Management
Consisting of professionals with significant experience in Ultrapar’s fields of operation, the Executive Board carries out the integrated management of the businesses in accordance with the guidelines defined by the Board of Directors. In order to achieve total alignment of interests between the management and shareholders, Ultrapar adopts the philosophy of converting the company’s executives into shareholders, encouraging them to act as co-owners. To this end the company uses a stock ownership program under which the executives have the benefit of preferred shares held in treasury and all of the rights inherent in them. Ownership of the shares is retained by the company for a determined period and once it elapses, ownership of the shares is then transferred to the executive.
Name
Position
Years
in Company
month/year birth
Pedro Wongtschowski
Chief Executive Officer
31
04/1946
André Covre
Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer
4
07/1970
João Benjamin Parolin
Officer Oxiteno
22
08/1958
Pedro Jorge Filho
Officer Ultragaz
30
04/1954
Leocádio de Almeida Antunes Filho
Officer Ipiranga
21*
03/1951
*Considers the date when he joined Ipiranga, which in 2007 was acquired by Ultrapar.
Pedro Wongtschowski
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Wongtschowski has served
as executive officer since 1985. Mr. Wongtschowski
was employed at Ultrapar chemical fertilizer company
from 1970 until 1972 and rejoined the Company
in 1977. Mr. Wongtschowski is also the Chairman
of the Board of the Brazilian Association for
Chemical Engineering, Vice- President of the board
of directors of ABIQUIM, Brazilian Chemical Industries
Association, and Vice-President of Latin American
Petrochemical and Chemical Associations –
APLA. Mr. Wongtschowski is the chief operating
officer of Ultrapar chemical and petrochemical
businesses. Mr. Wongtschowski received a degree
in chemical engineering, master’s degree
in chemical engineering and a doctoral degree
in chemical engineering from the Escola Politécnica
da Universidade de São Paulo. Mr. Wongtschowski
is the author of the book “Indústria
Química – Riscos e Oportunidades”
(Chemical Industry – Risks and Opportunities),
published in 2002 (2nd edition).
Mr. Andrade Filho is the
vice chairman of Ultrapar board of directors and
vice president executive officer. He joined Ultrapar
in 1977. Mr. Andrade Filho has held a number of
positions with Ultrapar’s subsidiaries in
both the LPG as well as logistics, engineering
and chemicals segments. Mr. Andrade Filho is also
the chief executive officer of GLP — Qualidade
Compartilhada, an LPG industry association and
a member of the board of directors of the Brazilian
Petroleum Institute (Instituto Brasileiro de Petroleo
– IBP). Mr. Andrade Filho received degrees
in civil engineering and in administration from
Mackenzie University in São Paulo in 1968
and 1972, respectively.
André Covre
Chief Financial Officer, Ultrapar
Mr. Covre joined Ultrapar in 2003 as Planning and Investor Relations Director. He occupies the position of Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer since March 2007. Mr. Covre has 15 years of experience in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and capital markets. He began his career with Unisys Corp. in the United States, and was formerly a director of ABN AMRO Capital in Amsterdam, a private equity and venture capital fund. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, in France, and a bachelor degree in government studies from Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo.
Pedro Jorge Filho
Officer Ultragaz
Mr. Jorge Filho was elected Officer on April 2005. He has been with the company since 1977, and has held a number of positions with the company, including Officer at Utingás, Director of Engineering, and Director of Marketing at Ultragaz, being responsible for the South-Eastern and Center-Western regions. Mr. Jorge Filho became Ultragaz’s Chief Operating Officer in 2002 and Chief Executive Officer in 2005. He holds a degree in Industrial and Chemical Engineering from Universidade Mackenzie. He took the “Programa de Gestão Avançada” course (1998) at INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France, and the “HR’s – Contribution to Continous Improvement” course from Instituto IESE (1999) of Universidade de Navarra - Barcelona, Spain.
João Benjamin Parolin
Officer Oxiteno
Mr. Parolin joined the company in 1986, consolidating his career in Oxiteno’s commercial area prior to assuming the position of Oxiteno’s Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Parolin has formerly served as marketing manager from 1989 to 1992 and sales manager from 1992 to 2000. From 2000 to 2006 he has held the Commercial Officer position at Oxiteno. Prior to joining Oxiteno, he worked in the commercial area at Dow Química S.A. He received a degree in chemical engineering from Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo in 1980, a post-graduation degree in Marketing Administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas and a master’s degree in business administration from Fundação Instituto de Administração - Universidade de São Paulo in 2003. As a complement to his academic background he attended the STC- Skills, Tools and Competences from Fundação Dom Cabral/J.L Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern University) in 2000 and the Advanced Management Program at Wharton
University in 2005.
Leocádio de Almeida Antunes Filho
Officer Ipiranga
Mr. Antunes is an officer of Ultrapar since May 2008. He has held a number of positions at Ipiranga since 1987 when he joined as Commercial Officer at Fertisul S.A. and Officer at Ipiranga Serrana Fertilizantes S.A. In 1993 he served as an executive officer at CBPI. Currently Mr. Antunes is Ipiranga’s Chief Operating Officer and is also Vice- Presidente of SINDICOM. He earned a degree in Economics from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and post graduation and a master degree in Agricultural Economics at University of Reading (UK) and University of London, respectively. Furthermore, he has completed the Advanced Executive Program, from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Northwestern University, USA.
