COMMUNIQUÉ
Board of Directors approves senior management succession plans
São José dos Campos, September 18, 2008 – Embraer’s Board of Directors, in a meeting held
last September 12, approved the planning for the following changes in the Company’s
organizational structure, effective January 1, 2009.
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Consistent with their retirement plans, Antonio Luiz Pizarro Manso, Executive Vice
President, Finance & CFO, and Satoshi Yokota, Executive Vice President, Strategic
Planning and Technology Development, will be succeeded, respectively, by Luiz
Carlos Siqueira Aguiar and Emilio Kazunoli Matsuo, members of Embraer’s senior
management team;
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Luiz Carlos Siqueira Aguiar, currently Executive Vice President, Defense and
Government Market, will be succeeded by Orlando José Ferreira Neto, who now is the
Managing Director, Embraer Asia Pacific (EAP). The new Managing Director,
Embraer Asia Pacific (EAP), shall be named, soon;
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Emilio Kazunoli Matsuo, currently Senior Vice President, Engineering, will be named
Executive Vice President, Technology, resulting from the integration of the present
areas of Technology Development and of Engineering. The responsibility for Strategic
Planning will be absorbed by the new CFO;
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Antonio Luiz Pizarro Manso and Satoshi Yokota will take an active role in the
respective transition processes, and will remain available for consulting services to
Embraer, as needed, in their respective fields of expertise.
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