Councils and Board

Mr. José Mauro Mettrau Carneiro da Cunha was elected as an effective member and Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors on December 20, 2019, appointed by shareholder Novonor. Mr. José Mauro was reelected as an effective member and Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors on May 29, 2020, on April 19, 2022, and on April 29, 2024. Mr. José Mauro was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novornor S.A. – Under Judicial Reorganization until January 2024. He was Chief Executive Officer of Novonor S.A. – Under Judicial Reorganization, from April 2021 to March 2022, and a member of the Board of Directors of Oi S.A., from September 2018 to September 2020, having previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oi S.A. since 2009. Mr. José Mauro started his career as an employee of BNDES, exercising several duties and occupying several executive positions (from 1974 to 1990), also being appointed 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) Sitting 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) Sitting Member of the Board of Directors of Vale S.A. (from 2010 to April 2015); (iii) Internal CEO of Oi S.A., on 2013; (iv) Chairman of the Board of Directors of 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) Sitting Member of the Board of Directors of Log-In Logístia Intermodal S.A. (from 2007 to 2011); (vi) Sitting Member of the Board of Directors of Lupatech S.A. (from 2006 to 2012); (vii) Sitting Member of the Board of Directors of Santo Antonio Energia S.A. (from 2008 to 2016); (viii) Sitting 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 is a mechanic engineering graduate from Universidade Católica de Petrópolis [Petrópolis Catholic University], Rio de Janeiro, on 1971. He completed the Executive Program in Management at Anderson School, University of California, on December 2002.

Mr. Olavo Bentes David is candidate to the Company’s Board of Directors, trough the indication of Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras. Mr. Olavo Bentes worked as Presidential Advisor in Petrobras until August 2024, where he began his professional career as Geologist in 1986. He worked for over twenty years as Petroleum Prospecting Geophysicist in the areas of seismic data acquisition, seismic processing and new business. From 2006, he became a member of the Advocacia Geral da União (AGU) as Federal Prosecutor (admitted trough public examination). He was head of Litigation Coordination on Criciúma/SC section and regional Deputy Prosecutor in INSS in the 2^nd Region. Working with the National Petroleum Agency/Agência Nacional do Petróleo (ANP), Mr. Olavo Bentes was Deputy General Attorney until the beginning of 2014, where he became Legal Consultant of the newly created Pré-Sal Petroleo S.A. (PPSA). At PPSA, where he stayed for over eight years, focusing on drafting and negotiating Brazilian production sharing contracts, individualization of production agreements and of the contracts of petroleum and natural gas commercialization of the Union. In April 2022, he returned to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office at AGU, where he worked in petroleum and natural gas litigation, retiring from the public service in September 2022. In the same month, Mr. Olavo Bentes joined the law office Tauil and Chequer associated to Mayer Brown (Corporate and Mergers & Acquisition) until the beginning of June 2024. Mr. Olavo Bentes holds a degree in Geology from the Universidade de Brasilia (UnB) and in Law from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He also holds a specialization in in Geophysics for Petroleum Prospecting, from the Petrobras Corporate University, and specialization in Petroleum and Natural Gas Law.

Mr. Carlos Plachta was elected to the position of independent sitting member of the Company’s Board of Directors on April 29, 2024, being appointed by shareholder Petróleo Brasileiro – 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 is candidate to the Company’s Board of Directors, by appointment from shareholder Novonor S.A. – Em Recuperação Judicial (Under Judicial Recovery) and NSP Investimentos S.A. – Em Recuperação Judicial (Under Judicial Recovery). Mr. Maurício Bezerra 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. Mr. Mauricio Bezerra 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. – Em Recuperação Judicial (Under Judicial Recovery), 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 was 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 was 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 – Filadélfia.

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, he has been appointed by the shareholder Novonor S.A. – Em Recuperação Judicial. Mr. Gesner Oliveira was reelected on April 30, 2018, on May 29, 2020, on April 14, 2022 and on 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 is a member of the ESG Committee; chairman of the Board of Directors of Estre Ambiental; and Chairman of the Board of Directors of KWPart, and member of the Self-Regulation Board of FEBRABAN. He was member of the Worldwide Advisory Board of UBER and of the Boards of Directors of Iguá, Usiminas, Sabesp, CESP, Banco Nossa Caixa and Varig. Mr. Gesner Oliveira is a partner at GO Associados and Professor of FGV, where he coordinates the Center for Studies on Infrastructure & Environmental Solutions. Between 2007 and 2011 he was Chairman of Sabesp – Companhia de Saneamento do Estado de São Paulo. From 1996 to 2000, he was Chairman of CADE. PhD from the University of California (Berkeley), Master from Unicamp and Bachelor from FEA-USP, always in the area of Economics.

Mr. Héctor Nuñez was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on November 18, 2021, he has been appointed by the shareholder Novonor S.A – Em Recuperação Judicial. Mr. Héctor Nuñez was reelected on April 19, 2022, and on April 29, 2024. 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 holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Florida International University in business administration. 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 Stores, Inc., and held several leadership positions at The Coca-Cola Company and its group companies. From April 2021 to March 2022, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novonor S.A. – Under Judicial Reorganization, the Company’s parent company, 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 is also part of the board of the NGO Amigos do Bem.

Mr. João Pinheiro Nogueira Batista was elected as an independent and effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on April 16, 2019, he has been appointed by the shareholder Novonor S.A. – Em Recuperação Judicial. Mr. João Nogueira was reelected on May 29, 2020, on April 19, 2022 and on April 29, 2024. He has acted for more than 10 years in Board of Directors in Brazilian and foreign companies. Currently, Mr. João Nogueira serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Companhia Docas do Espírito Santo S/A – Porto de Vitória, in addition to being a member of the Risk and Compliance Committee of Wiz Soluções e Corretagem de Seguros S.A., as well as in one third sector organizations: Instituto de Reciclagem do Adolescente- Recicla. Mr. João Nogueira held the position of 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; CEO of Evoltz Participações S.A. until January 2022 and Marisa Lojas S/A from February 2023 to February 2024. In the Novonor Group, he was an independent member of the Board of Directors of Odebrecht Engenharia e Construção starting June 2017 and Ocyan starting April 2018, where he remained until January 2019, when he joined the Board of Directors of Novonor S.A. – Under Judicial Reorganization and remained until April 2021. In his long executive career, built in the public and private sectors, he was the CEO of Swiss Re, Bertin S.A. and Suzano Petroquímica, also occupying offices in companies like 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. Danilo Ferreira da Silva was elected for the position of sitting member of the Company’s Board of Directors on April 29, 2024, by appointment from shareholder Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras. Since February 2023, he has served as Chief of Staff of the Interim Presidency, having served as Full Technician of Petrobras from November 2003 to January 2023. From 2015 to 2018, he was a member of Totvs’ Board of Directors. From November 2011 to November 2016, he worked at the Petrobras Social Security Foundation, holding the positions of Chief Financial Administrative Officer, advisor to the presidency and deliberative advisor. From 2016 to 2018 he was a director of Iguatemi Shopping Centers. From 2015 to 2016 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Invepar and from 2014 to 2015 a member of the Board of Directors of Fras – Le. Mr. Danilo Ferreira da Silva holds a degree in Social and Legal Sciences – Law from PUC de Campinas, a specialization in Labor Economics from Unicamp, an MBA in financial management from FGC with extension from Ohio University and a Global Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management – ISCTE/IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.

Ms. Juliana Sá Vieira Baiardi was elected as an effective member of the Company’s, appointed by the shareholder Novonor S.A. – Em Recuperação Judicial on April 19, 2022 and reelected on April 29, 2024. Ms. Juliana Baiardi joined Novonor Group in August 2011. Currently, Ms. Juliana Baiardi is a director of OTP S.A. and Enseada Industria Naval S.A. – Under Judicial Reorganization. From April 2021 to June 2022, she was an advisor to the president of Novonor, and from June 2022 to October 2023, she was Novonor’s Business-Participation Leader. Ms. Juliana Baiardi was Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Odebrecht Engenharia e Construção from October 2019 until June 2022. Ms. Juliana Baiardi served as 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 Odebrecht Group, Ms. Juliana Baiardi worked 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 is a Civil Engineering graduate from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York.

Mr. Roberto Faldini was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Board of Directors on May 22, 2019, he has been appointed by the shareholder Novonor S.A. – Em Recuperação Judicial. Mr. Roberto Faldini was reelected on May 29, 2020, on April 19, 2022 and on April 29, 2024. In addition to the Board of Braskem S.A., he is currently a member of the Boards of Irani Papel e Embalagens S.A., Litela S.A. and Cia. Habitasul de Participações. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Novonor S.A. until December 2023. He participates voluntarily as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind, the Crespi Prado Foundation, where he is also Executive President, and the Norberto Odebrecht Foundation. He is an officer of Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation. Mr. Roberto Faldini is an Instructor at IBGC – Brazilian Institute for Corporate Governance, a guest professor at Dom Cabral Foundation and an arbitrator of CAM – Market Arbitration Chamber of B3. He participated, since the 1980s, as a member of Board of Directors and Advisory Boards of several companies in Brazil and abroad, among them BOVESPA, Metal Leve, Maraú, Livrarias Siciliano, CPFL, Inpar, Klicknet, Sadia, BRF, BMG, Vulcabrás and Marfrig. He is a co-founder of IBCG – Brazilian Institute for Corporate Governance in 1995, and nowadays he remains active in many of its committees. He is an associated member of IBEF – Brazilian Institute for Financial Executives, and FBN – Family Business Network. He is an Honorary Director of Abrasca, the Brazilian Association of Publicly-Held Companies. For more than 20 years he was executive officer, shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of Metal Leve S.A., as well as Chairman of the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission – CVM in 1992. He was the coordinator for 5 years (2002-2007) in the State of São Paulo of the Family Business Core – PDA, of Dom Cabral Foundation. He graduated in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (1972), he has a specialization in (i) Advanced Management from Fundação Dom Cabral and INSEAD Fontainebleau – France (1991); (ii) Entrepreneurship by Babson College (2004); and (iii) Corporate Governance (IFC and IBGC – 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016). From 2016 to the present, he has continued and continues to participate in several courses and seminars in Brazil and abroad, as well as in events related to Business Strategy, Business Administration, Corporate and Family Governance, aiming at his continuous learning.

Mr. Paulo Roberto Guimarães was elected to the position of sitting member of the Company’s Board of Directors on April 29, 2024, by appointment from shareholder Petróleo Brasileiro – 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) . 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 currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Empresa Baiana de Ativos S.A. – Bahiainveste and as a Full Member of the Board of Directors of Companhia Baiana de Pesquisa Mineral CBPM, of which he was Chairman between April and July 2023, having served as Chairman of the Audit Committee of Empresa Baiana de Pesca Bahia Pesca from 2015 to 2023, holder in several periods of the Board of Trustees of FAPESP Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia and holder of 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). He 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. Roberto Ramos joined the Novonor Group in 1995, participating in various prominent programs in Brazil and abroad. Among his roles, he served as Chairman of the North Sea Production Company, 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 Environment. Subsequently, he took on the leadership of the International Area, where his most notable achievement was the initiation and implementation of the Etileno XXI Project in Mexico, serving as Chairman of the Braskem Idesa 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.

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. André Amaro da Silveira was elected as Braskem’s Board of Directors Member in 2023 and 2024 and worked for the Novonor group from 1988 to 2018. He started his career in heavy infrastructure projects and led Novonor’s investments in public service concession programs in Brazil, Argentina, and Portugal. During this period, Mr. André Amaro also served as Project Finance and Export Director at Construtora Norberto Odebrecht (CNO), Vice President of Planning and People at Braskem S.A., Vice President of Human Resources at Novonor S.A. – Under Judicial Reorganization, President of Novonor Properties and Novonor Defesa e Tecnologia, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Redram Construtora de Obras S.A. Mr. André Amaro holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and a Master’s in Business Administration from IMD.

Mr. Geraldo Vilaça Netto 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 Netto 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 Lanna Lepecki has been Braskem Idesa’s CEO since 2017. He has more than 30 years of experience in the petrochemical sector. He worked as Project Etileno XXI Director, 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 has been 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 Lanna 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. Henrique Jager was elected as an effective member and Chariman of the Company’s Fiscal Council on April 29, 2024, by appointment from shareholder Petrobras. He holds a degree in Economics from UFRRJ and a postgraduate degree in Accounting and Finance from FIPECAFI. Mr. Henrique has served as Chief Executive Officer at the Petrobras Social Security Foundation since July 2023 and has been an advisor to the Unified Federation of Tankers since June 2019. From February to July 2023, he was Advisor to the Presidency of Petrobras S.A. and until December 2022 he was a Researcher at INEEP. From 2006 to 2017, Mr. Henrique Jager served as a director of large national companies, with emphasis on: Banco do Brasil, Telemig Celular, Brasiltelecon, DASA, INVEPAR, Eldorado Celulose with a focus on maximizing short- and long-term results. He also has extensive experience in Audit Committees and Executive Compensation and Fiscal Councils.

Mr. Gilberto Braga was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Fiscal Council on April 19, 2015, by appointment from shareholder Novonor S.A. – under Judicial Reorganization. Mr. Gilberto worked as an effective member of the Fiscal Council in the last years, being reelected on April 29, 2024. Mr. Gilberto is a business consultant in the financial, capital market, corporate, tax, forensic and legal expertise areas, and serves as a member of fiscal and management boards, and audit committee of publicly held companies and professional associations. He was a member of the Consulting Committee of Accounting Rules of Investment Funds of CVM, is a university professor of undergraduate and graduate courses in corporate governance at Fundação Dom Cabral, IBMEC, PUC and FGV, a commenter at Rádio CBN, Rádio Roquette Pinto and a writer for newspaper O Dia. With a degree in Economics by UCAM Ipanema and Accounting by UGF, he has a graduate degree by IAG-PUC Rio in Financial Administration and a master’s degree in Administration (Finances and Capital Market) by IBMEC-Rio. Member of IBGC.

Mr. Ismael Abreu was elected as an effective member of the Company’s Fiscal Council on April 19, 2003, by appointment from shareholder Novonor S.A. – under Judicial Reorganization. Mr. Ismael Abreu worked as member of the Fiscal Council in the last years, being reelected on April 29, 2024. Mr. Ismael acted as an Officer of Kieppe Participações e Administração Ltda. – Under Judicial Reorganization during the period from April 2011 to May 2017. Between 1995 and March 2011 he served as Controller of Novonor S.A. – under Judicial Reorganization (former Odebrecht S.A.), a company that indirectly holds more than 5% interest in the same type or class of securities of the Company. He was the head of the tax consulting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers (1978/1985) and of Arthur Andersen (1989/1991). He was a partner at Performance Auditoria e Consultoria Empresarial (1992/1995). He was a member of the Board of Directors of Hospital Cardio Pulmonar and a member of the Fiscal Council of several companies operating in the petrochemical segment. Mr. Ismael Abreu holds a degree in Accounting from Visconde de Cairú Foundation and a postgraduate degree in Economic Engineering from Centro Interamericano de Desenvolvimento [Interamerican Development Center].

Mr. Roberto Rodrigues was elected as an effective member of the Fiscal Council on April 29, 2024, by appointment from shareholder Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economic Sciences from the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences, as the best student of the course, a specialization degree in Social and Labor Economics from the Institute of Economics of UNICAMP, an MBA in Strategic Business Management from FACAMP, a specialization degree in Skills Development and Leadership from Univel (In Company) and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the State University of Maringá. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics at the State University of Maringá (UEM). Mr. Roberto has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of investments, corporate governance, finance and market intelligence. Since February 2024, he has held the position of advisor to the Executive Board at Fundação Petrobras De Seguridade Social (Petros). From January 2017 to February 2024, he was Head of Investments and Funding at Sicredi. Additionally, from April 2016 to April 2017 he was a member of the Board and Management of Log-In Logística S.A. and from September 2015 to December 2016 he was an advisor to the executive board and executive investment manager at Petros.

Mr. Daniel Stieler was elected as an effective member of the Fiscal Council on April 29, 2024, by appointment from the Minority Shareholder. 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 2025), certificate to Board of Directors from ICSS until March, 2026. 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).