OUR STORY

Nathalia is studying for a master’s degree in Energy Planning at the PPE/COPPE/UFRJ. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a postgraduate degree in Analysis, Design and Systems Management from the Estácio de Sá University. She also holds a degree in Cinema from the Estácio de Sá University and studied Astronomy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Nathalia has already worked in the industry, communication and technical areas. She has experience in management and supplier coordination, project development, production management, translation and dissemination of technical knowledge and scientific research. At the E+ Institute, she supports the Executive Director on institutional development, management of the different coordinations, relationships with stakeholders and funders, and planning, monitoring, and guiding the activities and products developed by the E+ Institute.

She has a degree in Environmental Engineering from UFRJ, a master’s degree in Energy Systems Planning from FEM/UNICAMP, and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Energy Planning at PPE/UFRJ. She studied for 2 semesters at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, as a scholarship holder of the Science without Borders Program. She was an intern in the department of Gas and Energy at Petrobras. As a researcher at FGV Energia, she worked in the electricity sector department with analysis of renewable sources, business models, energy portfolios, financial feasibility studies of projects, demand response and distributed generation.

André Strauss was one of the founding partners of Kadima in 2007. He played both the front and the back office, given the size of the company. With the rapid growth and the increasing demands of the _back_, he ended up focusing more on this area, where the pain was greater. From the front, he stayed only in the investment committee of the new strategies. In 2015, he was invited by Squadra and Itaú (credit recovery area) to be CEO of the phase out of CR2 Empreendimentos Imobiliários, making size adjustments (G&A), governance, liquidating assets and renegotiating debts. From 2017 to 2018, he took a sabbatical to work unpaid as CEO of the NOVO party, helping to make the internal structuring of the institution to the necessary size for future electoral challenges. From 2018 to 2020, he provided consulting services to two companies of analogous nature and scopes: a distressed assets manager (Iron Capital) (with some Private Equity and Real Estate) still in early stages and a boutique (Chimera), moving towards becoming a manager, with a portfolio of NPL club deals and some Private Equity deals in the pipeline. In these two houses, he helped in the internal structuring of the companies, as well as participated in the evaluation of deals and M&As, looking at the financial, operational and governance aspects of the possible investees. In the last year, together with friends, who own a medium size consulting company (EloGroup) (revenues of 140MM), he dedicated to set up a holding company using consulting as a lever in the investees. André is currently a liquid assets analyst at Opportunity. He has a degree in Production Engineering from UFRJ, with a course in Board Governance from IBGC.

Nilton is a lawyer who graduated from UERJ and has a master’s degree in law with a focus on Financing and Maritime Law from King’s College London. Nilton is a partner at Mattos Filho Advogados and has extensive experience in infrastructure and energy projects, especially in the offshore area. Nilton is the coordinator of the legal and regulatory committee of the Norwegian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), a member of the maritime committee of the International Bar Association, Brazilian Association of Maritime Law, Association of International Energy Association, and YoungShip Brazil. Worked as secondee at Freshfields, Bruckhaus Deringer, in London, and at BP, Petrobras and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), in Rio de Janeiro.