Mr. Lima is managing director for CarVal Investors, focused on managing investments in real estate, distressed-asset portfolios and structured products in Brazil. Prior to joining CVI in 2004, Mr. Lima was a partner at Rio Bravo Investimentos, a Brazilian asset management company responsible for fixed income, derivatives and fund of funds portfolios. He began his career at Banco Pactual as controller of the fixed income and derivatives desk, later becoming investment manager of Asset-Backed Securities. Mr. Lima earned an MBA in Finance and Risk Management at the University of São Paulo in 2000 and holds an Aeronautical Infrastructure Engineering degree from the Aeronautical Institute of Technology – ITA, São Paulo.