Management

Board of Directors

According to the Company’s Bylaws, the Board of Directors of IRB-Brasil Resseguros S.A. is decision-making body composed of a minimum of five (5) and maximum of nine (9) sitting members and one alternate for the Chairman, elected by the General Shareholders’ Meeting, which may dismiss them at any time. The members of the Board of Directors will have a unified term of office of two (2) years, and they can be reelected.

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Name
Office
Antônio Cássio dos Santos
Chairman

An economist, he has two MBAs: in Brazil from IBMEC/SP and in the United States from Vanderbilt University/Tennessee, where he also obtained a specialization in Latin American Affairs; He attended a Master’s Degree in Psychotherapy at Escola Paulista de Psicodrama; Post Master in Global Business at IESE Madrid; specializations by the London Business School in Business Leadership and Digital Transformation, by the IMD Lausanne in Diversity and Inclusion, by the Cambridge School in Sustainability, and in Applied Quantum Physics Access Bar by Consciousnesses USA. He also completed the Best Practices Course for the Board of Directors, Audit and Responsibility Committee of IRB Administrators, administered by the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC). Elected 4 times “Executivo de Valor” as the best CEO in the Sector by Valor Econômico newspaper; and one of the 5 most influential executives in Latin America in the Sector by Insurance Business Review. With more than 40 years of experience in the area, he presided over the National Federation of Life and Pensions at the beginning of the last decade. Among the main positions he held are: (i) before joining the IRB and in the last 5 years previously he held positions on the Board in various units around the world of Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., where, until March 2020, he held the position of CEO for the Americas and Southern Europe Regions; (ii) He was CEO of Zurich Insurance Group for Latin America, when he also held the position of Chairman for Latin America and Member of the company’s Worldwide Advisory Board from 2011 to 2015; (iii) as Executive Chairman, he chaired the Mapfre Brasil Seguros Group between 2000 and 2011; (iv) worked at Whirlpool in various senior management positions in Brazil and the United States between 1992 and 2000; (v) between 1979 and 1992, he developed his career through several companies in the sector, from the position of “clerk” to reaching the position of CFO at the age of 24. In addition, it is a representative member of Brazil in the Genéve Association, an important entity that brings together relevant personalities from the world of insurance and considered the main “think tank” in the sector.

Jorge Lauriano Nicolai Sant´anna
Alternate Chairman

He has more than 35 years of professional experience in business development, corporate transformations and Business Unit implementations, in several business segments. Extensive experience in the financial, capital and insurance markets where he served as Executive Director and President in several companies and banks. Founder and current Chairman of the Board of Directors of CRT4-Central Registration of Deeds and Assets. Founder and current Chief Executive Officer of BMG Seguros, an insurance company specialized in the Bond Insurance segment that started operating in 2016. Reporting directly to New York and covering all Businesses and Functions of Citibank in Brazil, he was responsible for coordinating the Management process Expense Matrix, Strategic Sourcing Procurement, Process Reengineering and Organizational Structure Optimization Projects. Responsible for coordinating the “Brazil Expense Management Program”, which in 2012 provided a reduction of US$ 150 million in the Bank’s cost base compared to 2011. As Executive Director, he was responsible for the restructuring process of CETIP SA – Balcão Organizado of Assets and Derivatives in all its dimensions, carried out from 2004. In 2010, he led the process of demutualization and the Company’s IPO. He led the restructuring of IOB Thomson, after its acquisition by the Thomson Group, developing and implementing a new concept organizational both from a marketing and operational point of view.As Executive Director of Agência Estado – OESP, he was responsible for implementing a new operations strategy, involving the areas of corporate business, commercial, marketing, product development, IT and infrastructure.

Antônio Francisco de Lima Neto
Independent Member

Antonio Francisco de Lima Neto was an Audit Committee member at Grupo Itaú Unibanco from June 2015 to June 2021 and has been an independent member of the Audit Committee of Itaú CorpBanca (Chile) since 2018. He was Banco Fibra’s Chief Executive Officer (2009 to 2013) and held several positions at Banco do Brasil S.A., including Chief Executive Officer (2006 to 2009); Retail and Distribution Vice President (2005 to 2006); International Business and Wholesale Vice President (2004 to 2005); Commercial Director (2001 to 2004); Executive Head of the Commercial Board (2000 to 2001); State Superintendent of Tocantins office (1999 to 2000) and Regional Superintendent of Belo Horizonte office (1997 to 1999). He served as a Board of Directors member of Brasilprev Seguros e Previdência S.A. (2007 to 2009); Board of Directors member of the Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN) (2006 to 2009); Board of Directors member of BB Securities Limited (2004 to 2005); Board of Directors member of Brasilsaúde Companhia de Seguros (2003 to 2005); Board of Directors member of Companhia de Seguros Aliança do Brasil (2001 to 2009) and Board of Directors member of BB Previdência – Banco do Brasil Pension Fund (2000 to 2007). He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Federal University of Pernambuco, and a master’s degree in economics from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), São Paulo, Brazil. He participated in the Course for Board Members of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC), a Lato Sensu postgraduate degree in Marketing from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has an MBA in Executive Training by Fundação Dom Cabral, São Paulo, Brazil.

Bruno Camara Soter da Silveira
Independent Member
Cibele Castro
Independent Member
Henrique F. Luz
Independent Member

Mr. Luz has had a career of over 40 years as an independent auditor, partner and member of the executive leadership committee, in Brazil and South America, for 24 years, in a Big 4 firm. He holds a degree from the Rio de Janeiro’s Political and Economic Sciences School, he has attended several postgraduate courses and executive programs at Harvard, Darden, Singularity University, Duke, Universidad de Buenos Aires, University of Ontario, and others. He has an extensive experience as an independent member on Boards of Directors, among them, presently, Grupo Maringá, Burger King Brasil, Oi S.A. and Cellera Farma, where he holds the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the IBGC where he served, from 2019 to 2021, as Chairman. He is Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and member of the boards of MAM Rio and the Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind. He is a permanent member of Chair 59 of the Brazilian Academy of Accounting Sciences. Speaker and columnist for the magazines Capital Aberto and Plurale.

Israel Aron Zylberman
Independent Member

Mr. Israel Aron Zylberman holds a degree in Industrial Metallurgical Engineering from the Engineering School at Mackenzie University (1970), with a specialization in Corporate Governance from the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (2006 and 2021) and an MBA from FIA/FEA-USP (2003). He has participated in several executive courses at the following institutions: Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, Kellog School of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management, Cambridge Judge School of Management, Bentley Center for Business Ethics and EM Lyon Business School. Executive Director of the Cyrela and SYN Institutes, he serves on the support committees for the boards of Cyrela, IGUÁ Saneamento, Urbem S.A. and the Company itself, as well as sits on the boards of directors of Urbem S.A., MBM-Movimento Bem Maior, Instituto Liberta, Instituto Jatobás and Instituto Avon.

Ivan Gonçalves Passos
Independent Member

Mr. Passos is an executive with extensive experience in the insurance sector. He has been an Executive Officer of MDS Corretora de Seguros and Herco Consultoria, a Representative Officer in Brazil of Hannover Rückversicherung AG, as well as Vice President of Industrial Risks and Technical Vice President of Sul América Seguros. He has also been a member of the Technical Council of IRB Brasil RE.

Wilson Toneto
Member

Mr. Toneto holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Economic Sciences from Fundação Santo André (SP), an MBA degree in Business Management from the University of Navarra (Barcelona), and training as Board Member from IBGC (2019). He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of insurer Líder DPVAT from 2019 to March 2020; and CEO and Chairman of Mapfre Brasil from 2011 to 2018. From 2005 to 2011, he served as Vice-President of several divisions at Mapfre Seguros, such as HR, Legal, and Technology & Processes. From 2011 to 2018, he served as Director and Vice President of CNSEG, Director of the Spanish Official Chamber of Commerce in Brazil, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Segurador BB Mapfre.

Fiscal Council

The Fiscal Council will operate permanently and will have at least three (3) and at most five (5) sitting members and respective alternates, annually elected at the Shareholder’s Meeting. They can be reelected and must be chosen among qualified individuals with flawless reputation that meet the requirements of Law 6.404/76. The Fiscal Council of IRB Brasil RE is the body which monitors the acts of the administration in defense of the interests of the company and its shareholders.

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Name
Office
Daniel Carlos Dominguez Massola
Effective Member

Mr. Massola has had a long career as an auditor, focusing mainly on financial services and, more specifically, in insurance, where he has held various positions at a number of large companies with a good reputation in terms of auditing and controls, either as an external auditor (KPMG) or as an executive in leadership positions in external audit areas (ABN Amro Real, Itaú, Tribanco and currently FGC). He has an in-depth understanding of the insurance industry, having worked at KPMG’s Financial Services (FSI) group for 12 years, where he specialized in insurance industry auditing and consultancy, later moving to the insurance, pension and capitalization companies internal audit area at ABN Real, where he spent seven years, in addition to another year at Itaú, where he was responsible for internal audits in a number of businesses, some in the insurance industry. Daniel is an experienced member of Board of Director/Committee having been Chairman of the Internal Audit Committee at Liberty Seguros, from 2014 to 2020, Chairman of the Internal Audit Committee at the Insurers Association, from 2003 to 2007, and Member of the Internal Audit Committee at the Interbank Payments Chamber (CIP), in 2019. He is currently Internal Audit Director at the Fundo Garantidor de Crédito. Daniel has a degree in business management from FMU in São Paulo, and MBA in Actuarial and Financial Risk Management from USP.

Leonardo de Paiva Rocha
Effective Member

Mr. Rocha serves as Senior Advisor at BCG (Boston Consulting Group) and also as Senior Advisor at Cypress Associates. He was an executive of relevant companies such as Nextel Telecomunicações (VP ​​of Finance, Legal and Regulatory), Camargo Corrêa Group (CCDI-Director of Finance and IR), Globex Utilidades S/A (Ponto Frio – CFO and IR), he acts as independent board member of Eletronuclear and Eletronorte, alternate independent board member of Smiles Fidelidade S.A.. He is graduated in Mechanical Engineering, post graduated in Finance, participated in the IBGC Board of Directors training program and related activities in international institutions.

Rogério Ceron de Oliveira
Effective Member
Clodomir Felix Fialho Cachem Junior
Alternate Member

Mr. Junior is graduated in Accounting Sciences at UFRJ, with a Postgraduate Degree in Capital Markets at the Brazilian Futures Exchange and a course in Business Managerial Economics at IMD Business School. He has more than 35 years of experience in Consulting and Auditing of Financial Institutions and other segments. Creator and founder of Nova Urca, specialized in Enterprises, Investments, Social Projects and Mentoring, since September/2018. He was a leading partner at Deloitte Brasil to serve companies in the financial sector in Brazil (September/2002 – August/2018). For Arthur Andersen, he worked with the Audit of Financial Institutions, including the largest Investment Bank in Latin America, from 1991 to 1999. He was promoted to the position of Partner in the year 2000 (September/1988 – September/2002); Senior Manager at Chase Manhattan Bank (September/1986 – September/1988) and Senior Auditor at PwC (September/1984 – September/1986).

Edson Georges Nassar
Alternate Member
Viviane Aparecida da Silva Varga
Alternate Member

Executive Officers

According to the Company’s Bylaws, the Company’s Board of Directors is composed of at least 4 (four) and a maximum of 7 (seven) members, all elected by the Board of Directors.

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Name
Office
Marcos Pessôa de Queiroz Falcão
CEO and Financial and Investor Relations Officer

Mr. Falcão has extensive experience in the insurance and capital markets sectors, and he was a founding partner of Gama Investimentos, partner and CEO of BRZ Investimentos, and held several leadership positions, including CEO of Icatu Hartford. He has been a member of the Board of Directors in several companies, including Icatu Seguros, Fiskar, Farol, Brasilcap, Caixa Capitalização, Grupo Docas, Caemi, Enersul, and Escelsa. He was a member of the Investment Committee of IRB Brasil RE from July 2008 to July 2010.

Willy Otto Jordan Neto
Chief Financial Officer & IR (medical leave)

The executive has a degree in Economics from PUC-Rio and a Master’s in Economics from EPGE/FGV. With more than 20 years of experience in managing financial and non-financial companies, his most recent positions were as Financial Vice President of Banco Luso Brasileiro, Executive Director of Finance, Corporate and Investor Relations at Cetip and Director of Planning, Strategy and Investor Relations at Banco Pan. Before that, he worked at Suzano, SAB Trading and Banco Itaú.

Wilson Toneto
Chief Technical and Operations

Mr. Toneto holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Economic Sciences from Fundação Santo André (SP), an MBA degree in Business Management from the University of Navarra (Barcelona), and training as Board Member from IBGC (2019). He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of insurer Líder DPVAT from 2019 to March 2020; and CEO and Chairman of Mapfre Brasil from 2011 to 2018. From 2005 to 2011, he served as Vice-President of several divisions at Mapfre Seguros, such as HR, Legal, and Technology & Processes. From 2011 to 2018, he served as Director and Vice President of CNSEG, Director of the Spanish Official Chamber of Commerce in Brazil, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Segurador BB Mapfre.

Carlos André Guerra Barreiros
Chief of Legal, Governance and Facilities

Mr. Guerra is graduated in Law and Business Management, with postgraduate studies in Capital Markets. He has worked in various activities in the insurance sector, private pension and capitalization market in Brazil and in Latin American countries. He was Senior Vice President of Prudential do Brasil, responsible for the integral management of the Group Life operation between 2016 and 2020. He was at the head of the Institutional Relations Department of Seguradora Líder DPVAT between 2015 and 2016 and previously served as an executive at Itaú Unibanco for about 16 years, where he had the opportunity to perform activities in the legal, internal controls and distribution of insurance and private pension operations. He was also Director of Itaú Unibanco’s life insurance and private pension companies in Chile and Uruguay. At the institutional level, he served as Director in important associative and union bodies in the sector, such as CNSEG and SINDSEG-SP and was a member of CRSNSP – Council of Resources of the National System of Private Insurance, Open Pension and Capitalization.

Hugo Daniel Castillo Irigoyen
Chief Underwriting Officer

Mr. Irigoyen has had a long and successful career in the reinsurance business having worked in technical areas involving claims (at insurance companies) and underwriting (at reinsurance companies) and has held national and regional leadership positions in various parts of the world at global companies (Munich Re and General Re), which are considered good schools for reinsurance. He is familiar with the latest industry trends in the regulatory, business and innovation areas. He held a number of significant positions at General Reinsurance AG, from 2003 until March 2020, including: Regional head of P&C for Latin America, Spain and Portugal, from 2017 to 2020; Member of the Global Executive Board and Executive Vice President for P&C Treaty in Continental Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and Latin America, from 2007 to 2017; CEO of Gen Re – Mexico, from 2003 to 2020; Senior Vice President – Regional Head for Continental Europe, Africa and Latin America – Gen Re, from 2003 to 2007; General President of Cologne Re Corrduria de Seguros – Spain and Managing Officer and Member of the Executive Board at General Re Sur – Argentina. He has also worked at Munich Re Canada, Bradesco and Sulamerica Seguros. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from PUC Rio Grande do Sul and an MBA from Queens University; Ontario, Canada (1984).

Thaís Ricarte Peters
Chief of Internal Controls, Risks and Compliance

Master in Business Economics, with an emphasis on Finance from Escola Católica de Brasília. Graduated in Economic Sciences from the University of Brasília, with a postgraduate degree in Financial Market and Investments from the same institution. Executive Commercial and Product Director of Caixa Econômica Federal since 2020, having held several positions within the company: Vice President of Administration and Management of Third Party Assets (2019), National Superintendent of Financial Planning (2017-2019), National Manager of Management of Assets and Liabilities (2007-2016), Analyst in the National Management of Support to Lotteries and Games (2005-2007) and Banking Technician in the National Management of Financial Control and Information (2003-2005).

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