monthly balance sheet account reconciliations resulting in the timely completion of financial reports.• Lead by example striving the team to their best.Main Achievements: o Led the project for tax planning recovering more than R$ 90 million in tax credits;o Managed the implementation of the new billing system and the SAPo More than 75% of the finance staff has at least one certification in Data or BI tools.o Managed the capital injection of USD 500 million to accelerate the growth. o Improved the overall finance quality, allowing the department to spin the Company´s accelerated growth without becoming a bottleneck. With the automatization promoted, in the department, the book closing process was reduced from 5 to 2 business days.o Promoted the interchange amid different areas. Allowing finance people to work in other departments.

São Francisco Do Sul, Santa Catarina, Br

• Reporting direct to the CEO and dotted line to Global Controller’s FOOD Group (Japan);• Contribute to the design and implementation of the strategy together with the senior leadership team;• Responsible for Treasury, Controllership, Accounting, Tax, Legal, HR, and IT departments.• Maintaining and developing strong external relationships, including with banks, investors, lawyers, and headquarter team in Japan;• Development and improvement of internal routines, processes, and financing models.• Drive the company’s financial planning process end to end and craft detailed performance analysis and reporting to HQ in Japan.• Ensure our current and forecasting reports are as accurate as possible, and cash flow is compatible with operations by overseeing day-to-day hedging accounting, and risk of the long and short positions. Managing a US$ 100 million annual budget.Main Achievements: o Led the fundraising with BNDES on the total amount of R$ 100 million, to be invested in the duplication of the terminal, allowing the company to increase its revenue by more than 80%.o Coordinate and implement the new ERP;o Implemented the hedge accounting policy and crafted all controls for monitoring the results on a daily basis;o Internalized the Controllership area, and reduced the book closing from 5 to 2 business days;

São Paulo, Br

• Sitting in the board, reporting direct to CEO and HQ Grain´s CFO (Japan), take responsibility for all cash management, investments, budgeting, and financial reporting, and help drive the company’s financial strategy;• Maintaining and developing strong external relationships, including with banks, investors, lawyers and headquarter team in Japan;• Ensure cash flow is compatible with operations by overseeing day-to-day hedging accounting, and risk of the long and short positions. Managing a US$ 180 million annual budget.Main Achievements: o Led the establishment of MGB Brasil legal entity in less than 9 months, and only one year later, the company was trading more than 20 million tons of soybeans and corn contracts;o Implemented the hedge accounting procedures for hedging FX, commodities, and freight;o Appointed as Future non-Japanese Key Leader. Resulting in attending an in-housing MBA in Marubeni (Tokyo) for 15 days;o Worked actively on the M&A which after almost one year of negotiation was refused by the Marubeni Japan.

Beaverton, Or, Us

• Reporting direct to the CFO Brasil and dotted line to Emerging Market Group’s Controller (USA). Leading 5 direct reports (Managers) and 25 indirect FTEs; • Take responsibility for Accounting, TAX, cash management, Internal Control, Insurance, and financial reporting. Help drive the company’s financial strategy. Led the internal and external auditing;• Responsible for Statutory reporting, treasury, tax, and financial controls and procedures;• Responsible for the annual external and internal audits, and responding to audit inquiries;• Drive enhancement to increase the efficiency of the Finance Core Service Offerings;• Lead special projects. Restructured the entire Controlling Department of Nike do Brasil in order to support the double fold growth projected to FY 2020, by implementing a result oriented culture, by establishing Performance Management Indicators, and awarding the meritocracy. I created the Compliance Department and reduced the audit observations from 28 to 4 observances.Main Achievements: o Coordinate a tax planning which recovered more than R$ 100 million in tax overpaid;o Craft and coordinate the launch of Nike e-commerce in Brazil in a record time of 9 months;o Support and manage all investments made by the headquarter in world cup totaling USD 100 million;o Led the sales store growth from 3 to 23 in only 18 months.

São Paulo, Sp, Br

• Oversee and support the investees operations with the accounting, TAX, Treasury, forecasting and budgeting, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the Private Equity´s goals. Sitting in all audit committee of all investees;• Guarantee that all investees improve on their Governance to ensure that these investees are ready for the exiting in no more than 4 years;• Coordinate all M&As with auditors, legal and tax advisors and appoint the best statutory vehicle for business acquisitions.• Establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies, and procedures;• Led all the integration process for all investees acquired and change the management, by helping these companies to hire the CFOs and Controllers.Main Achievements: o Actively contributed to the Bank´s Private Placement and IPO, which raised more than R$ 4.0 billion in cash for investing in its growth. I coordinated the process interacting with auditors, legal advisors and underwriters;o Concluded a numerous of deals by establishing, in conjunction with Legal and Tax, the best structure for maximize gains with the sellout in the future. The main deals were BR Properties, Lojas Leader, Estre Ambiental, UOL, COMEX Energia, Estapar, CCRR, B&A Mineração, CELFIN, Brazil Pharma, Bravante, A!Bodytech, Contrail S.A, and MCM Automotores;o Led the integration process of BR Properties, Lojas Leader, Estre Ambiental, UOL, Estapar, CCRR, B&A Mineração, Brazil Pharma, Bravante, A!Bodytech, Contrail S.A, and MCM Automotores;o Implemented the set of internal control and all minimum corporate governance benchmark for Estre, Estapar, Bravante and A!Bodytech, preparing them to the exiting.

Gb

• Planning and auditing financial statements audit under Brazilian GAAP, US GAAP and IFRS. Coordination of multi-disciplinary projects involving teams’ cross borders and cross specializations, such as due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis and restructuring of companies; acting in partnership mainly with tax, corporate finance and IT teams. • Representative clients served: Vale (SEC & CVM), Petrobras (SEC & CVM), Shell Brazil – upstream (Dutch Group), BR Malls (CVM), Lydall – CT - USA (SEC) and Otis Elevator - CT- USA (Former UTC Group), and Assa Abloy – CT – USA.

Gb

• Led a several engagements;• Coordinate the process of validation for Internal Controls (SoX);• Ensure with consultants hired by public companies that the design of the set of controls is in accordance to SoX rules;Main Achievements: o Led as an auditor senior the first wave of SoX for large accelerated filer, such as Lydall and Otis (A Company of former UTC Group);o Worked as secondment in Hartford office for 30 months.

Master, Strategy And Leadership

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance And Financial Management Services

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting