President

SERGIO SCHULER

Masters in Biotechnology at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and Master in Business Administration at the University of Chicago, Sergio Schuler has more than 20 years of international experience as a Senior Executive in important management positions and has a long history of business turnarounds, solid financial background and great expertise in sales and marketing. The executive began his career as a Business Consultant at Arthur Andersen before joining Roche, where he served in various marketing and sales roles in Brazil and Switzerland. Between 2005 and 2018, Sergio took on several management roles with increasing responsibilities at Bayer and was named Head of Animal Health for Latin America in his last year at the company. In November 2020, joined as Vice President of the Animal Nutrition and Health for Ruminants business at DSM.

Vice President

JOÃO SCHIMANSKY NETTO

He has been operating in the beef market for over 15 years. Since 2012, he has Commercial Director for South America at Swedish retail Norvida A.B. Previously, he worked at JBS as a trader and on the Pricing and Sales Management Board for the European continent. He has also worked at Bertin, where he was responsible for meat sales and new products development. At Marfrig, he was the quality assurance coordinator. He is graduated in Business Administration from UniSALESIANO in Lins, in the state of São Paulo.

Treasurer

ALINE AGUIAR

Rabobank Brazil’s Social and Environmental Risk Team Leader, where she works since 2013 and is responsible for monitoring the social and environmental risk of the bank’s clients, with a focus on mitigating clients’ credit, reputation and legal risks, as well as the development and maintenance of assessment tools and customer monitoring. Aline has a degree in Environmental Engineering at UNESP, a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management at ESALQ-USP and an MBA in Agribusiness Management at FGV-SP. Prior to Rabobank, she worked in the sustainability area at the companies Copersucar and JBS.

Executive Director

LUIZA BRUSCATO

BSc and Environmental Engineer graduated from UFABC – Federal University of ABC, Luiza Bruscato has worked for most of her career with sustainability projects, adding fifteen years of experience in the public, private and third sector. Of these, for five years she was responsible for education projects for sustainability at BASF. Since 2017, she has been dedicated to the spread of good practices in livestock. At Athenagro Consulting, she coordinated three editions of the Livestock Rally. She is also a visiting professor at IPOG’s Agribusiness Management MBA and member-at-large of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef.