Nelson Silva has been appointed (Monday, June 6) senior consultant to Petrobras’ board of executives. Invited by CEO Pedro Parente, he will coordinate the company’s strategic review process and help to evaluate and redesign its management systems.

“We want to speed up changes in these departments. To achieve the results we need in the shortest possible timeframes, strategy and management go hand in hand,” said Parente.

Silva will report directly to the CEO, and he will be responsible for coordination work in the Strategy and Organization Executive Area, which will continue to be led by Carlos Alberto de Oliveira.

He will make changes to the management system to enable strategic goals determined in partnership with the Board of Directors to be detailed down to the lowest possible level of execution, so that any deviation from the plan can be quickly detected and corrected.

Silva has extensive experience in the oil and gas market and at other commodity companies. He was the CEO of BG in Brazil until the company’s recent acquisition by Shell.