Gaurav Amin is the Global Head of Risk at Albourne Partners, a hedge fund consultancy firm. He joined Albourne in July 2006 and is responsible for quantitative analysis of hedge funds, hedge fund strategies and portfolios of hedge funds. Prior to Albourne, he worked on the fund of hedge fund team at Schroders as Head of Risk and strategy analyst covering systematic hedge fund strategies. He has a Ph.D in Finance focusing on hedge funds and has co-authored several papers with Harry Kat, on various aspects of investing in hedge funds all of which have been published in well respected journals including one in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Amit Singh Bedi is the Managing Partner of Bedi Capital LLP, an FSA regulated alternative asset management firm headquartered in London in the UK with offices in India, US and Nevis. An entrepreneur and strategic investor, Mr. Bedi is the Managing Director of Bedi Acquisitions Ltd., is on several companies world-wide as a Board of Directors, board member of numerous Investment Funds as an Investment Director and speaks regularly in Alternative Investments conferences globally. Mr Bedi is also a member of the Prestige Board of Advisors and Prestige funds are managed by ODL Securities Ltd. with over $10 billion dollars of assets under management and over 250 employees worldwide. Mr Bedi started his career as a trader, trading equities, futures and bonds before moving to equity research and portfolio management. Mr Bedi has two decades of investment banking and asset management experience, specifically within alternative investments, private equity and real estate with institutions such as HSBC, TD Securities and UBS O’Connor. Mr Bedi recently developed an alternative investment firm and a fund of hedge fund out of London, Zurich and New York, with a team of former UBS O’Connor and D. E. Shaw Managing Directors. The fund of hedge fund portfolio managers had a track record of managing over $3 billion dollars of assets under management. Mr Bedi received his Bachelors with Honors in Finance and Investment Management and a Masters in Economics and Quantitative Finance from Leeds University Business School. Mr. Bedi went on to study for a PhD in Hedge Funds at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College and Judge Business School, Cambridge University. Mr Bedi is a member of the board of the Oxbridge Scholarship Foundation, a charity which provides funding to students studying at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale and supports other educational charities. Mr. Bedi is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment, authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK and authorized and regulated by the Malta Financial Services Authority in Malta.

Amy Bensted joined Preqin in 2006 where she now heads the Hedge Fund research team. Amy and her team conduct research into all aspects of the institutional investor universe, speaking to investors daily to ascertain exactly what types of hedge funds they are searching for. Preqin tracks investor appetite for hedge funds through its database of 2200+ institutions active in the asset class as well as producing reports and in depth analysis on key subjects related to hedge fund investment. Amy is a regular contributor of articles and features in the financial press. Amy graduated from Imperial College London in 2003 after gaining a BSc. in Biology and a MSc. in Applied Biological Sciences.

Gabriel F. Bobadilla is Head of Asset Management at Omega Capital, where he has worked since the year 2000, and Chairman of Omega Asset Management Ltd (UK), the alternative investment arm of Omega Capital. He is a director of Laredo Umbrella Fund an Irish-domiciled fund of funds of which Omega Asset Management is the Investment Manager. He has lectured on the subject of Hedging and Risk Management at CEMFI and on Corporate Finance at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid). He received a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from CEMFI (Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros), foundation of the Bank of Spain, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Caltech (California Institute of Technology, USA) and a Ph.D. and Industrial Engineer degrees from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (U.P.M.). He holds the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) designation. He is also a board member of Neotec Capital Riesgo, S.C.R.

As the Director of International Relations for the 1st Financial Concept, Ray draws on his 20 years of international capital markets experience to promote and develop business relationships for the group throughout Latin America and Spain. Prior to joining K1 Group, Ray was the head of Investor Relations for the largest financial holding company in Peru. Credicorp Ltd. (NYSE: BAP) being one of the largest single equity positions held by the Peruvian pension funds gave Ray the opportunity to develop a close working relationship with the Peruvian fund managers and regulators. Previously, Ray lived and worked in Madrid (Spain) where he was head of International Marketing and Business Development for ABN-Amro. Ray is a native Californian, graduate of Pepperdine University and is registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in the USA.

Federico Carballo, a principal at Copernico Capital Partners LLC., Greenwich, CT, USA, started its advisory relationship with Copernico Capital Partners (Bermuda) Ltd in April 2006. Prior to organizing Copernico he was partner of Compass Group LLC, a New York based Asset Management Company focused in Latin America from September 1997 to January 2006.At Compass, he headed the alternative assets unit of the firm overseeing hedge fund and private equity strategies. Mr. Carballo is a former Managing Director of Citicorp Securities Inc. in New York where he was responsible for the Emerging Markets fixed income trading operation and the bank’s refinancing portfolio from June 1989 to September 1997. Before joining Citibank, Mr. Carballo worked with Booz-Allen & Hamilton in Madrid. Earlier in his career, Mr. Carballo worked as an associate at Gonzalez Fraga Macroeconomia, an Argentine management consulting firm and as a Management Trainee at Republic National Bank of New York. Mr. Carballo holds a BS in economics from the Argentine Catholic University in 1986 and Masters of Science from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in 1989. 1) Find attached the file

Frank Casey (President) has garnered broad capital markets knowledge and alternatives investment experience over his long career. Frank has always enjoyed being on "the leading edge" of alternative investments. Upon leaving the US Army as an Airborne-Ranger Qualified Infantry Captain in 1974, he joined Merrill Lynch to serve corporations as risk-manager specializing in equity, oil and metals derivatives hedging until 1982. He then joined Prudential Securities to advise banks on hedging interest rate exposures, specializing in the nascent mortgage-origination/MBS-pipeline risks arena until 1994. He then formed his own risk and portfolio management firms and later marketed option-based portfolio management strategies for a specialized institutional manager. He has raised assets for alternative investment managers since 1992. Joining the firm as President-USA, he primarily serves in a business development and client service capacity; however, his capital markets experience, honed within 34-years of alternatives investment exposure, also serves the firm when he qualitatively vets hedge fund managers to discern real alpha talent.

Mark Chapman is the managing partner in the British Virgin Islands firm of Deloitte. He is responsible for directing and coordinating auditing, consulting, taxation and financial advisory services. Mark works closely with client management in planning and organizing our services to ensure that our people provide the highest level of value and support to our clients. In particular, his understanding of cross-border issues and risks, particularly those related to investment companies, mutual funds and special purpose vehicles, ensures a critical and valuable perspective for Deloitte’s clients.

Mr Conrads is portfolio manager and CIO of a long-short equities Latin American hedge fund based in Mexico. (Armada Capital) Prior to that, Mr Conrads was CIO of the AFP ING in Chile overseeing $12bn and in charge of the asset allocation for 3 years. Previously, Eric held various roles as a portfolio manager in the emerging markets space as manager of the ING Latam fund from 1996 until 2004 voted best Lipper fund in Switzerland in 2001 and awarded 4 stars by Morningstar throughout the years. He used to manage a Brazil fund and before moving to Chile was co-manager of the ING Global Emerging Markets fund. Mr Conrads holds a law degree from Louvain University (magna cum laude) and an economic degree from Brussels University (laude). He is a holder of a financial degree from the European Association of Financial Analysts. Fluent in 5 languages, he has worked in Europe, Japan, USA and currently Latin America.

Fabio is a Partner at Constellation and member of the Investment team. Prior to joining Constellation, he was an MD at ItauBBA in charge of Global Structured Products distribution. Before ItauBBA, Fabio worked two years at Deutsche Bank, as Head of Structured Products sales covering Brazilian institutional clients. Prior to DB, Fabio worked for 12 years at Banco Garantia/Credit Suisse as Sales. At DB and Garantia/CS, Fabio covered various investor bases, including international investors, and lead sales efforts on over US$14 billion in international debt offerings for Brazilian issuers. He has a deep knowledge of the various investor bases and extensive experience of the Brazilian corporate market. During University, Fabio worked as a business consultant for 3 years at Arthur Andersen. Fabio earned a BA from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado and a Masters Degree from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).

Commander Jerry D. Davis is the Employee Representative on the Board of Trustees for the New Orleans Employees’ Retirement System. He was first elected to this five-member board in 1986 as the Employee Representative, and has just been re-elected for his eighth term, beginning July 1, 2008. He was elected Chairman of the Board in 1994, after serving as Chairman of the Investment Committee for seven years, during which time the Fund progressed from a fixed-income-only allocation to a balanced mix of asset classes. During his unprecedented tenure, the Fund has grown from $94 million to $420 million, while providing generous pensions and allowing for the lowest employer cost ratio in the state. In his CEO role, he manages relationships with 47 investment firms, as well as four law firms, the Board’s consultants and actuaries. He subsequently retired from City of New Orleans employment in May of 2006, where his last post was Personnel Administrator, responsible for all training and performance evaluation for the City’s 8000-member workforce. He continues, as an unpaid volunteer, in two roles: in addition to his trustee responsibility, he is serving a six-year term as the Employee Representative on the Civil Service Commission, appointed by the City Council in 2005. His role there is both legislative and judicial, with responsibility for adopting changes to Civil Service Law as well as adjudicating employee appeals of wrongful discipline. A 1970 graduate of Tulane University, Jerry has addressed over 200 audiences in eleven countries, on issues as varied as fund management, securities litigation and military logistics. He is married to Dr. Linda Ledbetter, a retired professor and former trustee; for the past fourteen years they have produced educational conferences for national audiences of fiduciaries through their non-profit association.

Dirk Donath is Senior Managing Director and Partner at Eton Park Capital Management, responsible for Eton Park’s private and direct investment activities in Emerging Markets. Eton Park is a global, multi-disciplinary investment fund that initiated activities in November 2004. With offices in New York, London and Hong Kong, the firm has a capital base of over US$ 13 billion. Prior to joining Eton Park, Dirk was a Founding Partner and Managing Director of Pegasus Capital. Pegasus is a principal investment firm focused on distressed private equity, turnarounds and restructurings in Latin America. Before founding Pegasus, Dirk was a Partner of McKinsey & Company and was based out of the Mercosur Office in Buenos Aires. Dirk was head of McKinsey’s Latin American Consumer Goods and Retail Practice and also a leader of the Latin American Corporate Finance and Strategy Practice. He originally joined McKinsey in 1988 and previously worked in the New York, London and Madrid offices. Dirk is also the Founder and Creator of FarmaCity, the leading retail pharmacy chain in Argentina with 115 outlets, revenues of $1 billion and over 3,000 employees. At FarmaCity, Dirk was Chairman and served on the Board of Directors. Dirk is a Trustee on the Board of the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and serves on their Development and Finance Committees. Dirk is also on the Board of the Latin American Advisor of the Inter-American Dialogue and is on the Advisory Board of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), as well as the Boards of various portfolio companies. Dirk graduated cum laude with honors from Yale University with a BA in Economics (with distinction) and studied international relations at Oxford University in England. He received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Fernando X. Donayre CFA, CPA – Mr. Donayre is the Chief Investment Officer and founder of INCA Investments, LLC, a Latin American investment management firm based in Miami. INCA Investments has approximately US$300 million in assets under management in hedged and long-biased mandates. Before founding INCA Investments, Mr. Donayre was employed by Zephyr Management, L.P. from 1996 through 2003. At Zephyr he was the sole portfolio manager for the Zephyr Latin America Fund since its inception in 1997. Mr. Donayre continues to manage the investment strategy of the Zephyr Latin American Fund via INCA Management’s subadvisory role. From 1994 through 1996, Mr. Donayre was the Director of Research at Globalvest Management, which at the time was the largest Latin American specialty investment manager in the world. From 1988 through 1994 he was in charge of international and emerging market equity investments for the Investments Department of FPL Group. Mr. Donayre is a native of Peru and has lived in South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a Certified Public Accountant and received his M.B.A. in International Business from the University of Florida. Mr. Donayre is a long-time student of the Latin American markets and has published a variety of articles on the subject including “Investing in Latin America: Good Idea, Bad Time?” in the Journal of Investments (Summer 1994) and “Latin America: History Repeats?” in Benefits and Pension Monitor (Summer 1995).

Marcos Falcão joined BRZ in 2007 as CEO. Before he worked for 18 years at Icatu Group, being CEO for the last 5 years at Icatu Hartford Insurance. He also presided Icatu Investimentos, the groups Asset Management company. Falcão has experience in many areas of Icatu Bank such as the establishment of Icatu Securities in NY. He began his career at Macrométrica and worked from 1986 to 1989 at Garantia Investment Bank. Falcão holds a BA degree in Economics from PUC-RJ and is Master of Business Administration from Stanford Business School.

Mr. Franco is a Managing Partner and Head Portfolio Manager at Quantek Asset Management. He has more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry, with a special focus in trading and managing risk for established Wall Street financial institutions in a wide array of assets classes, both across G-7 and emerging markets. Mr. Franco was previously a managing partner at Bulltick Capital Markets, where played an instrumental role in the development and implementation of the company’s trading activities and risk management. Prior to Bulltick, Mr. Franco served as Senior Managing Director for Bankers Trust Latin American Division, where he was in charge of trading, and also responsible for managing 250 investment professionals, including proprietary traders who were responsible for $3 billion in positions. Previously, Mr. Franco traded emerging markets fixed income and other asset classes at Bear Stearns, Vescorp, and Smith Barney. He started his Wall Street career trading G7 fixed income at Salomon Brothers from in 1986. Mr. Franco was also a principal of HWF Capital and Franco Asset Management, where he oversaw trading activities. Mr. Franco was a former member of Peru’s National Davis Cup team and graduated with a B.A. in Administrative Sciences from Yale University.

Lawrence Jones is Senior Vice President, Investor Relations for Paulson & Co., a New York based hedge fund company managing over $29.5B in assets across three fund families, the merger funds, the evendriven funds and the credit opportunities funds. Mr. Jones was previously a Managing Director at Strategic Value Partners where he was responsible for Global Wealth management platform and institutional client investor relations. Prior to joining SVP, he worked for York Capital Management where he was a senior member of the investor relations team. Previously, he was a client portfolio manager for Lord, Abbett & Co's $47 Billion Large Cap Value Fund, having joined from Lazard Asset Management where he was a Senior Vice President & Portfolio Manager - Global Fixed Income. Mr. Jones received a M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a B.S. in Economics from Lehigh University.

Marcelo Karvelis Franco: Senior Partner (FSA Authorized and Regulated) BA Degree in Economics – USP, Brazil. Marcelo Karvelis started his career in the International Corporate Finance Division at Citibank in 1991. In October 1993, he joined Banco Matrix S.A, where he was responsible for the structuring of international investment funds. In 1997, he left Banco Matrix and joined the emerging markets trading and sales division at JP Morgan in São Paulo. Marcelo Karvelis left JP Morgan in October 1998 and founded Claritas Investimentos together with Renato Abucham. Currently Marcelo Karvelis is the CIO of Claritas as well as the senior partner in charge of the Institutional Client Advisory group within the company.

Paulo Leme is a Managing Director of Emerging Markets Economic Research for Goldman, Sachs & Co, covering Latin America. He coordinates a team of economists developing macroeconomic and sovereign credit risk analysis for Latin America, including exchange rate and interest rate forecasting. Before joining the firm in 1993, Paulo worked as a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund for nine years, where he gained a broad experience with economic stabilization programs and external debt restructuring issues in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Mr. Leme has a Masters degree and an A.B.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, where he also taught. He also received a degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Joaquim Vieira Ferreira Levy, was appointed Secretary of Finance (Secretario de Fazenda) of the State of Rio de Janeiro by Governor Sergio Cabral on January First, 2007. Born in 1961 in Rio de Janeiro and a naval architect by training, Levy holds an M.A. in economics from Fundação Getulio Vargas and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to taking his current position, he was Vice President for Finance and Administration at the Inter American Development Bank in Washington D.C. Previously, he served as Secretary of the National Treasury in Brazil for the first three years of President Lula's government,after serving in a range of posts in the economic area of the Brazilian Federal Government, including Deputy Secretary Economic Policy in the Ministry of Finance in 2000 and Chief Economist in the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management in 2001-2002. Joaquim Levy began his career in 1984, working in the Engineering Department and the Operations Directorate of the maritime shipping company Flumar S/A. He also lectured at the Graduate School of Economics of Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He held several positions in various departments of the International Monetary Fund,including Western Hemisphere (1992), European I (1993-1997), and Research (1997-1998). In 1999-2000 he served as a Visiting Economist at the European Central Bank, with assignments in the Capital Markets Division and in the Monetary Strategy Division of the Monetary Policy Directorate.

Martin Litwak is the head of the Investment Funds and Wealth Management division at the leading regional law firm Ferrere Intenacional. Martin has broad-based corporate and finance expertise and his practice is focused on providing advice to funds and fund managers in structural and organizational matters, as well as ongoing corporate, regulatory and compliance issues. As of today Martin has structured over 200 offshore investment funds for his worldwide clientele. In addition to his fund work, Martin provides advice to international financial institutions and multinational companies on a wide range of international business transactions, such as structured finance transactions, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity transactions, capital market offerings, debt restructuring transactions, etc. He also provides consultancy services and acts as representative for high networth and ultra high networth individuals and families throughout Latin America structuring trusts, funds, foundations and the necessary and proper instruments for estate planning. Martin has received various awards in connection with his fund and corporate practices. Only in 2009, Martin was included in Tier/Band 4 of the Chambers & Partners ranking for Latin American practitioners (Capital Markets sub-category), awarded a second prize at the Best Paper Award contest organized by the Inter-American Bar Association. Also in and then ranked by Who’s Who Legal as the best practitioner in Uruguay for his work in the formation of private funds. In 2006, Martin had been nominated by Who’s Who Legal as one of the top 4 practitioners in the British Virgin Islands for his work in the formation of private funds and was also nominated, and ranked, as a prominent legal practitioner for his work on Mergers & Acquisitions. Also in 2006 he had been ranked among the top ten most promising up-andcoming young Argentinean lawyer by “Infobae Profesional”, and Chambers & Partners classified him in Band 3 of their ranking for BVI practitioners in corporate and commercial law. Prior to joining Ferrere International, Martin worked at Ogier, a leading offshore law-firm. During his seven year tenure at Ogier, Martin co-headed their Latin American practice and opened and managed their Montevideo office, after working for more than four years at the BVI office of the firm. Martin has also worked at the Capital Markets Department of the Argentinean law-firm Abeledo Gottheil Abogados, and as Director of Legal Affairs of Salutia.com, a company in the field of healthcare, with headquarters in Buenos Aires and branches in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and the U.S. Martin authored and co-authored over 25 legal articles on legal published in Latin America, the United Kingdom and the United States and has been a frequent presenter at conferences and seminars held in Argentina, the British Virgin Islands, Dallas, Mexico, Miami, San Salvador and Washington. Martin obtained his Lawyer’s Degree in the year 1998, with “honors” from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), where graduated first in his class and in 2000 was awarded a Master’s degree in Finance & Law from UCEMA, where he was also first in his class. Martin joined the Inter-American Bar Association in 2003 and was appointed Vice-President of the Committee on International Private and Public Law the following year, and President of said committee in 2009. In the year 2007 he joined the International Bar Association. Fluent in Spanish and English, which are his usual working languages, Martin can also read and thoroughly understand Portuguese.

Marivi has over 17 years market experience and over 7 years of experience in the hedge fund industry. In 2005, she joined the Group N+1 as managing partner of the area of hedge funds. From 2002 to 2005, Marivi was founder and managing partner of Alpha Value Management LLP (AVM), responsible for portfolio management specializing in hedge funds. Prior to that, she was director of international equity sales at Santander Investment in London and prior to Santander, she was bond sales and credit analyst at BCH in New York. Marivi graduated in economics and BA from CUNEF (extraordinary Award for the best academic CV in Spain): She has a LBS Master in Finance and the LBS Investment Management Programme. She is CAIA holder and member of AIAA. She currently invests in alternative investments through her own company, Redcliffe Square Ltd.

John is chairman and a founding partner of ML Capital. He has 20 years experience in successful fund placement and consulting, with the past 15 years focused on the alternative investment industry. His specialist areas of interest and experience include: investment management techniques, investment management start ups, key trends of the private equity industry, product development John was chief executive of Tara Capital where he directed global asset allocation and oversaw manager research and selection. He advised the Government of Malta on its business plan for the Malta Financial Services Authority. Earlier in his career he established Old Mutual’s European operations and the first dedicated South Africa offshore fund. In 1993, he launched one of the very earliest European equity hedge funds. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin.

Claudio Macchetto is the Director of Global Platforms for Paulson & Co., a New York based hedge fund management company, managing over $32B in assets across three fund families, the merger funds, the event driven funds and the credit opportunities funds. Mr. Macchetto was previously the Product Manager for HedgeForum, Citigroup Alternative Investments’ (“CAI”) third party single manager hedge fund platform. Prior to creating HedgeForum, Mr. Macchetto was Chief Financial Officer of CAI’s Funds of Hedge Funds business and had relationship management responsibilities related to several of the group’s institutional investors with managed accounts. Mr. Macchetto moved into the CFO role after working as Head of Business Development for CAI. Mr. Macchetto joined CAI after working as Vice President in Citigroup’s Corporate Development team, where he worked on furthering Citigroup’s cross-marketing activities, providing competitor analysis for Citigroup’s executive team, and analyzing several potential acquisitions for Citigroup. Prior to this, Mr. Macchetto was First Vice President, Strategic Planning, Salomon Smith Barney, and Senior Associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton’s financial services consulting practice.

- Managing Partner responsible for Investor Relations and Distribution - Former CEO at Trend Bank - Formerly responsible for Equity Sales and Distribution at Banco Garantia and Credit Suisse - Trader at Banco Safra’s Equity Trading Desk - BA degree in Economics - Pontifícia Universidade Católica (RJ)

Diego Mora is an Officer of the Latin America team with focus in Brazil. Since he joined BGI in 2006 Diego has been involved in the different phases of the business in Brazil from developing the business plan, to working on product development and more recently working with clients in different segments of the Brazilian market (asset managers, family offices, broker dealers and prop desks). Prior to this role, Diego accumulated four years of experience as Economic Research Analyst and Asset Allocation Specialist at Skandia Pensiones y Cesantías and Citibank, in Bogotá Colombia. Diego received his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and his BA in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Diego is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish and conversational in German and holds the Series 7 and Series 63 certificates for the United States, as well as the CPA-20 for Brazil.

The Texas Education Agency, Permanent School Fund, is a twenty-six billion dollar educational endowment for the State of Texas. It is fully invested in all asset classes, including international and domestic asset classes. Rene Nunez is a member of the Texas State Board of Education. Nunez is a Texas Real Estate Broker and owner of El Paso Sunwest Realty & Investments, Inc. He also serves as a financial advisor consultant. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and a Master of Arts degree from Chapman University in Orange, California. Nunez currently serves on the State Board of Education’s committee on School Finance/Permanent School Fund. Previously, he served as chairman of the committee on Permanent School Fund from 2007-2009 and vice chairman from 2003-2007. He currently represents the board on the Texas Growth Fund. In addition, he currently serves as a moderator and speaker for a number of conference events, both in the United States and in the global arena.

Bernard Oppetit (French) (born 1956) is a director of the Fund and director and Chief Investment Officer of Centaurus Capital Limited. Prior to leaving in August 2000, Mr. Oppetit was, from 1995, Global Head of Equity Derivatives at Paribas in London until the Paribas merger with Banque National de Paris in May 2000 following which he was Head of Risk Arbitrage at BNP Paribas in London. He joined Paribas in Paris in 1979 and in 1987 transferred to New York as a risk arbitrage trader before becoming Global Head of Risk Arbitrage in 1990. Mr. Oppetit is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

Brigitte Posch Ms. Posch is an executive vice president in the Newport Beach office and a member of the emerging markets portfolio management team. Her role gives her a wide-ranging mandate, encompassing many types of asset-backed financing activity across emerging markets. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2008, she was a managing director and head of Latin American securitization and trading at Deutsche Bank. Ms. Posch was previously a director with Ambac, responsible for developing asset- and mortgage-backed securities in emerging markets. Before joining Ambac, she was a vice president and senior credit officer with Moody’s Investors Service in New York, responsible for rating asset- and mortgage-backed securities in Latin America. She also worked in Sao Paulo, Brazil at Banco Inter-Atlantico/Credit Agricole, Citibank and at ABN AMRO. She has 14 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree from Mackenzie University of São Paulo. She was also enrolled in a graduate management program at Harvard University.

Mr. Rivera joined Moneda in 2006, as a partner, assuming as Investment Director of the “Moneda Retorno Absoluto Investment Fund”. Prior to joining Moneda (1996-1998 & 2000-2006), he worked at Bancard, a Chilean Investment Company, assuming as CEO from 1997 Under Mr. Rivera’s management, Bancard’s investment portfolio grew from US$ 250 million to US$ 1,300 million, investing in financial securities such as equities, derivatives, corporate bonds, distressed debt, syndicated loans, commodities, etc mainly from Latin American companies and U.S. companies. He also lead several private equity processes, acquiring companies such as Chilevisión, Constructora Aconcagua, Chile.com web portal, etc. Mr. Rivera has also acted as a board member in several companies in Chile, currently being a member of the board in companies such as Salfacorp, Chiletech and Moneda Asset Management S.A. Mr. Rivera holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, and a business administration degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Since his incorporation to Compass Group in March 2006, Mr. Rojas has been the manager of Compass “Fondo de Inversión Mixta Especializada”, the largest fixed income fund at Compass Group, managing over US$90MM in Latin American Fixed Income. In addition, Carlos is the founder and manager of the Peru Special Investment Fund (PSIF), the first Peruvian hedge fund. This hedge fund was launched in September 2006 and has AUM reaching +US$60MM. The PSIF was ranked as the second best emerging market hedge fund by Bloomberg in 2007, when the fund’s net return reached 77%. With more than 15 years of experience in the field, Mr. Rojas is responsible for developing investment strategies of liquid assets at Compass Peru. Moreover, Carlos has been a member of the Investment Committee of Compass Private Equity Investment Fund I since April 2008. Prior to joining Compass Group, Carlos worked at Rimac Seguros, managing Equity Funds of more than US$100MM and Annuity Funds of more than US$200MM. In addition, he worked doing M&A operations, financial structures and derivatives. Previously, Carlos worked at Deutsche Bank as the Andean equity sales-trader, being also responsible for this bank’s front book in those markets.

Al Samper is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of Trustee of the Virginia Retirement System and former Chairman of the Board of the Virginia College Building Authority. He also serves on the advisory board of the Mid-Atlantic Hedge Fund Association. Al was Director of Public Sector Marketing at Wachovia Securities. Before that he served as Assistant State Treasurer, Virginia Department of the Treasury. He earned his BS in economics from Virginia Tech in 1975 and his MBA in finance from Virginia Tech in 1978. He is a 1990 graduate of the Virginia Executive Institute, and the Wharton Pension Fund and Investment Management Institute.

Prior to joining GLG Partners, Mr Saxe-Coburg spent 10 years at Lehman Brothers Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions areas, firstly in New York and subsequently in London. During his period in London, Mr Saxe-Coburg specialised in M&A transactions for South European clients. Since 1997 Mr Saxe-Coburg joined GLG with main responsability in Spanish and Portuguese markets. During his early days at GLG he was a pioneer in introduction of absolute return Long-Only strategies to spanish investors, and has had ongoing conversations with investors and regulators on the merits of Hedge Funds. At present he is a Principal in Asset Allocation Group and jointly responsible for the management of the GLG Multistrategy Fund, a fund of GLG Funds.Kyril holds a BA degree (Cum Laude), in Physics from Princeton University.

Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital, which is focused on partnering with emerging managers. The fund now has 9 managers and $1.4 billion in assets. Mr. Scaramucci was a Partner and Founder of Oscar Capital Management LLC, responsible for overseeing compliance and research for four hedge funds and separately managed accounts with assets totaling over $1 billion. In November of 2001, Oscar Capital was sold to Neuberger Berman. Mr. Scaramucci, a Managing Director of Neuberger Berman/Lehman Brothers, served from 2003 – 2005 on the Investment Committee of Neuberger’s Premier Portfolio, which his group originated, and worked on the Neuberger Berman/Lehman integration team. He was also responsible for distributing Private Asset Management products into Lehman’s private client service division. Prior to that, Mr. Scaramucci was a Vice President in Goldman Sach’s Equities Division. Mr. Scaramucci earned a BA in Economics, summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1986. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. He graduated with a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989. He is a Board Member of The Lymphoma Foundation, and The Brain Tumor Foundation. He is also on the Board of Overseers for the school of arts and sciences at Tufts University.

Due to my skills and as an entrepreneur I became a reference for certain people and families who seeked financial and management advice. Currently I work exclusively in this segment and I am in charge of significant transactions, investing in Brazil and abroad. I have contacts in today’s biggest financial institutions and I also work with the client’s financial institutions, no matter where it is based. As a family officer I am permanently searching ways of improving my skills and using my experience in order to connect common interests in various kinds of investments and business transactions. My objective is to mould a Family Office structure in order to serve investors with privacy and dedication, finding solutions for their needs and outsourcing experts in civil, international and tributary law. Please check: www.familyoffice.com.br

Mr. Karim Shariff, (along with his college classmate and friend, Mr. Robert Bush Jr.) is a founding principal of MAJLIS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, a newly established innovative, independent wealth management firm with a deliberate focus on providing multi-strategy, multi-asset class investment capabilities to substantial public and private clients across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Majlis in Arabic means gathering or assembly and the firm’s goal is to assemble a number of like-minded Regional customers—with similar wealth preservation and investment goals, liability and liquidity concerns and investment horizons—so as to provide a sophisticated, full-service, cost effective investment platform.  The firm intends to combine the personal service and dedication associated with a regionally focused multi-family office, with the high standards and expertise of a global institutional investment firm. He is primarily responsible for establishing the firm’s proposition, executing the strategic vision, and developing and administering the firm, including regulatory requirements and global partnership arrangements. The firm’s objective is to integrate traditional asset management with alternative investments, incorporating the unique risks and returns of alternatives through an innovative and consultative asset allocation framework that is based on risk allocation and an open architecture model. Few firms in the region have articulated a distinct target-client segment and identified evolving service needs.

Harry Skaliotis is an investment manager with AHL. Prior to joining AHL in 2005, Mr Skaliotis was involved in equity portfolio construction at JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management. He has a BSc in economics, accounting & finance from the London School of Economics, and an MPhil in finance from Cambridge University. Mr Skaliotis is a CFA charterholder.

Practice areas Investment Funds, Corporate and Commercial Background Giorgio joined Ogier in 2002 and became a partner in 2006. Giorgio is the co-head of Ogier’s Latin American practice. Before joining Ogier, Giorgio practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York (1998 to 2002), Pinheiro Neto - Advogados in São Paulo (1994 to 1995) and Linklaters in London and Paris (1992 to 1994 and 1995 to 1997). He received his Diploma de Estudios Hispánicos from the University of Málaga, Spain in 1986; his Bachelor of Law, with Honours, from the University of London, King's College, in 1990; Maîtrise en Droit, avec mention, from the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, in the same year; and Master of Law from University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor in 1992. Giorgio is the honorary consul of Brazil in the Cayman Islands. He is a Notary Public in the Cayman Islands and a member of the Cayman Islands Law Society, the Law Society of England and Wales and the New York Bar Association. Giorgio is fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Giorgio is recognised by industry commentators as a specialist in his areas of expertise for the Cayman Islands. Admitted in 2002 - Cayman Islands 1999 - New York (not practising) 1994 - England and Wales (not practising)

Tulio P. Vera, Managing Director & Chief Investment Strategist, Bladex Asset Management (BAM) (New York, New York, USA) Mr. Vera joined Bladex Asset Management (BAM) in July 2008. BAM is the investment advisor to the Bladex Capital Growth Fund, a multi-product/multi-strategy macro hedge fund with a primary focus on Latin America. At BAM, Mr. Vera is in charge of investment strategy and client relations. Prior to BAM, he spent nine years as an MD and Chief EM Macro and Debt Strategist for Merrill Lynch. In this capacity, he was responsible for: (i) global EM debt research and investment strategy; (ii) macroeconomic research for Latin America and Emerging Europe; and (iii) cross-asset class investment strategy across debt/equity/currencies for Latin America. He was a member of Merrill’s Operating Committee for Latin America and of the firm’s Global Debt Risk Council. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Vera ran global EM fixed income research for ABN-AMRO. From 1994 to 1997, he was in charge of sovereign-debt research and market strategy for Latin America at Bear Stearns. Previously, he was a Financial Officer at the International Finance Corporation – the private-sector arm of the World Bank – and was a senior sovereign analyst at Moody’s. He received a BA in architecture from the University of Maryland and has a Master's degree (and is ABD) in International Finance and Monetary Economics from New York University.

Commissioner of the Brazilian Securities Commission. Professor of the Continuing Legal Education and Specialization Program of Fundação Getúlio Vargas School of Law. Visiting Professor of the Corporate Law Diploma of the Post Graduation Program of University of Rio Grande do Sul School of Law. Holds a Doctorate Degree in Economic Law by the University of São Paulo. Former Self-Regulation Director of BM&FBovespa Supervisão de Mercados (BSM). Former Regulation Director of Bolsa de Mercadorias e Futuros (BM&F). Brazilian representative appointed by the Ministry of External Relations to the UNIDROIT Conference in Rome, 2006. Author of “Regulação do mercado financeiro e de capitais”, currently in its second edition, and of various articles on Corporate Law and financial and capital markets regulation.

Jorge is a Managing Director of Fractal Advisors. His responsibilities include advisory on both the management and marketing of Fractal Fund and its subsidiaries. He has spent the last nine years in the Financial Services Industry. From 1998 to 2002 he served as Financial Consultant at Merrill Lynch’s International Private Client Group. He advised high net worth individuals and implemented financial planning solutions. From 2002 to 2005 he joined UBS advising both clients and institutions along with Alain Bibliowicz to form a team which led to the formation of what today is Fractal Fund Management. Jorge holds an MBA from Boston University and is currently based out of Aventura, Florida.