What are your needs? What is your vision for your business? What prevents you from accomplishing your vision? Count on us! 1 - TGPw is different from any top traditional consulting firm. 2 - TGPw works for the client's company to have a system of value creation, which sustains and maintains its differentiation and competitive position. 3 - TGPw partners with the client for the implementation.

1. .
Paulo Simas - Co-founderr and Managing Partner
Executive with extensive experience in General Management, Strategy and Finance, acquired in large
companies in Brazil and Latin America in the Consumer Products, Electronics in Healthcare, Agribusiness
and Services sectors. CEO of Philips Chile and Philips Mexico for ten years, preceded by extensive work as
CFO for companies such as Souza Cruz (integral subsidiary), Arthur Andersen and Philips. International
experience supplemented by startup leadership in Brazil for an individual investor, before co-founding and
leading the TGPowerhouse. A CCI - Certified Board Member by the Brazilian Institute of Corporate
Governance - IBGC, and a very active member, participating in the Community CCI (vice-chairman), Private
Companies, and Congress 2014/2015 committees. Master in Production Engineering from PUC - RJ, Bachelor
of Administration - EBAPE - FGV - RJ, GPMD - IESE / Michigan University.
Arthur Vasconcellos- Co-founder and Partner
Arthur has extensive experience in general management (C-Level), gained in large companies in the
industrial sector, such as Alcoa Aluminum (Brazil, Argentina and Chile), CSN and Alcan, totaling twenty-two
years. He was Associate Director of Elenkko Business Advisory, where he led commercial, operational and
strategic planning for aluminum, packaging and publishing industries projects. Additionally, he was CEO of
the American Chamber of Commerce - AmCham - to Brazil, from July 2004 to November 2007. He is a
partner of CTPartners, a multinational blue chip company executive search MBA. - Harvard Business School,
Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor of Business Administration from Mackenzie University.
Christian Stephan - Co-founder and Partner
Christian brings an experience of almost 40 years of consulting, both to SMEs and multinational companies
in the areas of strategy, finance and operations. He worked in Europe, the United States and Latin A.
(Brazil in particular). He was a partner with Deloitte for 20 years in France, Spain (Managing Partner) and in
Canada. In Canada, he was the partner responsible for Financial Management (3 years) of Consumer
Business for Canada (2 years) and Business to Consumer America Latin (2 years). He has extensive
experience in redesigning organizations and processes, in particular financial, marketing and sales, in the
transformation of business and systems implementation. His experience includes industrial sectors of
consumption goods, agribusiness, the retail and distribution, telecoms, banks and insurance firms as well as
small and medium enterprises in various branches. Major clients: Carrefour, Stapeles, Philip Morris
International, Sears, ConAgra Foods, SABMiller, Kraft Foods, Toshiba, etc .. Christian is a graduate of the
Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) in France and an MBA from Columbia University School of
Business in New York.

2. .
Ricardo de Carvalho Destro. – Senior Associate
Entrepreneur and IT Executive with more than 15 years of expertise to follow technological
trends inline with the company strategy to improve internal processes and create new solutions
and products. As operation head, he led initiatives to improve the decision-making process,
integrating the commercial intelligence with KPI of development and operations. Since 2007, he is
a member of the J/XFS workgroup of the Comité Européen de Normalisation. Ricardo is a certified
Board Member by IBGC (Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance), since 2010. He has worked
for companies such as Diebold|Procomp, Embraer and Santander Brasil.
Jorge M. Tarasuk – Partner TGPw - Hub Curitiba
Executive with extensive experience in the industrial value chain, covering areas such as Purchasing
and Supply, Production, Storage, Distribution and Logistics, Engineering and Quality. Combines broad
technical background with multidisciplinary team leadership. Jorge built his career in national and
multinational companies, such as Pepsico, where he was Senior VP of Operations at PepsiCo Latin
America and Managing Director at La Violetera in Curitiba. He is currently a consultant and member of
a Board of Directors.
Luciano Camargo - Senior Associate
Executive with extensive experience in the financial market as Executive Director of Brokerage linked
to foreign banks, advising corporate and institutional clients in the capital market. During his career,
he led the establishment of units of equity investment from foreign banks in Brazil, building, and
leading teams dedicated to analyzing, trading and distributing stocks in the Brazilian and International
markets. He worked at General Bank of Commerce, ING Barings, ABN-Amro and Santander.

3. .
José Luiz P. Costa Dias – Senior Associate
Electrical Engineer (EPUSP, 1974), MBA (FGV-SP, 1978). Scholarship (1984), Confederation of British
Industry. Author, published technical book and papers on management. More than 40 years experience
in technical and managerial capacities in General Electric, ASEA (presently ABB), Roland Berger
Consulting, INBRAC and Philips; in the latter, Vice- President for Strategic Planning, Human Resources
and Social Security (Pension Fund) for Latin America.
Sergio Camargo – Senior Associate
Marketing Senior Executive with solid experience in both B2B and B2C markets in large multinational
companies such as: AC Nielsen, Ecolab, Diageo, Mckinney Rogers, Philips and Microsoft. As Marketing
Director for Latin America at Philips he experienced the dynamics of the main countries in the region,
interacting also with Europe and Asia. At Microsoft, Sergio was responsible for the “Go to Market”
Strategy for SMBs in Brazil. Branding, Product Management, Strategic PR, Digital Marketig, E-Business,
Innovation, Trade Marketing, Market Research and P&L management are his key areas of expertise.
Sergio has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Adminstration from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) with
several especialization courses in Marketing in Brazil and abroad (UK, USA).
Moises Berland - Senior Associate
Executive with broad experience in the related supply chain processes: demand planning, distribution,
transportation, foreign trade, sourcing, negotiation and competition. He had a successful career at
Philips for 35 years, where he held various executive positions in Brazil and the Netherlands. As
responsible for the "Supply Chain" for the "Consumer Electronics" Division for Latin America, he led the
negotiation of all logistics providers for all Philips divisions in Latin America. Moises is a Production
Engineer from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. He has specialization courses and
a Master degree from the University of São Paulo and the Netherlands both in the management area as
in logistics.

4. .
Nicolas Wsevolojskoy – Senior Associate
Executive with extensive General Management experience in the fields of Financing, Agribusiness,
Packaging, Automotive, Cash Management and Finance consulting. Managing Director of Banco GM in Brazil,
moving on to become CEO of General Motors for Chile, Peru and Bolivia and finally CEO of GM International
Sales and GM International Trading for Central America and the Caribbean. Managing Partner for 13 years of
Financial Management Consulting Ltda. in Sao Paulo, achieving outstanding results by contributing to
optimize cash flow, thereby reducing working capital needs, of medium and large, Brazilian and
multinational companies in Brazil. Nicolas was CEO of international operations of Chrysler Financial
Corporation for over 11years in Colombia, Peru, Spain and France. In this country, he ran as CEO Chrysler
Financial’s largest international joint venture financing operation with Banque Lazard in Paris. Holds a BA
degree in mathematics of the Universities of Paris and Poitiers (France), a BA of the Getulio Vargas
Foundation business school in Sao Paulo and an MBA degree of Michigan State University.
Oswaldo Gola - Senior Associate
Executive with extensive experience in General Management, Strategy and Marketing, obtained in
large companies in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and other Latin American markets, in the Healthcare
Products industry, particularly, pharmaceutical products. He was CEO of GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) in
Brazil, Argentina and Mexico for 16 years. Before this period, Oswald was as for many years Director of
Marketing and Sales in pharmaceutical companies such as CIBA-Geigy (Novartis), SYNTEX (Roche),
Rhodia (AVENTIS) among others.
José Flavio Franco – Senior Associate
An executive with an extensive and diversified experience. He led the Technology Development
Organization at Mendes Junior Group in the 70s and 80s; served as Advisor of Belgo Group Mining
(Arbed), CIO of the University Hospital of UFMG. At Consulting Hewlett-Packard, he was responsible
for the financial markets and government. Jose Flavio was also a director of SAP focusing on Banks,
Insurance, Utilities, Government and Public Services; director of Mitsubishi-Politec and director of
Software AG. Currently, he advisors Sabemi (Insurance), Kuraray (Japanese Chemical Industry Group)
and AccesStage (EDI company of the Mitsubishi Group). Jose has a BS in Electrical Engineering from
UFMG, a Master in Business Administration from CEPEAD / UFMG, and an MBA from the University of
California. He got a Certification in Strategy and Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.

5. .
Angelica Wiegand - Senior Associate
Executive with vast experience in financial markets as Executive Director of Commercial and
Structured Finance Areas leading national and international credit operations, financial advisory to
companies of various industries (Agribusiness, Mining, Oil, Pulp&Paper, Telecommunications, Energy,
etc.). Combining team management and financial market knowledge, she lead the Financial Services
Practice of an international Executive Search firm for five years. She worked at WestLB Brasl,
Dresdner Bank, Philip Moris Brasil and Bunge Corporation.
Roberto Jankauskas – Senior Associate
Senior Information Systems & Technology Executive with domestic and international experience in IT
Services and Outsourcing in the industrial and services' business.
His career of more than 30 years in the IT area was developed within Mondelez International / Kraft
Foods, Philips and Atos Origin, built across the Latin America region and in a Global IT organization.
Managed high complexity projects focusing on IT Infrastructure Services' set-up and delivery (based on
COBIT / ITIL framework). He was responsible for global programs deployment, outsourcing (RFP
process, Data Center consolidation, Telecom, End User support, e-Mail & collaboration), change
leadership, contract management and cost reductions. Electronic Engineer (FEI), post graduated in
Business Administration & Marketing, as an expatriate lived in The Netherlands for about two years,
working in a global and multicultural team.
Graziano Conti – Partner TGPw - Hub Rio de Janeiro
Graziano Conti
Senior Professional with focus on Business Development and Strategic Planning. Consultant at
Accenture and at the Monitor Group with proven leadership of multi-functional teams and successful
management of complex projects. He advised Multinationals, Governments, State-owned organizations
and NGOs. Graziano had an international career as Executive in the Pharmaceutical Market, as
Strategic Planning Director for GlaxoSmithKline in Latina America and Corporate Finance Controller of
the Group Roche.
Swiss national, he has been living and working in Brazil for 15 years. He owns an MBA from one of the
world’s leading Business Schools and is fluent in six languages.

6. .
José Fuentes Molinero Jr. – Senior Associate
A performing international Executive with over 20 years of experience as CEO , VP , General Manager and
Board Member positions at high technology field – Fast Move Durable Goods industries - Consumer
Electronics, IT, Telephony, Technology - Semiconductors and Electronic Components.
Experienced within Management Processes in startups, turnarounds and spinoffs enterprises with high
business complexity and governance. Career in multinational and Brazilian companies as Ibrape, Philco,
Philips and Samsung. Operated nearly a decade in the USA and England as commercial Vice President at the
B2B and B2C markets. Managed businesses over $ 1 billion and has developed new business in the Americas,
Europe and Asia. Currently senior partner" and advisor at TGPw in Management, Improvement,
Restructuring, Strategic Planning, Commercial and Innovation. Presently, also professor at universities UNIP
and B.I. International in the area of Strategic Planning and Market Intelligence
Electronics engineer FEI Brazil, specialized in Business and Administration at Maua Institute of Engineering
with numerous specialization courses in management and business accompanied in USA, Europe and Asia.
Native Portuguese, English and Spanish.