Roger Peter Jose Michaelis

Roger Michaelis, founder of Verocap, is a professional with vast and proven experience in management, strategy and reestructuring of companies. He has a degree in Business Administration through Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and is postgraduated in business management and strategy through Krupp Stiftung in Munich, Germany, and also Babson College, in Boston, USA. He is also fluent in Portuguese, English and German languages.

His resume includes leading-industry companies, such as Rhodia, Bancos Itaú and Safra, and Osram/Siemens. He has deep knowledge of the retail market, large electrical material providers, automobile industry, manufacturing industry and consumer goods market.

“”For over 20 years, he has occupied positions such as CFO, vice-president and CEO in Grupo Osram, both in Brazil and abroad, where he was responsible for the most diverse teams in the company, such as Sales and Marketing, HR, Logistics, IT, Factory Controlling, Finances and Accountability, Tax and Legal, as well as complex geen field projects for factories and strategic planning. He had responsibilities in Latin America, Germany and lead the complete restructure the companies’ operations in India, as the HQ’s statutory delegate director.
For nine years, he was Osram’s CEO in Brazil, as well as the Regional HR-Head for Latin America. During this time, he made Brazil’s operation one of the four biggest in the world within the Group and also the absolute market leader in the country. At Verocap, he led projects in the retail, energy-saving, paper, mining, chemical, and pets markets. “

This solid and varied professional trajectory allows him to manage merging and acquisition projects, as well as to manage turnaround, restructuring, strategic, operational, marketing, and product portfolio processes, based on his skills and experience on motivation and meritocracy within complex and numerous teams, industrial projects, financial structures, governance, compliance and successon plans.

Roger Michaelis is also a Board and advisory member in many national companies and also a member of the Board of Directors of Georg Fischer Group, in Switzerland.