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New chairman for JBS

23/10/2017
Meat and leather producer JBS has appointed Jeremiah O’Callaghan as its new chairman. A meeting took place on October 20 and the company chose four new directors, including Mr O’Callaghan.

Originally from Ireland, Jerry O’Callaghan moved to Brazil in 1979. He joined the Brazilian meat industry in 1983, specialising in developing global trade strategies for Brazilian packer companies. He worked at Mouran from 1983 to 1989, then at Bordon from 1989 to 1995 before joining JBS in 1996. He has served as the company’s investor relations officer for the past 10 years.

Other new directors elected at the October 20 meeting were former president of Latin America for Fiat, Cledorvino Belini, international trade expert Roberto Penteado de Camargo Ticoulat, and JBS’s South American president, Wesley Batista Filho. José Batista Sobrinho, Gilberto Meirelles Xandó Baptista, Aguinaldo Gomes Ramos Filho, José Gerardo Grossi and Sérgio Roberto Waldrich are the other members of the nine-person JBS board.

The directors who were substituted were Tarek Farahat, Norberto Fatio, Mauricio Luis Luchetti and Claudia Silva Araujo de Azeredo Santos, all of whom have chosen to resign in recent months.


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