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He is currently responsible for the concept and execution of production development projects in Lula field, located at the Brazilian presalt area, where ten Floating Storage and Offloading Systems must operate. Six of them have been already in operation, processing from 100 to 150 kbpd, demanding capital expenditure of more than U$ 40 billion. The engineer has experience in managing and approving upstream projects, and has formerly been corporate general manager for production development projects in Petrobras, with the role of improving the Upstream Projects Design, Sanction & Execution framework. Flavio also worked in business development em divestiment activities. He got a bachelor degree from Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME).

Economist, MSc in Business Administration from Coppead and DSc in Energy Planning for PPE / COPPE. BNDES employee and former head of the Chemical Industry Department.

Bachelor’s Degree in Law Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio (1977), and Master Degree in Comparative Law George Washington University (1979).


João Laudo was a partner at the law firm Laudo de Camargo Advogados, municipal attorney of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Commissioner of the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) and General Counsel at BNDES Participações S/A (BNDESPAR),


Senior Partner of Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados, a retired attorney of the State of Rio de Janeiro and General Coordinator of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance -- Rio de Janeiro Branch.

In charge for four years of accompanying IFP’s oil and gas, petrochemical and powertrain industry clients in developing and maintaining the professional skills of their personnel to the highest industry standard. Prior to that position, Karnik has been the Dean of IFP School from 2000 to 2011, that offers graduate programs, providing students and young professionals from all over the world with education in the fields of energy. In these two positions, has contributed to the development of talent in the oil and gas sector, with 600 new graduates annually and over 15 000 professionals from 80 countries being trained every year. He holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Nancy and a master’s degree in petroleum economics from IFP School.

He manages IBM’s global portfolio of clients across all these industries and is also responsible for the design, development and delivery of industry specific solutions that are based on advanced research & development concepts and integrate IBM’s hardware, software and service capabilities. A strong believer in collaboration as the path to innovation, Brantley has reached out to business partners and clients alike to design and develop the next evolution of industry specific solutions that address these industry’s most challenging issues including profitable exploration, integrated operations, asset management and production design and scheduling. The last two years, he has been living and working from Shanghai, China. He received his BA in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire and his MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology.