Gabriel Mário Rodrigues

Gabriel Mário Rodrigues is Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. Previously he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Anhanguera. He has a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Faculdade de Arquitetura Mackenzie (1955) and completed a specialization course in Business Communication (1960). He was responsible for Inspection of Public Works and Services of the State of São Paulo - DOP (1968-1971) and the Press Office of the Superintendent of the Department of Public Works and Services of the State of São Paulo - DOP (1968-1971). He created and Organized the first Postsecondary Program in Tourism in Brazil, in 1971, from Faculdade de Turismo do Morumbi, maintained by Bandeirante Organization of Technology and Culture (OBTC), which he presided over from 1969 to 1978. He was Director of Faculdade Anhembi Morumbi (1971 - 1997) and Dean of Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, maintained by ISCP Sociedade Educacional, which he presided between 1979 and 2013. He served four terms as Chairman of the Brazilian Association of Postsecondary Education Companies (ABMES) between 2004 and 2016. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors ABMES for the 2016/19 term. He is a permanent member of the Governing Council of the Union of Sponsoring Entities of Postsecondary Educational Institutions of the State of São Paulo (SEMESP) (2011 - 2014), serving as Chairman between 1993 and 2004 and as Vice Chairman between 2008 and 2011. He was president of the Ancora Project for the Rights of the Child, Adolescent and Elderly (2009-2012), Member of the Board of Associação Viva o Centro (2005 - 2013), Member of the Board of Trustees and Member of the Representative Entities of the National Foundation for Development of Private Postsecondary Education (FUNADESP) from 2005 to 2009, Chairman of the Sponsoring Board and partner of the Brazilian Distance Learning Network - Brazilian Virtual University and Member of the State Board for Food and Nutritional Safety (CONSEA/SP). Mr. Rodrigues currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Grupo GAMARO S.A., Founding Member and Executive Secretary until 2016 of the Forum of Entities Representing Private Postsecondary Education (since 2008); Member of the Board of the National Association of Private Universities (ANUP) since 2007; Member of the Advisory Board of the Medical and Cultural Foundation of Gastroenterology and Nutrition of São Paulo (FUGESP).