Hedge Funds World LatAm 2011 - Speaker list

Tomás joined GEAM in 2009 with responsibility for the firm’s hedge fund portfolio. Previously, he was VP of Strategy globally for GE Money, GE Capital’s consumer finance and retail banking business. Previous to GE, he worked at McKinsey & Co., serving a wide range ...

Barton Biggs was born in New York City. His father was executive vice president and chief investment officer of the Bank of New York and chairman of the Brookings Institute in Washington. Barton graduated from the Lawrenceville School and then Yale University where he...

Karl Boog is a Managing Director and a member of the investment committee with Explora Investments, a Brazilian investment firm with hedge-fund and long-only portfolios. Previously, he was a co-portfolio manager for ultra high-net-worth clients at UBS, with a Barrons'...

Rodrigo Bresser-Pereira is Founding Partner and Head Portfolio Manager at Bresser Asset Management. His responsibility includes the head of the Investment Committee, which decides the major allocations in equities and fixed income. Formerly. Mr. Bresser was a partner...

He is a member of the investment committee and currently manages the Copernico Latin America Strategic Fund (CLAS). Prior to joining Copernico he was partner of Compass Group LLC, a New York based Asset Management Company focused in Latin America from September 1997...

Mr. Cottani assumed research coverage for the Latin American region in November 2010. Mr. Cottani is best-known for having played a key role during the 1990s in economic policymaking for the Republic of Argentina: as Undersecretary of Macroeconomic Policy, as...

LUIS VICENTE D’AMATO, CFA - B.A. in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Hedging-Griffo since 1991, partner since 1994. 14 years experience at the equities trading desk at CSHG Brokerage House, focusing primarily on foreign investors. 2.5 years as head ...

Augusto de la Torre, a national of Ecuador, is the Chief Economist for Latin American and the Caribbean. Since joining the World Bank in 1997, he has held the positions of Senior Advisor in the Financial Systems Department and Senior Financial Sector Advisor, both in...

Albert Fishlow is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, Founding Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies and former Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia. Dr. Fishlow had been Professor of Economics at the University of...

Oliver Fratzscher is Executive Vice-President and Strategic Advisor with focus on emerging markets. He contributes to strategic asset allocation and investment decisions and is a member of the Executive Committee. He also acts as a spokesperson for the Caisse in its...

Michael P. Hennessy is a Co-founder and Managing Director at Morgan Creek Capital Management. Morgan Creek provides investment services based on the University Endowment model of investment management. It does so on behalf of families, endowments, foundations and...

Dr. Eliot Kalter established and is President of E M Strategies, which offers strategic and operational guidance to facilitate investment opportunities with emerging market countries. Eliot also holds the position of Senior Fellow, Center for Emerging Market...

Mr. Levi graduated from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP ) with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and Finance. After working for Procter & Gamble Brazil for 2 years, he co-found FAMA Investimentos in 1993 and is responsible for political and economic...

Claudio Macchetto is the Director of Global Platforms for Paulson & Co., a New York based hedge fund management company, managing approximately $35.2 Billion (as of July 1st, 2011) in assets across five fund families: the merger funds, the event driven funds, the...

Vidak Radonjic is the Founder and the CEO of The Beryl Consulting Group LLC. He has over sixteen years of experience in alternative investments and capital markets. Mr. Radonjic is responsible for managing all aspects of the Firm’s hedge fund advisory practice. That...

Victor Hugo Rodriguez is the Founder and CEO of LatAm Alternatives. Victor Hugo has over 17 years of experience in Management, Sales, Marketing and Business Development across the securities industry in the US-LatAm region. He was Partner and Head of Latin American...

I started my professional practice in econometrics and economic modeling. I was consultant at Corporación Centro Regional de Población (Regional Center for Population Analysis) and Javeriana University of Bogotá. Works were related to the public pension system and...

Don is a member of the Investment Committee for The City of Richmond Retirement System and Chairman of Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third party marketing firm for hedge funds. Agecroft has been selected 4 years in a row as the Third Party Marketer of the ...

Mr. Suarez was the founder and former Chairman & CEO of Midtown Bank & Trust Company, from its inception in August 2002 through May 2004. During the formation and establishment of Midtown Bank, Mr. Suarez led the charter application and approval process, the capital...

Vicente Tuesta is currently working as the Head of Research at Prima AFP, the largest pension fund in AUM in Peru. Previously, he worked as a Chief Economist-Peru at Deutsche Bank and as a Director of Research at the Central Bank of Peru. He has also worked as a...

Mr. Vieira is Director of Investments and Head of Fund Advisory Services for the Safdié Group in Brazil. He began his career as a fixed income sales & trading associate. Later on, he performed the role of fixed income senior trader for bank proprietary desks. After MBA ...

Jeff Willardson, CFA, CQF is an Associate Director and Portfolio Manager in Portfolio Solutions working with customized client portfolios including Emerging Manager mandates. He conducts manager due diligence and risk monitoring for managers across all PAAMCO...