Botelho, a worthy Award Winner: a trajetória do CEO da Embraer (ITA 2008)
Botelho a worthy Award Winner
This year, Brazil and the world have been celebrating the based on the ERJ-145 platform have been delivered to 87 100th anniversary of the first flight at a public event by Brazilian operators around the world. A decate on, the ERJ-145 Alberto Santos-Dumont. program has reached the 10 million flight-hour milestone.
With his imminent retirement next April as president and Under Botelho’s leadship, Embraer has had a penchant chief executive officer of Embraer, Mauricio Botelho must be for seizing market opportunities. It saw an unfilled market seen as another Brazilian aviation hero, one who turned a small niche for aircraft seating 70-110, and its four-model 170/190 money-losing company into a vibrant world-class aircraft program has won 731 orders to date from airlines around the manufacturer. world.
Botelho spent the first 15 years of his working career at Embraer also used the ERJ platform to develop an Embraer before leaving to pursue other opportunities. When he Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft, and to returned in 1995, Embraer had been privatised and was produce the Legacy, its first foray into business jets. It is now embarking on production and delivery of its first regional jets, raking in orders for three other business aircraft in several years behind competitor Bombardier. development.
The Embraer ERJ-145 had its maiden flight just weeks Botelho’s “legacy” is a dynamic company, one of Brazil’s before Botelho came on board. First delivery was in late 1996, leading exporters, investing in its employees and technology to and the company has never looked back. Nearly 1,000 aircraft produce top-notch aircraft.
Airline Business Daily @ ALTA, 2 December, 2006 p.6
Fonte: Airline Business Daily, 2006-12-02.
De acordo com o texto, pode-se inferir que Maurício Botelho
- A) trabalha na EMBRAER há quinze anos e é considerado um herói da aviação brasileira.
- B) deixou as atividades na EMBRAER em 1995, época em que o modelo ERJ-145 foi projetado.
- C) voltou a trabalhar na EMBRAER em 1995, antes da privatização da empresa.
- D) iniciou sua vida profissional na EMBRAER.
- E) deixou a presidência da EMBRAER em abril de 2006.