Leadership
Council
Blair Thomas is the Chairman and Chief Executive officer of EIG, as well as Chairman of the Investment Committee and Executive Committee. EIG is among the largest institutional investors in energy and infrastructure globally. Mr. Thomas is also a member of the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee of FS/EIG Advisor, the largest non-traded BDC focused on energy. EIG was formerly part of the Trust Company of the West, where Mr. Thomas was a Group Managing Director and a member of the Board of Directors of TCW Asset Management Company. Prior to joining EIG in 1998, Mr. Thomas was senior investment officer with the Inter-American Development Bank and a project finance attorney at law firm of Brown & Wood in New York. Mr. Thomas also served on the White House staff of President George H. W. Bush as an advisor on energy and budget policy. Mr. Thomas received a B.A. from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from New York Law School and an L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Thomas is also the Chairman of Board of Directors of Harbour Energy Plc (HBR.L).
With 20+ years of experience in fund management activities, Paes joined Mubadala in 2016 as Operations and Institutional Relations Director.
He has expertise in business management, performance improvement, restructuring, privatizations, and strategic planning. In 2014-2016, he served as Head of Private Equity at Modal Investimentos, with four funds in different industries (oil & gas, hospitality, and electricity). In 2013-2014, Paes served as CFO of Ferroport (formerly LLX Minas-Rio), one of the largest private projects in the world then, preparing the company to start operations. Throughout his career, he served as CEO and CFO in companies such as Leader Magazine, Brasbunker, and Sundown Motos. During his time with Alvarez & Marsal, from 2003 to 2011, he worked in the restructuring processes of companies such as Parmalat, Varig, Casa & Vídeo, Parras (Mexico), Cinemas Hoyt (Chile), and Tyco (USA).
He served on the Board of Directors or Advisory Board of companies such as Taesa, Georadar, Enesa, Brastec and Yenzah.
Paes earned a degree in Business Administration from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ).
Franklin L. Feder is a senior executive with a career built on consulting and a long and successful general management career. Having joined Alcoa in 1990, he attained increasing positions of responsibility, the last ten of which serving as the Regional Chief Executive Officer for Latin America & the Caribbean. Prior to that, he served as a Corporate Vice-President and as the Chief Financial Officer for the Latin American region. Before joining Alcoa, Mr. Feder was a Partner with the then on Booz, Allen & Hamilton management consulting organization. His undergraduate degree comes from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and he holds an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mr. Feder serves on the Board of Directors of five companies, including three US two companies.
Flavio Valle is a Managing Director of EIG currently responsible for investment activity and operations in Brazil as Head of EIG’s Rio de Janeiro office. Prior to joining EIG, Mr. Valle was an Executive Director at Prumo Logistica. Mr. Valle has over 15 years of expertise in infrastructure projects, cross-border transactions, project finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions. Within the past 12 years, Mr. Valle has helped to develop Prumo’s companies including GNA Gas Natural do Acu (the largest thermal power park in Latin America), Vast Infraestrutura (a downstream oil hub) and Ferroport (an iron ore export terminal in Brazil) and has served for several years as a Board member for all three companies. Prior to joining Prumo, Mr. Valle was an associate at Law firm Veirano. Mr. Valle has a degree in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), an Executive MBA (GMP) from Harvard Business School and an LLM from FGV/Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Rogerio Bimbi is an entrepreneur and executive with over 28 years’ experience in the financial and technology sectors, with a strong background in credit risk management, collections and fraud prevention. He has worked in leadership positions at institutions such as Caixa Econômica Federal, where he chaired the Board of Directors and led the Independent Risk Committee, and at HSBC Consumer Finance (Losango), as Credit Director.
He was a partner at Polo Capital, focusing on NPL and private equity funds. As an entrepreneur, he founded ERG Risk Analysis, a digital credit platform for SMEs, and Parcelex, a credit fintech for individuals. He has also served on the boards and committees of companies such as Casa & Video, Smiles, Emgea, Banco Pan, Liq and Nextel.
Rogerio holds a degree in economics from UFRJ and a Senior Executive MBA from Ibmec.
Board of Directors
Rogério Zampronha has been the CEO of Prumo Logística since April 2022. Throughout his career, he has built a solid trajectory in the industrial, technology, and renewable energy generation sectors. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo (USP) and an MBA from IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland).
He served as President of Schneider Electric Brazil and President for South America at Vestas, the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines. More recently, he led Omega Desenvolvimento, focusing on the structuring and implementation of renewable energy generation projects.
He served on the Boards of Utopus Insights, Omega Energia, and Aeris Energy. He currently holds board seats at GNA, Porto do Açu Operações, and Intelbras.
Graduated in Law from IBMEC, with specialization in Leadership, Corporate Strategy, Global Trends, and Finance through the Milbank Corporate Counsel Program at Harvard Law School Executive Education.
Eduardo Quartarone began his career at Prumo in 2010 and has served as the Company’s General Counsel since 2018. He contributed to the corporate structuring and establishment of Ferroport, Vast, Efen, GNA, and Dome, as well as to several project financing transactions for the companies. He also serves as a board member for various Group companies.
Prior to joining Prumo, he was part of the strategic litigation and arbitration team at Nunes Ferreira, Viana Araujo, Cramer e Duarte Advogados, worked in corporate litigation at BMA Advogados, and in the Corporate Legal Department of MPX Energia S.A. (currently Eneva Energia S.A.). In 2017, he took a leave of absence from Prumo to serve as an international visiting associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.
Graduated in Law from PUC-Rio, he holds postgraduate degrees in Business Law from FGV and in Environmental Law from PUC-Rio.
With more than 15 years of experience in the energy, oil and gas, and infrastructure sectors, the executive worked for 7 years at Eneva. He also worked at the Michelin Group and at a law firm.
He is a guest professor at FGV and the Center for Legal Studies of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Additionally, he served as Chairperson of the Sustainability Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce from 2018 to 2021. Eduardo Kantz was Director of Sustainability at Porto do Açu until 2019 and is currently the Director of Sustainability and Institutional Relations at Prumo.
Graduated in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), with an Executive MBA in Strategic HR Planning from Coppead UFRJ and a specialization in Strategic HR Management from the Michigan Ross School of Business.
Angela Serpa has over 10 years of experience in strategic human resources management. She is skilled in team mobilization and leading multicultural teams with global operations (Europe, Africa, and Latin America), driving initiatives for senior leadership and coaching trainees. Her experience includes cultural transformation processes and turnaround projects, with the ability to lead under crisis and high-pressure situations.
She joined the Prumo Group in 2018 as Head of HR and Communications at GNA, a joint venture between Prumo, BP, SPIC, and Siemens. Since 2021, she has served as Executive Director of Human Capital and Communications at Prumo’s holding company. Angela is also a member of boards and people committees of several group companies and has been a Board Member at ABRH-RJ since 2022.
Graduated in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), she holds a Master’s degree from École Centrale de Paris (now CentraleSupélec). Before joining Prumo, she accumulated approximately 10 years of experience in the financial market, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, having worked at investment banks such as Rothschild and Lehman Brothers.
She currently serves as CFO of Prumo Logística, a diversified holding company that develops businesses at the Port of Açu. She joined Prumo in 2014 in the Business Development area and later took on leadership of the Strategy and Market Intelligence departments. In 2018, she became CEO of Efen (formerly NFX Marine Fuels), a joint venture between BP and Prumo focused on the import and commercialization of marine fuels. She also serves on boards of directors and audit committees of Prumo-affiliated companies.
Graduated in Economics, Andrade holds an MBA in Oil & Gas from Coppe/UFRJ and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Institute of Economics at UFRJ, in addition to executive education programs at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
With over 20 years of experience in upstream O&G and energy, Andrade worked for three years at ANP (Brazilian National Petroleum Agency) and seven years at Deloitte in the upstream sector, serving clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. In 2009, he joined Equinor, where he held several leadership positions, including Vice President of External and Regulatory Affairs and Vice President of International Supply Chain. Until the end of 2020, he served as Senior Advisor for the Renewable Energy division at the Norwegian company. In 2021, he joined Prumo as Executive Director of Business Development, a position he currently holds.
Since 2021, Mauro has been a member of the Board of Directors of GNA (Gás Natural do Açu) and was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Abeeólica for the 2023–2025 term.