TGPowerhouse Your Business, Your Vision. Our mission to accomplish. Partners in execution.

SET. 2014

•  Who are the new competitors? • How to improve the competitive position? How to maintain profit margins? • How to deal with global competitors? • What products or services could replace ours? How attractive are they to customers? • How to reduce dependence on key suppliers?

• What are the opportunities and threats arising out of technology? • How the business model will be affected? How is it impacting the customers? • Which regulatory trends may affect the market or your competitiveness? • What can affect customer behavior?

•  How is the market is changing? How does it affect the clients? How does it affect the company? •  Where is the demand declining? Why? Where are the opportunities? What to do? • How does the company differentiate itself? Easy replacement by the competition? Are they able buy cheaper products and services? What for the clients are willing to pay?

environment the business

• How the economic outlook will affect the market? • How to access the capital needed? How to reduce the cost of debt? • How to adapt the company to the price trend? What is the price trend for the main resources and materials? • How the tax burden interferes with your business?

Market Forces Industry Forces

Main Trends Macroeconomics Forces

▪ Profit margins increasingly tighter

▪ Competition gaining ground

▪ Stagnant or declining sales

▪ Resources for innovation and brand-building

▪ Dependence on customers or suppliers

▪ Differentiation and competitive position

▪ Effectiveness of the sales team

▪ Impact of new technologies

▪ Impact of globalization and new entrants

▪ Cash generation

▪ Indebtedness and access to capital needed

▪ Access to new markets or customer segments

▪ Succession and longevity of the company…

▪ …

creates challenges

for your company

needs your

▪ Does your day to day consume all your time and prevent you to stop and think about the long term?

▪ Are you stressed by having to think about your biggest strategic challenges alone?

▪ Do you know the right path to take, but do not have time to turn your plans into action?

▪ Do you fail to attract and retain qualified people?

▪ Do not you have the resources (capital, talent, technology knowledge) to execute your vision?

▪ Not sure how to access new customer segments or international markets? …

your vision for the company

▪ Nobody knows your business better than you.

▪ Are you unhappy with the situation of your company and want to change it?

▪ What is your vision for your business?

▪ What prevents you from accomplishing your vision?

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Your Business,

Your Vision.

Our mission to accomplish.

Partners in execution.

We are different from any traditional consulting.

proposal our

▪  TGPW is committed to the sustainable growth in the value of your company.

▪ We focus on medium-sized firms, mostly.

▪ We work for your company to differentiate and sustain a competitive position, visible in their results.

▪ We are your partner in implementation.

▪  You count on executives with a proven track record of results, extensive experience in developing and implementing strategies and managing companies; with large business networks, in Brazil and abroad.

1.  We identify immediate solutions to increase profit and cash generation.

2.  We develop a differentiation and cost reduction strategy (Value Innovation).

3.  We partner with you for the implementation, including the internationalization of your company or the attraction of Strategic Partner. We manage when necessary.

Solution in three steps

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3

we identify immediate solutions to increase profit and cash generation

▪ We start with the challenges of your business and what you consider as your most immediate needs. We identify solutions and implement actions for immediate results or in the short term, around:

▪  Increased Efficiency and Productivity of Marketing & Sales;

▪  Increased Productivity of Cash Flow;

▪  Increased Efficiency in Logistics;

▪  Management Information System;

▪  Team building;

▪ … solution our

1 Our initial focus is to implement solutions that satisfy the needs you give priority.

▪  Strategy is your choice with respect to where and how to compete, and what you want to accomplish. It is the Battle Plan for the campaign of your company.

▪ We review your strategy and business model.

▪ Then we redesign the organization to support the business model.

we develop a differentiation and cost reduction strategy

2 We work for your company to have a system of value creation, which sustains and maintains its differentiation and competitive position.

solution our

▪ Definition of the Action Plan and implementation of the monitoring system.

▪ Integral approach for the attraction of a Strategic Partner or Investor; from the preparation to the support on the negotiation and integration phase.

▪ Internationalization of Brazilian companies: China, Japan, USA, Canada and Mexico.

▪ SoundingBoard ™ - Service Advisory Council for support to the President or shareholders.

▪ Interim management, when necessary.

we partner with you for the implementation 3

Strategy is directly linked to leadership and execution

solution our

results

▪  Increase of the value of your company

▪ Possibility to accomplish your vision

▪  Increase in the attractiveness and visibility of your company, either for alliances or access to capital

▪ An engaged and High Performance Human Capital

▪ Greater personal fulfillment

3 15 105 Partners Core Team Associates

TGP is a company structured in collaborative networks

TGPw – Hubs: global reach

Brazil – Sao Paulo  Paulo Simas - Co-founder, TGPw Managing Partner Arthur Vasconcellos - Co-founder, Partner Canada - Toronto e Montreal  Christian Stephan - Co-founder, Managing Partner NA Gib de Medeiros - TGPw - Hub Canada USA, China, Japan e Mexico Ronald Dickins - TGPw - Hub Mexico Jeff Johnson - TGPw - Hub Ann Arbor, USA Wilberto Lima Jr - TGPw - Hub Boston, USA Tom Patton - TGPw - Hub Washington DC, USA Stanley Fukuyama - TGPw - Hub Japan  Cor Saris - TGPw – Hub China (SDS Ventures)

CONTACTS paulo.simas@tgpowerhouse.comarthur.vasconcellos@tgpowerhouse.comsergio.camargo@tgpowerhouse.com

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Your Business,

Your Vision. Our mission to accomplish.

Partners in execution.