Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2016 Winners Edition

www.finance-monthly.com Frederico Brito e Abreu CFO at Kroton Educational S.A. About Frederico Brito e Abreu Mr. Brito eAbreu receivedanMBA from INSEAD, with an exchange program at Wharton Business School, and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration fromCatholic University of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal. He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer at Kroton Educacional S.A., responsible for Treasury, Tax & Accounting, Credit and Collections, Planning and Control, Compliance, Procurement, Legal and IT. He is also head of the M&A department. Prior to joining Kroton, he performed as a Director at the private equity firm Advent International and at McKinsey & Company in São Paulo, at New York and Lisbon offices. Frederico joined Kroton in 2009 and led Kroton’s M&A process involving a total investment of R$ 16,5 billion, which included 8 high level acquisitions, such as Unopar, Unisasselvi, Iuni Educacional, Anhanguera Educacional and more recently the merger with Estácio. Since then, Kroton has grown exponentially from 44k students for over a million, from R$ 50 million EBITDA to more than R$ 2,2 billion in 2016, and from R$ 800 million Market cap at Bovespa to more than R$ 23 billion today. All these achievements made him one of the most prominent CFOs in Latin America. He was awarded with several corporative governance recognitions and others. Mr. Brito e Abreu has also won for 3 years in a row (2013, 2014 and 2015) as the best CFO of Latin America in education business for Institutional Investor. With his help, Kroton has been on the spotlights and had the biggest stock valuations among the companies in Ibovespa from 2012 to 2014. BRAZIL Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2016 Firm Profile Kroton is one of the largest private educational organizations in Brazil and worldwide, operating in the primary and secondary education segment for over 50 years and in the postsecondary education segment for more than 10 years. In 2010, the Company acquired IUNI Educacional, an institution that offered undergraduate and graduate programs. In 2011, the Company acquired Universidade Norte do Paraná (Unopar), the largest distance learning institution in Brazil. To crown this intense pace of acquisitions, in 2013 Kroton announced its biggest-ever deal: its merger with Anhanguera, thereby consolidating its leadership in both the in-class and distance learning segments. After the merger with Anhanguera, Kroton have 120 higher education units, with presence in 13 Brazilian states and 74 cities, in addition to the 910 Distance-Learning Graduation Centers accredited by the Ministry of Education (MEC) located in all Brazilian states and in the Federal District. The Company also has, in Basic Education, 669 associated schools in all Brazilian states. Finally, the merger with Anhanguera added more than 400 free and preparatory course centers to the portfolio. 52