Description
Valéria Fernandes joined Vallourec on May 1st 2023 as the Chief Digital and Information Officer and is part of the Executive Committee.
She is a Brazilian native with American and Portuguese citizenships. She graduated from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-Campinas) and holds a computer science degree in Management Information Systems. She has a Master Certificate in Project Management from the George Washington University School of Business.
She comes from Constellium, where she was the CIO for the European Manufacturing Operations. Before Constellium, Valéria worked with various IT think-tank and innovation initiatives in academia and innovation hubs. She spent most of her professional career in IT leadership positions in the automotive industry where she led IT activities of notable M&A, PMI transactions and transformation programs at Daimler-Chrysler-Fiat and Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi. In these roles she worked and lived in several countries in the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. She also worked for: Ford Credit (US and Mexico), Dow Chemical (US and Brazil), Unilever (Brazil) and IBM (Brazil) where she led the implementation of local, regional and global programs.
Valeria is highly committed to Innovation, D&I and ESG and has participated in several related forums and advisory boards.
