RIO OIL & GAS 2016

Responsible for the Schlumberger Research, Engineering, Manufacturing, Technology Lifecycle Management, Software Technology, and Information Technology. Since 2013, he has also led the Marketing, Sales and Account Management functions for Schlumberger. Belani studied electrical engineering in India and holds a graduate degree in petroleum engineering from Stanford University.

Graduated in geology (Msc) from Angola University and post-graduated in Petroleum Geology from Algerian Petroleum Institute. He brings more than 30 years of experience in the petroleum sector.
He started his career ate AMOCO. In 1978 he joined Sonangol where he held technical and management positions and served also as adviser to the Minister of Petroleum of Angola. In November 1990 he joined Elf Exploration Angola as Deputy General Manager. Assigned to the head offices in Paris, he was responsible for the Elf Aquitaine E&P joint Ventures. In 1999, he held the position of Delegate General Manager in TotalFinaElf E&P Angola and then CEO for Total E&P Brasil and Group Representative in the Country.
In August 2008, he became Sonangol’s Country Manager in Brazil and then CEO of Sonangol Starfish Oil & Gas (SSOG). From October 2011, he became Senior Advisor of SSOG Presidency. Candido has been an active member of IBP and has served as member of the Administrations’s Council.

Working for 30 years at Toyota, three of them at Toyota Motor Corporation headquarters in the product development and quality area. He is also president of AEA - Brazilian Association of Automotive Engineering. Edson is graduated in Mechanical Engineering by the Paulista Institute of Engineering and got an MBA in Management from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV).

Over the past five years he worked as Managing Partner of WSI Digital Marketing,a digital marketing agency; Communications Commission member of IBGC- Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance, Financial Officer in Chief of Fibria Celulose, a cellulose branch company, where he served as investor relations manager. Previously, João Elek served as Financial and Investor Relations Director of NET, a telecommunications operator whose capital was closed in 2014. He has a degree in electronic engineering from PUC-Rio, an MBA title in Marketing Planning from COPPEAD / UFRJ and a post-graduate degree in Mergers and Acquisitions from Columbia Business School.

José Formigli worked for 32 years as petroleum engineer in Petrobras Exploration & Production area, having been responsible for Pre-salt projects implementation, as well as E&P Managing Director till beginning of 2015, when retired from Petrobras. Since then he works as consultant through his own company Forsea Engenharia.