OVERVIEW

William W. B Veale | Director

William W. B. Veale is an American citizen who resides in Brazil. With extensive operating exposure in Brazil and other Latin American countries, Mr. Veale has wide-ranging experience negotiating buy and sell-side transactions, and first-hand knowledge of Latin American countries’ politico-economic swings. Mr. Veale is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Prior to joining the Versailles Group, Mr. Veale was an independent advisor to small and medium-sized companies and a Director for M&A of Partners Consultoria, a management consulting firm in São Paulo. Previously, Mr. Veale headed the Brazilian subsidiary of The Lincoln Electric Company, having sold his own company, Brasoldas S. A.—acquired from The BOC Group in a leveraged buyout financed by the investors who own 3G Capital—to Lincoln. Mr. Veale was President of BOC’s Brazilian company and then President of its Latin American Division. His career began with Air Products and Chemicals; his success in the Silicon Valley market led to his transfer to Brazil to conduct Air Products’ successful market entry there.

Mr. Veale earned a B.A. in economics from Yale University and an M.B.A. from San Jose State University while working in California’s Silicon Valley. While at Yale, he was active in singing and was a member of The Whiffenpoofs. His interest in music continues, and he is a member of the Advisory Council of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.

ADNILSON OLIVEIRA | DIRECTOR

Mr. Adnilson P. Oliveira is an experienced accountant with extensive senior financial and administrative management experience in multinationals and Brazilian companies.  Both as a member of companies’ management teams and as an advisor to clients’ senior executives, Mr. Oliveira has participated in many acquisitions, on both buy and sell sides, ranging from a straightforward sale or acquisition to complex mergers and IPO’s.  In several cases his activities included a financial/administrative overhaul and an upgrade to prepare his clients’ businesses for their respective transactions.

In the decade prior to joining Versailles Group, Mr. Oliveira has been a consultant advising major players in the health care sector, several with multi-year contracts in which he assumed a direct executive role in their operations.  His projects, all concluded successfully, have included, among others:

• Restructuring of a large multi-divisional hospital group’s finances and operations in Greater São Paulo.
  
  
• Implantation of systems and controls for certification, and oversight of a three-year retroactive outside audit, for an important hospital group in the north of Brazil.
  
  
• Improving the efficacy of financial systems and processes in preparation for a due diligence investigation and his São Paulo client’s merger with Brazil’s largest private hospital group, based in Rio de Janeiro.
  
  
• Responsible for a health care group’s treasury, overseeing its qualification for a very successful IPO, after which he was directly involved in its acquisition of ten individual businesses, all integrated into its operations, based in São Paulo.

Mr. Oliveira previously worked with Brazilian subsidiaries of multinational manufacturing companies.  He was CFO of Anixter Inc., the American wire and cable distributor, and Financial Manager of the Canadian beverage manufacturer, Seagram’s.  Prior to that he was Financial Director of the Brazilian subsidiary of The Lincoln Electric Company, a manufacturer of consumables for electric welding.  Mr. Oliveira had joined that company 20 years earlier, shortly after its founding, and accompanied its growth and changes through three subsequent acquisitions.

Mr. Oliveira has a diploma in accounting from the Santo André Foundation and an MBA from Ibmec São Paulo.

Mark Hayden | Director

Mr. Hayden is a Director with Versailles Group and is responsible for overseas business development, primarily in European and Asian markets. In addition, Mr. Hayden assists with cross-border transactions in the UK, Europe, and Asia where he has extensive experience.

Prior to joining Versailles Group, Mr. Hayden held several financial and / or management positions with various multinational companies including Colgate-Palmolive, Coopers & Lybrand, Wilkinson Match, BISS Limited, and Dubilier plc. In addition, Mr. Hayden was the Managing Director of Equant Japan, where he turned a loss-making subsidiary into a profitable business.

Mr. Hayden is a Chartered Accountant in the United Kingdom. He enjoys reading history and playing the piano in his spare time.

Brigitte Grava | ASSOCIATE

Ms. Brigitte Grava earned a Master of Science degree in Entrepreneurship from the Sykes College of Business at the University of Tampa. She also graduated, with honors (GPA=3.9), from the University of Tampa with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and a minor in Business Analytics. 

At the University of Tampa, she was heavily involved in the Economics Department, was a member of the Adam Smith Society, and participated in numerous economic think tanks and conferences.  Brigitte also took advantage of opportunities offered by the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Tampa.  She won a business pitch competition in her sophomore year, which awarded her a spot in the Lowth Entrepreneurship Center's Accelerator Program.

The summer before junior year, Brigitte interned with Versailles Group, took an interest in M&A, and started learning about the inner workings of cross-border M&A transactions.  After finishing her junior year of college, she obtained an internship at Raymond James, where she worked for the competitive intelligence team.  In this position, she performed economic analyses of similar financial firms to compare to internal analyses of Raymond James’ customers, services, and revenue streams.  She transitioned at Raymond James from an intern to a part-time employee as she started her senior year at the University of Tampa.