João Roberto Gonçalves Teixeira

João Teixeira since December 2018 is President of Copersucar S/A, where he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Eco-Energy in the USA, Member of the Board of Directors of Alvean [global partnership between Copersucar and Cargill] and Member of the Board of Directors LOGUM management [partnership between Copersucar, Raízen, Petrobrás and Uniduto]. Also at Coopersucar, he is responsible for managing financial and operational risks due to the complexity of the Company‘s operations. He also served as Chairman of the Board of OPLA [partnership between Copersucar and BP], and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. Since 2018 he has been an advisor and today he is vice president of the Board of Directors of brMalls and acts pro bono as an independent member of the Investment Committee of Yunus Social Business Brasil. He was chairman of the Board of Directors of the Julius Baer Family Office in Brazil (merger between GPS and Reliance) between 2018 and 2020. Between 2017 and 2018 he was a founding partner of Inviste, a proprietary investment company in the real estate, venture capital and impact businesses. He was President of Banco Votorantim S/A from 2011 to November 2016, a period in which he also served as a Director of Febraban (Brazilian Federation of Banks). He was Vice Chief Executive of Grupo Santander in Brazil and Banco ABN AMRO Real S/A from 2002 to 2011, being responsible for the Corporate & Investment Banking in Brazil (CIB) and Wholesale Bank areas. Also noteworthy is his experience in financial risk management and his entire career in the financial market. Between 2007 and 2010 he served as a member of the board of ANBIMA (Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association). He also served as Head of Investment Banking – Brazil at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein between 1995 and 2002, was an advisor to Minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso at the Ministry of Economy in 1993 and Professor at the Department of Economics at PUC-RJ in 1990. He holds a Bachelor‘s and Master‘s degree in economics from PUC-RJ. He also earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the London Business School in 1995 and participated in the Executive Program at Singularity University in 2018.