Latin America Business Conference 2019

Pierpaolo Barbieri is a 35-year-old Argentine entrepreneur and the founder of Ualá. He was awarded a scholarship to study History and Economics at Harvard University at the age of 17 and later continued his graduate studies at Cambridge.

Barbieri is also the CEO of Greenmantle...

Mario Fernandez is a managing director in the Infrastructure & Energy Group leading the Energy Principal Investing activities in Latin America. He has over 10 years of experience in project development, structuring, and financing. His most recent experience includes, successfully...

Arminio Fraga is the founding partner at Gavea Investimentos, an investment management firm he founded in August 2003, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Fraga was the chairman of the board of BM&F Bovespa, Brazil’s securities, commodities and derivatives exchange, from April 2009...

Juan José Echavarría graduated as an engineer from the Escuela de Minas de Medellín. He studied business and economics at Harvard University, and he holds a master's degree in economics from Boston University and a PhD in economics from Oxford University. He has served in various...

Paul Kilby works at Refinitiv where he runs the Latin America desk and is deputy U.S. credit editor for International Financing Review's real-time, daily and weekly products, coordinating coverage of bonds, loans, equity, corporate and sovereign debt, restructuring as well as...

Elicia Ling is a partner in the Latin America practice and the energy and infrastructure practice at Paul Hastings. She is based in the firm’s New York office. Ling has represented sponsors and lenders in a number of financing and infrastructure development transactions...

Stuart Murray is a director in Citigroup’s Project & Infrastructure Finance group and has 15 years experience in structured finance, with a focus on power, energy, and renewable energy transactions and clients. Prior to joining Citi’s Infrastructure & Energy Finance group, Murray...

Bernardo Novick is currently the head of ZX Ventures of Anheuser-Busch InBev with the intention of making products, services, and technologies that provide solutions for consumer needs. Novick started his career at Ambev Brewery in 2009 as a commodities manager. Later on he led...

Paulo Passoni is founder of 30 Knots Capital, an expansion and growth capital provider to companies in Latin America, investing in private rounds, IPOs, and publicly listed companies. Prior to 30 Knots Capital, Passoni served as managing director and analyst at Third Point LLC...

Jennifer P. Roig is senior reporter at Inframation News. She covers project finance deals across Spanish speaking Latin America for Inframation News, which focuses on private investment in infrastructure at a global level, and is in constant contact with financiers, advisors, and...

Susan Segal was elected President and CEO of Americas Society/Council of the Americas in 2003 after having worked in the private sector with Latin America and other emerging markets for over 30 years. Prior to her appointment, Susan was a partner at Chase Capital Partners...

Armando Senra began his career in 1994 at Merrill Lynch in the United States, taking on a number of roles across the firm in both New York City and Princeton. He joined Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) in 1997, which merged with BlackRock in 2006. In 1998 he became MLIM's...

Daniel Vogel is among the youngest entrepreneurs and leaders of technological innovation in Mexico. Motivated by a sense of social responsibility, Bitso is committed to the development of efficient, competitive, accessible and inclusive financial services in Mexico and Latin...

Alejandro Werner assumed his current position as director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January 2013. A Mexican citizen, Werner has had distinguished careers in the public and private sectors as well as in academia. He served as...