Maria Carolina Ferreira Lacerda

Mrs. Maria Carolina has 25 years of experience in financial institutions such as UBS, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Bear Stearns, Carolina Lacerda currently serves as a Board Member and member of statutory audit committees of large Brazilian corporations such as BR Distribuidora (BRDT) and Hypera Pharma (HYPE3/HYPMY). She was the director of Anbima – Brazilian Association of Financial and Capital Market Entities, a representative of CNF – National Confederation of Financial Institutions, and a member of the Advisory Board of the BM&FBovespa Listing Chamber. Carolina is currently a mentor of the IBGC Board Diversity Program and a member of the Investment Committee at SemperFEA, an independent endowment of the Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of São Paulo. She is an economist who graduated from FEA-USP (1994) with an MBA from Columbia University (1999). She is certified by the IBGC and the “Corporate Directors Certificate” by the Harvard Business School.