Mr. Francisco Cláudio Saraiva Leão Dias Branco is the Industrial Vice‐President – Mills of the Company, in which he has been a shareholder since 1998. He started his business activities at the Company, assuming, in 1992, the position of Industrial Director of Moinho Dias Branco, the Company’s first wheat milling unit. In 2003, he assumed the position of Corporate Industrial Director ‐ Mill Division of the Company and, 2013, he became a member of the Company‘s audit committee. Responsible for introducing the company’s milling units, Mr. Cláudio graduated in Mechanical Engineering by Universidade de Fortaleza, 1980, and started his extensive specialization path in wheat milling, attending many courses in different countries, highlighting the Milling Technology Course provided by Swiss Milling School, St. Gallen, in 1991. Mr. Cláudio obtained, in 1992, at the Buhler Training Center, in Uzwil, Switzerland, the certificate on Wheat Milling Technology. Also in 1992, Mr. Claudio as an intern at Weston Research, Maidenhead, England. In 1999, he participated in the Abitrigo’s Baking and Milling Program. He was Director of the Federation of Industries of the State of Ceará – FIEC, between 1999 and 2002, and Director of the Brazilian Association of Wheat Industries – ABITRIGO, between 2002 and 2004. His first term of office at the Company started in April 2006. Mr. Claudio has not worked in other publicly‐traded companies.
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