Jorge Suarez-Velez is the founding partner of SP Capital, which advises small companies and provides investment advice to families in Latin America. He has been president and CEO of ING Private Wealth Management, LLC; head of Latin America at Julius Baer; president and CEO of Banorte Securities; and head of Latin American research for Nomura Securities. As an economic and political analyst, Suarez-Velez writes for the Mexican newspapers Reforma, El Economista, Excelsior and El Financiero de Mexico. He is also a long contributor to CNN en Español. His books, "Now or Never: The Great Growth Opportunity for Mexico" and "The Coming Downturn of the World Economy," topped the Mexican bestseller lists. From 1998 to 2000, he was northeast chapter president of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce. Suarez-Velez earned an economics degree from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM).