Carlos Fernando Couto de Oliveira Souto. Independent Member of the Board of Directors of Lojas Renner since April 2015, he was Vice-Chairman of the Board from April 2016 to April 18, 2019, and he is currently member of the People Committee and Audit and Risk Management Committee. He is founder, partner and CEO of the law firm Souto, Correa, Cesar, Lamberts & Amaral Advogados. Board Member of YPO (LAC Region), Associação Escola Panamericana de Porto Alegre (PAS), Câmara Americana de Comércio in Porto Alegre (AMCHAM) and Hospital Moinhos de Vento in Porto Alegre (HMV). Graduated in Legal and Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in 1989, with a specialization in Philosophy and Political Economy from PUC / RS; participated in the FGV and Economics and Corporate Law program, and in the graduate program at the Escola Superior do Ministério Público; is a graduate of the Harvard Business School (HBS) OPM Program, including the OPM module in Shanghai. He has participated in the Seminar for Presidents for years, a management program organized by FGV in conjunction with YPO, and participated in the YPO Gold Harvard President’s Program, organized by HBS in January 2020.