Embraer’s Board of Directors has elected Antonio Carlos Garcia as the company’s new chief financial officer and investor relations officer, replacing Nelson Salgado, who will serve as Embraer’s chief operations officer. The change will be effective as of January 1, 2020 and Salgado will remain in his current position as Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Officer until January 1, 2020.
Garcia has extensive experience in finance, accounting and procurement at multinational companies. He worked for nine years at ThyssenKrupp, where he served as the global CFO of the Forged Technologies business unit, in Germany. Previously, he worked for six years at the ZF Group, in Brazil, and for over 18 years at Siemens, in various business segments.