Marcelo Ken Suhara has been a member of Afya's board of directors and its audit, risks and ethics committee since June 2023, and is considered an audit-committee financial expert as defined by the SEC. He has a combined 26 years of experience in IPO advisory services, financial reporting, accounting and audit. He was a partner in the capital-markets center at Ernst & Young in Sao Paulo from 2011 to March 2022, worked in the capital-markets group at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2001 to 2010, and in audit at Arthur Andersen from 1998 to 2000 and Coopers & Lybrand from 1996 to 1998. He is a Brazilian Certified Accountant registered with the CRC.