Private Equity World Latin America - list of speakers 

Alexandra's practice focuses primarily on the areas of mergers and acquisitions, domestic and international corporate transactions, corporate finance, and debt and equity private placements throughout Latin America with a specific focus on Mexico and Central America.

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde is a founding Partner of Riverwood Capital, a leading growth capital private equity firm focused in the Global Technology industry. Prior to joining Riverwood, Mr. Alvarez-Demalde was an investment professional at Eton Park Capital Management, where he focused on a variety of private equity investments in emerging...

With an MBA from Stanford University, Emerson Andrade has a very strong operations and sales background. Prior do joining Peixe Urbano, he worked for Microsoft, in Seattle, managing Corporate Product Sales. Andrade started his career early at Amway, where at age 20, he led a group of more than 10 thousand representatives in seven countries. During ...

Francisco Arboleda joined HarbourVest in 2011 as a vice president to focus on partnership and direct investments in Latin America and to expand HarbourVest's local presence in Latin America. He joined HarbourVest from Porvenir (the largest pension fund in Colombia) where he was responsible for managing the private equity portfolio as the...

Ariel is a serial entrepreneur. Since 1994, he is involved in the Internet/Online Media Industry. He founded Digital Ventures, Directa Network, Performa Network, Afiliados Hispanos and InZearch all online advertising companies acquired by FOX in July 2007. He is a frequent speaker at AdTech, IAA, IAB, Online Marketing Europe, OMD, Marketing 2.0...

Philip has more than 30 years of financial, tax and transactions experience working with both private equity funds and large multinational corporations. Philip is part of the Global Private Equity leadership team and serves as Ernst & Young’s Global Private Equity Markets Leader, where he develops and executes the firm’s private equity...

Manuel Bentosinos is a Regional Director at Merrill Corporation, managing DataSite in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and Colombia. Born in Spain, he moved to Mexico in 2000 to start up and manage Soluziona Telecomunicaciones, a services company in the telecommunications sector where he was the CEO. Manuel is a graduate of Vigo University...

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Borges was a Managing Director of AIG Capital Partners and the head of AIG's private equity office in Brazil. While at AIG, Mr. Borges participated in the Board of Directors of many portfolio companies, including GOL Linhas Aéreas, Fertilizantes Heringer, Frigorífico Mercosul and, more recently, as the chairman of the ...

Mr. Brillembourg is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience, specialized in exploiting market arbitrage opportunities and underdeveloped/emerging sectors. He spent over three years studying the Caribbean real estate market, and is an expert in the luxury beachfront hospitality real estate asset class. He has founded two successful...

Prior to 57 Stars, Mr. Bruneau was a Director at the J.E. Robert Company, where he was responsible for originating, underwriting, negotiating and closing investments in Latin America for the JER Latin America Fund I, L.P. Mr. Bruneau joined JER in 2006 from East-West Financial Services, Ltd., a financial advisory boutique focused on transactions...

Mr. Carrillo has extensive experience in issues related to consumer financial services. Economist from Universidad del Pacifico and graduate from Virginia Tech , he has held posts as Director and Regional President of Western Union Financial Services, Director for Latin America American Express, Bancosur Central Manager, VP of Private Banking of...

Experience
Santiago Castillo joined Advent International in 2003. Previously, he spent two and a half years as an associate with Promecap (Soros Fund Management affiliate) in Mexico City, where he monitored portfolio companies and analyzed and participated in new transactions. Prior to that, he was a financial analyst at a Mexican satellite...

Hector Cateriano has over a decade of private equity investment experience in emerging markets (Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America) with SEAF. Mr. Cateriano is SEAF’s Managing Director for its Colombian fund (Fondo Transandino Colombia), the pioneer private equity fund investing in Colombian small and medium enterprises...

Bernardo Cavour is Partner at Flow Human Capital, Co-Head of the firm’s financial services division in Brazil based in São Paulo. Cavour works as an Executive Recruiter for finance related roles since 2004 servicing leading Global Investment Banks, Private Equity firms and hedge funds. Prior to joining Flow Human Capital in 2010, Bernardo was ...

Mr. Jason Cipriani is a Partner and serves as Head of Private Capital Managed / Separate Accounts. Prior to joining Sterling Stamos in 2010, he was a Principal in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Strategic Capital Group and Head of Strategic Fund Investments with responsibility for the company’s proprietary investments in private equity...

Matthew E. Cole is a Managing Partner of North Bay Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on Latin America. Matt has more than 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience in Latin America, having also served as a Principal at Texas Pacific Group, focusing on investments in Latin America, and as an Associate with...

Cesar Collier is a Managing Director of Siguler Guff and head of the Firm's São Paulo office. Mr. Collier, who joined Siguler Guff in February 2011, is a senior member of the BRIC investment team. He brings a valuable mix of private equity and operational experience to the Firm and plays an integral role in building long-term relationships with...

Maurício da Rocha Wanderley CIO of the Fundação Vale do Rio Doce de Seguridade Social-VALIA (CVRD’S Pension Fund) with U$ 7,8 billion in assets under management. Graduated in Economics at UERJ – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and MBA in Finance at IBMEC.

Sam DeRosa-Farag joined Morgan Creek in April of 2009. Previously, Mr. DeRosa-Farag was President of Ore Hill Partners LLC where he was a member of the Investment Committee. While at Ore Hill, Mr. DeRosa-Farag was primarily responsible for new initiatives including structured products and risk management. Prior to joining Ore...

Marcelo is Partner, Managing Director and Head of 3i Brazil. He leads the 3i team in Brazil and Latin America. He joined 3i from Standard Bank Private Equity in 2011 where he was Managing Director and Head of Private Equity in Brazil. Marcelo has over 15 years of experience in private equity in Latin America. Prior to Standard Bank, he worked as...

Faquiry Diaz Cala is a venture capital/private equity investor in the Latin American and the U.S. regions. He is the President and CEO of the Tres Mares Group, an innovation-driven holding company that invests and co-invests alongside successful Venture Capital/Private Equity funds and multilateral organizations throughout Latin America and...

Maureen focuses on sourcing, analyzing and closing secondary investment opportunities and manager selection for Emerging Markets on a primary basis as well as participates in fund monitoring, firm marketing and client reporting. Prior to joining Pantheon, Maureen was a Vice President in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, & Co. Maureen's...

Mr. Elejalde is a Founding Partner of Latin America Enterprise Fund Managers, L.L.C. (LAEFM) and has concentrated on private equity fund management in Latin America since 1994. He is a member of LAEFM’s board of directors and of the Investment Committees of the funds that it manages. More recently, Mr. Elejalde has been living in Colombia where he ...

Serge Elkiner is the Chief Executive Officer and Co Founder of YellowPepper. Recognizing the vast unbanked population and high level of cell phone penetration in Latin America and the Caribbean, Mr. Elkiner saw the potential for the deployment of a successful mobile money ecosystem in the region. Following Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010...

Javier Escorriola has over 15 years experience in private equity and project finance of which 10 years were with Actis Capital (previously CDC Capital Partners.) and since January 2007 as Regional Director of Latin America for Norfund. As part of Actis, he was involved in carrying out investments in Central America, participating in the...

Senior professional with significant expertise in asset management. 19 of hands-on experience in pension fund and mutual fund businesses management across Latin America. Direct responsibility for risk management decisions for over 6.0 USD billion in wealth management business from Scotiabank Group in Peru.

Ms. Claudia Fan Munce is the Managing Director at IBM Venture Capital Group. She has held this position since March 2004 and is based at the firm's California office. Ms. Munce is also Vice President at IBM Corporate Strategy. She joined IBM Research Division in 1985 and held many technical and business leadership positions. Previously, she was...

Hernan is one of the founding partners of Angel Ventures Mexico, the leading Angel Investment Network in Mexico, currently with four chapters under operation in Mexico City, Puebla, Yucatan and Sonora. He has been one of the architects of a sustainable business model for an Angel Investment Network, which has capitalized 9 projects worth over 9.2...

Mr. Festino joined Meketa Investment Group in October, 2003. He heads the firm's Miami office, and has been involved in the investment consulting industry since 1999, when he joined Access Partners as an investment analyst. A Managing Principal of the firm, Mr. Festino has served as the lead consultant on various non-profit and for profit...

Partner at CRP Companhia de Participações. Mr. Eboli has a degree in economics and a specialization degree in project management. Mr. Eboli is director of the board of some invested companies. Before joining CRP, Mr. Eboli worked in auditing. He joined CRP in 2001. Mr. Eboli is responsible for fundraising and prospecting areas. CRP is a pioneer...

Mr. Frank joined Darby in 2007 and is responsible for the day-to-day management of Darby’s Latin America Mezzanine Fund I and II (DLAMF I and II). He serves as Investment Committee member for DLAMF II and he was a member of the Board of two of Darby’s Colombian portfolio companies, Avantel S.A. and Termobarranquilla S.A.. With over 15 years of...

Bachiller en Administración de Empresas con Master en Administración de Empresas (MBA) de la University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cuenta con más de 14 años de experiencia en temas de banca de inversión, financiamientos, inversiones, mercado de capitales y finanzas corporativas habiendo desempeñado diversas posiciones en el Perú y el...

Since 1999, Ms. Garcia-Robles has created and guided the venture capital investments of MIF/FOMIN (Multilateral Investment Fund) in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms. García-Robles serves on many boards of directors and investment committees of venture capital funds, and is frequently invited to speak at the world’s leading conferences...

Alvaro Gonzalez is an Investment Director & Responsible for Latin America Investment Activities of Altamar Capital Privado. He is part of the Investments & Fund Analysis Department since the firm´s inception in 2004. During the past 6 years, he was responsible for commitments of $560 million in Private Equity Funds from Europe, USA and Asia. In...

Portfolio manager with 8 years of investment and finance experience working in Australia and Latin America. I am currently responsible for the alternatives investment portfolio of AFP Integra and also participate as member of the investment committee. AFP Integra is the founding pension fund of the Peruvian private pension system with...

Mr. Haggerty has been in the financial services industry since 1993, joined Meketa Investment Group in 1996 and carries consulting, management, and research responsibilities. He chairs the firm's Private Markets Investment Committee (PMIC) which has resulted in over $1 billion in annual client commitments. The PMIC governs client portfolio...

Luis Alberto Harvey MacKissack, is co-founding partner and senior managing director of Nexxus Capital, S.A. He has approximately 20 years of experience in investment banking and private equity. Before founding Nexxus, Mr. Harvey held positions at Grupo Bursatil Mexicano, Fonlyser, Operadora de Bolsa, and Servicios Industriales Penoles, S.A. de...

Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl is President of The Vero Group, a multinational family investment office based in Houston, Texas. He was previously Managing Director of Salomon Smith Barney in New York, a division of Citigroup, Inc. Prior to Salomon Smith Barney Haukohl held several positions of increasing responsibility at ITT Corporation in both North...

Douglas Hewson is a Managing Partner of Portland Private Equity, a firm focused on private equity in the Caribbean Basin and general partner of the AIC Caribbean Fund, a $225 million growth equity fund (www.portlandpe.com). He serves on the investment committee of the AIC Caribbean Fund, manages external relations with current and prospective...

Amaury holds a PhD from MIT in Engineering and Applied Mathematics and an MSc and BSc from PUC Rio. Prior to Vision Brazil Investments, his professional experience included: (1) Founding Partner and CIO of Capitania Asset & Risk Management; (2) Managing Director, Head Trader, and Treasurer for Bank of America in Brazil; (3) Head of Brazilian FX...

Christina Kappaz joined Cimarron Capital Partners in 2009 to lead the firm’s business development in Latin America. Cimarron is a private equity asset manager that provides investors with a full range of services from conducting due diligence on an outsourced basis, to managing independent client accounts and managing capital within a customized...

Hernan Kazah is a cofounder and Managing Partner of Kaszek Ventures, a Venture Capital firm focused in the technology industry in Latin America. Before launching Kaszek Ventures, he cofounded MercadoLibre (Nasdaq: MELI), Latin American largest commerce and payments online platform, in 1999 and co-led its growth for 12 years –first 9 years as COO...

Mr. Rodney Lake is a Senior Investment Officer in The George Washington University's (GW) Investment Office. The office is responsible for managing the University's $1.2 billion endowment fund. Mr. Lake's responsibilities include identifying investment opportunities and recommending implementation strategies including the use of derivatives across ...

Mr. Lark is managing partner of Endurance Capital Partners, a Brazilian private equity manager founded in 2008, and serves on the firm’s investment committee and as director of several portfolio companies. A portfolio manager authorized by the Brazilian CVM and ANBIMA-licensed to manage investment funds, he is also an associate of the Brazilian...

Javier is a Principal at the firm. He joined Graycliff’s predecessor firm, HSBC Capital in May 2007 to launch HSBC's Private Equity program in Latin America and currently manages its Spanish Latin America investment portfolio. Javier represents HSBC Capital in the Board of Directors of 4 companies in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico (2). Prior to...

Duncan Littlejohn is Managing Director- Latin America for Paul Capital Partners, a well known secondary private equity fund manager with over US$ 7 billion in AUM. He was previously a partner of BPE Investimentos, a primary private equity fund manager whose portfolios have included companies such as...

Mark A. Lopez has advised multinational clients in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, corporate financings, joint ventures and all types of general contractual matters throughout Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States. He is proactively...

Mr. José Pedro Martínez Sanguinetti runs a US$1.6 billion investment portfolio since 2002 for Rimac Seguros, Perú´s leading life and P&C insurance company. He invests in Emerging Markets fixed income, equities, money markets and real estate on a global basis with a particular emphasis in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Chile. He has been...

David McCombie is Founder and President of McCombie Group, LLC—An innovative advisory firm providing family offices and investors with on-demand analytical/operational support across their direct private equity investments. As an outsourced analyst team, its professionals act as transparent fiduciaries objectively representing their clients'...

Joined Gávea Investment Funds in July 2006, becoming a Partner of Gávea Investimentos in December 2006. Piero has extensive private market experience in Brazil, having held senior positions in management consulting, corporate finance, strategic mergers & acquisitions and private equity. Before joining Gávea, Piero was a Principal with Darby...

Francisco Mira es Presidente de Promotora desde el año 2002, lidero el modelo de transformación de la compañía logrando convertir a PROMOTORA, en pionera y líder en el desarrollo de la industria de Capital Pivado en Colombia. Participa en la Dirección del Área de Gestión de Fondos de la Compañía, que gestiona dos Fondos, un Fondo Venture que...

Ashton co-founded Greenspring Associates in 2000, and manages the Firm's office in Owings Mills, Maryland. Ashton is a third-generation venture capitalist. Before co-founding Greenspring Associates, he was at T. Rowe Price Associates ("T. Rowe Price"), where he was one of the youngest marketers of the firm's investment management services to both...

Ryan Nichols is the managing partner at Excend. Mr. Nichols has led investment banking engagements representing transactions in excess of $1BB. He has led engagements with organizations including Citigroup’s Latin America Venture Capital Group, Johnson & Johnson, Farmers Insurance, the World Bank, the International Trade Centre (a joint venture...

Mr. Peterson is Aureos’ Regional Managing Partner for Latin America. In Latin America Aureos manages the Aureos Latin America Fund (ALAF) and the Emerge Fund. ALAF is a private equity fund targeting companies in Mexico, Central America and the Andean Region, while Emerge focuses on the Central America region. Mr. Peterson is also a member of...

Patrícia Queiroz is a Research Supervisor, responsible for Investment Strategy, at Real Grandeza – Fundação de Previdência e Assistência Social, the pension fund for Eletrobras Furnas and Eletrobras Eletronuclear employees and one of the largest institutional investors in Brazil with US$ 5.7 billion under management. Prior to joining Real...

Jose Remy is a Director of Guggenheim Partners. Mr. Remy is currently in charge of maintaining relationships with ultra-high net worth clients at Guggenheim. Mr. Remy has also been involved with the Investment Management process at Guggenheim heading the team in charge of manager selection for international clients. Before joining Guggenheim...

Technician in International Trade, Economist, Masters in Finance, with experience in finance and investment portfolio administration, currently managing a US$ 1 billion portfolio at InVita, the third largest life insurance company in Perú; specialized in annuities, focusing the investments on global fixed income, mortgages and real estate. Over 23 ...

Maninder Saluja co-manages the emerging markets private equity program at Quilvest, a global institution that primarily manages the investments for one large family group as well as third party investors. Mani is involved in both the fund and direct private equity investment activities of the group. Prior to joining Quilvest, Mani worked at...

Mr. Springer is President and founder of Corporate Resolutions Inc. and co‐author of Digging for Disclosure: Tactics for Protecting Your Firm’s Assets from Swindlers, Scammers and Imposters. Springer, a Certified Fraud Examiner, was a former special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and has conducted business‐related investigations and...

Mrs. Tamayo has over 16 years of experience in international business with emphasis on commercial real estate, advising high-net-worth individuals, companies and government agencies in multiple geographies in investments, strategic relations and business development. As Managing Director, Business Development & Investor Relations in Brilla...

Felipe is CEO of Corporación Mexicana de Inversiones de Capital, S. A. de C. V. (Fund of Funds) since January 2009. a corporation established by NAFIN, BANOBRAS, BANCOMEXT and FOCIR, four development banks in Mexico. The Corporation has invested in 38 Private Equity / Venture Capital Funds that have promoted more than 160 SMEs and SPVs in Latin...