Rubens Caparica

-Reports to Executive Operational Board – formed by CFOs from controlled companies and the President of the board – Mr. Eike Batista. -Responsible for IT strategy definition and IT shared services implementation; -Direct IT budget managed: USD 14M; Responsible for key business support programs like the ERP implementation; -Manages a multidisciplinary direct team of 25 employees and 30 contractors;

- Managed Practice Services Delivery and Business Development in Unisys Top Accounts in Brazil and Latin America - Programs P&L management and new revenue generating objective: - Created and grew a IT consulting practice from scratch, overachieving order growth to USD 9M and revenue to USD 5M - Indirect outsourcing business managed: USD 21 M -Responsible for the Consulting Services in Brazil and Outsourcing program for LA, with a team of 20 people (managers and consultants)

- Build a IT startup practice (20 professionals) managing a US$ 3.5 revenue contribution in several company startup programs in Telco and High Tech industry. - Zip.net (1999 – biggest Free Mail Service Provider in LACR), -Globo.com (2000 – biggest ISP/Portal in LAC), -W-Aura and TIM.net (2001 – Mobile and content operators). -Oi (2002 – GSM Telco Provider in Brazil), -Executive of interest for several customers in the Media & Entertainment industry as TV-Globo and Abril Group.

In 1997, I negotiated a fusion between my own company - Inter@rt, and Connect – a leading System Integration company in Brazil - to create a new IT consulting business unit. I was responsible for developing from scratch a local consulting practice in system integration, e-business and network security consulting, focusing Finance, Oil&Gas and Products industries. The resulting company was acquired in 2002 by GeTronics.

Founder and CEO of an IT systems integrator service and IBM solution provider business I was responsible for sales, business development and IBM alliances. The company was built from scratch in 1996 to be an IBM certified services provider and systems integrator for intranet and extranet solutions for the growing corporate Internet market

I was responsible for consulting services operations and services portfolio definition, leading the services delivery area for a full network services portfolio (consulting, implementation, support and managed services). - Managed a Business Unit comprised of 10 consultants and distributed across 4 branches, with managed revenue of USD 1.5 M, distributed in main 3 service areas (Support Services, Network Consulting Services and Maintenance Services).

- hired as IT consultant in the recent formed IBM Consulting - Network Practice. - Developed the network professional services portfolio to Brazil, which received a formal services award in 1993. -Responsible to develop and implement several network projects across mining, electronics, and finance customers (Albras, Philips, BMC Bank).