Fesa is the largest retained executive search firm in Latin America. For the past eighteen years it has conducted search assignments for top and upper middle management including board members, CEOs and other Chief Executives. With offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba, Fesa has a team of consultants covering all industry practices in Brazil. To serve clients globally, the firm has a partnership with IIC Partners (www.iicpartners.com), a world Top 10 retained executive search organization, with 52 offices in 38 countries. Fesa has a dedicated Private Equity practice since 2007 that work close to LP´s and GP´s on the search for talent for their own firms and for top management teams for their portfolio companies. Fesa is a member and strategic partner of ABVCAP, helping the association to provide better services to its members.

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 146 countries and have 140,000 people working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. In Brazil, there are 2,400 professionals working from 17 offices in 15 cities located in 11 States and the Federal District. KPMG in Brazil has offices located in São Paulo (head office), Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campinas, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Joinville, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, Ribeirão Preto, Riojavascript:aspxGVUpdateEdit('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_xgv'); de Janeiro, Salvador e São Carlos.

The United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative is an international network of investors working together to put the six Principles for Responsible Investment into practice. Its goal is to understand the implications of sustainability for investors and support signatories to incorporate these issues into their investment decision making and ownership practices. In implementing the Principles, signatories contribute to the development of a more sustainable global financial system.

BF5 is a independent consulting firm for small and mid size business and non profit organizations. Its major activities includes planning, internal controls and report for management and investments projects. Its general partner, Mario Bandeira de Freitas, is a civil engineer by The Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and holds a MBA degree in Capital Markets by The Getúlio Vargas Foundation. He is a senior-level executive with international experience in corporate management, acquired in the petrochemical industry and commodity trading business. In 1995, Mario turned his activities for the non profit organizations where he renders, trough BF5, management and financial consulting services.

The Investidor Institucional magazine is the only Brazilian publication that covers the broad area of professional finances market, reporting business in the pension funds, open pension fund companies, insurers, investments banks, asset management and the great public and private corporations. These institutional investors represent nowadays the biggest source of long term resources of economy, for both direct and indirect investments. Just by themselves, pension funds have more than R$ 500 billion in direct investments in the country, applied in stock, public and private securities, IPO, mutual funds, private equity funds and real estate. With a circulation of 12 thousand copies, the magazine is distributed among the most important executives of investments banks, mutual funds, pension funds, open welfare, insurers in addition to private and public corporations, helping them in making strategic decision.