Ms Annette Franqui | Partner
Forrestal Capital

Annette Franqui is one of the founding partners of Forrestal Capital, a business and financial advisor formed in 2003 to address the needs of the selling shareholders of Panamco, a Coca Cola bottler operating in Latin America. Ms. Franqui was the Chief Financial Officer for Panamco, from April 2001 until its sale.  In 2007, Forrestal Capital advised one of its clients in the acquisition of Mc Donald's operations in all of Latin America and the Caribbean. This Company recently completed a NYSE public listing under the symbol ARCO. Ms. Franqui has 26 years' experience in the financial industry, initiating her career in 1986 in the Latin America Mergers and Acquisitions department of J.P Morgan. In 1989, Ms. Franqui joined Goldman Sachs' Corporate Finance department in London and became one of the founding members of the Spanish investment banking team. In 1994, Ms. Franqui re-joined JP Morgan in New York as the senior Latin American Food and Beverage Equity Analyst. She was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst in this sector for a number of years. In 1998, Ms. Franqui was named Managing Director and Head of the Latin America Research Department at J.P. Morgan, acquiring responsibility for the sales and trading areas the following year. Ms. Franqui holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She is also a CFA charterholder. Ms. Franqui is a Board Member of Arcos Dorados, BVI. Arcos Dorados is the Direct Licensee ("DL") of Mc Donald's Corporation operating within 20 countries throughout Latin America. She is also a Board Member of Wireless Werx International.