Karla Bertocco Trindade

Photo de Karla Bertocco Trindade, administratrice de VINCI

Director, Sabesp

Director since: 2025
Current appointment ends: SGM 2029
Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000
Age: 49
Director considered independent by the Board of Directors.

 

Outside the VINCI Group in listed companies
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2025
- Director of Sabesp and Chair of both its Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committee and its Strategy and New Business Committee.
- Director of Orizon Valorização de Resíduos S.A. and Chair of its Audit Committee
 


In unlisted companies or other structures
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2025
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sabesp
- Director of Equatorial Energia S.A. (2022-2023)

Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years
- Director of Equatorial Energia S.A. (2022-2023)
 


Background
Karla Bertocco Trindade is a senior executive and board member with more than 20 years of leadership and governance experience across the public and private sectors, with a strong background in infrastructure, water and sanitation, and public-private partnerships (PPPs). She earned degrees in public policy and administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) and in law from Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. She also holds a postgraduate degree in administrative law and regulation. Ms Bertocco Trindade began her career working in regulation at the water and waste management company Sabesp, before joining the São Paulo state water, sanitation and energy regulatory agency Arsesp as General Director. She then moved to the transport sector, as General Director of the São Paulo state public transport regulatory agency Artesp. At the end of her term of office, she was appointed Undersecretary for Partnerships and Innovation, with responsibility for the design and implementation of several public-private partnerships in sectors including toll motorways, urban mobility, energy and airports. Subsequently, she was named Chief Executive Officer of Sabesp, then Managing Director of the Government and Infrastructure Division at BNDES – Brazilian Development Bank. Having served as a company director since 2020 at Orizon Valorização de Resíduos, from 2020 to 2022 at Corsan and from 2022 to 2023 at Equatorial Energia, Ms Bertocco Trindade returned to Sabesp as Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2023, to spearhead its privatisation process. Following this successful privatisation, she has continued to serve on the Sabesp Board of Directors as Chair of its Strategy and New Business Committee to assist with the development of the new company’s expansion strategy.