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Manuela Vaz Artigas

Independent Board Member at Empreendimentos Pague Menos

Manuela Vaz Artigas. Economics degree from Unicamp with an MBA from Anderson Business School at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she graduated as a member of the Anderson Business Society and received the Fred Weston Excellence finance award. She is currently CEO of Calila Investimentos, a position she has held since August 2015, where she operates as the link between the holding company and the operating companies and shareholders. For such, she is a board member of the companies of the portfolio – Solar, JCC and Jangadeiro. She is responsible to design the Group’s central strategy and manage the professionalization process. Manuela arrived in Calila after 18 years at McKinsey, where she was a partner. During this period, she worked for several Brazilian and multinational companies in Latin America focusing on retail and consumer goods. In retail, she worked in different sectors – food, electronics, clothing – in operational, strategic and organizational matters. Additionally, Manuela worked at Goldman, Sachs, NY and PIMCO, Munich. Manuela is fluent in English, Spanish and French, as well as having basic knowledge of German.