Roberto ORTIZ
Born in São Paulo – Brazil
Birth date: April 20, 1972.
Catholic, married to Daniella Christine Prisco Ortiz , no children yet.
Address:
R. Ibaragui Nissui, 115 - ap.401
04116-200 São Paulo – SP
Brazil
By influence of my family, since a little child I implied myself in charity activities and in volunteering. My
father coordinated a neighborhood residents' association which gathered food and clothing for the
needy ones, and my mother, moreover, cooked for the events of the Catholic Aid and prepared food for
selling in the benefit of the association.
During all my childhood I accompanied and helped in these associations. With the death of my father,
when I was 14 years old, I needed to seek other alternatives for my life and I entered in the Officers
School of the Brazilian Air Force. Far from home and with lots of spare time, I devoted many of my
weekends to the children of an orphanage, reading for the children, playing with them, while helping in
their studies.
Due to a health problem, I’ve left the Air Force as a Lieutenant and began a carrier in the financial
business, which lasted 12 years. After my third bank merge as a Deputy Director of the biggest Brazilian
Bank, I decided to left the money business and dedicate myself to my passion, food and gastronomy. But
I have never stopped my charity activities: supporting children with cancer, campaigns of incentive to
the donation of clothes during winter, distribution of soup and food in the Brazilian “favelas”, assistance
for the children of which parents had AIDS, organization of special meals in orphanages.
Recently I devoted myself in a project to incentive the blood donations (with more than 80 personal
donations); in another one that purchases, loans and donates wheelchairs to the needy; in the
assistance in the reorganization of an association of veterans of war; and more specifically in a project of
the Brazilian Association of Chefs which I developed and now I coordinate, that aims at teaching and to
form young teenagers, who do not have the means of paying for studies, in the restoration business, as
well as in the kitchen and cooking. Until the end of 2008 a total of 278 people of the poor communities
of São Paulo received this free formation and now they are employed and working in successful
restaurants of the city.
Executive Chef and co-owner of a restaurant in São Paulo, I think that supporting the needy and
incentive others to do the same is the best way for a better, and socially just world.
My sincere and honest devotion to social, humane and charity works had given me lots of prizes,
decorations and titles, and I proudly take them not as a personal profit, but as recognition for a really
hard work.
Orders of Chivalry
Order of the Knights of Saint John – Knight Grand Cross
The International Chivalric Order of St. George – Knight Grand Cross
Holy Order of St. Martin de Porres - Knight Grand Cross (Ambassador for Brazil)
Holy Military Order of St. Adrian & St. Sebastian - Knight Grand Cross (Ambassador for Brazil)
Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem – Commander (Brazilian Representative)
The Association of Knight Defenders of Mercy, Justice and Chivalry – Knight Commander
Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani – Knight
Education
Graduate in Business Administration - FAAP São Paulo
MBA in Stock and Financial Markets - IBMEC São Paulo
Cooking Chef Diploma – Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Pastry Chef Certificate – Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Professional Executive Chef Diploma – Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Cooking in the XXI Century Diploma – INRA Hervé This
Master Chef Diploma –Ritz Escoffier Paris
Languages
Portuguese (Native)
English
French
Spanish
Italian (Good Comprehension, Basic Writing)
Military Service
Brazilian Air Force
4 years and 5 months
Second Lieutenant (Reserve)
Trained Pilot
Associations
Chef-Member of Brazilian Association of High Gastronomy (ABAGA)
National Conseiller Culinaire – Chaine des Rôtisseurs Brazil
President of the Brazilian Federation of the Oenophilists and Gastronomical Brotherhoods (FBCEG)
President of the Delegation Brazil - Disciples Escoffier International
President of the Country Brazil - International Culinary Order (OCI)
Associated of the Brazilian Society of Gastronomy and Nutrition (SBGAN)
Assistant of the Presidency of the National Association of the Veterans of FEB (ANVFEB) - São Paulo
Assistant of the Presidency of the Brazilian Heraldic Society
Special Associate of the Association MMDC of the Veterans of 32
Member of the São Paulo Press Association (API)
Associated of the International Federation of the Journalists and Writers of the Wines and Spirits (FIJEV)
Member of the International Slow Food Movement
Corresponding Member of the Confederation of Arts of the Table (France)
Corresponding Member of the British Sugarcraft Guild
Titles, Medals and Prizes
Grand Collar – Order of Merit of the Patriarch José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (Brazil)
Grand Collar – Noble Order of the Taste (Brazil)
Grand Commander – Civic and Cultural Order of Merit (Brazil)
Grand Commander – Order of the Merit Entrepreneur Visconti Mauá (Brazil)
Grand Commander – Order of the Merit of the Fraternity Brazil-Portugal (Brazil)
Commander - Rural and Agricultural Order of Merit (Brazil)
Commander – Ecological and Environmental Order of Merit (Brazil)
Commander – Order of Saint Maurizio of Thebes (Brazil)
Commander – Order of the Academic and Professional Merit (Brazil)
Commander – Cross of the Social and Cultural Recognition (Brazil)
Commander – Cross of the Philosophical and Cultural Merit (Brazil)
Gold Medal Union of the Heroes - ANVFEB SP (Brazil)
Gold Medal Heroes of Brazil - ANVFEB SBC (Brazil)
Medal Falconiere Marshal - ANVFEB Florianópolis (Brazil)
Medal of Peace - Brazilian Organization of the Veterans of the United Nations and American States
(Brazil)
Medal Mission of Peace - Association of Integrant of the Battalion of Suez - RJ (Brazil)
Medal Blood of the Heroes - Association of Former Combatants of Brazil - RJ (Brazil)
Medal of the Legion of Merit of the FEB - Association of Former Combatants of Brazil - RJ (Brazil)
Cross of the Legionary Honor - Legion of the Brazilian Veterans of Wars - Niterói (Brazil)
Medal Wings of Freedom - Legion of the Brazilian Veterans of Wars - Niterói (Brazil)
Medal Honor and Courage - Legion of the Brazilian Veterans of Wars - Niterói (Brazil)
Medal Castelo Branco - ANVFEB Resende (Brazil)
Medal Olavo Bilac - Academy of Historical Studies (Brazil)
Medal Lieutenant Antonio João - Academy of Historical Studies (Brazil)
Medal Bicentennial of Army-Marshal Osório – Brazilian Army Cavalry Patron (Brazil)
Medal Brigadier Sampaio – Brazilian Army Infantry Patron (Brazil)
Medal Army-Marshal Rondon – Brazilian Army Communication Patron (Brazil)
Medal Wallace Cochrane – Brazilian Chamber of Culture (Brazil)
Medal João Ramalho – Brazilian Chamber of Culture (Brazil)
Medal of the Merit Dom Bosco (Brazil)
Medal of the Merit Fort Saint Joachim Roraima (Brazil)
Medal of Honor of the Center Region (France)
Medal of Honor of the PACA Region (France)
Medal of Honor of the town of Cléry-St. Andre (France)
Medal of Honor of the Region and Department (France)
Bronze Medal of Tourism – Rouen (France)
Gold Medal – Civic Star (France)
Silver Medal - European Star of Civil and Military Devotion (France)
Bronze Medal – National Society of Good Guiding (France)
Bronze Medal – French Courtoisie (France)
Medal of the European Confederation of Former Combatants
Bronze Medal – French Souvenir (France)
Bronze Medal – National Union of Combatants (France)
Medal of the Belgium Federation of Combatants (Belgium)
Medal of Honor – International Relations Academy (France)
More than 100 Gastronomical Orders, Prizes and Medals
Born in São Paulo – Brazil
Birth date: April 20, 1972.
Catholic, married to Daniella Christine Prisco Ortiz , no children yet.
Address:
R. Ibaragui Nissui, 115 - ap.401
04116-200 São Paulo – SP
Brazil
By influence of my family, since a little child I implied myself in charity activities and in volunteering. My
father coordinated a neighborhood residents' association which gathered food and clothing for the
needy ones, and my mother, moreover, cooked for the events of the Catholic Aid and prepared food for
selling in the benefit of the association.
During all my childhood I accompanied and helped in these associations. With the death of my father,
when I was 14 years old, I needed to seek other alternatives for my life and I entered in the Officers
School of the Brazilian Air Force. Far from home and with lots of spare time, I devoted many of my
weekends to the children of an orphanage, reading for the children, playing with them, while helping in
their studies.
Due to a health problem, I’ve left the Air Force as a Lieutenant and began a carrier in the financial
business, which lasted 12 years. After my third bank merge as a Deputy Director of the biggest Brazilian
Bank, I decided to left the money business and dedicate myself to my passion, food and gastronomy. But
I have never stopped my charity activities: supporting children with cancer, campaigns of incentive to
the donation of clothes during winter, distribution of soup and food in the Brazilian “favelas”, assistance
for the children of which parents had AIDS, organization of special meals in orphanages.
Recently I devoted myself in a project to incentive the blood donations (with more than 80 personal
donations); in another one that purchases, loans and donates wheelchairs to the needy; in the
assistance in the reorganization of an association of veterans of war; and more specifically in a project of
the Brazilian Association of Chefs which I developed and now I coordinate, that aims at teaching and to
form young teenagers, who do not have the means of paying for studies, in the restoration business, as
well as in the kitchen and cooking. Until the end of 2008 a total of 278 people of the poor communities
of São Paulo received this free formation and now they are employed and working in successful
restaurants of the city.
Executive Chef and co-owner of a restaurant in São Paulo, I think that supporting the needy and
incentive others to do the same is the best way for a better, and socially just world.
My sincere and honest devotion to social, humane and charity works had given me lots of prizes,
decorations and titles, and I proudly take them not as a personal profit, but as recognition for a really
hard work.
Orders of Chivalry
Order of the Knights of Saint John – Knight Grand Cross
The International Chivalric Order of St. George – Knight Grand Cross
Holy Order of St. Martin de Porres - Knight Grand Cross (Ambassador for Brazil)
Holy Military Order of St. Adrian & St. Sebastian - Knight Grand Cross (Ambassador for Brazil)
Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem – Commander (Brazilian Representative)
The Association of Knight Defenders of Mercy, Justice and Chivalry – Knight Commander
Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani – Knight
Education
Graduate in Business Administration - FAAP São Paulo
MBA in Stock and Financial Markets - IBMEC São Paulo
Cooking Chef Diploma – Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Pastry Chef Certificate – Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Professional Executive Chef Diploma – Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Cooking in the XXI Century Diploma – INRA Hervé This
Master Chef Diploma –Ritz Escoffier Paris
Languages
Portuguese (Native)
English
French
Spanish
Italian (Good Comprehension, Basic Writing)
Military Service
Brazilian Air Force
4 years and 5 months
Second Lieutenant (Reserve)
Trained Pilot
Associations
Chef-Member of Brazilian Association of High Gastronomy (ABAGA)
National Conseiller Culinaire – Chaine des Rôtisseurs Brazil
President of the Brazilian Federation of the Oenophilists and Gastronomical Brotherhoods (FBCEG)
President of the Delegation Brazil - Disciples Escoffier International
President of the Country Brazil - International Culinary Order (OCI)
Associated of the Brazilian Society of Gastronomy and Nutrition (SBGAN)
Assistant of the Presidency of the National Association of the Veterans of FEB (ANVFEB) - São Paulo
Assistant of the Presidency of the Brazilian Heraldic Society
Special Associate of the Association MMDC of the Veterans of 32
Member of the São Paulo Press Association (API)
Associated of the International Federation of the Journalists and Writers of the Wines and Spirits (FIJEV)
Member of the International Slow Food Movement
Corresponding Member of the Confederation of Arts of the Table (France)
Corresponding Member of the British Sugarcraft Guild
Titles, Medals and Prizes
Grand Collar – Order of Merit of the Patriarch José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva (Brazil)
Grand Collar – Noble Order of the Taste (Brazil)
Grand Commander – Civic and Cultural Order of Merit (Brazil)
Grand Commander – Order of the Merit Entrepreneur Visconti Mauá (Brazil)
Grand Commander – Order of the Merit of the Fraternity Brazil-Portugal (Brazil)
Commander - Rural and Agricultural Order of Merit (Brazil)
Commander – Ecological and Environmental Order of Merit (Brazil)
Commander – Order of Saint Maurizio of Thebes (Brazil)
Commander – Order of the Academic and Professional Merit (Brazil)
Commander – Cross of the Social and Cultural Recognition (Brazil)
Commander – Cross of the Philosophical and Cultural Merit (Brazil)
Gold Medal Union of the Heroes - ANVFEB SP (Brazil)
Gold Medal Heroes of Brazil - ANVFEB SBC (Brazil)
Medal Falconiere Marshal - ANVFEB Florianópolis (Brazil)
Medal of Peace - Brazilian Organization of the Veterans of the United Nations and American States
(Brazil)
Medal Mission of Peace - Association of Integrant of the Battalion of Suez - RJ (Brazil)
Medal Blood of the Heroes - Association of Former Combatants of Brazil - RJ (Brazil)
Medal of the Legion of Merit of the FEB - Association of Former Combatants of Brazil - RJ (Brazil)
Cross of the Legionary Honor - Legion of the Brazilian Veterans of Wars - Niterói (Brazil)
Medal Wings of Freedom - Legion of the Brazilian Veterans of Wars - Niterói (Brazil)
Medal Honor and Courage - Legion of the Brazilian Veterans of Wars - Niterói (Brazil)
Medal Castelo Branco - ANVFEB Resende (Brazil)
Medal Olavo Bilac - Academy of Historical Studies (Brazil)
Medal Lieutenant Antonio João - Academy of Historical Studies (Brazil)
Medal Bicentennial of Army-Marshal Osório – Brazilian Army Cavalry Patron (Brazil)
Medal Brigadier Sampaio – Brazilian Army Infantry Patron (Brazil)
Medal Army-Marshal Rondon – Brazilian Army Communication Patron (Brazil)
Medal Wallace Cochrane – Brazilian Chamber of Culture (Brazil)
Medal João Ramalho – Brazilian Chamber of Culture (Brazil)
Medal of the Merit Dom Bosco (Brazil)
Medal of the Merit Fort Saint Joachim Roraima (Brazil)
Medal of Honor of the Center Region (France)
Medal of Honor of the PACA Region (France)
Medal of Honor of the town of Cléry-St. Andre (France)
Medal of Honor of the Region and Department (France)
Bronze Medal of Tourism – Rouen (France)
Gold Medal – Civic Star (France)
Silver Medal - European Star of Civil and Military Devotion (France)
Bronze Medal – National Society of Good Guiding (France)
Bronze Medal – French Courtoisie (France)
Medal of the European Confederation of Former Combatants
Bronze Medal – French Souvenir (France)
Bronze Medal – National Union of Combatants (France)
Medal of the Belgium Federation of Combatants (Belgium)
Medal of Honor – International Relations Academy (France)
More than 100 Gastronomical Orders, Prizes and Medals
