Executive Officers

Antonio Bonchristiano, 47
Chief Executive Officer; Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer); Director

Mr. Bonchristiano is also a member of the board and Chief Executive Officer of GP Investments. He joined GP Investments in 1993 and has been a Managing Director since 1995. Prior to joining GP Investments, Mr. Bonchristiano was a Partner at Johnston Associates Inc., a finance consultancy based in London, and worked for Salomon Brothers Inc. in London and New York. Currently, he serves as a member of the board of directors of AMBEV, GP Advisors, and SPICE. Mr. Bonchristiano is also on the board of several non-profit organizations, including: Fundação Bienal and Fundação Estudar in São Paulo, Brazil and John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI, USA. Previously, he served as a member of the boards of directors of several companies including BHG, Estácio, BR Properties, ALL, CEMAR, Gafisa, Submarino, Equatorial, BR Malls, Tempo and Magnesita Refratários. He was also previously the Chief Financial Officer of SuperMar Supermercados and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Submarino. Mr. Bonchristiano holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from the University of Oxford.

Fersen Lamas Lambranho, 53
Chairman

He is also a member of the board and Chairman of GP Investments. He joined the firm in 1998 and became a Managing Director in 1999. Prior to joining GP, Mr. Lambranho was CEO of Lojas Americanas, where he worked for 12 years and was a board member from 1998 to 2003. Currently, he is Chairman of the Board of Magnesita. He has served as chairman of the boards of LBR, Oi, Contax, Gafisa and ABC Supermercados. Mr. Lambranho serves on the boards of Centauro, BRZ Investimentos and GP Advisors. He previously served on the board of several companies, including BRMalls, San Antonio, Estácio, Tele Norte Leste Participações, São Carlos Empreendimentos e Participações, Farmasa, BR Properties and Americanas.com. He is a board member of several non-profit entities, such as Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and COPPEAD-UFRJ. Mr. Lambranho holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and a Msc degree in business administration from COPPEAD-UFRJ. He also completed the Owner President Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

Board of Directors

Jaime Szulc, 58
Director

He is the global Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives for Goodyear, appointed in November, 2014. Previously, he was President of Goodyear Latin America since joining the company in September 2010. Jaime joined Goodyear from Levi Strauss & Co., where he was a Senior Vice President and the Global Chief Marketing Officer for the Levi’s brand. Prior to Levi’s, Mr. Szulc was the Worldwide Chief Operating Officer for Eastman Kodak Company’s consumer business. His 10-year career encompassed a broad spectrum of top P&L leadership assignments, such as General Manager for Consumer Imaging in Latin America, General Manager for the Digital & Film Imaging Systems in the Americas and Chairman of the company’s Europe, Africa & the Middle East region. Before Kodak, Mr. Szulc spent four-and-a-half years at SC Johnson Latin America and four at Procter & Gamble Brazil. Mr. Szulc’s experience spanned from classical brand management to geographic and category portfolio analysis, which involved brand acquisition and divestiture. In Brazil, Mr. Szulc also worked for two years as a consultant for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He led a variety of projects in the areas of manufacturing productivity and systems improvement. Jaime earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1986.

Christopher Brotchie, 69
Director

He serves as a Director on the Boards of Baring Private Equity International Ltd, Baring Private Equity Group Ltd, SWICORP Ltd (Riyadh), Firmdale Hotel Holdings Ltd (London) and Bolero International Ltd (London). He is a member of the Investment Committees of Baring Vostok Capital Partners (Moscow), ICentis Capital (Warsaw) and Intaj II (MENA) private equity funds. He is a member of the Advisory Council’s of Baring Private Equity Partners Asia (Hong Kong), GP Investments Ltd, ICentis Capital (Warsaw), Triton Capital Partners (Frankfurt & Stockholm) and the Pacific Pensions Institute (San Francisco). Mr. Brotchie’s private equity career started in 1986 when he joined Baring Private Equity Partners in Germany. As a Senior Partner, he was responsible for starting Baring Private Equity’s businesses first in Germany (1986 to 1995) and Asia (1995 to 2000) based in Singapore. After 18 years with the firm, he retired in March 2004 as Chief Executive Officer of the Baring Private Equity Partners Group and Member of the Management Council of the ING Group. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree, with honours from Brunel University and is a Chartered Engineer. He is a winner of the Society of British Aerospace Companies John de Havilland Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Fernando d’Ornellas Silva, 57
Director

He currently serves as a Director on the Boards of Meliá Hotels International SA and Dinamia Capital Privado SCR SA, and on the Supervisory Board of Willis Iberia. Mr. d’Ornellas is an advisor for Spain and Latam of Mitsubishi Corporation and a senior advisor of Spain and Latam for Lazard. Mr. d’Ornellas Silva was previously employed as Chairman by Berge Automoción, he was also the Managing Director of Bergé Group until 2012. He has also held the positions of Deputy Financial Manager of Johnson & Johnson Spain, Financial Director of Toyota Spain and Managing Director of Chrysler Spain. Mr. d’Ornellas was also Vice Chairman for Skberge Latinoamérica and of Mitsubishi Motors Chile, and Chairman of Mitsubishi Motors Peru, KIA Argentina, Peru and Portugal, Chrysler Colombia and Chry Portugal. He has also served on the boards of Endesa S.A. and Endesa Chile. Mr. d’Ornellas was a Vice Chairman of the Spanish Import Automobile Association, and a member of the Business Councils Spain-China, Spain-Japan. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Hispanic Society of America. Mr. d’Ornellas graduated in Law and Economics from Madrid’s Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE E-3) and holds an MBA from IESE (International Section).