Board of Directors
The Bylaws of Companhia de Gás de São Paulo – COMGÁS (“Company”) provide that the Board of Directors shall consist of seven (07) to thirteen (13) members, elected and dismissed by General Meeting, whose mandate will be 2 (two) years, being allowed re-election for equal periods, with 01 (one) Chairman and one (01) Vice-Chairman, elected by the members of the Board, by majority vote at the first meeting after their inauguration or whenever there is resignation or vacancy in office, re-election being allowed for subsequent periods. Members of the Board of Directors may not be absent from the performance of their duties over thirty (30) consecutive days, under penalty of removal from office, except for leave granted by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is responsible, among other tasks, without prejudice to any other duties as may be conferred by law or by the Bylaws, for setting the general direction of the Company. According to the Law of Corporations, the Board of Directors is also responsible for hiring independent auditors. The table below lists the current members of the Board of Directors.
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Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello | Chairman of the Board | 07/24/2020 | 2022 OGA | |
Mechanical Production Engineer at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (1972). Chairman of the Board of Cosan S.A, a holding company active in the gas and energy segments, since 2000 and Cosan Limited. since 2015. He is also CEO of Cosan Limited, a holding company, all belonging to the Company’s economic group. Since 1980, he has been CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Costa Pinto S.A., a sugar mill. Since 1998, he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rumo Logística Operadora Multimoldal S.A., in the logistics segment, and since 2005, has been Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aguassanta Participações S.A., a holding company. He has also held the position of Counselor at UNICA – Union of Sugarcane Agroindustry of the State of. |
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Marcelo Eduardo Martins | Board Member | 07/24/2020 | 2022 OGA | |
CFO and IRO in Cosan Ltd, and member of the Board of Directors of Cosan S.A. since 2009, a company that integrates the Comgás’ control block. Holds a business administration Bachelor by Getulio Vargas Foundation, specializing in finance. He joined the Cosan group in July 2007 as executive at Aguassanta Participações SA. Was CFO and Development at Votorantim Cimentos, in the cement segment, between July 2003 and July 2007. Before that, he commanded the Fixed Income department Latino American financial institution Salomon Smith Barney in New York, USA. |
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Luis Henrique Cals de Beauclair Guimarães | Board Member | 07/24/2020 | 2022 OGA | |
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Nelson Roseira Gomes Neto | Board Member | 07/24/2020 | 2022 OGA | |
Graduated in Engineering (1992), Master in Corporate Finance (1998) and Master of Business Administration (2001). Currently CEO of Comgás, until April 2016 he also served as CEO of Cosan S / A, a holding company active in the gas and energy segments that is part of the Company’s control block. Following Cosan’s acquisition of the assets in Exxon Mobil in 2008, he assumed the presidency of Cosan Lubrificantes, of the fuels and lubricants sector, which he held until 2014, when he became part of the executive board of Cosan SA and remained until assume the position of Officer of the Company, in January 2016. In July 2020, Nelson took the position of Chief Executive Officer of Compass Gás e Energia, resigning from the position of Chief Executive Officer of Comgás in 10/01/2020, remaining on its Board of Directors. |
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Burkhard Otto Cordes | Board Member | 07/24/2020 | 2022 OGA | |
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Maria Rita de Carvalho Drummond | Board Member | 07/24/2020 | 2022 OGA | |
Maria Rita holds a Law degree from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC), a postgraduated degree in Civil Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a master's degree in International Law from the London School of Economics (LSE). In her professional career, she worked at the law firm Barbosa, Mussnich and Aragão, and as Latin America Manager at BAT (British America Tobacco), that is the parent company of Souza Cruz S.A., based in London. She was also Legal Manager of publicly-held companies as Cosan S.A and Cosan Logística S.A. and Legal Director of the same companies. Appointed by the Brazilian Association of Publicly-Held Companies (ABRASCA) to the Resources Council of the National Financial System (CRSFN), from March 2019 to March 2022. Since April 2020, Maria Rita Drummond has assumed the position of vice Legal President of Cosan Limited, Cosan S.A. and Cosan Logística S.A.
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Silvio Renato Del Boni | Board Member | 07/24/2020 | 2022 OGA | |
Technologist in construction by FATEC São Paulo – UNESP and civil engineer graduated from the University of Guarulhos, has also an MBA in business management and project management. He currently occupies the position of commercial manager of High Income Househoulds Segment in the Company, having held the position of regional commercial manager since 2010. |
Fiscal Council
According to the Law of Corporations, the Fiscal Council is an independent body from the Company and the Company’s external auditors. The duties of the Fiscal Council are set out in law and its rules, applicable to the activities to be developed by it, are established by General Meeting. The main responsibility of the Fiscal Council is to review management’s activities and the financial statements, reporting its findings to shareholders.
Name | Office | Election Date | End of Mandate |
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Vanessa Claro Lopes | Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Graduated in systems analysis by FATEC / BS (1995) and accounting sciences from Universidade Federal Fluminense (2013), with a specialization in computer networks from Universidade São Judas Tadeu (1998) and business management by FGV (2004). With 20 years of professional experience, he is currently Chairman of the Fiscal Council of Via Varejo S / A and the Audit Committee of Tegma S / A. He held the position of Director of the Corporate Internal Audit of the TAM S / A Group between 2010 and 2014. Previously, she was responsible for the Internal Audit Department of Globex Utilidades S / A, known as Ponto Cold. He began his career in Systems Audit in 1995 at PricewaterhouseCoopers and participated in the creation in Brazil of the Group of Consultants for Telecom Network Services. Acted as responsible for the Audit teams of the Telefónica Group’s mobile telephony companies, between 2001 and 2004, having implemented at the time the Risk Mapping for all companies of the group in Brazil. For 2 years she was a professor of systems and information security auditing at Faculdade Objetivo between 1997 and 1998. Ms. Vanessa Lopes did not suffer from past five years, any conviction (i) criminal, even if not final and unappealable; (ii) in an administrative proceeding of the CVM, even if it is not final and unappealable; or (iii) a final decision, in the sphere of judicial or administrative, that has suspended or disqualified him for the practice of any professional or commercial activity. Mrs Vanessa Lopes declares that she is not considered to be an Politically, according to the applicable regulations. |
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Francisco Silvério Morales Céspede | Alternate Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Graduated and postgraduate in Business Administration (FGV), having specialized courses in Brazil and the United States (Harvard and Stanford), he served for more than 35 years as Director of Administration and Finance and Investor Relations (CFO and DRI) ) and member of the Board of Directors, Audit and Finance Committees of São Paulo Alpargatas, Santista Têxtil and Monsanto do Brasil, among other national and foreign companies. For 15 years he was vice president of the Brazilian Institute of Finance Executives of São Paulo (IBEF SP). He is currently a consultant in Business Management, participates in the boards and committees of several companies and leads the Cespe Foundation for Business Management. Mr. Francisco Morales has not suffered, in the last five years, any condemnation (i) criminal, although not yet res judicata; (ii) in an administrative proceeding of the CVM, even if it is not final and unappealable; or (iii) a final, unappealable decision in the judicial or administrative sphere, which has suspended or disqualified him or her for the practice of any professional or commercial activity. Mr. Francisco Morales declares that he is not considered a Politically Exposed Person under the applicable regulations. |
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Carla Alessandra Trematore | Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Ms. Carla Trematore holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP. He worked in the independent auditing business at Arthur Andersen, Deloitte and Ernst & Young from 1996 to 2010 and was the internal audit manager at Confab, a Brazilian publicly-held company controlled by the Italian-Argentine group Techint / Tenaris. She was a partner at Hirashima & Associados, where she led accounting and financial consulting services in corporate reorganizations and served as a consultant to the Foundation for Accounting, Actuarial and Financial Research – FIPECAFI. He was an alternate member of the Fiscal Council of Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica SA (Embraer) between 2007 and 2015 and controller in a group of companies of generation and commercialization of electric energy (Bolognesi Energia SA) from 2014 to 2016. He is currently administrative and financial manager of CELSE – Centrais Elétricas de Sergipe SA, company in the construction phase of an electric power generation plant with an installed capacity of 1.5 GW, and partner of Laplane Consultoria Econômica. His experience includes: auditing the financial statements of companies in several segments (industrial and services), in accordance with Brazilian and international accounting practices (US GAAP and IFRS); audit of internal controls in line with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; management of processes of acquisition, merger and incorporation of companies (due diligences) with financial-accounting focus; advice on corporate restructuring processes; advice on IPOs (IPOs abroad and in Brazil); management and monitoring of risks through the planning, execution and monitoring of corporate programs of internal audit with focus on risks; evaluation and diagnosis of corporate fraud; and controller. |
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Felício Mascarenhas de Andrade | Alternate Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Member of the Audit Committee of Cosan Ltd since October 2014. He is a founding partner of Vecte, a consulting firm specializing in good Corporate Governance practices. He has developed his career in international consultancies like Andersen, Accenture, Ernst & Young and KPMG. Throughout his career he has advised dozens of large Brazilian companies in improving their financial management, governance mechanisms, financial risk management, preparation for IPOs, among other topics focused on growth with protection of Shareholders’ Value. Felício is a member of the IBGC in São Paulo and teaches the subjects of Risk Management and Corporate Governance in MBA’s in São Paulo and Curitiba.
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Marcelo Curti | Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Economist graduated from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado – São Paulo (FAAP) in 1985, graduated in business administration from Fundação Álvares Penteado School of Commerce (FECAP) in 1986, he is a managing partner of RIO BRANCO Consultores Associados Ltda. He worked in the Safra Group from 1981 to 2008, when he held the position of Statutory Officer. Member of the Fiscal Council of Hypermarcas S.A . |
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Henrique Aché Pillar | Alternate Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Mr. Henrique Pilar is an engineer from the Military Engineering Institute (IME) in 1976, with a Master’s degree in Transportation from IME in 1983 and a specialization from INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration) in 2001. of Transport of the Brazilian Mining Meeting SA (1986-1996); Director of Planning and Finance of MRS Logística S.A. (1997-2010) and Partners of CWH Consultoria Empresarial (2012-2013). He is currently a general consultant in logistics and infrastructure since 2012. |
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Mario Augusto da Silva | Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Graduated in Business Administration with an MBA from Harvard Business School (2005-2007), Mario has more than 20 years of professional experience occupying strategic positions in all companies where he worked. He was a Finance Specialist, CEO of Cosan, CFO of Braskem, member of the Board of Directors of Rumo Logística and Braskem Idesa, a joint venture in Mexico between Braskem and Mexican Group IDESA. He began his career as a consultant at PwC, holding positions as CFO at Ocyan and consultant at Booz Allen. He also participated in major financial and strategic operations such as the creation of Braskem, the expansion of Ocyan, the follow-on of Rumo Logística, in addition he has participated in several debt and equity transactions in the local and international capital market. Mario was a Board Member of GranIHC, MRO Serviços Logístico and Nova Participações. |
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Nadir Dancini Barsanulfo | Alternate Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Graduated in Law in São Paulo in 1982 and graduated in Accounting from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV in 1995. Tax Director of Raízen Group and member of the Logum Supervisory Board SA. Was Statutory Director of Oil at Esso Brasileira in the period 2005-2009 and responsible for the tax area of the ExxonMobil Brazil in 2008. in 2009 assumed responsibility for the tax area of the Cosan group, which includes the control block of Comgás, until the formation of the joint venture with Shell, when she became the Tax Director of Raízen Group companies. |
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Alexandre Pedercini Issa | Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
“Alexandre has a degree in Business Administration from Faculdade Milton Campos (2004). MBA – Postgraduate in Strategic Business Management from Universidade Fumec in 2012. Board Member Certified by IBGC – CCIe modality. Full member of he Fiscal Council of CASAN (Companhia Catarinense de Águas e Saneamento S.A.), full member of the Board of Directors of São Paulo Turismo S.A. and BASA (Banco da Amazônia S.A.). He was a full member of the Fiscal Council of SABESP (Cia de Saneamento do Estado de São Paulo S.A.) from 2017 to 2020. Between 2015 and 2018, he was a full member of the Fiscal Council of TAESA (Transmissora Aliança de Energia Elétrica S.A.). From 2015 to 2016, alternate member of the Fiscal Council of CEMIG (Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais S.A.). From January / 2015 to September / 2015, member |
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Genival Francisco da Silva | Alternate Member | 04/28/2021 | 2021 OGA |
Genival holds a degree in Accounting from PUCSP. Executive MBA in Advanced Administration from HBS Boston. Post graduated in strategic policy from USP and graduated from the war college (ADESG SP). During his career, he served as an Advisor and Financial Advisor, Alternate Member of the Fiscal Council at Bradesco, full member of the Board of Directors of BASA (Banco da Amazônia S.A.) from June 2018 to August 2019 and full member of the Fiscal Council of Azevedo & Travassos Engenharia SA from August 2014 to September 2018. |
Executive Officers
The Company’s Executive Officers shall consist of up to nine (09) Officers elected, and whose duties are set by the Board of Directors. The Executive Officers, without prejudice to any other duties as may be conferred by law or by the Bylaws, perform all acts necessary for regular operation of the Company.
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Antônio Simões Rodrigues Júnior | Chief Executive Officer | 08/13/2020 | 01/02/2022 |
Antonio Simões Rodrigues Júnior held the position of Energy Director at Raízen. He was alternate member of the board of directors of Logum (ethanol pipeline system) and member of the executive board of Petróleo Sabbá S.A., that mainly supplies the northern Brazil. Previously, he held the position of Director of Logistics and Trading Offshore at Raízen, based in Geneva, where he was responsible for the development and operation of the company’s global ethanol trading. Between 1997 and 2010, he held several positions in Trading, Supply and Logistics at Shell, in Rio de Janeiro, London and Dubai. Mr. Antonio is a production engineer graduated from Universidade Federal Fluminense, with an MBA in marketing from CEFET-RJ. |
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José Eduardo Nunes Araújo Moreira | Chief Commercial Officer | 01/02/2020 | 01/02/2022 |
Graduated in Law, with MBA in Project Management from the Foundation Institute of Administration, University of São Paulo (FIA). He has 20 years of experience in the commercial department of Comgás. He worked until December 2019 as Executive Sales Manager, being responsible for the residential, commercial, NGV and distributed generation segments. Member of Comgás at COGEN – Association of the Energy Cogeneration Industry. Currently, he holds the position of Chief Commercial Officer of the Company. |
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Adriano Nogueira Zerbini | Chief of institutional and Communication Officer | 01/02/2020 | 01/02/2022 |
Graduated in Geography from the University of São Paulo and Political Science from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, with a specialization in Business Administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo (FGV/SP). He was Deputy Secretary of International Relations of São Paulo City Hall, among other positions in the municipal administration and the Government of the State of São Paulo. In the private sector he worked at BNP Paribas in France. Mr. Zerbini also held positions as director of BRF S.A. and Cosan S. A. |
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Carla Araújo Sautchuk | Chief of Operantions and Services Officer | 01/02/2020 | 01/02/2022 |
Ms. Sautchuk has a degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree in Engineering, both from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP).Currently, she holds the position of Chief of Operantions and Services Officer at Comgás. Member of the Company since 2014, he served until December 2019 as Executive Engineering Manager and previously she worked at the Executive Development and Innovation Management. |
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Cristiano Donisete Barbieri | Chief of Strategy and Market Officer | 08/04/2020 | 01/02/2022 |
Graduated in Computer Science (1996), Cristiano also has a Postgraduate Degree in Business Administration from FGV and Business Management from IBMEC and with a specialization in Bigdata from HBS in 2016. Between 1998 and 2020 he worked in the SulAmérica Seguros group, where he led areas of Technology, Digital Transformation and Innovation (from 2010 to 2020) and Customer Relationship (from 2015 to 2018). Between 2018 and 2020, he was Vice President, serving on the Executive Committee of SulAmérica. Specialist in Lean and Agile Transformation Methods. |
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Guilherme Lelis Bernardo Machado | Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer | 01/02/2020 | 01/02/2022 |
Mr. Guilherme Machado holds a degree in Production Engineering from the Fluminense Federal University (RJ) and a Master’s degree in Economics and Corporate Finance from FGV / RJ and has 16 years of professional experience having worked at Esso Brasileira de Petróleo, Cosan SA and Rumo SA, and as of May 2018, took over the Comgás Financial and Investor Relations Officer. |
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Elisangela Ferreira Martins | Chief of People and Culture Officer | 01/02/2020 | 01/02/2022 |
Graduated in Psychology with an MBA from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and Fundação Dom Cabral. She has over 20 years of experience in Human Resources, having worked for companies such as Alcoa and Kimberly-Clark. Since 2010, he has been in the COSAN group, served in different positions for Raízen and Cosan S.A. In 2018 she took over the Comgás Human Resources Department. |
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Ricardo Nogueira Dias | Chief of Regulatory and legal Issues Officer | 09/01/2021 | 01/02/2022 |
Lawyer with 17 years of experience in the business area, with an Executive MBA from Insper. He joined the Company in 2014 as legal, regulatory and litigation manager, later assuming the position legal and regulatory executive manager. He has served as the Company’s statutory Legal and Regulatory Officer since September 2021. |
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Milena Chamas Bitelli Brito | Chief of Security, Engineering and Supply Officer | 01/02/2020 | 01/02/2022 |
Graduated in Business Administration from Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo (FGV / SP), with an MBA from FGV / SP & FAU / USA. She currently holds the position of Chief of Security, Engineering and Supply Officer at Comgás. She served in different positions at Exxon Mobil until Cosan bought the assets in 2008. Her last position at Cosan Lubrificantes – in the fuel and lubricants segment – was Marketing Director before being transferred to Comgás in July 2016. |
Audit Committee
Comgás’ Audit Committee is an advisory body, with permanent character, constituted according to Article 29 of Comgás’ bylaws and destined to support the Board of Directors in compliance to its attributions in regards to: (i) analysis of the submission of the Company’s financial statements (including, without limitation, the structure of internal control and procedures for the preparation of the Company’s financial statements and monitoring the accuracy and adequacy of these financial statements); (ii) form by which the Company’s Administration secures and monitors the adequacy of internal financial control, operations, compliance and procedures of risk administration ; (iii) independence and submission of internal audits; and (iv) choice, dismissal, payment and impartiality regarding the actions of external auditors.
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João Ricardo Ducatti | Member | 05/11/2021 | 05/11/2023 |
Mr. Ducatti is a member of the Company’s Supervisory Board since 2005. A business administrator, was a professional at Westinghouse of Brazil in the period 1973-1982 exercising the Financial Resources Manager functions and Treasurer for Latin America, Administrative and Financial Director of Barbacena Plant, located in the region of Ribeirão Preto, in 1982 and 1983 period; Administrative and Financial Director of Grupo Bom Jesus, located in the region of Piracicaba, from 1983 to 1991, the group with four (4) units producing sugar and alcohol; Administrative and Financial Director of Grupo Cosan, located in Piracicaba, in the period 1991-1995, a group that owns seven (7) production units of sugar and alcohol; Managing Director of SUCRESP, representative professional association of seventeen (17) producing plants of sugar and alcohol, from 1995 to 1999 and from 1999 to date develops the provision of economic and financial advisory services, asset valuation , management of corporate structuring, sales development of investments and other associated activities, through their company RDR Consultores Associados Ltda. |
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Maílson Ferreira Da Nóbrega | Member | 05/11/2021 | 05/11/2023 |
Mr. Nobrega is a member of the Board of Directors of Cosan SA since November 2007. He is an economist and has held the post of Minister of Finance between 1988 and 1990 after building an extensive career at Banco do Brasil and the public sector, in which he stood out acting the following positions: Technical Consultant and Head of the Analysis Department of the Bank of Brazil Project; Coordination Chief of Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the General Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. He served as Chief Executive Officer of the European Brazilian Bank – EUROBRAZ – in London. Mr. Nobrega is also member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Abyara Estate Planning, CSU Cardsystem SA, Grendene SA, Portobello SA, Rodobens Negócios Imobiliários SA, Tim Participacoes SA and Veracel Celulose SA. |
Last update: September 13, 2021