RIO OIL & GAS 2016

Founding Partner at Gávea Investimentos, a Brazilian company, and former president of Brazilian Central Bank, Armínio Fraga is one of the most acclaimed economists from the country. Your experience includes BM&FBovespa, Soros Fund Management, in New York, among others. Ph.D in economics for Princeton University (1985), Fraga has graduate and post-graduate degrees at PUC (Brazil).

Mr. Augusto Salomon is the Executive President of the Brazilian Association of Piped Gas Distributors - ABEGÁS, and has worked in the gas market since 1992, when he founded GAS BRASIL – a B2B networking site for natural gas sector. He has a degree in Computer Science, and a MBA's in Project and Business Management. He is a co-founder of pioneer in Brazil "Syspro Engeneering & Holding”, a developer of wireless communication technology company. He was a Project Manager at the Center for Development Research Informatics and Automation, an arm of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federal Government for the state-of-the-art software development and technology exporter. Since 2006, he has been working for ABEGÁS, representing all piped gas distributors in the country, helping in the improvement of political agendas that benefit the gas industry.

He is a former federal regulator with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now, his practice focuses on representing financial institutions, public and private companies, accounting firms, and their boards of directors, audit committees, directors, officers, and employees in domestic and international securities enforcement actions and litigations, white collar criminal defense, derivative actions, internal investigations, congressional investigations, complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, and crisis management. Claudius has extensive experience in handling delicate high-profile matters that require concurrent representation in the civil, criminal, and political spheres.

Based in Rio de Janeiro since January 2016, he was previously the President for Chevron Colombia. Javier joined the company in 2000 after gaining an MBA from IESE in Barcelona, Spain. He spent the first 10 years on development of oil & gas growth opportunities and commercial operations in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Currently, he is focused on leading key profit center organizations.
Javier gained a Bachelor of Science and Operations Management degree in 1992 at Rutgers University, US. After graduation, he spent 6 years in Peru working in the manufacturing Industry in positions of increasing responsibility from production and plant supervisory to general manager role.

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.