Economista - 1982 Pós Graduado em Engenharia Econômica e Adm. Industrial– 1984 Ingressou na BNDES Participações em 1982, como analista de investimentos Exerceu diversos cargos executivos no sistema BNDES, nas Áreas de Mercado de Capitais e Desestatização, cabendo citar: - Gerente de análise de investimentos em ações - Gerente da Área de Desestatização - Chefe do Departamento de Desenvolvimento de Novos Produtos Atualmente é Chefe do Departamento de Mercado de Capitais da FAPES – Fundação de Assistência e Previdência Social do BNDES – Responsável pelos investimentos de Renda Fixa e Renda Variável da Instituição.

Mr. Alvares is a founding partner of NEO Investimentos and graduated with a degree in Economics from the Faculdade de Economia e Administração at the Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP). He began his career as an Equity Research analyst at Citibank’s Capital Markets department in 1988. In 1992, he joined LAFIS, where he developed support systems aiding foreign investors’ decision making processes. In 1994, he was hired as an associate at Banco Patriminio’s Mergers and Acquisitions area. In 1997 he became the main coordinator for the bank’s capital markets area, where he was responsible for the origination of transactions in domestic and international markets. In 1999, after the acquisition of Banco Patrimonio by Chase Manhattan Bank, he took on additional responsibility as head of the bank’s Structured Finance area, coordinating structured loans as well as local and international securitizations. Among his accomplishments, he raised more than US$10 billion for Brazilian companies including BNDES, Ford, Petrobras, Brasil Telecom, Telesp Celular, Klabin, NET and Cia. Suzano.

PhD Candidate in Economics, Harvard University. My main research interests are related to the biggest puzzles in Latin America: (i) under-education, (ii) crime, (iii) income redistribution. Co-Founder and Director of Finance and Business Development of Power Ventures. Founding Team Member and Global Economist of Brazilian Hedge Fund with Global Investments, Gavea Investimentos. Financial and Revenue Maximization Consultant for Farmacia Vita, a retail and wholesale of medicine company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Held positions at UN and Citigroup, Washington D.C. and New York. Active participant in national economic policy debates in Brazil.

Ricardo has significant experience in tax consultancy and planning, focusing on direct and indirect taxes, taxation of international operations/transactions, tax planning in corporate restructuring, M&A transactions, project and structure financings, as well as on administrative tax litigation. He has a master’s degree in Tax Law by Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP).

Paulo Caldeira is a Managing Director in Citigroup Venture Capital International in New York. He currently works in the Citigroup Venture Capital International Brazil Fund and is a Senior Partner in Citigroup Venture Capital International Growth Fund I and II. Prior to his current role, Paulo was a Partner in Citigroup's Venture Capital Technology Investment Fund in the US, the head of M&A for the Consumer and Corporate business in Latin America and a Director in Citigroup's Strategy and Business Development Group. Prior to joining Citigroup, he worked for Philips N.V. in the US and Europe and for Petrobras S.A in Brazil. Paulo has occupied several board positions in emerging market companies. He holds an M.B.A. degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As the head of Brascan's agricultural operations in Brazil, Mr. Cavalini is responsible for several large farming operations totaling some 250,000 hectares (600,000 acres) and over 70,000 head of cattle. Mr. Cavalini was responsible for assembling this land portfolio and was instrumental in developing large-scale sugar cane farming operations in Brazil for the production of ethanol. Mr. Cavalini has been with Brascan for 10 years. He holds a first degree in Agribusiness from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Fundação Dom Cabral.

Mr. Chameh is a founding partner of DGF Investimentos, a PE & VC fund manager established in Sao Paulo – Brazil – responsible for investments in funds in excess of US$ 200 million. He’s also the Vice-President of ABVCAP (Brazilian Association of Private Equity & Venture Capital). Mr. Chameh has more than 22 years of experience in capital markets as an investment analyst and portfolio manager. He was also responsible for the investment and divesture of Logocenter (today TOTVS), one of the biggest IT companies of Latin America. Mr. Chameh is graduated in Business Administration with an MBA in Finance from McGill University (Montreal - Canada) and FGV (Sao Paulo – Brazil).

Matthew E. Cole is a Managing Partner of North Bay Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on Latin America. Mr. Cole has more than 15 years of investment banking and private equity experience in Latin America, having also served as a Principal at Texas Pacific Group with responsibility for TPG’s investments in Mexico, and as an Associate with J.P. Morgan & Co. in New York, Santiago, and São Paulo. Mr. Cole graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude with Honors from Brown University in 1992.

Renato Ejnisman is a Director having joined BBI in 2007. While at BBI, he has coordinated deals exceeding R$ 50 billion in value, including the lead management of the IPO of BM&F and Banco Panamericano, the acquisition of Forum by AMC Têxtil, the merger between BM&F and Bovespa, for the latter, the coordination of debenture offerings for BNDESpar and for Bradesco Leasing, among other transactions. Prior to joining BBI, he spent eight years in various investment banking and M&A positions within Bank of America. Before that, he was a consultant for McKinsey & Company at their São Paulo office. Renato has a PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester.

Patrice Etlin joined Advent in 1997. Previously, Patrice was a partner at International Venture Partners in São Paulo, and General Representative of Matra Marconi Space in Brazil. Patrice received an undergraduate degree in electronic engineering from the University of São Paulo, a master’s in industrial engineering from École Centrale de Paris and an MBA from INSEAD. Patrice is a board member of CSU CardSystem S.A., Totvs S.A., Atmosfera Gestão e Higienização de Têxteis Ltda., Grupo RA Participações S.A., Viena Alimentação S.A., J.Malucelli Seguradora S.A and Pronto Ltd.. Patrice is also a board member of ABVCAP, member of the Listing Committee of Bovespa Mais, board member of GVcepe at Fundação Getulio Vargas, member of the Bovespa Committee for IPOs and member of the Ray & Berndtson Advisory Board in Brazil.

Eduardo Farhat is a Principal at Darby Overseas Investments and Managing Director at Darby Stratus, a joint venture of Darby with the Brazilian group Stratus. Darby Stratus is the manager of Brazil Mezzanine Infrastructure, a fund dedicated to infrastructure investments Brazil in sectors such as Energy, Biofuels, Water & Sewage, Oil & Gas, Logistics and Transportation. Prior to joining Darby, Eduardo was a managing director at AG Angra, a private equity fund also focused in infrastructure investments for Brazil. Before that, Eduardo was Managing Director at KPMG, responsible for its restructuring services in Brazil. Eduardo was also a Director at Southern Cross, a private equity fund focused in Latin America. Eduardo started his career at McKinsey, where he worked in several countries, mostly Brazil, Sweden, Spain and Portugal. A Brazilian national, Eduardo attended the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica where he earned an Undergraduate Degree in Mechanics Aeronautics Engineering. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD, in Fointanebleau, France. Eduardo is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish and understands Swedish.

Luiz Eugenio Junqueira Figueiredo has been a partner and Investment Management director since Rio Bravo's foundation in 2000. He is also ABVCAP´s chairman. He was previously an officer in Banco Pactual's corporate finance group where he specialized in financial institutions. Before joining Banco Pactual in 1997, he worked at Unibanco as a sell side investment analyst for two years and at Price Waterhouse for four years.

Ray is Head of the New York Capital Markets practice. He has broad finance experience with a strong emphasis on the capital markets and banking sectors. His main areas of specialization include equity and bond issues in the capital markets, general syndicated lending and high yield and U.S. private placement transactions. He has extensive experience in both SEC-registered and institutional offerings in the Americas and in Europe. Ray has been active in the Latin American markets for more than ten years of his career and provides key New York-based support for the firm’s practice in the region. Previously based in Linklaters’ Frankfurt office for six years, he has also worked in the firm’s U.S. finance practice throughout Europe. Ray has been named a leading individual in Chambers Europe 2007 and Chambers Europe 2008. He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and German.

BDF Management Ltd - CEO and Founder - 2005 - Present - BDF Management manages the Bioenergy Development Fund family of funds.- BDF main investments are located in Brazil and linked to renewable fuels and energy. FIMAT Brazil – CEO 2001-2005– Chaired the Brazilian Office – More than 10 years of in depth experience in the industry– Placed FIMAT as the top soft commodities player in Brazil• FIMAT: 2005 winner of Top of Mind award for Brazilian brokerage– Consolidated FIMAT as the leading broker in Brazilian Sugar Industry (70% market share)– Introduced derivative products related to ethanol and sugar to Brazilian producers – Generated important deals between the Brazilian agribusiness and the European market – Consultant of the Board of Directors of 5 leading sugar mills, participating in board meetings as market and price strategy advisor FIMAT USA – Latin America Desk – Partner 1998-2001 – In charge of the Latin American Commodities Group– Managed a team of 12 brokers, selling derivatives to main commodity producers – Yearly turnover of over $12 million FIMAT Brazil – Commodities and Derivatives Broker 1994-1998– Coordinated and participated in the set up of the Brazilian Office – Designed and implemented the infrastructure of the branch– Took charge of the soft commodities department.

Prior to joining North Carolina in September 2004, CIO, Indiana PERF...Director of International Investments for the New York State Common Retirement Fund...previously served as investment/financial officer for the Retirement Systems of Kansas City, Missouri and Sprint Corporation.

Eduardo de Freitas Gomide is Managing Director of Kroll’s Financial Advisory Services for Latin America and the Caribbean and also a Managing Director for Kroll in Brazil. He is responsible for implementing the Financial Services practice at Kroll’s office in Brazil. With over ten years of financial and risk consulting experience, Eduardo has managed several assignments for the Energy, Airline and Construction industries in Latin America. While mainly involved with financial investigations and forensic auditing assignments, he has also managed electronic fraud matters for the credit card and cell phone industries. Prior to joining Kroll, Eduardo worked as a financial analyst for credit and factoring operations. In this capacity, he conducted several activities involving internal auditing, valuation, forecast and long-term debt negotiations in Brazil.

Founding partner of Stratus, Álvaro Gonçalves has an extensive experience in the Brazilian investment environment. Formerly a MD of Pactual Electra Capital Partners, a private equity fund jointly sponsored by Electra (UK) and Banco Pactual (Brasil), he previously led turnarounds and several acquisitions and divestitures in Brazil in corporate officer capacities (CEO/CFO). He served as Chairman of the Brazilian Private Equity Association from 2004 to 2006 and has held positions in boards of directors of Brazilian as well as multinational companies. Gonçalves has a BS in Industrial Engineering from FEI (São Paulo), a postgraduate degree from FGV (São Paulo) and an MBA from IMD-International (Switzerland).

Andrew Gunther is the Country Manager for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) responsible for Brazil. Under Mr. Gunther’s leadership, the IFC committed $1.1 billion in investments in Brazil in fiscal year 2008 and syndicated an additional $577 million. Andrew has also worked in various investment positions in IFC in telecommunications, capital markets and in the Latin America department, financing companies through loans, equity investments and other instruments. From 1997 until 2002, Mr. Gunther was a Managing Director for Emerging Markets Partnership (EMP), an emerging markets private equity fund management firm with over US$5 billion under management. At EMP, Mr. Gunther was in charge of telecom & media investments and participated in all investment decisions for the AIG-GE Capital Latin American Infrastructure Fund, L.P., a US$1 billion private equity fund dedicated to Latin America sponsored by AIG and GE Capital. The fund invested broadly in infrastructure including transport, power, telecommunications and media companies, etc. Mr. Gunther also worked for five years at Marine Midland Bank (MMB), a division of the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), in New York and in Santiago, Chile as the bank’s representative for the Southern Cone. At MMB, he was involved both in equity investments and in loans to companies in a wide variety of sectors. Mr. Gunther has an MBA in finance from the Wharton School and a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan. He speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese.

Amaury holds a PhD from MIT in Engineering and Applied Mathematics and an MSc and BSc from PUC Rio. Prior to Vision Brazil Investments, his professional experience has included: (1) Founding Partner and CIO of Capitania Asset & Risk Management; (2) Managing Director, Head Trader, and Treasurer for Bank of America in Brazil; (3) Head of Brazilian FX and Derivatives Market Making and Head of Brazilian Fixed Income at JP Morgan in Brazil; (4) G7 Proprietary Trading, Mortgage Backed Securities Strategy, Derivatives and Advanced Technology Research at JP Morgan in New York; and (5) consultant in mathematical modeling and numerical algorithms for Thinking Machines Corporation, a US supercomputer manufacturer, and for several large US oil and gas companies. In addition to his professional activities, he conducts research as Professor of Risk Management at FGV in Sao Paulo. Amaury holds patents in the field of financial data visualization, and has published articles in international journals and financial magazines. Amaury is currently a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of ANDIMA, the National Association of Securities Dealers in Brazil and a member of the TCX Pricing Committee, a global partnership of international development finance institutions and commercial banks, led by Dutch development bank FMO.

Cristiano Gioia Lauretti, Managing Director, AIG Capital Investments do Brasil. Mr. Lauretti joined AIGCP in 2000 and has been responsible for sourcing, evaluation, execution, monitoring and exits of BSSF I and II investments. Mr. Lauretti is a member of the BSSF II Investment Committee and is the President of the Board of Directors of Providencia. Mr. Lauretti also serves on the Board of Grupo Advento and has participated actively in the Board of Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes, Fertilizantes Heringer S.A. and Fasint Ltda. Mr. Lauretti has 9 nine years of experience in private equity. Prior to joining AIGCP, Mr. Lauretti was an Associate at the Project Finance Department of ABN AMRO Bank, having been involved with several transactions mainly in the Electricity Sector. Prior to that, Mr. Lauretti was an Investment Analyst at Banco Itaú and an Analyst at Varig. Mr Lauretti received a BA in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Engineering in São Paulo.

Patrick joined Actis in 2007, having been a partner in TMG since 1999. Based in São Paulo, he is the co-head of Actis’s Latin America team. At TMG between 1999 and 2007, Patrick was a member of the board of directors of Odontoprev (leading dental care company) and acted as vice chairman of both Softway (Contact Center) and Conductor (Credit Card Processing Company). Patrick moved to TMG in 1999 from BankBoston in São Paulo, which he had joined in 1995 as an M&A director. Before that, Patrick worked at Chase Manhattan and Banco Frances & Brasileiro (“BFB“), part of Credit Lyonnais in Brazil, as M&A director. He started his career at Armco do Brasil. He holds a degree in Economy/ Business Administration from the University of Liège (Belgium).

Edward Leek is Partner in the Transaction Services department at KPMG Brazil and his professional experience encompasses transaction services and audit. From 1994 to 1997 he trained as a chartered accountant in KPMG's London office. In 1997 he moved to KPMG São Paulo, working within the audit department specializing in international companies with investments in Brazil. He transferred to the Transactions Services department in 2000, with the primary responsibility of performing due diligence assistance. He spent 18 months from 2001 to 2003 in Transaction Services in KPMG Edinburgh (UK) before returning to KPMG Brazil. Edward has broad experience in assisting corporate and Private Equity clients in domestic and cross-border trasnactions. He has also assisted a number of clients in sell-side assignments, preparing companies for due diligence.

Mr. Lima brings to his current role over 20 years of investment banking experience. He joined Brascan in 1996 as Head of Origination/M&A of Banco Brascan, where he was primarily responsible for M&A activities. He had also worked as Corporate Finance's Senior Banker for Itaú Bankers Trust, Banco Icatu and Banco Pactual. He holds a B.A. in Communications from Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Machado was M/D of Fibra Realty S.A., the Real Estate company of the Vicunha Group. He has worked with Real Estate finance and investment banking in organizations such as Banco Pactual, Rio Bravo and Banco Ourinvest. Mr. Machado has been a pioneer in the Brazilian Real Estate market having been the founder and president of one of the first securitization companies in Brazil as well as structured one of the first REITs distributed in the country.

Mr. McCain is one of three founders of Parish Capital Advisors, LLC, which focuses on providing institutional investors access to small, experienced private equity funds. He has spent the last ten years focused on alternative asset classes and has also experienced the private equity business from the perspective of advisor, direct investor, and limited partner. While his direct private equity focus is on early stage venture capital investments, he has also executed mezzanine, leveraged buyout, secondary and PIPE transactions. Mr. McCain was most recently a Vice President at BancBoston Ventures, where his group managed a $600 million diversified private equity portfolio, and he managed a direct investment portfolio of eleven early stage companies and four limited partnerships. Mr. McCain was active as a board member or board observer of seven of those companies. Mr. McCain aggressively sourced new investment opportunities and reviewed over two hundred opportunities annually. In addition to his investment and portfolio management responsibilities, he also assisted the BancBoston fund-of-funds group with fundraising and strategic partnerships. Mr. McCain received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School, where he was a Toigo Fellow.

Allen Miller is the head of Chadbourne’s corporate department and co-head of the Latin America practice group. Mr. Miller has more than 25 years of experience as a corporate and securities lawyer, advising public and private companies and their boards of directors on a broad spectrum of matters, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate governance issues, securities law matters, restructurings, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, private placements, public offerings and privatizations. A significant part of Mr. Miller’s practice consists of work in Latin America. He has extensive cross-border merger and acquisition experience and has represented numerous companies and investment banks in U.S. capital markets offerings and financings of Latin American issuers.

Mr. Moser served as the Vice President of Corporative Governance of Brasil Telecom, as the president of the deliberative council of Fundação Sistel, Fundação 14 and BrTPrev, besides being part of the administrative council of IG. Mr. Moser was also a member of the administrative council of ten other companies including Brasil Telecom Participações, Brasil Telecom S.A., Solpart Participações, Coelba S.A. and Cosern S.A. He has a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from Candido Mendes University and a Master’s degree in administration and an M.B.A. in finance from IBMEC (the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets). Mr. Moser also attended extension classes on governance at Harvard Business School.

George Osorio is the Managing Partner of Conduit Capital Partners having co-founded the firm with Scott Swensen in 2003 and serves as the Senior Investment Manager for the Latin Power Funds. Mr. Osorio joined Scudder in 1995 to be part of the team managing Latin Power I joining the firm from Lehman Brothers' Emerging Markets Group. Before Lehman, he served for four years at the Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was part of the International Trade Finance group. Mr. Osorio holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Cornell University and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from Columbia Business School.

Claudia F. Prado graduated from the University of São Paulo Law School in 1984 and obtained a Masters degree at the Southern Methodist University (USA) in 1986. Her areas of practice include deals involving acquisition and sale of companies and joint ventures, cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, often for strategic and financial buyers, including private equity and venture capital funds. She also advises in general corporate matters and corporate restructure and regulatory matters in capital market. Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Rodolpho de Oliveira Franco Protasio is one of the founding partners of Mundie e Advogados, formed in 1996, where he co-heads the firm's corporate/mergers & acquisitions practice group and heads the firm’s energy practice group. His primary areas of practice are corporate transactions, mergers & acquisitions, private equity and infrastructure. He specializes in M&A and private equity deals and has extensive experience in transactions in regulated sectors. He has worked on numerous important privatizations, acquisitions and financings assisting a variety of clients, including many large foreign and Brazilian companies and investment funds. He has served as member of boards of directors of Brazilian corporations. He graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (LL.B., 1990), completed post-graduation studies in tax law at Faculdade Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro (1991) and holds a master’s degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law (LL.M. cum laude, 1994). He is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association, the energy committee of the American Chamber of Commerce, the Brazilian Institute of Studies of Energy Law (IBDE), the Centre of Studies of Law Firms (CESA), and the International Bar Association (IBA).

Cláudio Ramos is a Partner of the Corporate Finance and Valuations group at KPMG São Paulo. Cláudio has worked in corporate finance/investment banking since 1993. His experience encompasses equity research, cross-boarder private placements, company valuations and merger and acquisitions advisory work, in both Brazil and the United States. He has been advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and valuations since 1994, working with KPMG Corporate Finance since 1996. His industry experience encompasses industrial companies, financial institutions, food and beverage, mining and automotive. He is the representative for Latin America in KPMG’s Global Valuations Committee and co-leads the KPMG’s Valuations Thought Leadership Sub-committee. He’s the lead partner of the Valuations Group in KPMG Brazil. He earned an MBA degree in Finance, Economics and International Business from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan and a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the School of Technology at the University of Brasília, Brazil. Since the beginning of 2008, Cláudio is the professor of Corporate Finance in the Executive MBA of FAAP University in São Paulo.

Antonio Regalado is a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he writes about a variety of subjects including energy and equity markets. Prior to moving to Brazil, Mr. Regalado was a science reporter for the Journal based in New York. Mr. Regalado's work has been recognized by journalism prizes, and was part of a submission which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for the Journal's coverage of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th, 2001. He holds a B.S. in Physics from Yale University and a master's degree in journalism from New York University.

João Francisco R. Regos Graduated in 1985 from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo Law School. His practice includes foreign trade, civil construction, distribution and agency agreements, entertainment, real estate and debt renegotiation, including the negotiation and drafting of agreements in general (distribution, representation and guarantees); real estate operations (purchase and sale, real estate development and leases); assistance to clients in projects related to major civil works (hydroelectric power plants and entertainment complexes).

Leonardo is a partner of Ocroma, which provides investors with access to alternative investments in Latin America. Before that, he spent five years leading the research efforts of the only center for private equity research in Brazil, where he developed unparalleled market knowledge and relationships with all private equity groups. He is the author of more than 15 publications, including the book Private Equity and Venture Capital in Brazil. Leonardo has more than eight years of investment consulting and business development experience, serving clients such as insurance company, multilateral institution, foundation, endowment, government agency and companies. Leonardo holds a bachelor and a MSc. degree in business from University of Sao Paulo with honors. He was awarded the Ruy Leme and the National Association of Investment Banks prizes for his works in private equity. He did part of his studies in France, including the MBA at ESSEC and a specialization in Corporate Finance at Toulouse Business School. Leonardo is a member of the Brazilian Venture Capital Association and the Caribbean Investor Network.

Alan Riddell is a Partner in the Corporate Finance group, responsible for Debt Advisory Services, based in São Paulo. He has a degree in Accounting from UFRJ (1993), Law from Universidade Cândido Mendes (1995) and an MBA from INSEAD/France (1998). He is responsible for the coordination of work involving debt raising and restructuring, project finance, local and cross-border financing, asset-backed-financing, local and international capital markets, and acquisition financing. He has also experience in Merger and Acquisition, both at KPMG Corporate Finance and UNIBANCO. He has experience in company valuations, acquisitions, strategic and tax planning in various segments, including Real Estate, Financial Institutions, and Bioenergy.

Mr. Alberto Rosa us is the Participation Manager (Investment Officer) at FUNCEF – Fundação dos Economiários Federais and a member of the Board of Directors at Telemig Celular S.A. and Telemig Celular Participações S.A. Additionally, he is a member of Investments Committee of several private equity funds.

Managing Principal at Pátria responsible for Pátria’s Private Equity Division, vice-chairman of the board of directors of DASA since 1999, chairman of the board of directors of Anhanguera since 2005, member of the board of directors of Tivit since 2006, member of the board of directors of Energias Renováveis since 2006 and member of the advisory committees of Pátria’s portfolio companies. Mr. Saigh joined Patrimônio in 1994, as a managing principal responsible for the development and execution of the firm’s private equity business. Between 1994 and 1997, while developing Patrimônio’s private equity business, Mr. Saigh was at Drogasil, one of the leading drugstore chains in Brazil and Pátria’s first private equity investment, where he served as CEO and CFO. Prior to joining Patrimônio, Mr. Saigh worked at JPMorgan Investment Bank (“JP Morgan”) from 1989 to 1994, as a vice president, where he was responsible for investments in service and consumer product companies. Mr. Saigh also worked for JP Morgan’s corporate finance and M&A divisions. Mr. Saigh holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Management and Hotel Administration from Boston University, and a post-graduate Degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Doug Scherrer is a Senior Associate at General Atlantic, where he focuses on investments in Latin America. He currently works in General Atlantic's São Paulo office. Prior to moving to São Paulo, Doug was based in Greenwich and was part of GA's Financial Services sector team, having helped to lead investments in GETCO and the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F). In addition, he has supported a number of General Atlantic’s portfolio companies, including NYSE Euronext, NYMEX, and RiskMetrics Group. Doug joined General Atlantic in 2005. Prior to GA, Doug worked at the Boston Consulting Group in New York. While at BCG, he worked with clients in the pharmaceutical, consumer goods, and information services industries. Doug graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Economics.

Michael, a co-founder of the Vital Renewable Energy Company, spent eight years in principal finance, focusing on equity and debt finance opportunities in the infrastructure and renewable energy sectors throughout Europe and North America, prior to relocating to Sao Paulo, Brazil in the Spring of 2008. From Spring 2006 through Winter 2008, Michael worked as a Director in Deutsche Bank’s NY Principal Finance Group, working on opportunities with ports, waste to energy and biofuels projects. Prior to this experience, Michael worked at Goldman Sachs for six years. He spent over five years in London with the Principal Finance team that ultimately became the Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Fund. Michael and the team structured and financed a number of transactions including a $5.0bn+ transaction for the Benetton family, who purchased a controlling share of Autostrade, and a ~$4.0bn refinancing opportunity for the senior and mezzanine facilities of Tube Lines in London. Michael finished his experience at Goldman Sachs, working with the New York based Infrastructure Advisory team. Michael has an MBA from Columbia University, a MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and a BSc in Chemistry from the College of William & Mary.

Alexandre Simões Pinto Graduated in 1992 from Universidade de São Paulo Law School. His practice focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions. He participated in several acquisitions in the agribusiness sector and coordinated acquisitions and sales in the autoparts industry. He also coordinated acquisitions and sales of food companies, as well as in the telecommunications sector, and in the textile industry. He led an innovative project in Brazil for the acquisition of land and forestry exploration.

John Stephens is a co-founder of EMAlternatives, and serves as a Managing Partner. EMAlternatives is a private equity fund investor that focuses exclusively on global emerging markets for a small number of institutional clients. Prior to founding EMAlternatives, John worked with Projects International and Cape Point Capital and advised middle-market companies on corporate finance assignments throughout global emerging markets. He also served as a Senior Investment Analyst with Global Environment Fund, a multi-fund manager investing in clean energy, forestry and water opportunities in emerging markets. From 1990 through 1996, John held a series of positions relating to the former Soviet Union, including with the US Embassy in Moscow. John earned a MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, and a BA in Russian & East European Studies from the University of Washington.

Nazir Takieddine graduated from the University of São Paulo Law School in 1995 and obtained a master degree in Business Administration and Master of Law at Northwestern University in 2003. His practice includes developing corporate structures for acquisition and sale of business and/or assets in Brazil (M&A transactions) and the drafting of the corresponding documents. His expertise involves capital market in Brazil, and development and implementation of corporate governance in Brazilian companies.

Roberto specializes in Brazilian securities and banking law and, as such, advises a wide variety of investment banking, commercial banking and corporate clients. He is vastly experienced in the international and domestic debt and equity offerings of Brazilian issuers (such issuers incorporating both private and governmental status) and has significant expertise in the areas of project finance, bank derivatives activities, structured finance and asset securitization.

Philip T. von Mehren's practice is focused on cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, often for strategic and financial buyers, including private equity and venture capital funds. He has represented various strategic and financial purchasers in numerous U.S. LBO transactions and often represents private equity funds that are focused on Latin America with respect to offshore and onshore aspects of transactions in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Chile. Mr. von Mehren writes and lectures extensively on issues relating to private investment and cross-border legal representation and has lectured at Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law. He was recently appointed as External Counselor and Assistant Secretary for the Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA), a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting the growth of the private equity and venture capital industry in Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. von Mehren received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1990 and is admitted to practice in the State of New York and in the District of Columbia.

Ken received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1994 and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in 2001. After graduation from Harvard he served as an investment analyst for Hellmold Associates Opportunity Funds, focusing on investments in distressed debt. From 1995 to 1999 he was an investment banker with Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. in New York and São Paulo and from 2001 to 2003 he was an investment banker with the São Paulo office of Violy, Byorum & Partners; in each of those affiliations he focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing for emerging markets companies. In 2003 he served as Finance Director for the family office of Matterhorn and in 2004, Mr. Wainer became an Advisor to Signet Research and Advisory, a Swiss-based asset management group. Since 2006 he has been acting as one of the three senior partners of Vision Brazil Investments, a Brazilian focused alternative investments manager with over $1.8 Billion under management.

Ricardo Weiss is the Investment Director at FAPES - the Brazilian Development Bank Pension Fund. He graduated in Economics at UFRJ, with a M.D. in Production Engineering at COPPE/UFRJ. Has worked at BNDES, Icatu Bank, Patrimônio Salomon Brothers Bank and has been Member of the Board at Telemar, OI and Fapes. Takes part in Committees at ABRAPP - Brazilian Pension Funds Assoc. and Andima - Natl. Assoc. of Financial Market Institutions. Has written several articles and collaborated in Books about Pension Fund Management, Asset Allocation and Benchmarks.

Susan Wermcrantz Davis is an Investment Officer in the Structured & Corporate Finance Department (SCF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. SCF provides loans and guarantees to private and subnational entities and public private partnerships that are developing projects in Latin America. Susan focuses on the financing of infrastructure projects, with an emphasis on the water and renewable energy sectors. Before joining the IDB in 2003, Susan worked in investment banking in Argentina and as a Project Finance Manager for Thames Water International in Brazil. Susan graduated from Northwestern University and has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Leonardo Zylberman received his degree in Business Administration from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with major in Supply Chain, in 1999. He is currently Chairman of Roundtable Brazil of CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals), in addition to representing the company at AMCHAM-RJ (The American Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro) and Britcham-RJ (The British Chamber of Commerce). He joined Integration in 1999 and he is now the Director responsible for the company's operations in Rio de Janeiro, in addition to being responsible for the company Finance & Operation Area. This is the area that deals with projects involving private equity funds and the companies they invest in. Leonardo has worked in projects of Corporate Finance, Strategic Positioning, Organizational Restructuring, Business Intelligence, Go-to-Market Definition, Logistics Network Studies, Sales & Operations Planning, Training in Financial Concepts and Logistics Outsourcing, , serving the industries of Food, Beverage, Retail, Construction, Consumer Electronics, Pharmaceutical, Consumer Packaged Goods, Cleaning, Mining, Steel and Telecom.