Eduardo Marson Ferreira
Entrepreneur, former president of the Strategic Council and CEO of the Ezute Foundation, entity created to be the integrator of the SIVAM Project. Subsequently, he developed projects in the civil and defense areas in the design and management of large systems. Implemented Corporate Governance, Corporate Risk Management, Compliance and the ISO 37001 Anti-Corruption certification, unprecedented in the Brazilian 3rd Sector.
CEO of Helibrás, the only helicopter manufacturer in the Southern Hemisphere and part of the Airbus Group, between 2009 and 2015. Under his responsibility, the company doubled in size, created a Development Engineering Center and had a turnover of almost R$ 700 million per year. Corporate Governance, the Corporate Risk System and the Compliance System were implemented in his mandate. This was the first Compliance System in a subsidiary company of the Airbus Group in the world.
Between 2003 and 2009 he chaired the Airbus Group Brazil (then EADS Brazil). He also held the chairmanship of the company's Board of Directors, in addition to participating in the board of several subsidiary companies in the aerospace, defense and space sectors.
Born in São Paulo on August 5, 1963, he studied Social Sciences with emphasis in Political Science at the University of São Paulo. He has taken courses in the area of International Trade at Funcex and Mauá Institute of Technology. He also completed the course of university extension in International Marketing of FGV and the Course of Adviser of Administration in IBGC, Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance.
He chaired the Council of the Brazilian Association of General Aviation (ABAG) for two terms (2012-2015), of which he participates today as past-chairman. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Brazilian Association of the Defense and Security Industry (ABIMDE) and the International Conjuncture Group of the International Relations Institute of the University of São Paulo (GACINT-IRI USP).
Among the various honors received are the Naval, Military and Aeronautical Merit medals, the Victory Medal of the Ministry of Defense, the Tamandaré Medal (Brazilian Navy), the Tobias de Aguiar Medal (PMESP) and the Great Medal of the Inconfidence (Minas Gerais´ Goverment). Received the Personality of the Year award in 2015 from the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in Paris and SAE Aerospace Sector Highlight, among others. For two consecutive years he was elected, by the readers of Aeromagazine, Personality of the Year of the Brazilian Aviation Sector.