Edward Ruiz

Edward Ruiz is an American national with over 48 years of experience in public and private accounting. He has been a Certified Public Accountant in the United States since 1972. Edward retired from Deloitte in 2012, where he was an audit partner and member of Deloitte’s IFRS Specialist Group in Brazil. As Head of the Capital Markets group in Brazil, Edward advised companies on financial and regulatory reporting matters related to initial public offerings and secondary offerings in Brazil, the United States and European Capital Markets. Prior to Deloitte, he held executive positions in internal audit at JP Morgan and PepsiCo Inc. in the United States. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Pace University, New York City and has taken advanced courses related to an Executive MBA at FIA in Sao Paulo and governance courses at the Harvard Business School. Since his retirement, Edward has gained extensive board-level experience as a member and Audit Committee chair of several publicly traded companies in Brazil. Edward is currently a Board member and Audit Committee chair at Nexa Resources, a mining company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange and with mining and smelting operations in Brazil and Peru.