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GOL To Appoint New Chief Financial Officer

São Paulo, February 2, 2009 - GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. (NYSE: GOL and Bovespa: GOLL4), Brazil's low-cost airline, announces Leonardo Pereira as GOL’s executive vice-president and chief financial officer. Pereira will assume senior executive position occupied by Richard Lark until June 2008, when he transitioned his executive responsabilities, and will be responsible for Finance, Investor Relations, Accounting and Taxes, Financial Planning and Corporate Budget departments. The company scheduled a Board of Directors meeting on February 4, 2009 to vote on Pereira's nomination.

“We are confident that Pereira’s experience in the capital markets will be a great asset to the company. He will be a great addition to our team and help us further maintain a transparent communications process with our local and international analysts and investors,” says Constantino de Oliveira Junior, GOL’s president and CEO.

Prior to joining GOL, Pereira served two years as the Director President of Companhia do Vale do Araguaia, a Brazilian commercial foresting company, and six years as the Director-Executive Finance and Investor Relations of NET Serviços, a leading cable provider in Latin America listed on the Bovespa (Level II), NASDAQ and Latibex. He previously served five years as Planning Director at Globopar, a media industry holding company, and 13 years in a number of roles at Citibank Corporate Finance Bank in Brazil, Asia, Latin America and the United States, including leader of the Latin American Aviation team. He is member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the São Paulo chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce and serves on the board of M. Dias Branco, Bovespa Novo Mercado member and Brazil’s leading food company.

During his career, Pereira has experience with capital reorganization, raising long-term financing, issuing stock, mergers and acquisitions, as well as implementing Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.

Pereira holds degrees in Production Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Economics from the Universidade Candido Mendes; he received his MBA from Warwick University (England). Pereira has also studied Finance at IMD in Switzerland and General Management at Wharton Business School, attended The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) in Japan, and completed Columbia University’s Senior Executive Education Program.

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CONTACT:		About GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A.
Investor Relations		GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. (NYSE: GOL and Bovespa: GOLL4), Brazil’s low-cost airline, offers nearly 800 daily flights to 49 destinations connecting the most important cities in Brazil and ten major destinations in South America. The Company operates a young, modern fleet of Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft, the safest and most comfortable aircraft of its class that provides high aircraft utilization and efficiency ratios. The Company’s service is recognized as the best value proposition in the market.
Ph: 55 (11) 2128-4700
E-mail: ri@golnaweb.com.br
Site: www.voegol.com.br/ir
Corporate Communication
Ph.: 55 (11) 2128-4413
comcorp@golnaweb.com.br
Media – Brazil		This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the prospects of the business, estimates for operating and financial results, and those related to growth prospects of GOL. These are merely projections and, as such, are based exclusively on the expectations of GOL’s management concerning the future of the business and its continued access to capital to fund the Company’s business plan. Such forward-looking statements depend, substantially, on changes in market conditions, government regulations, competitive pressures, the performance of the Brazilian economy and the industry, among other factors and risks disclosed in GOL’s filed disclosure documents and are, therefore subject to change without prior notice.
FSB Comunicações (Brazil):
Érica Arruda
Ph.: 55 (11) 2128-4420
erica.arruda@fsb.com.br
Media – U.S. and Europe
Edelman
Meaghan Smith and Noelle Dean
Ph: +1 (212) 704-8196 / 704-4484
meaghan.smith@edelman.com or
noelle.dean@edelman.com

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