Inspiring Women to Lead: AS/COA Women's Hemispheric Network Conference

Marcela Drehmer is the CFO of Odebrecht S.A. Before joining Odebrecht S.A. in July 2013, she was the CFO and vice president of Investor Relations at Braskem. Drehmer also served as Braskem’s acting director of finance and managed the Structured Finance Department. During this...

Diva Hadamira Gastélum Bajo is a senator from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in the Senate of Mexico and the president of the Organismo Nacional de Mujeres Priistas. She chairs the Commission on Gender Equality and is also a member of the Commissions for Human...

Andrea Grobocopatel is president of Fundación por Liderazgos y Organizaciones Responsables (F.L.O.R), president and shareholder of Los Grobo S.G.R., a leading agro-industrial group in South America. She co-founded the family business, together with her father and his brother...

Maria Elena (Mel) Lagomasino is CEO and managing partner of WE Family Offices. In this role, she engages client families to build their wealth enterprises and provides the support and control they need to manage their wealth as a business enterprise. Before founding WE...

Elizabeth Llorente is the politics editor and senior reporter for Fox News Latino. She also writes stories on a variety of issues for the website, in particular immigration, a topic in which her expertise has garnered nationwide acclaim. Throughout her journalistic career...

Patricia Menéndez-Cambó is formerly the managing partner and deputy general counsel of SoftBank Group International and Board Member and General Counsel of the SoftBank Latin America Fund and SB Opportunity Fund. Patricia was also a member of the Board of Directors and the...

Cristina Pineda is co-founder of Pineda-Covalin, a Mexican fashion house with presence across the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Asia. She promotes Mexican art and culture through textile design, which has brought Pineda international recognition and has become the hallmark of...

Susan Segal was elected president and CEO of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas in August 2003 after working in the private sector with Latin America and other emerging markets for over 30 years. A passionate supporter of Latin America, she joined the organizations...

Gillian Tett is the US managing editor for the Financial Times where she is also a columnist covering a range of economic, financial, political, and social issues throughout the globe. From 2010 to 2012, she severed as the Financial Times’ US managing editor, leading the...

Karen Toulon is the New York bureau chief at Bloomberg News. As bureau chief, she works across news teams to enhance Bloomberg's coverage of local, national and international events and she manages efforts to bring business, government, arts, and education newsmakers to the...