Vale: Working for the cash machine

Vale is one of the world’s leading mining companies, with activities in 38 countries generating record results. The company is in a strategic sweet spot, exposed to growth in commodity prices and emerging market demand. CFO, Guilherme Cavalcanti, says it is time the company is seen as a global leader, not merely a Latin American champion. Rob Dwyer reports from Rio de Janeiro.

Vale’s CFO, Guilherme Cavalcanti

Guilherme Cavalcanti
Biography of a CFO

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IN THEORY, VALE has the perfect business model for today’s global economy: revenues that are dependent on buoyant commodity prices and continuing strong demand from the emerging markets on which the Brazilian mining company relies for its exports. In practice political intrigue surrounds the replacement of chief executive Roger Agnelli with Murilo Pinto de Oliveira Ferreira, which unnerved some equity investors.

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