Pedro Guimaraes

Pedro serves as Senior Advisor at Vestar Capital Partners, a US Private Equity, developing and implementing a buy & build strategy in the broad Quality, Environmental, Health, and Safety-QEHS’ Testing, Inspection, and Certification-TIC services market and also as a Board member at FST Technical Services, a US specialty engineering/TIC business serving the semiconductor and pharmaceutical segments.

Previously, Pedro dedicated +30 years, of which 18 years at top executive leadership positions and member of Group Executive Committee at Bureau Veritas Group. He significantly developed Bureau Veritas global network of TIC services; serving multiple end markets in multinational contexts. He contributed to the Group growth from ~$300 million/~3,500 employees to +$6 billion/~70,000 employees at his departure.

Pedro has a B.S. degree in Naval Architecture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; an MBA at the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce de Paris; and an MBA at COPEAD at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Additionally, Pedro received continuing education in Corporate Management through the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.