Caio Paes de Andrade

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Caio Mario Paes de Andrade
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Department secretary of São Paulo
Assumed office
January 2023
Personal details
Born (1974-06-28) 28 June 1974 (age 49)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alma mater Universidade Paulista
Harvard University
Duke University
ProfessionEntrepreneur and investor

Caio Mario Paes de Andrade (born June 28, 1974, Rio de Janeiro) is an entrepreneur, administrator, investor, and was a member of Minister Paulo Guedes' economic team. He served as the president of SERPRO, Special Secretary for Bureaucracy Reduction, Management, and Digital Government, responsible for the digital strategy and creation of the GOV.BR Platform, and also as the president of Petrobras from June 2022 to January 2023. [1] [2]

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He attended the Military College of Salvador and holds a degree in Social Communication from UNIP, with a postgraduate degree in management from Harvard University and a Master's in Business Administration from Duke University. [3] [4] [5]

Career

Caio Paes de Andreade is a Brazilian entrepreneur with involvement in the creation of several internet-related companies in Brazil. Among them are one of the first internet service providers, STI, and the free website hosting service hpG. hpG was founded in the early 2000s and was sold to IG in 2002 in one of the largest transactions in the Brazilian internet market. He also founded Maber and 123i through the WebForce holding, which were sold to the real estate consultancy Lopes. [6]

He is one of the creators of the Pixcodelics series, which resulted in the MMORPG Cosmopax. [7] [8]

In the social sector, in 2003, he participated in the foundation and promotion of the Fazer Acontecer institute, an OSCIP that promotes sports activities and citizenship education for teenagers residing in areas with low HDI in Bahia. Caio Mario acted as an entrepreneurship mentor at Endeavor Brasil Institute. [9]

In 2019, he was invited by Minister Paulo Guedes to join the Bolsonaro government, assuming the presidency of SERPRO. In 2020, replacing Paulo Uebel, he was appointed Special Secretary for Bureaucracy Reduction, Management, and Digital Government, under the Ministry of Economy. [10]

Leading the GOV.BR Platform, he strengthened the federal government's digital strategies by offering various new services to the population, reaching over 115 million registered users and elevating Brazil to the 7th position in digital government maturity by the World Bank, among 198 countries. [11]

Caio was also a member of the Board of Directors of Embrapa and Pré-Sal Petróleo S.A (PPSA).

In 2022, he was considered to assume the presidency of Petrobras and officially nominated by the Bolsonaro government in an official note published by the Ministry of Mines and Energy in May 2022. His name underwent Integrity Background Check (IBC) and Capacitation and Management (ICG) assessments, being approved by 7 favorable votes and three against by the board of directors to assume the presidency of the state-owned company and by 8 votes to 2 to compose the same board. [12]

Caio took office as the 41st President of Petrobras on June 28, 2022, remaining in office until January 4, 2023. Under his management, Petrobras recorded its highest net profit in history, earning R$188.3 billion Brazilian reais, distributing a total record amount of R$215.7 billion in dividends to its shareholders for the year 2022. [13] [14]

In 2023, he resigned from the position of President of Petrobras prematurely to assume the Secretariat of Management and Digital Government of Tarcísio de Freitas government in the state of São Paulo. [15]

At the helm of the Secretariat of Management and Digital Government, Caio oversees the management of Detran - SP, the São Paulo State Data Processing Company, a technology company responsible for the Official Press and Poupatempo units, as well as the São Paulo Special Payments Institute (Ipesp), responsible for settling pension portfolios linked to the state of São Paulo. [16] [17]

Awards and Honors

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    Business positions
    Preceded by
    José Mauro Ferreira Coelho
    CEO of Petrobras
    2022–2023
    Succeeded by