Executive Board and Committees

Efraim Horn holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Philosophy from Talmudic University of Florida (TUF) and an MBA from the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP). He is a company shareholder and has been part of Cyrela Brazil Realty since 2004. He worked in the land and finance areas and headed up the Company’s expansion efforts in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Currently, Efraim Horn is Cyrela Brazil Realty’s co-president and is responsible for the Business Units in São Paulo and the North and Northeast regions, as well as the Urban Development and Land.

Miguel Maia holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from UFRGS, an MBA and a certificate in Finance from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a company shareholder, has been part of Cyrela Brazil Realty since 2007 and serves as the Company’s Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer. Miguel is currently responsible for the areas of controllership, financial planning, accounting, taxes, investor relations, corporate funding, funding linked to projects and information technology. Before serving as the Company’s CFO, he was Cyrela Brazil Realty’s Controller.

Mônica Pires has more than 30 years’ experience in leading multinational and multifunctional teams in finance, business operations, mergers and acquisitions, business strategy transformation, recovery and new start-up companies. She also has experience in leading global processes, innovative projects, shared services initiatives and business transformation. She has experience as a Chief Financial, Process and Innovation Officer. She undertook leading initiatives to raise officers’ awareness about revolutionary processes/innovation technologies and empowered these officers to implement them. She pioneered Hackathons infrastructure management support at IBM Brasil. She has experience as an entrepreneur – owner of a Vocational Courses School. She has experience working in revolutionary technology environments. Mônica Pires has a solid experience in Finance, being responsible for Strategic and Financial Planning, Forecasts, Budgetary Control, CAPEX Coordination, Pricing, Managerial Reports, Balance Sheets, Revenue and Expenses, Product/Service Cost Analysis, and Tax and Risk Management. She has experience in relations, strategies and incentives with business partners. She has a solid experience in audit, control and compliance processes and was in charge of adopting Sarbanes-Oxley Act at IBM Brasil. She has an extensive experience in strategic and commercial operations and was responsible for business process re-engineering, sales operations support, management team projects, risk management, hiring and procurement. She has hands-on experience in team management, finance restructuring and optimization, taxes, and operations departments. She was responsible for analyzing mergers and acquisitions, shared services business cases and business process re-engineering. She led national and international integration/restructuring processes during M&As, coordinating more than 100 people.

Nelson Gomes assumed the position of advisor and president of Compass Gás & Energia in March 2020. He is Chairman of Commit, Sulgás, and GasBrasiliano, and a board member of Comgás, where he served as CEO from 2016 to 2020. Nelson Roseira Gomes Neto holds a degree in Civil Engineering, with specializations in Marketing, Corporate Finance, and Business Administration. He began his career at ExxonMobil, where he held leadership positions in various countries in the Fuel, Lubricant, and Convenience Store businesses. He returned to Brazil in 2008, taking the leadership of the Lubricants business (currently Moove), already under management of Cosan, where he remained until 2014, when he became vice president of Cosan S.A. The following year, he assumed the position of CEO of the company, a position he held until 2016.

Rodrigo Fairbanks holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Mackenzie University and is a founding partner of Incorporadora e Construtora Plano&Plano, which is part of the Company’s economic group. He is the former president of FIABCI-Brasil, is currently Economic Housing Vice President of Secovi-SP and serves as the Officer of the Real Estate Product Advisory Committee of Secovi.

Graduated in Civil Engineering from Universidade Mackenzie, he is a founding partner of Incorporadora e Construtora Plano & Plano, a company in the Company’s economic group. He was former president of FIABCI-Brasil and is currently vice president of Economic Housing at Secovi-SP and Director of Secovi’s Real Estate Financial Products Advisory Committee.

Gustavo has been working for more than 23 years at the Company, having held several functions in the Engineering department of Plano & Plano, including construction management, planning, budgeting, work safety, and technical assistance. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Universidade Mackenzie, an MBA in Technology and Management in Construction from the Polytechnic School of the Universidade de São Paulo (POLI-USP), and a certificate in Financial Management and Business Performance from Insper.

João Luís earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Engineering School of Mackenzie University, a graduate degree in Business Administration (CEAG) from the School of Business Administration of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (EAESP/FGV) and an MBA degree in Finance from EAESP/FGV. He also took up a course on Board of Directors at the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC) and completed Executive Education – Launching New Ventures at Harvard Business School. He was Chief Production Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer. He served as CFO at Saraiva S.A. Livreiros Editores for 15 years, 14 of which also holding the position of Investor Relations Officer (between 1990 and 2014). Between 2017 and 2018, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Saraiva S.A. Livreiros Editores and, since February 2020, has served as the CFO of Plano&Plano Desenvolvimento Imobiliário Ltda. He is also a partner at Ecodescartes Manufatura Reversa, which is focused on screening, disassembling and appropriately disposing of solid waste (electronics); at Play Tennis Cabo Verde; at H2G Corretagem de Seguros Ltda.; and a silent partner at 3Albe Plus, which is focused on developing and distributing products for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. None of these companies are part of the Company’s economic group.

Leonardo Araújo earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, a graduate degree in Marketing, an MBA in Finance and Controllership from INPG, and a specialization degree in Credit Risk Management from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo. He is currently pursuing an MBA in Finance, Investments and Banking at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC). He has more than 20 years’ experience at large Brazilian and multinational companies, including Banco General Motors do Brasil, where he worked in the commercial and finance areas for 8 years, and Construtora Tenda, where he served as a credit manager and a financial services manager for approximately 4 years. None of these companies are part of the Company’s economic group. Leonardo Araújo also studied Personal Development and completed a course on NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Practice and Financial Coaching at the Financial Coaching Institute (ICF). He has been working as a Chief Financial Operations Officer at Plano&Plano Desenvolvimento Imobiliário for 9 years, being responsible for the areas of risk management, accounts receivables, credit, collection, transfer and funding.

Renée Garófalo currently serves as the Company’s Real Estate Development Officer. She has been in the Group for nearly 13 years, 9 of which serving as head of the Cyrela Plano&Plano branch in the city of Natal, which was a transaction carried out in partnership with Cyrela Brazil Realty, launching a PSV of over R$1 billion. Renée holds a bachelor’s degree in Geography from PUC-SP, a master’s degree in Architecture from FAU-USP and a specialization degree in Environmental and Quality Management from SENAC. She has 23 years of professional experience ranging from teaching and market studies’ companies, where she had her first contact with the real estate market, in which she has been working for over 17 years. Thanks to her expertise, she had the opportunity to develop the market intelligence areas of Gafisa and the Carrefour Group. She has training in Quality Management Systems, such as ISO 14000 and 9000 Leading Assessment, and also studied Coaching at the SBCOACHING Group.

Graduated in Civil Engineering and Business Administration from Universidade Mackenzie and Owner President and Management from Harvard Business School, he is a member of the Construction Industry Union of São Paulo where he participates in the Technology, Quality and Environment Committee and the Fiscal Council (SindusCon-SP ) and the Building and Use Commission (CEUSO). Since 1997 he is a partner at Plano & Plano Desenvolvimento Imobiliário Ltda, predecessor of the Company.

Graduated in Civil Engineering from Universidade Mackenzie, he is a founding partner of Incorporadora e Construtora Plano&Plano, a company in the Company’s economic group. He was former president of FIABCI-Brasil and is currently vice president of Economic Housing at Secovi-SP and Director of Secovi’s Real Estate Financial Products Advisory Committee.

Carlos Antonio earned a bachelor’s and a teaching degree in Economics and Business Administration, a bachelor’s degree in Commercial Engineering, Accounting and Auditing from the University of Chile. He holds an MBA in Derivatives and Risks from BM&F (currently B3); an executive MBA in Finance from IBMEC; and a graduate degree in Accounting from the University of São Paulo (USP). He has a good relationship with regulatory bodies and professional associations in the financial market and serves as a Visiting Professor teaching several subjects in graduate programs. He has more than 30 years of experience as an executive at financial institutions and consulting and audit firms in Brazil, including Banco Itaú, Banco Francês e Brasileiro, EY – Ernst & Young, PWC – PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dresdner Bank and Banco Santander, among others. He has been working for years in Fiscal Councils, Audit Committees and Risk Committees of companies of several economic sectors.

Bachelor of Communications / Public Relations from the Escola de Comunicações e Artes of USP. Graduated in Communications from the Faculdade de Educação e Pedagogia of USP. At Fundação Getúlio Vargas participated in the Program of Continuing Education of the Third Sector and Strategic Business Planning. Since 2003 she is an Expert Professor of the MBA of LARC – Laboratório de Arquitetura e Redes de Computadores, at the Escola Politécnica (Electrical Engineering) of USP. She has more than 40 years of professional experience in business and business management. For the past 12 years she has worked on Boards focused on sustainability, management and designations, representing KPMG, BDO and Mariaca & Associates. She was Executive President of the Brazilian Women’s Network Leaders for Sustainability of the Ministry of the Environment from 2011 to 2015. She was a member of the Strategic Corporate Governance Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce – Amcham from 2002 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2013. She is a Tax and Administration Board Advisor certified by IBGC, and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of IBGC. She has been a member of the Women Corporate Directors – WCD since 2006. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Housing and Urban Development Company of the State of São Paulo – CDHU since 2018. She has been a member of the Advisory Board and coordinator of the Omni Financial Services Group’s Remuneration and People Committee since 2016.

Mônica Pires has more than 30 years’ experience in leading multinational and multifunctional teams in finance, business operations, mergers and acquisitions, business strategy transformation, recovery and new start-up companies. She also has experience in leading global processes, innovative projects, shared services initiatives and business transformation. She has experience as a Chief Financial, Process and Innovation Officer. She undertook leading initiatives to raise officers’ awareness about revolutionary processes/innovation technologies and empowered these officers to implement them. She pioneered Hackathons infrastructure management support at IBM Brasil. She has experience as an entrepreneur – owner of a Vocational Courses School. She has experience working in revolutionary technology environments. Mônica Pires has a solid experience in Finance, being responsible for Strategic and Financial Planning, Forecasts, Budgetary Control, CAPEX Coordination, Pricing, Managerial Reports, Balance Sheets, Revenue and Expenses, Product/Service Cost Analysis, and Tax and Risk Management. She has experience in relations, strategies and incentives with business partners. She has a solid experience in audit, control and compliance processes and was in charge of adopting Sarbanes-Oxley Act at IBM Brasil. She has an extensive experience in strategic and commercial operations and was responsible for business process re-engineering, sales operations support, management team projects, risk management, hiring and procurement. She has hands-on experience in team management, finance restructuring and optimization, taxes, and operations departments. She was responsible for analyzing mergers and acquisitions, shared services business cases and business process re-engineering. She led national and international integration/restructuring processes during M&As, coordinating more than 100 people.