Board of Directors, Board and Committees

Board of Executive Officers

CSN’s management and overall conduction of its business are carried out by the Executive Board in accordance with the policies and strategies defined by the Board of Directors. The Executive Board meets whenever called by the Chief Executive Officer or by two Executive Officers, and each Executive Director is responsible for conducting the operations pertinent to his/her division. The term of office for members of the executive board is two years, with the possibility of re-election. The Executive Board is currently comprised of five executive officers, one being the Chief Executive Officer, and includes:

Benjamin Steinbruch
Mr. Steinbruch has been a member of the Company‘s Board of Directors since April 23, 1993, and has simultaneously held the positions of Chairman since April 28, 1995 and CEO since April 30, 2002, being also responsible for institutional matters and the Company’s mining and railway holdings. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the São Paulo Jockey Club, member of the Economic and Social Development Council, member of the Administrative Board of the Portuguese Chamber and member of the Interinstitutional Advisory Council (CCI) of the São Paulo State Appeal Court. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of CSN Mineração S.A. (controlled by CSN) and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Fundação CSN. Additionally, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Textília S.A., Fibra Cia. Securitizadora de Créditos Imobiliários S.A., Elizabeth S.A. – Indústria Têxtil e Vicunha Steel S.A., Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vicunha Aços S.A., member of the Board of Directors of Vicunha Participações S.A., an Executive Officer of Rio Purus Participações S.A., Rio Iaco Participações S.A. BS Holdings S.A. (former Ibis II Empreendimentos Ltda.) and administrator of Fazenda Alvorada de Bragança Agro-Pastoril Ltda., Ibis Agrária Ltda. and Ibis Participações e Serviços Ltda. (all of which belong to CSN‘s controlling group). In the last 5 years, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Vicunha Siderurgia S.A. (incorporated by Vicunha Aços in 2015), 1st Vice President of the São Paulo State Industry Federation – FIESP,, advisor to the Robert Simonsen Institute and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nacional Minérios S.A. (incorporated by CSN Mineração S.A. in 2015), Transnordestina Logística S.A. and FTL – Ferrovia Transnordestina Logística S.A. and administrator of Haras Phillipson Ltda. Mr. Steinbruch holds a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – SP, and a specialist degree in Marketing and Finance from the same institution.
Marcelo Cunha Ribeiro
Mr. Ribeiro has been an Executive Officer at the Company since September 29, 2017, being responsible for the treasury, controlling, tax and accounting departments and has also been serving as the Company’s Investor Relations Officer since March 26, 2018. He is currently an Executive Officer of Minérios Nacional S.A. and CSN Equipamentos S.A., a member of the Board of Directors of FTL – Ferrovia Transnordestina Logística S.A. (all of which are controlled by CSN) and Transnordestina Logística S.A. (jointly controlled by CSN). He is also member of the Advisory Board of Caixa Beneficente dos Empregados da Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional – CBS. Prior to joining CSN, he was CFO of Grupo St. Marche, Finance and Investor Relations Vice President of Restoque Comércio e Confecções de Roupas S.A., CFO of Grupo SBF (GP Investimentos Ltd.), Managing Director of the Private Equity division of GP Investimentos Ltd. and CFO of San Antonio International Ltd. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Hopi Hari S.A., Telemar Norte Leste S.A. (Oi S.A.), Contax Participações S.A., Estácio Participações S.A., Magnesita Refratários S.A., and BR Towers SPE1 S.A. Mr. Ribeiro holds a degree in Production Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo and an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School.
David Moise Salama
Mr. Salama has held the position of Executive Director at the Company since August 2, 2011, and is currently responsible for the insurance, credit and equity areas. He has worked at CSN since 2006, having formerly held the position of Executive Investor Relations Officer. He is a Director of Estanho de Rondônia SA and Companhia Florestal do Brasil, member of the Board of Directors of CBSI-Companhia Brasileira de Serviços de Infraestrutura, CSN Mineração S.A., Itá Energética S.A., Lusosider – Aços Planos S.A., Lusosider – Productos Siderúrgicos S.A., and Lusosider Ibérica S.A. and an alternate member of the Board of Directors of FTL – Ferrovia Transnordestina Logística S.A. (all of which are controlled by CSN) and Transnordestina Logística S.A. (jointly controlled by CSN), member of the Advisory Board of Caixa Beneficente dos Empregados da Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional – CBS. Previously, he was also member of the Board of Directors of Companhia Florestal do Brasil, Sepetiba Tecon S.A., and an Executive Officer of Minérios Nacional S.A. Prior to joining CSN, he was Director of the Controlling and Finance division of Tecnisa Engenharia e Comércio, Birmann Comércio e Empreendimentos and Goldfarb Comércio e Construções. He was Chief Financial Officer of Unilever Brasil and Senior Auditor of PWC. Mr. Salama holds a degree in Accounting from Universidade de São Paulo (FEA-USP) and an MBA in Finance from the same institution. He complemented his academic degrees with courses at the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Program at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, England, and the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School, Harvard University, USA.
Luis Fernando Barbosa Martinez
Mr. Martinez has been an Executive Director at the Company, since August 2011, and is currently responsible for the commercial and logistic divisions of the steel, cement and special sales segment. He joined CSN in 2002, having previously acted as a Sales Executive. He is member of the Board of Directors of Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia, Materiais e Mineração – ABM. He is also an Executive Officer at CSN Equipamentos S.A., Estanho de Rondônia S.A., CSN Energia and Companhia Metalúrgica Prada, member of the Board of Directors of CSN Mineração S.A., and an alternate member of the Board of Directors of FTL – Ferrovia Transnordestina Logística (all of which are controlled by CSN) and Transnordestina Logística S.A., as well as member of the Board of Directors of MRS Logística S.A. (jointly controlled by CSN). He is also member of the Advisory Board of Caixa Beneficente dos Empregados da Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional – CBS. He has also been serving as a Board member of the Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Brasil – Alemanha since March 2017 and previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Nacional Minérios S.A., Companhia Florestal do Brasil, Companhia Metalúrgica Prada and Sepetiba Tecon S.A. Prior to joining CSN, Mr. Martinez was a Sales Executive at Alcan Alumínio do Brasil S.A., having worked at that company for 14 years in different departments (processing, quality, product/market development and sales). He also acted as Executive Officer of the Brazilian Center of Steel Construction – CBCA and of the Brazilian Association of Metallic Construction – ABCEM and was President of the Brazilian Association of Steel Packaging – ABEAÇO. In 2016, Mr. Martinez received the Prêmio Barão de Mauá – Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia (IMT) award, as a Professional and Market Highlight in that year. Mr. Martinez holds a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia (IMT), a degree in Industrial Management from the School of Production Engineering of the Universidade de São Paulo and completed the in Corporate Management Development Program at Alcan Aluminum Limited in Montreal, Canada.
Pedro Gutemberg Quariguasi Netto
Mr. Netto has been an Executive Officer of CSN since May 11, 2016, being responsible for the production division of the steel segment. In recent years, he was CEO of Vale Moçambique and Global Executive Officer of Carvão da Vale S.A. in Mozambique and Australia, respectively, from March 2014 to April 2016, and a Partner and Sales and Marketing Officer of B&A Mineração, from May 2012 to September 2013. Previously, he was a Global Marketing Director at Vale S.A. and CEO of the manganese business and worked at Rio Tinto and McKinsey & Co. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of MRS Logística S.A. (jointly controlled by CSN) and CSN Mineração S.A. (a subsidiary of CSN). He was Assistant Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, from 1992 to 2015. Mr. Netto holds a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Universidade Federal Fluminense, a master’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica – Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), a PhD degree in Metallurgical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He also holds a specialist degree in Finance, Corporate Strategy and Microeconomics from McKinsey & Company.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is comprised of up to eleven members, who meet on a regular basis on the dates established in the annual corporate calendar approved by the Board of Directors and, extraordinarily, whenever necessary. The term of office for board members is two years, with the possibility of re-election. The Company’s Board of Directors is currently comprised of five members. A vacancy of a seat at the Board of Directors is reserved to the Company‘s employees‘ representative, pursuant to the Company‘s Bylaws. Click here access on its constitution.

The Board of Directors shall, among other duties, define and monitor the Company’s policies and strategies, monitor the actions of the Executive Board and decide on relevant matters involving CSN‘s business and operations. It is responsible for the election and removal of the members of the Executive Board, and may, if necessary, set up special committees for its advisory services.

To understand more of its other responsibilities, in addition to the attributions entrusted to the Board of Director by law, access CSN’s Bylaws.

Benjamin Steinbruch
Mr. Steinbruch has been a member of the Company‘s Board of Directors since April 23, 1993, and has simultaneously held the positions of Chairman since April 28, 1995 and CEO since April 30, 2002. He is also a member of the Administrative Board of the Portuguese Chamber, 1st Vice President of the São Paulo State Industry Federation – FIESP since September 2004, a member of FIESP‘s Superior Strategic Board, advisor to the Robert Simonsen Institute and a member of the Interinstitutional Advisory Board, or CCI, of the São Paulo State Appellate Court. In the last five years, he has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Vicunha Siderurgia S.A. and Nacional Minérios S.A., Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Textília S.A., Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vicunha Aços S.A., Vicunha S.A., Fibra Cia. Securitizadora de Créditos Financeiros and Fibra Cia. Securitizadora de Créditos Imobiliários, a member of the Board of Directors of Elizabeth S.A. – Indústria Têxtil, Vicunha Participações S.A. and Vicunha Steel S.A., an Executive Officer of Rio Purus Participações S.A. and Rio Iaco Participações S.A., as well as Fazenda Alvorada de Bragança Agro-Pastoril Ltda., Ibis Agrária Ltda., Ibis II Empreendimentos Ltda., Ibis Participações e Serviços Ltda. and Haras Phillipson Ltda. (all of which belonging to CSN‘s controlling group), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transnordestina Logística S.A. and Nacional Minérios S.A. (both companies jointly controlled by CSN, Nacional Minérios S.A. having been wound up on December 31, 2015), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Companhia Metalúrgica Prada and FTL – Ferrovia Transnordestina Logística S.A. (both controlled by CSN), and Chairman of the Governing Board of the CSN Foundation. Mr. Steinbruch graduated from the Business School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/SP), with specialization in Marketing and Finance from the same institution.
Yoshiaki Nakano
Mr. Nakano has been a member of the Company‘s Board of Directors since April 29, 2004, and a member of the Audit Committee since June 24, 2005. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Transnordestina Logística S.A. (jointly controlled by CSN). In the last five 5 years, Mr. Nakano has been a Professor of Economics and an Officer at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/SP), a member of the Superior Economic Council (COSEC) of FIESP/Roberto Simonsen Institute and a member of the Board of Directors of the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation – FAPESP until 2015. Previously, Mr. Nakano was Special Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance and São Paulo State Finance Secretary. He graduated in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation and has an MBA and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, in the USA.
Antonio Bernardo Vieira Maia
Mr. Maia has been a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since April 30, 2013, a member of the Finance Committee since October 7, 2014, and a member of the Audit Committee since August 8, 2013, serving as Chairman of the Audit Committee since May 6, 2014. He has also been CEO of BRG Capital Ltda. since July, 2005 and a member of the Board of Directors of Transnordestina Logística S.A. (jointly controlled by CSN) and of FTL – Ferrovia Transnordestina Logística S.A. (controlled by CSN). From April 1995 to May 2005, he was an Executive Officer at Credit Suisse/Banco Garantia de Investimentos S.A. He began his career as a trainee with Citibank Brazil in 1982 and moved to New York in 1986, where he first worked as an Institutional Investment Analyst for Citigroup in Latin America, subsequently becoming an Executive Officer of Citibank New York. Prior to that, he was an associate of Banco Bozano Simonsen de Investimentos from August 1979 to December 1981 and a member of the Board of Directors of Banque Bénédict Hentsch & Cie S.A., in Geneva, Switzerland, from April to December 2006. He graduated in 1981 in Business and Public Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
Miguel Ethel Sobrinho
He has been a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since April 26, 2019 and the Audit Committee since May 3, 2019. In addition, since 2016, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of CSN Mineração S.A. (a CSN subsidiary) and an officer and shareholder of Participa – Empreendimentos Imobiliários e Participações Ltda., developing activities focused on interests in shopping malls, gas and hydroelectric energy and fast food chains. He graduated in Production Engineering from the Polytechnical School of the University of São Paulo and holds an MBA from the School of Economics and Administration of the University of São Paulo. He was a Professor of Project and Investment Analysis at the School of Economics and Administration of the University of São Paulo and a member of the Curator Board and founder of the Administration Institute Foundation of the University of São Paulo.
Fabiam Franklin
Mr. Franklin has been a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since April 28, 2016. He has been Chairman of the Advisory Board of CSN Invest Fundo de Investimento em Ações since April 4, 2016, a member of the Board of Directors of ABM (Brazilian Metallurgical, Materials and Mining Association) since April 2015, the Coordinator of CSN’s Financial Education Program since 2008, and the Company’s Blast Furnace General Manager since November 2002. Mr. Franklin has a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Universidade Federal Fluminense, with specialization in Reduction Metallurgy from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and an MBA from the Dom Cabral Foundation.

Audit Committee

The standards established by the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) for listed companies on the New York Stoch Exchange (NYSE) determine the existence of an Audit Committee comprised of at least three independent directors to meet the independence requirements of Rule 10A-3, subject to the Stock Exchange Regulatory Law, with a written regulation specifying certain minimum duties. The Company‘s Audit Committee was constituted in June 2005, in accordance with the rules of the SEC, and is comprised of three independent members of our Board of Directors.

The Audit Committee has autonomy to make decisions regarding provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act – Sections 301 and 407. Some of its main attributions include the review of financial statements and other public information regarding the Company’s operational performance and situation, to recommend to the Board of Directors the appointment, remuneration and hiring of external auditors, as well as to monitor the performance of internal and external audits. Regarding the hiring of external auditors, procedures are adopted to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest, loss of independence or objectivity of the auditor in relation to the Company.

The Audit Committee is currently comprised of:

Antonio Bernardo Vieira Maia
Mr. Maia has been a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since April 30, 2013, a member of the Finance Committee since October 7, 2014, and a member of the Audit Committee since August 8, 2013, serving as Chairman of the Audit Committee since May 6, 2014. He has also been CEO of BRG Capital Ltda. since July, 2005 and a member of the Board of Directors of Transnordestina Logística S.A. (jointly controlled by CSN) and of FTL – Ferrovia Transnordestina Logística S.A. (controlled by CSN). From April 1995 to May 2005, he was an Executive Officer at Credit Suisse/Banco Garantia de Investimentos S.A. He began his career as a trainee with Citibank Brazil in 1982 and moved to New York in 1986, where he first worked as an Institutional Investment Analyst for Citigroup in Latin America, subsequently becoming an Executive Officer of Citibank New York. Prior to that, he was an associate of Banco Bozano Simonsen de Investimentos from August 1979 to December 1981 and a member of the Board of Directors of Banque Bénédict Hentsch & Cie S.A., in Geneva, Switzerland, from April to December 2006. He graduated in 1981 in Business and Public Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
Yoshiaki Nakano
Mr. Nakano has been a member of the Company‘s Board of Directors since April 29, 2004, and a member of the Audit Committee since June 24, 2005. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Transnordestina Logística S.A. (jointly controlled by CSN). In the last five 5 years, Mr. Nakano has been a Professor of Economics and an Officer at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/SP), a member of the Superior Economic Council (COSEC) of FIESP/Roberto Simonsen Institute and a member of the Board of Directors of the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation – FAPESP until 2015. Previously, Mr. Nakano was Special Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance and São Paulo State Finance Secretary. He graduated in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation and has an MBA and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, in the USA.
Miguel Ethel Sobrinho
Mr. Sobrinho is a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since April 26, 2019 and the Company’s Audit Committee since May 3, 2019. In addition, since 2016 he is member of the Board of Directors of CSN Mineração S.A. (CSN’s subsidiary), executive officer and shareholder of Participa – Empreendimentos Imobiliários e Participações Ltda., acting as entrepreneur and coordinator of the activities for the acquisition of equity interests in shopping malls, hydropower and gas projects and fast food chains. He has a bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering from the Polytechnic School – University of São Paulo and a master’s degree in Administration (MBA) from the School of Economics and Administration of University of São Paulo; he was a professor of Investment and Project Analysis at the School of Economics and Administration of University of São Paulo and member of the Board of Trustees and founder of the Foundation Institute of Administration of the University of São Paulo.

Fiscal Council

The Company‘s Fiscal Council is of non-permanent nature and functions only in the fiscal years in which it is installed, upon request by shareholders and in accordance with the applicable legislation. Regarding its structure and functioning, the Bylaws determine that it must be comprised of three effective members and three alternates, elected by the General Meeting and with a mandate until the first Annual General Meeting held after its installation. The Fiscal Council is an integral part of the Corporate Governance system, whose main function is to supervise, by any of its members, the acts of the Board of Directors and Executive Board, and to verify the compliance with its legal and statutory duties.

Internal Regulations for the Fiscal Council

The Company‘s Fiscal Council was installed on June 29, 2018 and is comprised of the following members:

Valmir Pedro Rossi – Sitting Member
Mr. Rossi holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Passo Fundo (RS) and completed graduate programs in Finance at the University of Caxias do Sul (RS) and Marketing at PUC Rio de Janeiro (RJ), as well as MBAs in Business Administration at USP São Paulo (SP) and Business Management at UNB-Brasília (DF). He is a Board member and a Fiscal Council member certified by the Brazilian Corporate Governance Institute – IBGC. He has worked as an accountant at Casfor Org. Contábeis and Bertol S.A. and as a consultant at Sebrae RS, in addition to having worked for 30 years Banco do Brasil S.A., where he occupied several different positions, especially State Superintendent for Pará, State Superintendent for Rio Grande do Sul, Retail Superintendent in São Paulo, Corporate and Regional Superintendent for Latin America. He has also served as CEO of Banco da Amazônia, a federal state-owned bank headquartered in Belém (PA). He has served as a member of the Board of Directors or the Fiscal Council of the following companies: Metalúrgica Gerdau S.A., Brasilprev S.A., BB Seguridade S.A., Fucapi S.A. and Banco da Amazônia S.A., in addition to several other entities and associations. He is currently a sitting member of the Board of Directors of Kepler Weber S.A. a sitting member of the Fiscal Council at KaMin Cadam S.A.
André Coji – Sitting Member
Mr. Coji has been a member of CSN’s Fiscal Council since July 2018. He also carries out structured finance transactions in renowned companies in the real estate market. He engaged in philanthropic treasury and fundraising activities for the non-profit organization Brazilian-Israeli Social Welfare Union in the last five years and was a Board member of family businesses in the real estate sector. Mr. Coji holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), an undergraduate degree in Law from the Law School of the University of São Paulo, as well as the IBGC Board of Directors Certificate. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Via Varejo S.A. and an Executive Officer at Federation of Industries of the São Paulo State (FIESP).
Tufi Daher Filho – Sitting Member
Mr. Tufi Daher Filho has been a member of CSN’s Fiscal Council since July 2018. He is the owner of TDF Consultoria Empresarial Ltda., a partner at The Empreendimentos e Construtora Ltda. and owns the Loungerie, Osklen and Richards franchises in Uberlândia (Minas Gerais State). In the past five years he acted as a Board member at Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos – CPTM, Technical Advisor at Hidrovias do Brasil S.A., Executive Officer of the Company, Executive Officer at Cia. Metalic Nordeste; Chairman of the Board of Directors of MRS Logística S.A. and Board member at the National Association of Railway Transport (ANTF). He holds an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Minas Gerais and attended a professional course given by the Japan International Cooperation Agency focused on Transport Planning. He also holds an MBA from the Dom Cabral Foundation and participated in the Advanced Management Program in partnership with INSEAD, in France.
Beatriz Santos Martini – Alternate Member
Ms. Martini has been an alternate member at the Company since July 2018. She is also a founder of and managing partner at BSM & Associados Ltda. and has 26 years of experience in the Change Management consulting market, where she has been acting as a founding partner, practice leader and senior advisor since 1993. For the past five years she has provided advisory services to companies such as Makro, Casas Pernambucanas, Kroton Anhanguera, Marina Linhares Arquitetura, Supermercado CSD/Amigão (M&A), among others, either in a partnership with other processes consulting companies or not. She holds an undergraduate degree in Production Engineering from the Polytechnical School of the University of São Paulo, a specialization degree in Creativity and Educational Technology from FAAP and Coaching from the Leading Group (Argentina).
Angélica Maria de Queiroz – Alternate Member
Ms. Queiroz has been an alternate member of the Company’s Fiscal Council since July 2018. She has also been a member of the Advisory Board of the Brazilian Institute of Management and Turnaround (IBGT) since 2005, founding partner of Clear Horizon (2002), strategy consultant for Brazilian and foreign companies in the areas of supply and distribution, production and sales, administrative and financial, and member of the Fiscal/Audit Council of the non-profit organization Américas Amigas. She was an independent advisor for the Audit Committee of Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional from 2011 to 2017. She holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a degree in Finance from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation of Rio de Janeiro.
Maria Aparecida Metanias Hallack – Alternate Member
Ms. Hallack is a certified IBGC Administration and Tax Advisor, with experience as an independent member of the Board of Directors of PREVI, alternate member of the Board of Directors of Paranapanema S.A., member of the Strategy Committee of Paranapanema S.A.  She provides advisory services to the Board of Directors of Hultec Terramix (United States) in the development of innovative businesses and is a member of the Advisory Council of Embrast Indústria e Comércio de Embalagens. She was a C-level Executive for more than 25 years, being responsible for 11 business units in the South and North Americas. She was Vice-President of International Businesses of Tigre, CEO of Joint Venture Tigre ADS, CEO of Tigre Argentina, CEO of Tigre Paraguay, CEO of Tigre Uruguay and General Manager of Tigre Chile. She brought about improvements in the units’ results with partnerships with world-class companies, carried out acquisitions and implemented innovative management methodologies, such as specialized production platforms based on each unit’s business, benchmarking and adoption of best practices. She founded and is the head of Hallack Consultoria, and independent and distinguished company operating with Corporate Governance, with definition of business models and management by results. She was responsible for conducting a plant to leverage Banco Tribanco’s corporate card; preparing an innovation plan for the Logistics of Grupo Martins; restructuring and monitoring the industrial and commercial management of Artecola Consumo and Artecola Extrusão, and for the strategic assessment and positioning of Grupo Rotoplas (Mexico) in the construction supplies industry in Argentina, Brazil and Peru. She was also responsible for assessing a new business for Heads Propaganda, by defining an innovative performance model in the public relations market; developing a modernization plan for the management of the Cardiology Society of the São Paulo State (SOCESP); conducting the Leader Development Program of SEBRAE-SC; for the diagnosis and action plan to improve the management of Metalúrgica Wetzel; analyzing the location of Artecola Química units in Peru and Colombia; and for the installation project of Ham-Let Instrumentação Industrial (Israel) in Brazil. She holds a Masters’ degree in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE), with emphasis in Strategic Planning; attended the Executive Scholars Program of the Kellogg School of Management, with emphasis in Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Competitive Strategy. She holds a degree from the Business School of Universidad Austral de Buenos Aires for the PDD-Programa de Desarollo Directivo. She holds a specialization degree in Finance Administration from the University of Joinville and Catholic Administration and Economics School of Paraná, and a specialization degree in Business Planning from the National Institute of Graduate Studies (INPG) and University of Joinville.