Mr. Ricardo Lima is the CEO at CBMM. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering in 1988 and obtained a master’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1993 both at the University of São Paulo (USP). He holds MBA degrees in administration by the following schools: Fundação Carlos Alberto Vanzolini, Dom Cabral and Kellog School of Management. He took the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Mr. Lima has great expertise in the fields of Metallurgy and Steelmaking and worked at Aços Villares S.A., developing industrial technology and processes always striving for high-performance products. He worked in the cement industry as the General Manager at InterCement Brazil, the General Manager at Loma Negra CIASA, in Argentina, and as the CEO at Cimpor SGPS, in Portugal. From 2015 to 2017 he was the CEO at InterCement Participações. Mr. Lima worked as the Director of the Brazilian Association of Metallurgy and Mining where he developed and coordinated the training program of hot rolling process for long products.