Councils and Board

Mr. Héctor Nuñez was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on November 18, 2021, nominated by the shareholder Novonor, and he was reelected on April 19, 2022, and on April 29, 2024. By appointment of the same shareholder, he was elected Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors on February 03rd, 2025. Mr. Héctor Nuñez is a high-level, customer-focused executive, international business strategist with more than 25 years of success managing growth, reengineering distressed operations, and initiating startups throughout the United States and South America. He served as CEO of Ri Happy Brinquedos S.A. for 9 years, leading transactions for the acquisition of the largest specialized retailers in Brazil. He also served as CEO of Walmart Brazil, a subsidiary of Walmart Inc., and held several leadership positions at The Coca-Cola Company and its affiliates. From April 2021 to March 2022, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novonor, having assumed, in March 2022, the position of Chief Executive Officer. He served, from January 2011 to December 2021, as an Independent Director of Vulcabrás, and from April 2017 to May 2022, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Marisa S.A. He also serves on the board of Amigos do Bem, a non-governmental organization. Mr. Héctor Nuñez holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA in Business Administration from Florida International University.

Mr. Olavo Bentes David was elected as an effective member and Vice-Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors on November 28, 2024, nominated by shareholder Petrobras. He began his professional career as Geologist in 1986, at Petrobras, where he served for over twenty years as Petroleum Prospecting Geophysicist in the areas of seismic data acquisition, seismic processing, and new business development. As from 2006, he became a member of the Advocacia Geral da União (AGU) as Federal Attorney (admitted trough public examination). He was head of Litigation Coordination at the Federal Attorney’s Office of Criciúma/SC Section and regional and Deputy Regional Attorney of INSS (National Social Security Institute) in the 2nd Region (Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo). Mr. Olavo Bentes was also the Deputy General Attorney of the National Petroleum Agency (Agência Nacional do Petróleo – ANP), until the beginning of 2014, when he became the Legal Counsel of the newly constituted Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A. (PPSA). At PPSA, where he stayed for over eight years, he focused on drafting and negotiating of Brazilian production sharing agreements, unitization agreements and the commercialization contracts of the Union’s oil and natural gas. In April 2022, he returned to the Federal Attorney Office at AGU, where he worked in the petroleum and natural gas litigation area, retiring from the public service in September 2022. In the same month, Mr. Olavo Bentes joined the law firm Tauil and Chequer associated to Mayer Brown as Legal Counsel in Oil & Natural Gas area (Corporate and Mergers & Acquisition) where he remained until June 2024, when he assumed his current position as Presidency Advisor at Petrobras. He is also a member of Braskem’s Financial and Investments Committee. Mr. Olavo Bentes holds a degree in Geology from the Universidade de Brasilia (UnB) and in Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He also holds a specialization in Geophysics for Petroleum Prospecting, from the Petrobras Corporate University, and specialization in Petroleum and Natural Gas Law from PRH-6 (agreement between ANP and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte – UFRN).

Mr. José Mauro Mettrau Carneiro da Cunha was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on December 20, 2019, nominated by shareholder Novonor, being reelected on May 29, 2020, April 19, 2022, and April 29, 2024. On February 03^rd, 2025, Mr. José Mauro left the position of Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors and continues to serve as an effective member. Mr. José Mauro was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novonor until January 2024. He was Chief Executive Officer of Novonor, from April 2021 to March 2022, and served on the Board of Directors of Oi S.A. from September 2018 to September 2020, having previously held the position of Chairman since 2009. He started his career as an employee of BNDES, exercising several duties and occupying several executive positions (from 1974 to 1990), also being nominated Officer (from 1991 to 1998) and Vice-President, responsible for the Industrial Operations, Legal and Fiscal Matters areas (from 1998 to 2002). His main professional experiences include: (i) member of the Board of Directors of Telemar Participações S.A. (from 2008 until the merger of Telemar Participações S.A., on September 2015); (ii) Member of the Board of Directors of Vale S.A. (from 2010 to April 2015); (iii) Interim CEO of Oi S.A., in 2013; (iv) Chairman of the Board of Directors for the following companies: Tele Norte Leste Participações S.A. (from 1999 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012), also acting as Alternate Member of the Board of Directors on 2006; Telemar Norte Leste S.A. (from 2007 to 2012); TNL PCS S.A. (from 2007 to 2012); Tele Norte Celular Participações S.A. (from 2008 to 2012); Coari Participações S.A. (from 2007 to 2012); Dommo Empreendimentos Imobiliários S.A., previously named Calais Participações S.A. (from 2007 to December 2016); (v) Member of the Board of Directors of Log-In Logística Intermodal S.A. (from 2007 to 2011); (vi) Member of the Board of Directors of Lupatech S.A. (from 2006 to 2012); (vii) Member of the Board of Directors of Santo Antonio Energia S.A. (from 2008 to 2016); (viii) Member of the Board of Directors of the following Companies: (a) Braskem S.A. (from 2007 to 2010), where he previously held the position of Vice-President of Strategic Planning (from 2003 to 2005); (b) LIGHT Serviços de Eletricidade S.A. (from 1997 to 2000); (c) Aracruz Celulose S.A. (from 1997 to 2002); (d) Politeno Indústria e Comércio S.A. (from 2003 to 2004); (e) BANESTES S.A. – Banco do Estado do Espírito Santo [Espírito Santo State Bank] (from 2008 to 2009); and (f) Pharol, SGPS, S.A. (from 2015 to 2017). Mr. José Mauro holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Católica de Petrópolis [Petrópolis Catholic University], Rio de Janeiro, in 1971. He completed the Executive Program in Management at Anderson School, University of California, in December 2002.

Mr. Carlos Plachta was elected to the position of independent member of the Company’s Board of Directors on April 29, 2024, being nominated by shareholder Petrobras. He has been a partner, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Indústrias Químicas Taubaté S/A since 2006. He was a partner at Hidroclean Ltda. from January 1999 to July 2003. He has experience in preparing and reviewing Engineering documents; monitoring and optimizing production in the field; scale-up from laboratory scale to pilot scale to industrial scale; management of the project to expand Prosint’s Methanol Unit in RJ; management of the expansion project of the Methanol Unit of Metanor, in BA; management of the expansion project of the Coppenor Methanol Unit, in BA; management of the project to expand the capacity of the primary tower of the Maguinhos Oil Refinery, in RJ. In addition, he has experience in the commercial, Financial, Cost and Turnarround areas. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Mr. Mauricio Dantas Bezerra was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on November 28, 2024, nominated by shareholder Novonor. He has executive experience as team leader in legal and corporate governance areas, acting in strategic positions for the past 16 years in Brazil and abroad. He has a solid formation in conducting difficult negotiations, diagnosing intricate problems, developing and executing strategies for complex and multifaced situations, with participation in companies board of directors and joint ventures. He also has experience with coordinating law and Consulting offices, with a central role in the definition and conduction of negotiation and litigation strategies, as well as leading, in Brazil and abroad, M&A operations, infrastructure projects development and negotiations of leniency agreements with various authorities. Furthermore, he has experience in capital markets, finance operations, tax planning and strategic litigation, acting in the formation of jurisprudence in leading cases in higher courts, as well as executive and business-oriented performance, integrating the decision making and strategic planning center. Mr. Mauricio Bezerra is, since 2022, Vice-President of Legal and Corporate Governance in Novonor S.A., same position that he occupied from 2018 to 2020. He was Funding Partner of VMB Jurídica, where he worked in the conduction of complex projects from 2020 to 2022. From 2016 to 2018, he served as Legal Director of Construtora Norberto Odebrecht and from 2013 to 2016 he was Legal and Corporate Governance Director of Odebrecht Ambiental S.A. In Braskem S.A., he served as Legal Director from 2008 to 2012, being responsible for corporate, capital markets, M&A, projects, finances, tax, commercial, labor, intellectual property, environmental, competitive (CADE), arbitration and litigation areas. He holds a law degree by Unifacs – Universidade Salvador, LLM by University of Warwick, UK (Chevening Scholar and Distinction Award) and Global Leaders Program by Wharton University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia

Mr. Gesner José de Oliveira Filho was elected as an independent and effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on June 27, 2017, nominated by the shareholder Novonor and he was reelected on April 30, 2018, May 29, 2020, April 19, 2022, and April 29, 2024. He is certified by the IBGC as an Independent board member and member of the CCoAud+ Audit Committee; member of the Board of Directors of TIM, where he coordinates the Statutory Audit Committee and serves as a member of the ESG Committee; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Estre Ambiental; and member of the Self-Regulation Board of FEBRABAN. Additionally, he is member of the International Academy of Law and Economy – Academia Internacional de Direito e Economia (AIDE) and serves pro bono as a member of the Advisory Board of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries (Abdib), the +Water Movement of the UN Global Compact Brazil, and of the Brazilian Institute of Competitive Ethics (ETCO). He is Director of the Basic Sanitation Division of the Infrastructure Department (DEINFRA) at FIESP and a member of the Superior Infrastructure Council (COINFRA) at FIESP. Also, he is a partner at GO Associados and Professor at FGV – Fundação Getúlio Vargas, where he coordinates the Center for Studies on Infrastructure & Environmental Solutions. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of KWPar, member of the Worldwide Advisory Board of UBER and of the Boards of Directors of Iguá, Usiminas, Sabesp, CESP, Banco Nossa Caixa and Varig. Between 2007 and 2011, he was CEO of Sabesp – Companhia de Saneamento do Estado de São Paulo, and from 1996 to 2000, he was Chairman of CADE. Mr. Gesner Oliveira holds a PhD from the University of California (Berkeley), a Master’s degree from Unicamp and a Bachelor’s degree from FEA-USP, all in Economics.

Mr. João Pinheiro Nogueira Batista was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on April 16, 2019, nominated by the shareholder Novonor, and was reelected on May 29, 2020, April 19, 2022, and on April 29, 2024. He has served on Boards of Brazilian and international companies for over 20 years and currently serves as a board member of the third-sector organization Instituto de Reciclagem do Adolescente – Recicla. Mr. João Nogueira held the position of CEO of Marisa Lojas from February 2023 to February 2024, as well as Chairman of the Companhia Docas do Espírito Santo S.A. – Porto de Vitória Board of Directors from the beginning of 2022 until April 2024. He served as an independent member of the Board of Directors of Wiz Soluções e Corretagem de Seguros from April 2020 until April 2022; member of the Board of Directors of Atvos Agroindustrial S.A. – Under Judicial Reorganization until January 2023; and CEO of Evoltz Participações S.A. until January 2022. In the Novonor Group, he served as an independent member of the Board of Directors of Odebrecht Engenharia e Construção starting June 2017 and Ocyan starting April 2018, in which he remained until January 2019, when he joined the Board of Directors of Novonor and remained until April 2021. In his long executive career built both in public and private sectors, he was the CEO of Swiss Re, Bertin S.A. and Suzano Petroquímica, also occupying offices in companies such as Petrobras, Dresdner Bank, Citibank, Radiobras, and Siderbras. Mr. João Nogueira holds a degree in Economics from PUC-RJ and an MBA degree in Economic Engineering from Universidade Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro.

Mr. Luiz Eduardo Valente Moreira was elected as a full member of the Company’s Board of Directors on February 3^rd, 2025, nominated by the shareholder Petrobras. He has been working for 45 years in Petrobras, where he has held various managerial positions, such as: Superintendent of the Presidente Getúlio Vargas Refinery (REPAR) from September, 1999 to July, 2000; General Manager of Refining Technology in Supply (AB-RE/TR) from December, 2001 to April, 2005; General Manager of the Henrique Lage Refinery (REVAP) from May, 2005 to September, 2008; General Manager of the Bahia Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant (FAFEN-BA) from September, 2008 to September, 2009; Executive Manager of Gas and Energy Gas-Chemical and Liquefaction (GE-GQL) from September, 2009 to August, 2013; Director of the “Comperj Petrochemical” project at Braskem from September, 2013 to May, 2015; Executive Manager of Safety, Environment, and Health (SMS) from June, 2015 to March, 2018; Executive Manager of Industrial (Refining) from April, 2018 to April, 2019; Vice President of Projects and Digital Technologies at Braskem Petrochemical from April, 2019 to June, 2020; Director of Services at Petrobras Transporte – Transpetro from July, 2020 to September, 2021; President of Transpetro from September, 2021 to April, 2023; and Managing Director of Fábrica Carioca de Catalisadores since May, 2023 to the present date. Mr. Luiz Valente Moreira graduated in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1980 and began his career at Petrobras in the same year, on March 10, 1980. He holds a Postgraduate degree in Petroleum Processing Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and an Executive MBA from COPPEAD (UFRJ).

Ms. Juliana Sá Vieira Baiardi was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors, nominated by the shareholder Novonor on April 19, 2022, and reelected on April 29, 2024. Since November 2024, Ms. Juliana Baiardi is  Executive Vice-President of Planning and Management of Simpar S.A. Previously, she joined Novonor Group in August 2011, where she remained until November 2023, holding various positions including Novonor’s Business-Participation Leader from June 2022 to October 2023; member of the Board of Directors of OTP (Odebrecht Transport) from June 2019 to November 2024; Novonor’s CEO Advisor from April 2021 to June 2022; Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Odebrecht Engenharia e Construção from October 2019 until June 2022; Chief Executive Officer of Atvos from May 2019 to February 2021; Chief Executive Officer of OTP from May 2017 to May 2019; Chief Executive Officer of Odebrecht Ambiental from September 2016 to April 2017; Chief Financial Officer of Odebrecht Ambiental from February 2016 to September 2016; and Logistics Officer at OTP from August 2011 to February 2016. Prior to joining the Novonor Group, Ms. Juliana Baiardi worked for 10 years at JP Morgan in the areas of Investment Banking in Latin America and Private Equity. She also worked at Dresdner Bank in Brazil in the Project Finance sector from 1997 to 1999. Ms. Juliana Baiardi holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.

Mr. Lucas Cive Barbosa was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on November 13, 2025, by appointment from shareholder Novonor S.A. He has served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer at Novonor S.A. since July 2024. Previously, he held the same position at OEC S.A. from 2022 to 2025. Mr. Lucas Barbosa has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector. He served as Executive Director at Alvarez & Marsal (2020–2022), Director at BBC Digital – JSL (2019–2020), Chief Financial Officer at Simpar S.A. – JSL (2018–2019), and Director of Corporate Finance at Odebrecht Engenharia e Construção S.A. (2015–2018). Throughout his career, he has led financial teams in highly complex projects, including debt restructuring, M&A, strategic planning, investor relations, among others. Mr. Lucas Cive Barbosa holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the School of Economics and Business Administration at the University of São Paulo (2006) and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management (2015).

Mr. Paulo Guimarães was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on April 29, 2024, by appointment from shareholder Petrobras. He served as Superintendent of Attraction of Investments and Promotion of Economic Development of the Bureau of Industry, Commerce and Mining (SICM) from 2009 to 2014 and has served as Superintendent of Attraction of Investments and Promotion of Economic Development of the Bureau of Economic Development (SDE) of the State of Bahia since 2015, having been temporarily in charge of the Bureau between April and May 2015, April and May 2018 and between March and May 2022, in addition to participating in several international missions of the Government of the State of Bahia, many advising or representing the Governor of the State of Bahia (2010 – 2023). Since April 2024, he holds the position of CEO at Bahiainveste – Empresa Baiana de Ativos. He held the positions of Coordinator of the Chemical Engineering Course, Head of the Department of Engineering and Architecture and Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Energy at Universidade Salvador UNIFACS, where he also served as full professor until 2017, researcher and permanent professor of the Master’s Degree in Energy, collaborating professor of the Multi-institutional Doctorate in Chemical Engineering (UFBA/UNIFACS) and professor of the Undergraduate Course in Chemical Engineering, having also held the positions of Technical Coordinator of the Fuel Quality Monitoring Program PMQC of the Brazilian Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels – ANP in the State of Bahia until 2014 and holder of the Teaching, Research and Extension Council (CONSEPE) and the University Council (CONSUNI). He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Empresa Baiana de Ativos S.A. – Bahiainveste between 2017 and 2024 and as a Member of the Board of Directors of Companhia Baiana de Pesquisa Mineral CBPM, where he also held the position of Chairman between April and July 2023. He was Chairman of the Audit Committee of Empresa Baiana de Pesca Bahia Pesca from 2015 to 2023, and served as a member during several periods in the Board of Trustees of FAPESP Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia and in the Regional Chemistry Council of Bahia CRQ 7th Region. He has experience in the areas of Chemical and Energy Engineering, with emphasis on oil and petrochemicals, renewable energies, green hydrogen, energy transition, catalysis, thermodynamics, modeling and simulation, fuels, petroleum derivatives and regulation of the oil industry, in which he coordinated and participated in several research and engineering projects, with financing from companies (Petrobras, Braskem, Ford, etc.) and development agencies (FAPESP, ANP and MCT/CNPq/FINEP/CTPetro). Mr. Paulo Guimarães holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia, a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Campinas and a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Leeds, England.

Mr. Ramos is the current Chief Executive Officer of Braskem and was elected on November 25, 2024, with his executive mandate beginning on December 1, 2024. Mr. Roberto Ramos joined the Novonor Group in 1995, being a part of many prominent programs in Brazil and abroad. Among his roles, he served as Chairman of the North Sea Production Company and was responsible for the operation of the MacCulloch field for Conoco UK. In 2002, he joined the newly created Braskem as Executive Vice President, overseeing the PET, DMT, and Caprolactam plants. Later, Mr. Roberto Ramos led the Corporate Excellence Program, which included IT (implementing the SAP system), Health, Safety, and the Environment. Subsequently, he took on the leadership of the International Area, where his most notable achievement was the initiation and implementation of Project Etileno XXI in Mexico, serving as Chairman of the Braskem Idesa’s Board of Directors. In 2010, Mr. Roberto Ramos assumed the leadership of Ocyan, where he remained until 2014. After an eight-year period as a board member in various Novonor Group businesses, he returned to the presidency of Ocyan in 2023 to complete Novonor’s divestment process in the business. Mr. Roberto Ramos has extensive experience as a counselor, businessman, and executive, notably during his tenure at the Focchi Group in Italy as Corporate Finance Director. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UFRJ, a specialization in Business Management from Harvard Business School, and a master’s degree in finance from the University of Leicester, and has concluded the syllabus needed to be granted with a master’s degree in Finance from the University of Leicester, pending the filing of the dissertation.

Mr. Jens was elected as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer on December 13, 2024. Among his 30 years of professional experience, Mr. Felipe Montoro Jens has worked as a Board of Directors member, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Managing Director in different companies, including Novonor group and others, in the areas of infrastructure (highways, ports, and airports, generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical energy, basic sanitation, and properties, through Concessions and PPPs – Parcerias Público-Privadas); and industrial (chemical, petrochemical, oil and gas, sugar and ethanol), in Brazil and abroad (UK, US, Portugal, and Singapore), having been responsible, more recently, for the corporate restructuring and asset sale of the Novonor Group. In C-Level positions in many different companies and countries, Mr. Felipe Jens has structured and implemented many global finance operations, obtaining market resources, both in green-field investments (Project Finance, Lease Finance) and in corporate operations (M&As, Bonds, Debentures, Cash & Liability Management). Beyond financial achievements, Mr. Felipe Jens has worked in Governance and Organizational Restructuring (turnaround and judicial recoveries), including monitoring and compliance activities. Mr. Felipe Montoro Jens holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV/EAESP, with a Master’s Degree in International Business Administration (MIM) from Thunderbird, The American Garvin School of International Management, US.

Mr. Nir Lander joined Braskem in 2024 as Vice-President of Compliance and Internal Audit (Chief Compliance Officer – CCO) and he is currently Executive Officer and Head of People and Communication. He has more than 24 years of professional experience, mostly in Compliance, Internal Audit and Risk Management, in which he holds international specializations and certifications. Mr. Nir Lander also led Compliance and Internal Audit teams in Oi and Novonor Group companies, where he served as Head of People and Management in Ocyan, adding the areas of Communication, Supplies and IT. He holds a degree in Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering from CEFET-RJ and a postgraduate degree in Information Security from UNI-Rio, an MBA in Strategic Business Management from IBMEC and certifications in Leadership from Wharton Business School and Columbia Business School, both in the USA.

Mr. Geraldo Vilaça was nominated as a member of the Company’s Executive Management on December 13, 2024, and he is currently the Executive Officer and Head of Legal, Corporate Governance and Intellectual Property.  He has more than 20 years of professional experience, working in law firms and legal departments, where he held leadership and directorship positions. He served as a Board of Directors member of companies operating in sanitation, technology, and sugar and ethanol. Mr. Geraldo Vilaça advised companies in many sectors, notably in the infrastructure sector, with emphasis on project structuring, contractual, litigation, regulatory, and M&A areas. Throughout his career, he accumulated experience in strategic corporate litigation management, complex negotiations, and crisis management, proposing and executing legal and business strategies with many counterparties, both public and private. He holds a Law degree from the Universidade Federal da Bahia and a Master’s degree in Civil Law from PUC-SP.

Mr. Stefan Lepecki was nominated as a member of the Company’s Executive Management on December 13, 2024 and he is currently responsible for South America Business. He was Braskem Idesa’s CEO from 2017 to 2024, and he has more than 30 years of experience in the petrochemical sector. He served as Director of Project Etileno XXI, in Mexico, from 2010 to 2016, having worked at Braskem S.A. between 1991 and 2010, in the areas of Information Technology and Shared Services, Corporate Controllership, Industrial Planning, Industrial Automation, among others. Mr. Stefan Lepecki is Vice-President and Executive Committee Member of ANIQ – Associação Nacional da Indústria Química, in Mexico, since 2017, and Director of APLA – Associação Petroquímica Latino-Americana, since 2019. He was a member of the National Board of CCE – Conselho Coordenador Empresarial – Mexico from 2020 to 2022. Mr. Stefan Lepecki holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, with MBA in Business Management from Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV.

Mr. Maurício Nogueira was elected as an effective member of the Fiscal Council of the Company on April 28, 2025, appointed by the shareholder Petrobras. Mr. Maurício Nogueira has been an advisor to the President at Petrobras since August 6, 2024, supporting the Director of Finance and Investor Relations. He worked at Banco do Brasil for over 35 years until November 2021, in various areas such as International Directorate, Financial Operations Desk, Risk Management, International Fundraising, among others. From August 2019 to November 2021, he served as Statutory Director of Banco do Brasil in the Finance Directorate, responsible for developing financial management strategies and capital management policies, planning and fundraising in financial and capital markets, and structuring financial assets and liabilities, among other duties. He holds a degree in Mathematics from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), an Executive MBA in Capital Markets from IBMEC, and a Master’s degree in Mathematical Methods in Finance from Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA).

Mr. Paulo Cícero Silva Neto was elected as an effective member of the Fiscal Council of the Company on April 28, 2025, appointed by the shareholder Petrobras. Currently, Mr. Paulo Cícero serves as the Accounting and Tax Manager for E&P Partnerships. He has 30 years of experience in accounting and tax processes, with 19 years in management and leadership roles. He has been a Petrobras employee since 2005, where he has served in various positions, including Business Segmentation and Country Corporate Reporting Coordinator, Regional Accounting Manager for São Paulo, Asset Accounting Manager, Accounting Standards and Planning Manager, and Manager of Optimization and Digitalization of Accounting and Tax Processes. Additionally, Mr. Paulo Cícero has served as a member of the Fiscal Council (both as an effective and alternate member) in several companies, including serving as the full fiscal council member for Braskem from April 2023 to April 2024. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Universidade Bandeirantes de São Paulo and an MBA in Accounting Management from FIPECAFI/USP.

Ms. Ana Patrícia Nogueira was elected as an effective member of the Fiscal Council of the Company on April 28, 2025, appointed by the shareholder Novonor. She serves as managing partner of a business law consulting firm, focusing on Corporate, Commercial, Contractual, and Corporate Governance Law. From June 2017 to January 2021, Ms. Ana Patrícia Nogueira was the Legal Manager of Corporate Law and Corporate Governance at OEC S.A., acting as Executive Secretary of the Board of Directors, supporting the Chairman of the Board and the CEO, as well as managing matters related to intellectual property and powers of attorney, among other activities in the Corporate Law area. Ms. Ana Patrícia also served as an alternate member of the Fiscal Council of Braskem S.A. from March 2009 to April 2016; Legal Manager of the Corporate Area at Braskem S.A. from August 2002 to December 2008; alternate member of the Board of Directors of Polietileno Industria e Comércio S.A. from December 2004 to April 2007; alternate member of the Board of Directors of Polialden Petroquímica S.A. from April 2004 to May 2006; independent lawyer from October 1997 to August 2001, providing services to companies controlled by the Odebrecht Group (Trikem S.A., OPP Petroquímica S.A., COPENE – Companhia Petroquímica do Nordeste, and others), the Odebrecht Foundation, and the Hospitality Institute; lawyer in the Corporate, Commercial, Civil, and Labor areas at Trikem S.A. from January 1992 to October 1997; and intern, and later lawyer, in the Corporate, Commercial, and Civil areas at Onbiv S.A. from April 1991 to 1994.

Mr. Gilberto Braga was elected as an effective member of the Fiscal Council of the Company on April 19, 2015, appointed by the shareholder Novonor. Mr. Gilberto Braga has served as a permanent member of the Fiscal Council in recent years, being re-elected on April 28, 2025. Mr. Gilberto is a business consultant in the areas of finance, capital markets, corporate, tax, forensic accounting, and judicial expert assistance, as well as serving as a fiscal member, administrator, and audit committee member of publicly traded companies and professional associations. He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards for Investment Funds of the CVM, is a university and postgraduate professor of corporate governance at IBMEC, a commentator for Rádio CBN and Rádio Roquette Pinto, and a columnist for newspapers and websites specializing in finance. He also participates as a member of the Arbitration and Mediation Committee of CRC-RJ and the Bankruptcy and Judicial Recovery Committee of CRA-RJ. Mr. Gilberto Braga holds a degree in Economics from UCAM Ipanema and in Accounting from UGF, a postgraduate degree in Financial Administration from IAG-PUC Rio, and a master’s degree in Administration (Finance and Capital Markets) from IBMEC-Rio, and is a member of IBGC.

Mr. Daniel André Stieler was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Fiscal Council on April 29, 2024, nominated by the minority shareholders, and was re-elected on April 28, 2025. Mr. Daniel André is chairman (since April/2023) and Member (since November/2021) of Vale’s Board of Directors, Coordinator (since May/2023) and member (since December/2022) of the Nomination and Governance Committee and Member of the Fund Allocation Committee Capital and Projects since May 2023. He was also Coordinator of the Capital Allocation and Projects Committee (December/2022 to April/2023), Member (November/2021 to May/2022) and Coordinator of the Financial Committee (May/2022 to December/2022) and Member of the Nominating Committee (January/2022 to April/2022 and May/2022 to December/2022) of Vale. Mr. Daniel André was President of the Banco do Brasil Employees’ Pension Fund – PREVI (June/2021 to February/2023); Member of the Deliberative Council of the Brazilian Association of Closed Supplementary Pension Entities – ABRAPP (since July/2021); Member of the Board of Directors of Tupy S.A. (April/2022 to April/2023); Member of the Board of Directors of Alelo S.A. (April/2020 to April/2022); member of the Board of Directors of Livelo S.A. (April/2020 to October/2021); Superintendent Director (January/2021 to June/2021), President of the Deliberative Council (July/2020 to January/2021) and Member of the Fiscal Council (June/2016 to July/2020) of Economus Instituto de Seguridade Social; member of the Deliberative Council of the Corporate University of Complementary Pensions – UniAbraap (February/2021 to June/2021); Statutory Director of Controllership of Banco do Brasil S.A. (July/2019 to January/2021); Member of the Advisory and Finance Council of Banco Votorantim S.A. (October/2016 to October/2019); Executive Manager of the Accounting Disclosure Management of the Banco do Brasil Conglomerate in the Accounting Department of Banco do Brasil S.A. (March/2009 to June/2019); and Member of the Financial Institutions Accounting Affairs Committee of the Brazilian Federation of Banks – Febraban (December/2009 to July/2019). Mr. Daniel André graduated in Accounting Sciences from the Federal University of Santa Maria – UFSM in 1989, completed a postgraduate degree in Financial Administration from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation – FGV in 1998, an MBA in Audit from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation – FGV in 2000, and an MBA in Accounting from the Institute of Accounting, Actuarial and Financial Research Foundation – FIPECAFI in 2003. He owns a certificate of Fiscal Counsil from Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa – IBGC (until March 2026), certificate to Board of Directors from ICSS until August 2027. He also participated in development courses in the following areas: People and Processes Management, from Columbia University (concluded in 2015); Corporate Governance, by FIPECAFI/USP (concluded in 2013), and Management Competencies, by Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV (concluded in 2010).