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Job title
CEO at BRK

Name
Teresa
Last name
Vernaglia

Biography

Teresa Vernaglia specializes in implementing and managing infrastructure companies with large scale and complexity. He has been working for 30 years in the sectors of public telecommunications networks, in electricity distribution networks and more recently in sanitation (water and sewage networks) and reused water for industry. She has held leadership positions in all these specialties for more than 25 years. Regulation, design, commercialization, operation, maintenance, universalization, quality, people management, cultural transformation, innovation, results management, are themes common to all these segments.

In May 2017, she assumed the presidency of BRK Ambiental, a leading company in the private sanitation sector, working to transform the lives of Brazilians by expanding access to water and sewage services in the country. BRK directly impacts 15 million people in 12 states and aims to expand its operations to the entire national territory.

She worked for 16 years in the AES group, was President of AES ERGOS, Instituto AES Brasil and AES ATIMUS and Vice President of AES ELETROPAULO. She was Director of Engineering and Operations at Nextel. She started her career at NEC do Brasil.

Teresa Vernaglia has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of Sorocaba with an MBA in Business Management from the Instituto Técnico de Aeronáutica/ESPM.