Councils, Management and Committees

Board of Directors

Name Election Date End of Term
Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello
Chairman
Election Date
04/29/2022
End of Term
04/29/2024

Mr. Ometto has over 40-year experience in large companies management, accumulated in the administrative and financial areas. Besides all positions held at Cosan Group, especially as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cosan Limited, Cosan S.A., and Cosan Logística S.A., he also holds the position of board member at UNICA – Union of Sugarcane Agroindustry of the State of São Paulo. Before joining Cosan Group, Mr. Mello, from 1971 to 1973, served as an advisor at the executive board of UNIBANCO – União de Bancos Brasileiros S.A. and from 1973 to 1980, he served as a Chief Financial Officer at Indústrias Votorantim S.A.

Marcelo Eduardo Martins
Vice-Chairman
Election Date
04/29/2022
End of Term
04/29/2024

Mr. Martins holds a degree in business administration from Getúlio Vargas Foundation, specialized in finance. Mr. Martins joined Cosan Group in July 2007, as an executive of Aguassanta Participações S.A., currently, he holds several positions in the Group, particularly as a member of the board of directors of Cosan Limited, Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer of Cosan Limited; Chief Financial and Investor Relations Officer and Vice Chairman of the board of directors of Cosan S.A. and Cosan Logística S.A. Mr. Martins served as a Chief Financial and Business Development Officer at Votorantim Cimentos between July 2003 and July 2007. Previously, he headed the Latin American fixed income department of Salomon Smith Barney in New York.

José Leonardo Martin de Pontes
Board Member
Election Date
03/28/2023
End of Term
04/29/2024

CEO of Cosan Investimentos, a vehicle that seeks new business opportunities for the Cosan Group, since December 2021, with a significant role in the acquisition operations of mining company Vale’s shares, as well as agricultural land assets (Radar, Janus, and Tellus). Additionally, he is a member of the Cosan partner program, which consists of a select group of eight key executives, with the objective of ensuring the continuity of Cosan and its subsidiaries, as explained in their Reference Form. He has 20 years of international experience in the energy market, starting his career at the Shell Group in 2008, and holding various leadership positions at Raízen since 2011, ranging from commercial and supply chain areas to the executive vice presidency of the fuel business. Currently, he is also a member of the Boards of Directors of Radar and Grupo Nós, a partnership between Raízen and Grupo FEMSA. Mr. Leonardo holds a degree in Business Administration from the State University of Rio de Janeiro and has post-graduate degrees in Strategy, Negotiation, and Leadership from Cranfield University, Harvard, and INSEAD.

Nelson Roseira Gomes Neto
Board Member
Election Date
04/29/2022
End of Term
04/29/2024

Graduated in Engineering (1992), with a master’s degree in Corporate Finance (1998) and a Master of Business Administration (2001). Currently serving as CEO of Compass, he also served as CEO of Cosan S.A. until April 2016. After the acquisition of assets from Exxon Mobil by Cosan in 2008, he took over as president of Cosan Lubrificantes, the fuels and lubricants sector, a position he held until 2014 when he joined the executive board of Cosan S.A., which he remained a part of until assuming the position of Director of Comgás in January 2016.

Jorge Celestino Ramos
Independent Board Member
Election Date
04/29/2022
End of Term
04/29/2024

Mr. Ramos has 36 years’ experience in the oil, natural gas and energy sectors, having occupied several executive positions in supply, natural gas and energy, and distribution. He was the executive director of the refining and natural gas and supply divisions of Petrobras from 2015 to 2018. He has held several positions as senior executive in Petrobras in the supply chain, refining, operations and logistics, marketing and commercialization of fuels divisions for the B2B market. He also served on the boards of Transpetro, Gaspetro, Petrobras Distribuidora, Petrobras Biocombustíveis and Logum from 2014 to 2018. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, a postgraduate degree in oil processing engineering from Petrobras University, a postgraduate degree in sugar and ethanol production technology from COPPE-UFRJ, an MBA in business administration from FGV/ISAE and an MBA in marketing from ESPM. In 2019, he completed the course for members of boards of directors at IBGC.

Executive Officers

Name Election Date End of Term
Nelson Roseira Gomes Neto
Chief Executive Officer
Election Date
11.23.2021
End of Term
01.02.2024

Graduated in Engineering (1992), with a master’s degree in Corporate Finance (1998) and a Master of Business Administration (2001). Currently serving as CEO of Compass, he also served as CEO of Cosan S.A. until April 2016. After the acquisition of assets from Exxon Mobil by Cosan in 2008, he took over as president of Cosan Lubrificantes, the fuels and lubricants sector, a position he held until 2014 when he joined the executive board of Cosan S.A., which he remained a part of until assuming the position of Director of Comgás in January 2016.

Demétrio Antonio de Toledo Magalhães Filho
Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer
Election Date
11.23.2021
End of Term
01.02.2024

Graduated in Business Administration from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, with a post-graduate degree in Commodity Trading from the University of Geneva. He worked in finance positions at EMI Music and British American Tobacco. In 2011, he joined Raízen in the financial and strategic planning area, and subsequently held the position of Director of Trading Finance in Geneva. Since 2019, he has been serving as the Director of Marketing & Services (Downstream) Finance, and recently led the process of Raízen S.A.’s initial public offering.

Elisangela Ferreira Martins
People and Culture Officer
Election Date
07.11.2022
End of Term
01.02.2024

Undergraduated in Psychology with an MBA from Unifesp and Fundação Dom Cabral. Elisangela has more than 20 years of experience in the Human Resources area, having worked at companies such as Alcoa and Kimberly-Clark. Since 2010 in the COSAN group, she has worked in different positions at Raízen and Cosan S.A., in 2018 he took over the Human Resources Department at Comgás and in 2022 she was appointed the People and Culture Officer at Compass.

Frederico Suano Pacheco de Araújo
General Counsel
Election Date
11.23.2021
End of Term
01.02.2024

Undergraduated in Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), graduated in administrative law at the same institution. Frederico holds an MBA in Energy from the University of São Paulo (USP) and an LL.M (Master of Laws) in Corporate Law from Insper. He joined Companhia de Gás de São Paulo – Comgás in 2002 as a lawyer in the regulatory and litigation area, having been legal manager and, since 2014, he has been the Legal Director of Comgás. In 2020, he joined the Regulatory Board of Comgás and the Executive Board of Compass Gás e Energia S.A., TRSP – Terminal de Regasificação de LNG de São Paulo S.A. and Rota 4 Participações S.A., all in the gas and energy segments created by Grupo Cosan.

Adriano Nogueira Zerbini
Institutional and Public Relations Officer
Election Date
07.11.2022
End of Term
01.02.2024

Undergraduated in Geography at USP and Political Science at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (IEP), with a graduation in Business Administration at FGV/SP. He was Assistant Secretary of Relations of the São Paulo City Hall, among other positions in the municipal administration, having also worked for the São Paulo State Government. In the private sector, he worked at the bank BNP Paribas in França, was director of BRF S.A., Cosan S.A. and Comgás. In 2022, he was appointed director at Compass.

Auditt Committee

Name Election Date End of Term
Luis Claudio Rapparini Soares
Coordinatorof the Audit Committee (Independent Member)
Election Date
10/27/2022
End of Term
10/27/2024

Mr. Rapparini Soares has been an executive for approximately 32 years, having worked in various roles in the financial and internal auditing divisions of the British American Tobacco Group and Royal Dutch Shell, and having lived and worked in five countries in four continents. He was the CFO of Souza Cruz S.A. between 2006 and 2010, the CFO of the Raizen Group between 2011 and 2014 and the chief internal auditor of Royal Dutch Shell between 2014 and 2018. He has participated in several executive development programs held by Wharton, Kellogg, Insead and IMD. He is a member of the board of directors of the CCR Group, in addition to being the Group’s auditing and compliance committee coordinator and a member of its finances and results committee.

Jorge Celestino Ramos
Independent Member
Election Date
10/27/2022
End of Term
10/27/2024

Mr. Ramos has 36 years’ experience in the oil, natural gas and energy sectors, having occupied several executive positions in supply, natural gas and energy, and distribution. He was the executive director of the refining and natural gas and supply divisions of Petrobras from 2015 to 2018. He has held several positions as senior executive in Petrobras in the supply chain, refining, operations and logistics, marketing and commercialization of fuels divisions for the B2B market. He also served on the boards of Transpetro, Gaspetro, Petrobras Distribuidora, Petrobras Biocombustíveis and Logum from 2014 to 2018. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, a postgraduate degree in oil processing engineering from Petrobras University, a postgraduate degree in sugar and ethanol production technology from COPPE-UFRJ, an MBA in business administration from FGV/ISAE and an MBA in marketing from ESPM. In 2019, he completed the course for members of boards of directors at IBGC.

Moises da Cunha Mouta
Independent Member
Election Date
10/27/2022
End of Term
10/27/2024

Graduated in Accounting from UNICAP/PE, holds an MBA in Business Management from Fundação Dom Cabral and a specialization in marketing strategy from Insead London. With a professional trajectory of over 30 years, the executive has solid experience in finance, strategic planning, and information technology, having worked for large multinational companies such as PwC from 1990 to 2005, Souza Cruz from 2005 to 2011, British American Tobacco (BAT) Group from 2011 to 2014, and Embraco, a Whirlpool Group company from 2014 to 2018. Currently, he serves as the President of Sodexo On-site Brazil.