Leadership

Stanley A. Motta serves as chairman of the board of Copa Holdings S.A. He has been one of the directors of Copa Airlines since 1986 and a director of Copa Holdings since it was established in 1998. Since 1990, he has served as the President of Motta Internacional, S.A., an international importer, and distributor of consumer goods. He serves on the board of directors of ASSA Compañía de Seguros, S.A., Televisora Nacional, S.A., Inversiones Bahía, Ltd. and GBM Corporation.

Motta is chair of Sumarse, an organization dedicated to the promotion of corporate social responsibility. He is a trustee of ANCON, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving biodiversity. Motta is also a trustee of the Central America Leadership Initiative (CALI), the Latin American Council for Conservation (TNC), and the innovative City of Knowledge in Panama.

Motta is a member of the advisory board of IESE Business School and a co-chairman of the advisory board of INCAE. Motta was the director of Banco General from 2007 to 2019. From 1992 to 1999, Motta served as the chairman of Panama’s Regional Interoceanic Authority (ARI), a government entity that received and managed assets outside of the Panama Canal Operations as deemed by the Torrijos-Carter Treaty. His accolades include the Americas Society Gold Medal (2010), the Woodrow Wilson Center Award for Corporate Citizenship (2016), and the Premio Enrique V. Iglesias (2019). Motta completed his undergraduate studies at Tulane University.

Pedro serves as Senior Advisor at Vestar Capital Partners, a US Private Equity, developing and implementing a buy & build strategy in the broad Quality, Environmental, Health, and Safety-QEHS’ Testing, Inspection, and Certification-TIC services market and also as a Board member at FST Technical Services, a US specialty engineering/TIC business serving the semiconductor and pharmaceutical segments.

Previously, Pedro dedicated +30 years, of which 18 years at top executive leadership positions and member of Group Executive Committee at Bureau Veritas Group. He significantly developed Bureau Veritas global network of TIC services; serving multiple end markets in multinational contexts. He contributed to the Group growth from ~$300 million/~3,500 employees to +$6 billion/~70,000 employees at his departure.

Pedro has a B.S. degree in Naval Architecture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; an MBA at the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce de Paris; and an MBA at COPEAD at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Additionally, Pedro received continuing education in Corporate Management through the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.