Gustavo Pimenta

Gustavo Pimenta is an executive with global experience in the financial, energy and mining sectors, and with a career spanning 20 years in Brazil, the United States and Europe. He took over as CEO of Vale in 2024. For the previous three years, he was Executive Vice-President of Finance and Investor Relations, with responsibility for Procurement and Energy & Decarbonization. Before joining Vale, Pimenta was an executive at AES for 12 years, accumulating extensive experience as Global CFO, director of Planning and Strategy and Vice President of Performance and Services at the company. He also served as Vice President of Strategy and M&A at Citigroup in New York. He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a master’s degree in Finance and Economics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas.