THE IDEIASNET TEAM
Board of Directors
Executive Board
Advisory Board
Biography of Board Members and Executive Officers
Ideiasnet's management consists of three bodies:
. Board of Directors, composed of respected professionals and entrepreneurs in various sectors of the economy;
. Executive Board, composed of the Company's founding members, also with long experience in the market;
. Advisory Board, composed of professionals with extensive knowledge and experience in the technology and business areas, to give more guidance for the Company's main strategic decisions (not yet formed).
Board of Directors
Ideiasnet's Board of Directors has no less than six and no more than nine permanent members, and an equal number of alternates. All are shareholders and hold the title of Director. They are all elected at the General Shareholders Meeting for a one-year term and subsequently eligible for reelection.
The Board of Directors convenes general meetings six times per year and special meetings as often as necessary. The meetings are called by the Chairman or, should he fail to do so, upon the request of any member of the Board.
Powers of the Board of Directors
Currently the Board of Directors is comprised of the following members:
| Name |
Position |
| Carlos Pedroza Aguinaga |
Chairman |
| George Eduardo Rheingantz Ellis |
Vice-Chairman |
| Dílson Del Cima de Alvarenga Menezes |
Member |
| Antonio Batista Coury Júnior |
Member |
| Carlos Mario de Almeida |
Member |
| Fabio José Cavanha Gaia |
Member |
| Luiz Arthur Andrade Correia |
Member |
| Luiz Paulo Saade Montenegro |
Member |
| Manoel Horácio Francisco da Silva |
Member |
Executive Board
The Executive Board consists of no less than two and no more than six members, shareholders or not, all resident of Brazil and elected by the Board of Directors. Each member of the Executive Board has the specific authority defined below:
a) Chief Executive Officer - coordination of all Company activities, supervision of the activities performed by the other officers, and also chairing the committee meetings, holding the right to a casting vote in case of ties.
b) Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer - overall control on investments and on the Company's financial funding policy, responsible for the disclosure of information and relationship with investors, CVM and other market players.
c) Chief Managing Officer - performance of Company's policies, guidelines, management of personnel, materials and services, as specified by the Board of Directors.
d) Chief Business Development Officer - identification and development of new business opportunities for the Company, and the coordination and performance of Ideiasnet marketing and advertising activities.
Our current officers are listed below:
| Name |
Position |
Luis Alberto Monteiro Lobato Reátegui |
Chief Executive Officer |
Rodin Spielmann de Sá |
Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer |
| George Eduardo Rheingantz Ellis |
Managing Officer |
Carlos Mario de Almeida |
Operating Officer |
| Marcelo Rodrigues Almeida |
Business Development Officer |
Advisory Board
Ideiasnet may have a Consultative Board, composed of at most six members. The Consultative Board is the body that helps the Board of Directors, being empowered specifically to:
a) provide an opinion to the general meeting regarding the acts of the directors and officers and the compliance with their duties under the law and the Bylaws;
b) provide an opinion on the Annual Report;
c) provide an opinion on the proposals of the administrative bodies to be submitted to the general meeting;
d) prepare, with engagement if necessary of a specialized firm, the proposed stock option plan for the Company's directors and officers.
Biography of Board Members and Executive Officers
Luis Alberto Monteiro Lobato Reátegui: Chief Executive Officer of Ideiasnet S/A, Mr. Reátegui holds a B.A. in industrial engineering from PUC (Rio de Janeiro) and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has vast experience in the financial market, as Director of Banco Bozano, Simonsen S/A, where he was responsible for opening the bank's offices in Europe, for the operations of Bozano, Simonsen Securities Inc. in the United States, and for the bank's Equity Income Division in Brazil. As Director of Banco Santander Brasil, he was responsible for the International Sales of Equity Income area. Mr. Reátegui is a businessman and an entrepreneur, with experience in Latin America.
Carlos Pedroza Aguinaga: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet S.A, graduated in Economics and Political Science from George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, Carlos is the CEO and owner of D.A.S. Trading, a company specialized in investments in the financial market and venture capital in Brazil and other countries. For fourteen years (1981 - 1995), he was senior partner of Man Group Plc, one of the 100 largest companies in England, included in the London Exchange’s FTSE 100 and one of the world’s largest hedge funds. He was chairman and Head Trader of Farr Man International, Inc (currently E.D.& F Man (Sugar) USA), the group’s company responsible for Man sugar operations worldwide. Carlos is also member of the Board of Directors of Softcorp, an Ideiasnet company.
George Eduardo Rheingantz Ellis: Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet S.A., Mr. Ellis was born on 11/26/1939. From 1959 to 1972 he worked as officer at Miranda Estância SA, and was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer for several companies and advertising agencies, such as Ellis & Dorey & Ellis Associados. In 1992, he founded Laxmi Marketing in Rio de Janeiro. In 1999, he began developing several internet-related businesses as well as formulating the concept and implementation of the Ideiasnet project.
Rodin Spielmann de Sá: Mr. Sá is the Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer of Ideiasnet S.A.. He was born on 10/15/1971, and holds a degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, and an MBA from Fundação Getulio Vargas - Rio de Janeiro. He started his career at Banco BBM, where he worked for seven years in different operational and back-office areas.
Marcelo Rodrigues Almeida: Executive and Business Development Officer of IdeiasVentures. 18 years of Business Development and Marketing experience in different industry sectors, retail segments, B2B and B2C. He has worked for Xerox do Brasil, Texaco Brasil and Banco Nacional. From 1995 onwards, he has created and presided 3 companies, in the media and communication segment, among them Via Global S.A, in which he has also been a member of the Board of Directors. He is graduated in Business Administration.
Dílson Del Cima de Alvarenga Menezes: Member of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet SA. Mr. Menezes was born on 08/23/1960, and holds a degree in Economics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. He started his career in 1986 with the Financial Group BBM, where he worked for fifteen years in various areas. He acted as Retail Officer, Officer for third-party financial resources management, real estate Officer, Financial Managing Officer, Corporate Finance Managing Officer. Currently, Mr. Menezes is a managing partner of the holding company Del Cima Investimentos e Participações Ltda.
Antonio Coury: Member of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet S/A, he holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, and a master’s degree in business administration from COPPEAD/UFRJ. He has extensive experience in financial markets and asset management operations. Currently serves as managing partner at AbacoInvest Gestão de Recursos Ltda., a company focused on managing stock investments. As an officer at Banco Bozano, Simonsen S/A, were he worked for 12 years, was responsible for the Bank’s Asset Management division . During this period Coury also participated in the Fund Investment Committee of the private-equity company Bozano Simonsen/Advent. He served as Managing Director at Bozano, Simonsen (UK), Ltd., the group’s London arm, where he was responsible for the brokerage’s operations and also the supervision of the Group’s investment activities in the European market. As Director responsible for the International and Foreign Exchange area of Banco Bozano Simonsen, he implemented and headed a program to raise capital from international investors, which represented an important source of funding for the Bank’s expansion.
He also served as the Bank’s Treasury Manager.
Carlos Mario Almeida: Operating Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet S.A., Mr. Almeida was born on 01/12/1958. He holds a degree in Production Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry. He started his career at Shell in logistics and inventory control, using the first personal computer authorized to enter the country, an Apple II. In 1982, he worked for Jornal do Brasil in control automation and accounting, using one of the first IBM PCs that entered the country. In 1983, he worked for "4-5-6 World", in Santa Barbara, California-USA. In 1989/90/91 he attended the OPM-Owner President Management Program, offered by Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachussets, USA. In 1984, he founded PC Software - a software developer and distributor and years later founded Officer Distribuidora and in june 1993 founded Officer Distribuidora. In 2000 he founded Ideiasnet.
Fábio José Cavanha Gaia: Member of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet S.A. and one of the pioneers in the computer equipment distribution market in Brazil, Mr. Gaia is the founder and current CEO of Officer Distribuidora S.A., a company elected by Exame magazine as the best company in Brazil’s wholesale sector in 2007. He also serves as a member on the Latin American advisory boards of companies such as HP, IBM, and as global board member at Microsoft for the SME market.
Luiz Arthur Correia: Member of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet S.A. Since 2004 has been managing money for EBX Investments. From 2002 to 2004 worked at Banco Pactual as a trader and created the Credit Default Swap desk at the Bank. Prior to that worked for 17 years at TVX Gold as head of their hedge department and financial consultant for the Batista Group in Boca Raton, Florida. During his tenure at TVX created a hedge book for the gold mines through complex options strategies. In 1983 to 1987, Luiz Arthur was COO of NeyCarvalho Brokerage House in Rio, Brazil. During the 1970’s was head of the hedge department of Interbras, a Brazilian trading company in New York. Started his professional career in 1970 as a floor broker at the Rio Stock Market. During his professional years had both trading and management experiences. Has a deep knowledge of economic history. Has been trading the international markets since 1976. Has always managed to achieve high returns with very low risk exposure. In 2001 went to Harvard Business School for a course on Valuation; in 1992 at Lynn University, Florida did a MBA equivalent course; went to FGV/EBAP and Engineering at PUC in Rio back in the 1970’s; several courses on technical analysis, financial markets and computer trading. Has articles and works on economics and financial markets published in newspapers and magazines in Brazil and the USA.
Luiz Paulo Saade Montenegro: Member of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet S.A., born on 08/09/1958 and holds a B.A. in Production Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He is the Vice President and partner of IBOPE (Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics) Group, responsible for the management of the operational part and methodology of the Media Research, Public Opinion and Market Research divisions. He also takes part in the Oversight Board of Instituto Paulo Montenegro, maintained by companies of IBOPE Group, not for profit, and with the purpose of planning and executing projects in the education area. Since 2007 he is a member of the Governance Board of GIFE (Group of Institutes, Foundations and Companies), a not-for-profit relationship network which consists of organizations of business and family origin, with the purpose of investing in social, cultural and environmental projects with public goal.
Manoel Horácio Francisco da Silva: Member of the Board of Directors of Ideiasnet S.A. President of Banco Fator since 2002. Before his current position he was the CEO of Telemar and managed the pulp and paper area of Cia Vale do Rio Doce. Manoel Horácio worked for Ericsson Group of Brazil for 23 years, holding the position of CEO in several companies of the Group. In addition, he was the CEO of Ficap and the Corporate CEO of Sharp Equipamentos Eletrônicos. He was the Superintendent Officer at Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, responsible for the restructuring of Cia Vale do Rio Doce. He was a member in several Boards of Directors such as Sadia, Bahia Sul, Ericson Group, Docenave and Telemar. In 1989 he was elected the financier of the year by the Brazilian Institute of Finance Executives (IBEF) and won three outstanding awards in 2001. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) of São Paulo and concluded the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.