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Noemia Gushiken

Experience

Noemia Gushiken is an attorney admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP). She has more than 28 years of experience in technology, consumer, corporate governance, and conflict prevention and resolution, serving in legal and operational executive and senior positions at companies of different segments and sizes, such as UOL, Microsoft, and family business enterprises, as well as a member of law firms in São Paulo. In 2019, Noemia founded, with former Microsoft colleagues, the law firm Esper, Paranhos, Gushiken (EPG Advogados), which associated to Ouro Preto Advogados in 2025.

Noemia serves as mediator for the prevention and resolution of business, commercial, and family related conflicts, as well as a member of boards of directors, advisory boards and committees for companies.

She is affiliated with CBAr the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (Mediation – GEMEP), the Family Business Network (FBN Brazil), and the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC).

Noemia graduated in Law and holds a postgraduate lato sensu in Corporate and Commercial Law, both from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC-SP, and studied Constitutional Law at Shizuoka University (Japan). She has also completed specialization in Mediation at Harvard Law School – Program on Negotiation (EUA)and at Mediare Institute. As a board member trained by the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance – IBGC, she has engaged in advanced qualification programs at the institute, as well as technical study tours in Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, and China. Furthermore, she has completed training programs at the Institute of Directors (United Kingdom) and Tsinghua University (China). Noemia has also participated in executive education in finance, regulated industries (telecommunications), and venture capital at Insper and Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV/SP (Brazil), and the University of California, Berkeley (USA).