International Corporate Finance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE 50 LEADERS

DEALMAKERS

Graduated in Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)

Has an MBA from the Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland

An Investment Officer of Monte Cristalina since 2001

P&G figures among the ten most valuable companies in the world (Forbes)

Serves as a consultant on business and innovation strategy during his free time

Received an MBA from Harvard University in 1977

CEO at Brazil’s biggest health and hygiene company since 2007,

Claudio Bergamo already had extensive experience with corporate

restructuring and growth planning, having worked at McKinsey

& Company as a global consultant before joining Hypermarcas.

Founded in 2001, his company spent 10 aggressive years in the

M&A market, acquiring close to 40 companies up to 2010, when

Bergamo began re-organizing its structure. During the last five years,

Hypermarcas sold many of its acquisitions in the food and cleaning

sectors and decided to focus mainly on health and cosmetics.

In November 2015, Bergamo decided to take an even bigger step

and sold Hypermarcas’ cosmetics arm for $1.2 billion (R$3.8

billion) to French company Coty. Hypermarcas currently has almost

14% of the health market and Bergamo believes this operation will

cement their position as Brazil’s number one.

A.G. Lafley has worked at P&G for decades. His skills were re-

cognized early on by the company leading him to occupy several

positions within the company from chairman to president to CEO.

He gained a strong reputation for himself by growing the com-

pany’s annual organic sales and closing billion dollar deals with

major groups such as Folgers and Pampers. In 2014, A.G. Lafley

performed remarkably in the $12.5 billion divestiture of 43 beauty

product companies and the sale of its Duracell Batteries unit for

$4.7 billion in stock. In his words, to succeed, a company must be

consumer-driven. According to him, “The consumer is boss”. This

is what helped P&G reach a larger consumer base. P&G has now

become a household name for food, health-care and electronics.

In June 2016, Lafley announced his resignation but the question

remains: will he be coming back in the near future?

Claudio Bergamo

CEO, HYPERMARCAS

Alan George Lafley

© SEC Executive Chairman, P&G