Management and Board of Directors

José Janguiê Bezerra Diniz: Founder and controlling shareholder. Mr. Diniz received a bachelor‘s law degree from the Faculdade de Direto do Recife – UFPE, and a fine arts degree from the Faculdade Católica de Pernambuco, and received his master’s degree and doctorate from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Mr. Diniz started his business career in 1996, with the founding of Bureau Jurídico Cursos for the public examination for government positions, and strengthened it in 2003, with the creation of the Faculdade Maurício de Nassau in Recife. Since then, he has been the President of the Associação Brasileira das Faculdades Isoladas e Integradas (ABRAFI), Vice-President of Associação Brasileira das Mantenedoras de Ensino Superior (ABMES) and author of several books in the areas of law and education. He acted as a Judge in the Regional Labor Court of the 6th Region, and through August 2013 he acted as an attorney of the federal public prosecutor’s office, having formalized his resignation on August 21, 2013. On September 9, 2013 Mr. Diniz became the dean of UNINASSAU.

Herbet Steingberg: Mr. Steingberg has over 20 years of experience acting as an executive for large corporations and 13 years of experience as businessman and consultant. In the companies where he has worked, he was the leader in several processes of strategic repositioning of different organizations, as well as alignment processes of management and business strategies. Over the last five years, Mr. Steingberg worked as an independent director of Grupo Famastil/Taurus, AMCHAM/Brazil, Care Brasil, and Halexistar Indústrias Farmacêuticas. He performed important work with the board of directors of Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A., where he worked on Banespa privatization process, the Banco Crefisul turnaround, and a purchase performed by Deutsche Bank in the control of Bradesco. He founded his own company 14 years ago, MESA Governança Corporativa, a consultancy focused on the best practices of corporate governance, and is currently one of our independent directors.

Francisco Muniz Barreto: Mr. Barreto has 15 years of experience in private equity and investment banking. He has a degree in Economics from the Universidade de Belgrano (Argentina)/ UNC Chapel Hill and a Master in Finance from London Business School. Since 2006, he has been the Managing Director of the São Paulo office of Cartesian, responsible for researching prospects and supervising investments in companies focused mainly in Latin America. Cartesian is a private equity fund based in New York which manages over US$2.0 billion. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Barreto was an officer of the investment fund AIG Capital Partners do Brasil.

Iara de Moraes Xavier Braga: PhD in Public Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). Professor in undergraduate, master’s and doctoral courses. Retired Professor at the Federal University of Brasília (UnB). She has 35 years of experience in higher education as a teacher, researcher and manager in the public and private sectors. She has also worked as a consultant for 12 years and as an entrepreneur for two years. In the federal institutions where she worked (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, National Institute of Educational Studies and Research linked to the Ministry of Education and Federal University of Brasília), she held important positions such as Pro-Rector of Graduation, Vice-Rector, National Coordinator of Evaluation and others, as well as coordinated national and international projects and programs related to higher education, with emphasis on the National System of Higher Education Evaluation (SINAES), established by Law 10.861 in April 2004, which includes course evaluation, institutional evaluation and student performance evaluation (ENADE). Two years ago, she founded her own educational consulting company and also acts as advisor to the Presidency of Brazilian Association of Higher Education Maintenance Entities (ABMES), advisor to the Board of Directors of ABMES and Technical Director of Brazilian Association of College Maintainers (ABRAFI).

Flávio César Maia Luz: Mr. Luz has a bachelor‘s degree in Civil Engineering from USP Escola Politécnica – Universidade de São Paulo, with graduate degrees in Administration and Applied Economics from FGV – Fundação Getúlio Vargas, as well as continuing education certifications issues by institutions such as Harvard Business School, Stanford University, California University and Wharton Business School. Mr. Luz was Executive Vice-President of Duratex, Vice-President of the board of directors and executive officer of Eletropaulo and Financial and Corporate Vice-President of Cofra Latin America (C&A Group). In addition, he acts as chairman of the audit committee at Ultra S.A., member of the audit committee of Empresa de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista S.A., Senior Solution S.A. and acted as director of Light S.A. Currently he is a certified consultant of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance. He is the managing partner of the consultancy Doing Business. Mr. Luz has been our independent director since 2012.

Sidney Levy: Mr. Levy holds a degree in Production Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a master’s degree in Engineering from the Post-Graduate Engineering Program of COPPE-RJ and a specialist degree in Business Administration from the Institute of Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. He worked at Casa da Moeda do Brasil, from 1976 to 1981 and Thomas de La Rue Brasil, from 1981 to 1991. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Levy was CEO of DLR Lerchundi in Spain. He was also CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce-Rio, from 2005 to 2007, and CEO of Ser Educacional from February 1994 until May 2011. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Valid since May 2011 and member of the Board of Director of Instituto Hermes Pardini since 2017.

José Écio Pereira da Costa Jr.: Bachelor in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas School of Business Administration in São Paulo and in Accounting from Faculdade São Judas Tadeu, he joined the auditing career in 1974 at Arthur Andersen & Co and was promoted to International Partner in 1986 and later, in June 2002, he became a partner at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Brazil, remaining there until May 2007, when he retired. From October 1993 to May 2004, he was the managing partner responsible for the Curitiba office of these auditing and consulting firms. He is a founding partner of JEPereira Consultoria em Gestão de Negócios S/S, in January 2008, working with emphasis on strategic management consultancy, consulting on preparing companies and their shareholders to act on the Novo Mercado de Capitals, in addition to acting as a counselor on Audit Committees on the Boards of Public Companies. He was a member of the Board of Directors of GAFISA S.A. from June 2008 to April 2018 (developing company registered with the SEC, CVM – Novo Mercado) and Coordinator of the Audit Committee, from June 2008 to April 2016, becoming a member of this Committee from then until April 2018. He also served as a member of the Statutory Audit Committee of FIBRIA S.A, from April 2013 to March 2018, Chairman of the Fiscal Council from December 2009 to March 2013, Coordinator of the Audit Committee of VOTORANTIM INDUSTRIAL S.A. – VID, from June 2012 to June 2014, and Coordinator of the Audit Committee of VOTORANTIM CIMENTOS S.A from October 2013 to April 2023. Mr. Pereira was also a member of the Board of Directors of Ouro Verde Locação e Serviços S.A, between October 2018 and June 2019, of BRMALLS S.A. from April 2010 to April 2014, as Coordinator of the Audit Committees of VOTORANTIM METAIS S.A (currently NEXA S.A) from June 2014 to December 2017, of VE VOTORANTIM ENERGIA S.A from June 2017 to February 2022, Member of the Audit Committee of CESP S.A from April 2019 to April 20 21 and as a member of the Board of Directors of Grupo NOSTER from January 2011 to September 2013, re-elected in June 2022. Mr. Pereira is currently Coordinator of the Audit Committees of CBA COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE ALUMINIO (a company registered in July 2021 at CVM – Novo Mercado) since June 2017 and of CITROSUCO S.A since December 2014, Member of the Audit Committee of MOBLY S.A since March 2021, Member of the Compliance and Audit Committee of BRASKEM S.A since November 2021, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Princecampos Participações S.A. (privately held company in the area of public transport and parcel transport) elected in April 2010 and as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Demercado Investimentos S.A. (privately held company in the area of real estate projects for logistics) elected in November 2020.

Fernando Eduardo Ramos dos Santos: Born on October 11, 1980, Mr. Santos holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (2003) and a graduate degree in Business Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (2006). Mr. Santos is currently partner of BDO Auditores Independentes, where he has acted for over 15 years. He is an Auditor registered at the National Registry of Independent Auditors (CNAI), the Brazilian Central Bank (BACEN) and the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM). He is also member of BDO’s Technical Committee, member of the Independent Auditor’s Institute (IBRACON), member of GT 6 – Ibracon’s Technical Group of the Electricity Segment.

Nazareno Habib Ouvidor Bichara: He holds a degree in Economics and Accounting from Universidade da Amazônia (UNAMA), a Master’s degree in Accounting and Controllership from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), and an MBA in Audit from Fundação Getulio Vargas. He is currently the CEO at the Leal Moreira Group. He was Chief Financial Officer of the Ser Educacional Group from 2009 to 2015, and Pro-Rector of Administration and Finance at Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau (Uninassau) from 2012 to 2015. In 2013, he took office as Vice President for Private Entities of the Brazilian Institute of Finance Executives (IBEF Pernambuco). He was auditor at Ernst Young from 1993 and 1998. Between 1999 and 2002, he also acted as internal auditor at Albras Alumínio Brasileiro S.A., a company in the aluminum industry. In addition, he was executive director at Multibank between 2004 and 2006 and executive director at Diários Associados do Rio Grande do Norte e Paraíba between 2006 and 2008.

Nelson Luiz Paula de Oliveira: Graduated in Business Administration from FAE Business School, Mr. Oliveira is certified (CCI) to act as Board Member by IBGC- Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa, he has a Master’s Degree in Governance by Gonew.Co, with certification as Board Member for Innovation and Social Board by Gonew.Co and Specialization in Family Governance. Mr. Oliveira has extensive financial experience, having worked in his executive career at the following financial institutions: Banco Crefisul de Investimentos S.A., Banco Noroeste S.A., Banco Sudameris Brasil S.A., Banco Credibanco S.A., Multiplic Banco de Investimento S.A. and Banco Triângulo S.A. Mr. Oliveira was Chairman of the Advisory Board of Fumacense Alimentos, between September/2019 and September/2020, Board Member of Compagas-Paraná, between June/2019 and June/2021, of Grupo Noster, between April/2014 and July/2016. He is currently a partner at CGN Consultores, Brickinvest Consultoria de Investimentos and serves as a member of the Fiscal Council at FTD Editora (Grupo Marista) Demercado and is a member of the Audit Committee at Copel GeT, Chairman of the Advisory Board at Banco Senff S.A. and One Global Shipping and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ezos Group.

Antônio Carlos Moreira Ventura: Mr. Ventura holds bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Accounting, both from Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP) and an executive MBA in Business Management from FGV – Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He is a Managing Partner at ACV Consultores em Negócios Ltda. and Ventura & Figueiredo Expertises em Soluções Empresariais Ltda., providing acting as an advisory, guidance and business consultant for financial management, strategic planning, management models and corporate governance. He is member of the Board of Directors of Saraiva Equipamentos Ltda. and a finance professor at BAEX – Brasil Executive Education. He also served as Chief Financial Officer, Controller and Executive Officer for more than 35 in companies of various economic segments, such as: Grupo Fernandes Vieira, Refrescos Guararapes Ltda. (Coca-Cola Recife) and Grupo Bunge.

Francisco de Assis Gomes Silva: Mr. Assis Gomes graduated in Accounting Sciences from Unianhanguera (Goiás) in April/1998. He is a specialist in tax law from Universidade Católica de Goiás, and holds a master‘s degree in Agro Industrial Management and Production from Uniderp (Mato Grosso do Sul) (September 2008), and MBA in capital markets from the Indiana State University (August 2013), Private Wealth Management from the Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania (October 2014) and Business Management from the Yale School of Management (June 2011).He was a partner at the Tax Division of Arthur Andersen, Chicago LLC (USA) from January 1991 to December 1993, of EY (Brazil) from December 2006 to March 2009 and was emerging markets analyst at Salomon Brothers Inc, in Miami (USA), between January 1994 and June 1995.He is currently executive officer at Gennesys Consulting (Brazil), BRZ Capital (USA) and Miami Family Office & School (USA).