Luiz Henrique Fraga

Biography

Mr. Luiz Henrique Fraga serves as the Independent Director of Energisa S.A. since April 27, 2016. A founding partner of Gávea Investimentos, Luiz is a member of the Investment and Private Equity Committees, the real estate committee, Private Equity Valuation Committee, and Compensation Committee of Gávea Group and is in charge of the Private Equity practice. Between 1994 and 2002 he was CEO of Latinvest Asset Management and a partner of Globalnvest Management Co., one of the largest independent asset managers in the US (value investing in variable income in Latin America). Since 1994 Globalvest‘s operations have been concentrated in Brazil via Latinvest. He also supervised the company‘s venture capital initiatives through LatinTechCapital. He previously worked at Bear Stearns (BS) as an officer for emerging markets and headed mergers & acquisitions and corporate finances at BS in Brazil (1989-1994). Luiz also held management positions in fixed and variable income trading, and was in charge of the propriety portfolio of BS in Latin America. Between 1986-1989 he was the officer of the Unibanco in New York and worked in the corporate finances division of Citibank in Brazil. He holds a Bachelor‘s degree in economics from the Roman Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1982) and an MBA in Finances from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird, 1985).

Research Interest

Buisness and Management