Board of Directors
The board of directors currently consists of six members, according to article 20 of the Company’s Bylaws. During periods of absence or temporary unavailability of the chairman, the vice-chairman will automatically replace the chairman. During periods of absence or temporary unavailability of the chairman and of the vice-chairman, the chairman’s activities will be performed by another member of the board of directors, previously appointed by the chairman. The board of directors is the decision-making body responsible for, among other matters, establishing policies and guidelines for company business. The board of directors also supervises its board of executive officers and monitors the implementation of the policies and guidelines that are established from time to time by the board of directors. Pursuant to Brazilian corporation law, the board of directors is also responsible for hiring its external independent auditors.
The members of the board of directors need not be Brazilian residents and are elected at general shareholders’ meetings for two-year terms, and are eligible for reelection. The term of office of the current members of the board of directors will expire on the date of the shareholders’ meeting to be held in 2009. The members of the board of directors are subject to removal at any time, with or without cause, at a general shareholders’ meeting. SLC Agrícola does not elect alternate members of the board of directors. According to the Brazilian corporation law, each of the members of the board of directors must hold at least one of our common shares.
The board of directors meets at least once every quarter and at any time when an extraordinary meeting is called by the chairman or by any other director. Decisions of the board of directors are taken by majority vote and each director is entitled to one vote.
Pursuant to the regulations of the Novo Mercado, one-fifth of the members of the board of directors must be independent directors, and all the directors are required to acknowledge in writing, before taking office, adherence to the regulations of the Novo Mercado and the rules of the Bovespa Arbitration Chamber. Directors are considered independent if they (i) have no relationship with the company, except for their share participation; (ii) are not controlling shareholders or the spouse, sibling or any relative up to the second degree of SLC Agrícola´s controlling shareholders, or during the last three years have not had any relationship with any company or entity related to the controlling shareholder (excluding persons related to public schools and/or research institutions); (iii) during the last three years have not been company’s employee or officer, or an employee or officer of company’s controlling shareholder or any entity controlled by it; (iv) are not direct or indirect suppliers or clients to an extent that could compromise their independence; (v) are not an employee or officer of an entity that distributes or promotes the company’s products and services; (vi) are not the spouse, sibling or any relative up to the second degree of any of the company’s directors or officers; and (vii) do not receive any remuneration from SLC Agrícola other than that related to their position as directors or shareholders. A director is also considered independent if she or he is elected on a separate ballot held in accordance with the Brazilian corporation law.
Executive Board Members | Office | Election Date | End of term |
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Eduardo Silva Logemann | Chairman | 04/27/23 | AGM 2025 |
Eduardo Silva Logemann has been the president of the holding SLC Participações S.A. since 1987, where he started working at the age of 18 as a Purchasing assistant. Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of RS, participates in class entities related to the company’s business. Eduardo Logemann heads the SLC Group, formed by two companies: SLC Agrícola – one of the largest producers and exporters of cotton, soybeans and corn and one of the largest land owners and operators of Brazil. It was one of the first companies in the agribusiness sector in the world to have its shares traded on the Stock Exchange, becoming a reference in its segment. SLC Máquinas – is the John Deere dealership for the entire northwest region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The SLC Group is present in several Brazilian states and in the Distrito Federal, employs more than four thousand employees throughout the country and has an annual turnover of approximately R$ 3.5 billion. He also serves on the Board of Administration of Melnick S.A. (i) Chairman of the Board of Directors of SLC Agrícola since 2007; (ii) Partner with indirect participation through the controlling partner SLC Participações S.A., which holds 53% of the share capital of SLC Agrícola S.A. Occupations in management positions in other companies:
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Jorge Luiz Silva Logemann | Vice-Chairman | 04/27/23 | AGM 2025 |
(i) Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of SLC Agrícola since 2007; Occupations in management positions in other companies:
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Osvaldo Burgos Schirmer | Independent Director | 04/27/23 | AGM 2025 |
(i.) Graduated in Business Administration from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, he also obtained the title “Masters’ Degree” from Southern Illinois University. He participated in numerous extension courses, including one at Harvard Business School, focused on Management Instruments for “Senior Management”. Experience as an executive (ii) Advisory Board member of SLC Participações, a closed family holding company of Grupo SLC, since April 2017 Occupations in management positions in other companies:
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André Souto Maior Pessoa | Independent Director | 04/27/23 | AGM 2025 |
None of the companies above are part of the issuer’s economic group. (i) Since 2013 he has been acting as an Independent Board Member of companies linked to the Issuer’s Economic Group. Having held the following positions:
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Fernando de Castro Reinach | Independent Director | 04/27/23 | AGM 2025 |
Exercises the position of independent director. Mr. Reinach is a managing partner of Fundo Pitanga. From 2001 to 2010 he was Executive Director and General Partner of Votorantim Novos Negócios, the venture capital and private equity arm of the Votorantim group. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira – Sugarcane Technology Center (CTC) and writes a weekly column for the newspaper “O Estado de São Paulo”. He graduated in biology at the University of São Paulo and obtained his Ph.D. at Cornell University Medical College. He was a Biotechnology Research Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation and a Research Scholar at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was titular teacher of the University of São Paulo, he was involved in the creation of two technology companies and in the coordination of the first Projeto Genoma Brasileiro – Brazilian Genome Project. |
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Adriana Waltrick dos Santos | Independent Director | 04/27/23 | AGM 2025 |
CEO – SPIC Brasil / Hidrelétrica São Simão, since June de 2012 (present) Occupations in management positions in other companies:
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Board of Executive Officers
The board of executive officers is the company´s managing executive body. The members of the board of executive officers are the legal representatives and are responsible for the internal organization, decision-making, day-to-day operations and the implementation of the general policies and guidelines established from time to time by the board of directors.
The board of executive officers currently consists of four members elected by the coard of directors.
The members of the board of executive officers are elected by the board of directors, for two-year terms, and are eligible for reelection. The board of directors may remove any executive officer from office at any time with or without cause. In accordance with Brazilian corporation law, executive officers must be residents in Brazil but need not be shareholders. The board of executive officers meets whenever a meeting is called by our chief executive officer or by the majority of its members whenever deemed necessary.
Executive Board Members | Office | Election Date | End of term |
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Aurélio Pavinato | Chief Executive Officer | 05/15/2023 | Until Minute of the Board of Directors Meeting Afer 2025 ASM |
(i) He held the position of Production Director at SLC Agrícola between 2008 and 2012. He was elected as CEO of SLC Agrícola from December 10, 2012, position currently held. He is a member of the Board of Directors of 3 subsidiary companies of SLC Agrícola, which are: SLC-MIT, Fazenda Pioneira and SLC LandCo. Graduated in Agronomic Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), with a master’s and doctorate degree in Soil Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and Post-Graduation in STC – Skills, Tools & Competencies by the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago in partnership with Fundação Dom Cabral. In 2016, he studied the PGA (Advanced Management Programming) at Fundação Dom Cabral and INSEAD-França. In 2019 he started the OPM-Owner management course President Management, at Harvard Business School, in Boston-USA, with completion forecast for 2022. Professional has 28 years of experience in the sector of Agribusiness and has experience in planning and managing agricultural production, developing new investment projects, negotiating partnerships strategic and strategic and operational planning of the company’s business. |
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Ivo Marcon Brum | Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer | 05/15/2023 | Until Minute of the Board of Directors Meeting Afer 2025 ASM |
(i) He has held the position of Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer at SLC Agrícola since 2010. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Fazenda Pioneira since May 2013. He has been the CEO of SLC LandCo Empreendimentos Agrícolas S.A. since February 2018. Graduated in Accounting from PUC/RS, he has a MBA in Project Management from FGV, in Business Management from PUC/RS and Post-Graduation in STC – Skills, Tools & Competencies from Kellogg School of He has experience in the metal-mechanical market, worked in the NSG Capital group, where he started his activities in August 2007, as Accounting and Fiscal Director of Zamprogna S.A., in March 2009 he took over as Administrative and Compliance Director of the group NSG Capital. From November 1999 to August 2007 he held the position of Controllership Manager at the multinational International Industria Automotiva of South America Ltda. |
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Gustavo Lunardi | Chief Procurement and Seed Producition Officer | 05/15/2023 | Until Minute of the Board of Directors Meeting Afer 2025 ASM |
(i) With the division of the Operations Department in two in November 2021, Gustavo Lunardi, the former COO (Chief Operating Officer) currently holds the position of Chief Procurement and Seed Producition Officer of SLC Agrícola S.A. as Statutory Director. In the company since 2009, he has served as CEO of SLC LandCo (subsidiary company) from 2009 to 2017. From 2011 to 2015 he also held the position of Director of New Business. Graduated in Agricultural Engineering from UFRGS, he has an MBA in Business Management and Marketing from Escola Superior de Propaganda and Marketing/ESPM-RS and in Corporate Finance from Fundação Getúlio Vargas/FGV-RS, as well as training in the International Management Program for Executives from Kellogg School of Management of Chicago, IL – USA, in partnership with Fundação Dom Cabral and training in the International Advanced Management Program for Executives from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, in partnership with Fundação Dom Cabral. He has experience in the agricultural commodities export sector in which he served as Commercial Director in the areas of origination and export from 2005 to 2009 for SMEG-Societè de Manutention et Entrêposage de Grains based in Lille, France. From 1997 to 2005 he performed the functions of Commercial and Marketing Manager in the fertilizer sector, in multinational companies such as Yara and Timac Agro, with offices in Norway and France, respectively. |
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Leonardo Matteus de Celini | Chief Operations Officer | Not a statutory officer | - |
Leonardo assumed the position of COO (Chief Operations Officer) in November 2021. With 19 years in Brazilian agribusiness, he has extensive experience in the area, worked with large agribusiness companies, MAEDA (7 years ) , SLC AGRICOLA (10 years), was Chief Operations Officer (COO) at SCHEFFER for two years. In 2021, the returned to SLC Agrícola’s Regional 2 – which includes the production units in the states of BA/GO/MG/MS. |
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Álvaro Luiz Dilli Gonçalves | Director of Human Resources, Sustainability and IT | Not a statutory officer | - |
Director of Human Resources and Sustainability Agricultural Engineer graduated from the Universidade Federal de Pelotas – RS in 1986. He has an MBA in Business Management from ESPM (Superior School of Advertising and Marketing) and Strategic People Management 2015 – GEP from INSEAD- France – The Business School for the World. He is currently Director of Human Resources and Sustainability at SLC Agrícola S/A. It is a publicly traded company since 2007, producing agricultural products such as soybeans, corn, cotton, wheat and Crop-Livestock integration. The company produces in the Midwest and Northeast of Brazil, in an area of more than 600,000 hectares. It is one of the largest soy and cotton producers in Brazil and in the world. It has more than 5500 direct employees, distributed in 22 Production Units (Farms). He participated as an effective member of the Executive Board of the RTRS (Round Table on responsible Soy Association) 2009-2011 and is currently a member of the group that supports RTRS International, as a member of the Chamber of Producers and of the Task Force Brazil to expand the credit market and physical soybeans with the RTRS standard and seal. Participated as an elected member of the Board of BCI (Better Cotton Initiative) by ABRAPA based in Switzerland with the mission of implementing the International Program to Produce Better Cotton, following the P&C of the platform. Over the past 12 years, he has worked to develop the Sustainability theme, placing the subject in the company’s Strategy, as an important pillar for the longevity of the business. We are today a reference in the Agribusiness sector as a sustainable company in all its processes. We recently created the ESG Committee to support the Board of Directors of which it serves as an internal specialist. Since 2016, we have presented our Sustainability report in the GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) model and since 2018 in the Integrated Reporting (IIRC) model, where we demonstrate the generation of value for the company. The company achieved several awards of recognition in the market both in terms of sustainability through the Investor Sul Americana Magazine as first place in ESG, and in the organizational climate favorable to the best engagement of people, such as GPTW Brasil and RS, also as one of the 150 best as a Incredible place to work according to a survey by FIA/UOL and Valor Carreira in people management for 3 consecutive times, among other recent examples. In 2020, the company launched two CRAs – Verde (Green bonds) with the direct involvement of the sustainability area, endorsed by responsible international investment entities. |
Fiscal Council
According to the Brazilian corporation law, the fiscal council is an independent management body from the Company and external auditors. The fiscal council may be permanent or not. If the fiscal council is not permanent it shall be installed by the request of shareholders representing at least two percent of the voting shares.
The main responsibilities of the fiscal council are to audit SLC Agrícola´s management, review the Company´s financial statements and report their conclusions to the Company´s shareholders. The Brazilian corporation law requires that the fiscal council members shall receive remuneration not lower than 10% of the average remuneration of the board of directors.
SLC Agrícola’s By-laws provides for a nonpermanent Fiscal Council to be installed upon request of the Company’s shareholders meetings. The current Fiscal Council was installed , and will remain in office until the next Annual Shareholders’ Meetings. It comprises three members who were elected by the Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meetings held on April 29, 2021.
Executive Board Members | Office | Election Date | End of term |
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Edirceu Rossi Werneck | Councelor Elected by Minority Ordinary Shareholders | 04/27/2023 | Next Annual General Meeting |
Lawyer and accountant, he worked for 34 years in International Auditing and Consulting companies, being 23 years as a partner. He currently works as a partner at Zavagna Gralha Advogados, in the Tax Advisory and Litigation area. He is an advisor to FIERGS – Federation of Industries of the State of Rio Grande do Sul through his role, since 2011, in the Technical Council for Tax, Legal and Financial Affairs – CONTEC. |
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Rosângela Costa Süffert | Councelor Elected by Minority Ordinary Shareholders | 04/27/2023 | Next Annual General Meeting |
29 years of experience in external auditing at KPMG, working in several market segments, working in family businesses, multinationals, open and private companies. Currently, dedicating himself in the area of governance, fiscal council and audit committee. Bachelor of Accounting Sciences from UFRGS with active CRC (1991), Post Graduation in Business Management from UFRGS (2000). Acted as partner-director of audit at KPMK (October 2015 to July 2021). (i) Serves as a member of the fiscal council of SLC Agrícola S.A. since 2023 • Audit Committee member of the Brazilian Company of Hospital Services (EBSERH) (October 2022 to date) and on the Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto Bolívia- Brasil S.A. (TBG) (August 2023 to date); • Fiscal Council member on Irani Papel e Embalagens S.A., Randon S.A. Implementos e Participações (April 2023 to date) and RI-X Mineração e Consultoria S.A. (May 2023 to date) • Fiscal Council Member (Alternate) of RTDR Participações S.A. (November 2022 to date)
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Paulo Roberto Kruse | Councelor Elected by the Controlling Group | 04/27/2023 | Next Annual General Meeting |
Partner on Kruse & Pasqualini Advogados for 21 years. Member of the Dimed S.A. and Seta S.A. Fiscal Council. |