José Luiz Navarro is a financial, accounting and tax professional with more than 15 years of experience. He joined MVV in 2018 and has over 10 years at Atlantic Nickel (the other Appian Capital asset), during that time, has managed the entire cycle of accounting closing, review of financial statements, tax planning and review, internal controls, cost and budget analysis, treasury, nickel and copper concentrate commercialization and reporting to corporate offices in Perth and currently London. He was directly involved in key achievements such as the M&A process to Appian Capital takeover, US$140m project finance for the MVV project construction, reimbursement in cash of indirect taxes (PIS/Cofins), financial modeling of the new life of mine plan and the settlement of all finance, accounting, and tax structure for the project implementation in Brazil. Prior joining the group, José Luiz Navarro was a senior auditor at Deloitte, performing auditing and consulting regarding IFRS / BRGAAP for several companies. He holds two bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Business Administration from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He is fluent in English with solid experience in corporate finance, reporting and internal controls.