The body aims to ensure the confidentiality and neutrality of operations for all customers and will be linked to the company’s Board of Directors
São Paulo, January 17, 2023 – V.tal, an end-to-end digital infrastructure solutions company and holder of the largest neutral fiber optic network in Brazil, has formalized the creation of another innovation that it is bringing to the telecommunications sector: its Neutrality Committee.
It is a corporate governance body with a permanent character, which will be composed of three independent members with recognized experience in the Telecom market. The committee will have the function of advising the company’s Board of Directors, acting as a guarantor so that V.tal’s operations are neutral, balanced and non-discriminatory for all customers who share its infrastructure.
Since its inception, V.tal has implemented specific corporate governance practices to ensure that its shareholders who have operations or participation in the telecommunications market do not have access to competitively sensitive information from V.tal’s customers.
The Neutrality Committee will ensure that V.tal’s neutrality and independence rules are observed by all areas – operational, administrative or commercial – and that its commercial practices are neutral and non-discriminatory.
V.tal’s Neutrality Committee will also propose strategies and processes in matters related to neutrality, exercise the advisory role, issue opinions and recommendations and analyze specific situations demanded by the Board of Directors.
“As it is a new business model, we understand that V.tal needs to have a body focused on neutrality, so that all our customers have confidence in working with our company,” explains Maria Claudia Cunha, V.tal’s vice president of Governance, Sustainability and Internal Audit, adding that “the Shareholders’ Agreement that created V.tal provided for the implementation of measures aimed at protecting commercially sensitive information and the establishment of corporate governance bodies aimed at managing the neutrality of operations.”
The nominees to form V.tal’s first Neutrality Committee are:
Fabio Malina Losso: Lawyer, Bachelor of Laws from PUC/PR (1998) and Doctor of Civil Law (2008), with distinction, from USP. Since 2009, he has been a board member at the University of Chicago, where he was visiting scholar between 2013 and 2020. He was Director of Governance, Risk and Compliance at COPEL. He is a partner of Losso Advogados and Priori Capital. He is an independent member of the Board of Directors of ELETROBRAS CHESF. He was a member, vice president and chairman of the boards of directors and member and coordinator of committees of large companies in the telecommunications, electricity, oil and gas and pharmaceutical retail sectors.
Katia Costa da Silva Pedroso: Executive of regulation, competition, legal and business in regulated sectors with more than 25 years of career in companies such as TELCOnsultoria, Vivo/Telefônica, Anatel, Telebrás and Embratel. Lawyer graduated from UERJ with a postgraduate degree in Competition and Consumer Law, she had an executive career at Vivo/Telefónica for more than 14 years, acting as Group Regulatory Director for more than 5 years. Currently, she is a founding partner of TELCOnsultoria, a company specialized in regulatory, legal, competitive and business consulting in the telecom sector, which provides services to associations, suppliers and agents of the chain, such as infrastructure holders/turrets/ airports / SVA – OTT, among others.
Ercio Zilli: Graduated in Electrical Engineering from UnB, he began his career in the National Department of Telecommunications, then passing through NEC and Telebras. He was special advisor to the Minister of Communications for the preparation of the General Telecommunications Law, implementation of Anatel and privatization of Telebras. He has served on the boards of directors of several Telebras System companies and on Anatel’s Advisory Board. He was Director of Regulation at Telemar/Oi and co-founder of Abrafix, which represented switched fixed service companies and coordinator of its regulatory committee. He was president of Acel – Association of cell phone operators, vice president of Regulation of Vivo and currently serves as managing partner of Teleaz Consultoria Empresarial Ltda, with operations in the areas of strategy and regulation in telecommunications and internet.
About V.tal
V.tal is an end-to-end digital infrastructure solutions company and owner of the largest neutral fiber optic network in Brazil, serving telecom operators, internet providers and OTTs. The company has 20 million homes passed available to supply FTTH (Fiber To The Home), 430,000 kilometers of ground-based optical fiber, connecting more than 2,380 municipalities in Brazil, and 26,000 kilometers of subsea cables that connect Brazil to Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Bermuda and the United States, as well as edge data centers distributed between Brazil and Colombia. The company has an integrated portfolio of connectivity and infrastructure solutions and is controlled by BTG Pactual’s investment funds. Since October 2022, V.tal has been a signatory to the UN Global Compact on human rights, labor, the environment and the fight against corruption.
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