Gabriel Mário Rodrigues

Cogna Educação SA engages in the provision of educational services. Its activities include in-class and distance-learning higher education and post-graduate courses, managing child, K-12, and high school teaching activities, selling textbooks and learning aids, and licensing teaching and pedagogic products, in addition to technical and preparatory courses for civil service examinations and Brazilian Bar Association, advising and offering the possibility of direct and indirect financing for students, developing software for adaptive teaching, and optimizing academic management. It operates through the following segments: In-Class Higher Education, Distance Learning Higher Education, and Basic Education. The company was founded by Altamiro Belo Galindo, Gabriel Mário Rodrigues, Walfrido Silvino dos Mares Guia, Evando José Neiva, and Júlio Fernando Cabizuca on April 11, 1966 and is headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Anhanguera Educacional Participações SA is a professional education company, which operates schools and universities. The company offers postsecondary education for working adults and it is committed to offering educational programs that enable working adults. It offers undergraduate and associate degree programs in the fields of business administration, law, engineering, health and other applied social sciences, as well as graduate and extension programs. The company was founded by Antônio Carbonari Netto and Maria Elisa Ehrhardt Carbonari in 1994 and is headquartered in Valinhos, Brazil.