Fabio Sandri
Chief Executive Officer, Pilgrim's
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Fabio Sandri joined Pilgrim’s as Chief Financial Officer in June 2011 and has been CEO since 2020. He previously served as CFO of Estacio Participações, the largest private post-secondary educational institution in Brazil, a post he had held since 2010. Prior to that, he spent nearly two years as the chief financial officer of Imbra SA, a provider of dental services based in São Paolo, Brazil.
From 2005 to 2008, Sandri served as strategy director and corporate controller for Braskem S.A., a New York Stock Exchange-listed petrochemical company headquartered in Camaçari, Brazil. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo.