Pedro Pullen Parente has been elected as Member of the Board of Petrobras. The Board, at the same meeting, also elected Pedro P. Parente to the position of CEO of the company as of 31st May 2016 and appointed the Human Resources, HSE and Services Officer Hugo Repsold Júnior to act as interim CEO till P. Parente will take office next Thursday.
Petrobras Board has adopted both decissions due to Aldemir Bendine’s letter of resignation after President Dilma Rousseff was suspended this same month.
The board announced today as well that has received a letter of resignation from Luciano Galvão Coutinho, Member of the Board, and the position will remain vacant until a new Member of the Board is elected.
From leading Cardoso-Lula transition to Petrobras CEO
Pedro Pullen Parente was Minister of State between 1999 and 2002, and led the transition team between President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s government and President Lula’s goverment.
During this period, he played an important role as President of the Energy Crisis Management Chamber. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Petrobras between March 24th, 1999 and December 31st, 2002 and Chairman of the Board as of March 25, 2002.
He was Chief Operating Officer of RBS Group between 2003 and 2009 and President and CEO of Bunge Brasil from 2010 to 2014. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of SBR-Global, as well as an Executive Partner of the Prada group of consulting and financial advisory companies. He has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BM&FBOVESPA – Securities, Commodities and Futures Exchange since March 2015.
Parente began his public service career at Banco do Brasil in 1971 and was transferred to the Central Bank in 1973, in both cases following a competitive civil-service examination. He was a consultant for the International Monetary Fund and for public institutions in Brazil, including several State Departments and the National Constituent Assembly of 1988, and has served in various government positions in the economics department.
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