Mr. Ricardo Navarro is Co-Head of Latin American Investment Banking at Itaú based in New York, where he oversees the bank’s Fixed Income activities in the region. Mr. Navarro has been with Itau for over 8 years, initially from 2010 to 2016 when he led Latin American Debt Capital Markets and in his current role since 2019. Mr. Navarro also spent over 5 years in the buy-side, most recently from 2016 to 2019 as the portfolio manager of the Emerging Markets Credit Opportunities Fund at Noctua Partners, an Emerging Markets focused asset manager, and from 2007 to 2009 as a Credit Analyst at Stark & Roth, a multi-strategy US-based hedge fund. With over 18 years of experience in the financial markets, Mr. Navarro has successfully invested and traded Emerging Markets corporate and sovereign bonds and has advised Latin American issuers on over $30 billion of capital market transactions; including recent international bond issuances for sovereign issuers such as the Republic of Chile, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay, as well as corporate transactions across the region, syndicated and structured loans, project financings and private placements. Mr. Navarro holds a BS in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from Columbia University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Todd Martinez is a Senior Director in Fitch Ratings’ sovereigns group, responsible for analysis and ratings of sovereign credits in Latin America.

Before joining Fitch in 2014, Todd served as an economist at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington, DC, conducting analysis of country-specific and regional macroeconomic developments in Latin America. Todd previously worked as an analyst in a consultancy in his home state of Colorado, where he carried out fiscal impact studies and data analysis of public policy issues.

Todd earned his M.A. in economics and Latin American studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He earned a B.A. in international affairs from the University of Denver, after which he spent a year conducting research as a Fulbright Scholar in Uruguay. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Ernesto Revilla is a Managing Director and Head of Latin America Economics at Citigroup. He joined Citi in 2015 as Mexico economist. Before, he had a 12-year career at Mexico’s Finance Ministry where he was Chief of the Tax Policy Unit, and from 2012 to 2015, Chief Economist. In that position, Revilla headed macroeconomic planning, coordinated Mexico’s National Development Plan from 2013 to 2018, served as advisor to the minister and participated in budget negotiations. Earlier, Revilla was an economist at the World Bank in Washington where he was a financial economist and later East-Asia economist. Revilla studied economics at the undergraduate level at ITAM in Mexico and at the graduate level at the University of Chicago. He has taught several courses in economics at both institutions and has published widely on economic topics.

Claudio Irigoyen is a managing director and Head of Latin America Economics, Equities and Fixed Income & FX Strategy, including external and local debt at BofA Global Research.

Prior to joining BofA Securities in 2011, he served for four years as head of Global Macro Trading at Deutsche Bank Proprietary Trading. Prior to that, he was chief economist and director of monetary policy at the Central Bank of Argentina for five years. Irigoyen has a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, a master’s degree in economics from Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina and both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He is based in New York.

Mark Capstick, BA (Hons)

Investment Officer

Mark is an Investment Officer at Colchester Global Investors and has been with the firm since June 2016. Mark started his career in 1998 and has managed bonds and currencies since 2000. Prior to joining Colchester, Mark was an Emerging Market Bond and Currency Investment Manager at Fischer, Francis, Trees & Watts (FFTW), starting in 2012. Before FFTW, Mark was a Fund Manager at Rexiter Capital Management, a subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). While there he was responsible for the analysis and management of Asian fixed income and currency investments for Rexiter's emerging markets fixed income products. He joined Rexiter in November 2006 from SSgA where he worked as an Investment Manager in SSgA's Global Fixed Income group, focusing on ‘developed world economies,’ most notably those in the dollar bloc. In 2003 and 2004 Mark worked in Singapore and assisted in building the first local currency denominated Asian bond fund. Mark earned a BA (Hons) in Financial Services from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Alexei Remizov is a Managing Director at HSBC’s Global Capital Markets in New York, responsible for Brazil coverage.

He jointed HSBC in 2007. He started his career at the World Bank, where he worked from 1992 to 1997 in various capacities, including Latin America Country Operations that involved implementation of Brazil’s Proer (Banking Sector Restructuring) program. While at the World Bank, he was also a member of the operations team in Sarajevo overseeing the restructuring of the Bosnian economy after the civil war.

In 1997-1999, Alexei was responsible for Latin American sovereign ratings at S&P, covering Brazil, Columbia, Peru and Chile, among others. From 1999 to 2005, he worked at JPMorgan as the Head of Country Risk Management and Advisory Group. In this function, he advised the governments of Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Romania, Saudi Arabia and South Africa, among others.

He undertook undergraduate studies at the Moscow State University and holds an M.A. in Economics and Financial Management from the Catholic University, Washington, D.C.

Jorge Paz Durini, managing partner at Dentons Paz Horowitz with more than 30 years of experience in the areas: corporate, tax, arbitration, M&A, public procurement, among others. He is a specialist and widely recognized for his work in mining, energy, hydrocarbon, and aeronautical law. He currently leads the Energy, Mining and Natural Resources area as well as the Tax practice area.

At the Corporate - Commercial level, Jorge Paz has advised investors in the planning and structuring of investments and acquisitions of new projects or existing businesses, promoting the process of acquisition and negotiation of contracts.

Also, Jorge has acted as expert witness in several international investment claims as well as acted as co-counsel in private arbitration processes involving mining contracts related to concessions in Ecuador. He has been acting arbitrator of the Ecuadorian Chamber of Commerce of Quito for over 18 years and has resolved iconic litigation cases.

Todd Martinez is a Senior Director in Fitch Ratings’ sovereigns group, responsible for analysis and ratings of sovereign credits in Latin America.

Before joining Fitch in 2014, Todd served as an economist at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Washington, DC, conducting analysis of country-specific and regional macroeconomic developments in Latin America. Todd previously worked as an analyst in a consultancy in his home state of Colorado, where he carried out fiscal impact studies and data analysis of public policy issues.

Todd earned his M.A. in economics and Latin American studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He earned a B.A. in international affairs from the University of Denver, after which he spent a year conducting research as a Fulbright Scholar in Uruguay. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Mr. Fernandez joined Itaú BBA‘s LatAm Fixed Income team in New York in 2013 to focus on originating, structuring and distributing public and private debt financings for LatAm (ex-Brazil) region issuers. Prior to joining Itaú’s team, he worked at Credit Suisse in the Latin America Debt Capital Markets team. Mr. Fernandez also acquired more than 2 years of experience in structuring solutions for risk control and infrastructure protection while working as a relationship manager for Swiss Re in New York covering the Andean region. Mr. Fernandez Holds a B.S. In Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota and an MBA from the Stern School of School of Business at New York University

Alexei Remizov is a Managing Director at HSBC’s Global Capital Markets in New York, responsible for Brazil coverage.

He jointed HSBC in 2007. He started his career at the World Bank, where he worked from 1992 to 1997 in various capacities, including Latin America Country Operations that involved implementation of Brazil’s Proer (Banking Sector Restructuring) program. While at the World Bank, he was also a member of the operations team in Sarajevo overseeing the restructuring of the Bosnian economy after the civil war.

In 1997-1999, Alexei was responsible for Latin American sovereign ratings at S&P, covering Brazil, Columbia, Peru and Chile, among others. From 1999 to 2005, he worked at JPMorgan as the Head of Country Risk Management and Advisory Group. In this function, he advised the governments of Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Romania, Saudi Arabia and South Africa, among others.

He undertook undergraduate studies at the Moscow State University and holds an M.A. in Economics and Financial Management from the Catholic University, Washington, D.C.

Santiago Giraldo has served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Investor Relations at Tecnoglass since the beginning of 2016, during which time he managed all global financial and accounting activities of the group . Mr. Giraldo joined Tecnoglass with significant financial experience, having served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development and Strategy at Ocensa, a subsidiary within Ecopetrol S.A., Colombia's largest publicly traded company, listed in both the New York Stock Exchange and the Colombian Stock Exchange.

Prior to Ocensa, Mr. Giraldo spent four years as a Vice-President within the Corporate Bank group in Citibank Colombia and prior to that, 10 years in the United States, working with JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo within their Corporate Bank Units. Mr. Giraldo has considerable experience in capital markets, bank debt, derivatives, treasury, M&A, and equity related transactions. Mr. Giraldo holds an MBA from California State University and a Corporate Finance post-graduate degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Allan Muñoz, Corporate Finance & Treasury Director

Allan Muñoz is Corporate Finance & Treasury Director at Coca-Cola FEMSA since October 2021. Previously, he was Corporate Finance Manager and held positions in Investments and Risk Management teams. He joined the company in November 2009 as part of the internship program Líderes FEMSA. He holds a Bachelor degree in Financing Business Administration from ITESM (Mexico) and has a Master's degree in Business Administration from ITAM Americas Program (Mexico).  

Arthur Rubin manages SMBC Nikko’s Debt Capital Market business for Latin America, based in New York. He has over 20 years of experience working in Latin American debt capital markets and liability management, and has executed a wide variety of bond, liability management, structured finance, loan, and restructuring transactions in Latin America and the U.S. Before joining SMBC, Arthur was the head of Latin American DCM at Nomura and ING. Previously, he ran the Americas liability management group for Morgan Stanley, and subsequently was responsible for its Brazilian debt capital markets business. Earlier in his career, he held positions in Latin American DCM and liability management at Goldman Sachs, ABN AMRO, Bankers Trust and Atlas One, including two years based in São Paulo, Brazil with Itau Bankers Trust. Arthur has executed financings for Latin American corporate clients including Pemex, Petrobras, Braskem, Vale, Suzano, Klabin, Telebras, CSN, Cosan, Cemex, and Banco Hipotecario, and for sovereign clients including Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela. Arthur is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He received a BA degree from Yale University, a BA (Hons) degree from the University of Cape Town, and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Paulina is a Vice President for the Debt Capital Markets group covering Mexico cross-border transactions at HSBC where she started her career. Prior to this role Paulina covered the entire LatAm region as a generalist and spent time on the Leveraged & Acquisition Financing team as well as the US Investment Grade corporate desk. She has helped structure numerous transactions, notably for UMS in Formosa, FEMSA EUR SLB and Cemex Hybrid. Paulina graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 2015 with a Bachelors of Arts in International Studies with a concentration in Economics

Jean Paul Farah joined the firm in 1994 and became a partner in 2003. He has more than 25 years of recognized experience representing leading international banks and export credit agencies in financings, refinancings and restructurings for numerous private and public sector entities in the energy, telecommunications, consumer, real estate and housing sectors, among others. His M&A practice involves representing private equity firms in their equity and mezzanine investments in Mexico. He has participated in a wide array of financing transactions involving CFE, PEMEX, Fibra Uno, Grupo Gigante and Prumex, as well as in several project financings including Ramones Sur, Ramones Norte and GICSA. He has been highlighted by transactions such as the refinancing of PEMEX’s debt.

Jean Paul graduated from the Universidad Panamericana School of Law (1993) and obtained a Master in Laws in Securities and Banking Law from Columbia University (1997). In 1998 he worked as a foreign associate in Sherman & Stearling in New York, and in 1997 in Uria Mendez in Madrid.

Camilo is the Regional Head of UK Export Finance, the Export Credit Agency of the UK, covering Andean Countries - Central America - Caribbean, based in Bogota Colombia.

Camilo has a 25 year experience in the Financial Sector including Corporate Finance at Citi, Trading and Stock Brokerage in Colombia and the US, and most recently Investment Banking as a MD at Momentum Capital in Bogotá and Miami.

Sara Pirzada recently joined SMBC as a Managing Director, heading the Latin America business for Loan Capital Markets in New York. Prior to her current position, Sara was a Managing Director at Mizuho Securities, heading Latin America as well as Americas Project Finance, for Loan Capital Markets. She has more than 20 years of broad experience executing debt financings for corporate, structured, and project finance transactions for the oil and gas, power, renewable energy, infrastructure, mining, and commodities sectors across the Americas.  Prior to joining Mizuho, Sara was a Director at WestLB, where she spent more than ten years, and was involved in many high-profile transactions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Previous to WestLB, Sara spent several years at JP Morgan in the investment banking division focusing on the oil and gas sector in the Americas.  Sara holds an MBA and BSc. in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Sam has 20+ years of experience in corporate finance and loan capital markets. For the past 8 years Sam has been leading a team at Scotiabank that originates, structures, executes and distributes syndicated loans for medium-size and large corporates and private equity funds in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on acquisition finance in the telecom, infrastructure and power sectors. Scotiabank’s extensive platform in the region provides the team the flexibility to underwrite or arrange financings in a multitude of currencies including but not limited to US Dollars, Mexican Pesos, Chilean Pesos, Colombian Pesos, Peruvian Soles and Brazilian Reais.

Prior to joining Scotiabank in 2007, Sam worked in the private equity coverage group of a large European bank, focusing mainly on U.S. LBO financings. Sam has a Master in Finance from ESLSCA in Paris and a BA in Mathematics & Economics from the University of Paris XII.

Mr. Frontera has 19 years’ experience in the banking and loan syndications market. Previously with Barclays Capital, where he spent 13 years performing different roles including heading Latin American loan syndications, US leverage sales and US high grade loan sales. Mr. Frontera joined CA CIB in 2011 as a Managing Director in the Loan Syndications Group focused on Latin America. His team’s success in leading syndicated loan transactions has been valuable to CA-CIB’s loan franchise success in Brazil and across the region.

Mr. Frontera holds a BA in business administration from the University of South Carolina where he was a NCAA division 1 tennis player and also holds an MBA in finance from the University of Miami.

Anne joined BNP Paribas in 2020 as Co-head of the Sustainable Finance Capital Markets team covering the Americas region. She has led several transactions for BNPP, including Suzano and CMPC’s Sustainability-Linked Bonds, Mercado Libre’s Sustainability Bond and recent Sustainability-Linked Loans for America Movil, Cementos Argos and Cemex

Prior to this position, she was the Head of Sustainable Finance for ING Capital in the Americas where she originated and structured several sustainable finance transactions including the Johnson Control Inc Sustainability Linked Loan and Xylem’s Sustainability Linked Revolving Facility.

Past experience includes origination roles within Project Finance in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources sectors in both North and South America and Private Equity for the Dutch Development Bank (FMO)

Anne has an MSC in Business Administration from the University of Maastricht and was an exchange student at Universidad Pacifico in Lima, Peru.

Rodrigo Carvalho is a member of the corporate department in the firm’s New York Office and a partner of Winston’s Brazilian affiliate in São Paulo. Over the last 15 years, Rodrigo has advised clients on international debt and equity offerings, cross-border M&A, and corporate finance matters involving Brazil and other parts of Latin America. Rodrigo also supports Winston’s US and international offices on matters relating to Brazil and the region in areas such as antitrust, compliance, disputes, investigations, and sanctions. He is admitted both in New York and in Brazil. He was previously Bank of America’s Head of Investment Banking Legal in Brazil. Rodrigo has extensive international transactional experience across a broad spectrum of industries, having advised clients on many ESG aspects, especially sustainability development goals, social integration, and board diversity. He participated in the first ever sustainability linked bond issuance in the Americas, emerging markets, and pulp & paper sector for Suzano. He has also advised major players in Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects in Latin America in the Energy, Infrastructure, Mining, Water, Wastewater, and Sanitation industries.

Andrew recently devised and launched Sustainable Fitch, a new business line for Fitch Group, providing ESG rating products and services. He is also responsible for the leadership, development and coordination of all Fitch Group ESG initiatives.

Andrew joined Fitch Ratings in 2004 and has held several senior management positions: Global Head of Sustainable Finance, Head of EMEA Corporate Ratings; and Head of Asia Pacific Corporate Ratings. Based in Singapore from 2010-17, Andrew envisaged and developed Fitch Ratings highly successful Asian corporate ratings franchise.

Andrew has a background in investment banking, M&A, private equity and advisory, focused on emerging markets and infrastructure.

Andrew holds a BSc in psychology from Bristol University, and a post graduate Diploma from INSEAD business school (CGEM 2016). He is a frequent speaker at events, an advisory board member of the United Nations credit rating and risk initiative, and a trustee of the Great Ormond Street Hospital based charity CLEFT.

Mr. Berg has over 30 years of experience in the international capital markets. He has worked in senior capital markets roles in New York at Deutsche Bank, ABN Amro, ING, Standard Bank of South Africa, Commerzbank, and Natixis, responsible for public and private sector debt origination across Latin America and the Caribbean including new bond issues, debt restructurings, buybacks and exchanges. Mr. Berg is a graduate of Wesleyan University, Connecticut and holds an MBA from the IAE /Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires.

Alvaro is an Executive Director for the Global Client Coverage Team in BBVA Colombia, responsible for the TMT and Utilities cluster. He has more than 20 years of Corporate Banking experience, especially in Retail, Branded Consumer, TMT and Utilities industries. He joined BBVA in 2012. Prior to joining BBVA, Alvaro worked at Citibank and BankBoston. Alvaro holds an MS in Finance from Universidad de los Andes and a BS in Business Administration from Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración, CESA.

Brigard Urrutia's partner since 1996, with more than 25 years of experience. Mr. Fradique- Méndez advises leading local and foreign companies in the areas of Capital Markets, Banking and Finance, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and Structured Finance, Customs and Foreign Trade and Tax. Among his most prominent transactions is the advice to Carvajal S.A. in connection with the issuance of bonds at a price of COP$400 billions; advice to Pacific Rubiales, first foreign private issuer, in the registration of their stocks at the Colombian Stock Market and at the RNVE; legal assessment to Bank of America, Merrill Lynch y JP Morgan Securities (first buyers) in a bond offering under Rule144A/Reg S of Empresas Públicas de Medellín (USD500M), among others.

Law graduate of Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario from which he graduated with honours and where he was President of the Law Students' Association. Holds a Master of Law (LL.M) degree in International Commercial Law from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a Master of Law (LL.M) degree in International Banking and Finance from the University of Boston, United States. Also holds a postgraduate degree in Financial Law from Universidad de los Andes.

Recognized as 'Highly Recommended Lawyer' by PLC Which Lawyer? In 2007, Latin Lawyer chose him as one of the 40 best lawyers under the age of 40 in Latin America. This latter publication also mentioned him as being one of the 23 best lawyers in the Capital Markets field. Mr. Fradique- Méndez was recognized in Banking & Finance: Capital Markets by Chambers & Partners Latin America- 2012 and recommended in Project Finance and Real Estate by Who's Who Legal-2011.

Jack Deino, CFA, Director, is Head of the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt Team and a lead portfolio manager within BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Group. He is responsible for overseeing the team's fundamental credit research process and implementation, which includes all aspects of ESG research, as it pertains to EM corporate credit. In addition, Mr. Deino is a member of BlackRock's Latam Infrastructure Debt Investment Committee.

Prior to joining BlackRock in December 2015, Mr. Deino spent more than 9 years at Invesco where he was most recently Head of Emerging Market Portfolio Management and lead portfolio manager for the firm's award winning corporate and sovereign credit funds. In addition, he has been involved in the restructuring of diverse credits on a global basis and has played a key role in the implementation of the Emerging Markets corporate and quasi-sovereign fundamental research processes at his previous firms. Prior to Invesco, Mr. Deino held positions at Daiwa Securities America, Zephyr Management, Orix Capital Markets and APS Financial Corp. He has 24 years of combined industry experience in EM fixed income and equities.

Mr. Deino earned a BA degree in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish and conversant in French.

Mr. Olivares is currently a Board Member of Banco de la Nación in Perú and International Consultant at Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) advising debt management strategies in countries in Latin America.

He was former General Director of Public Treasury and former Financial Markets Management Director in the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Perú. Under his management (2013-2020), Perú has led the way as emerging markets sovererigns have looked to developed local debt markets, becoming a benchmark country developing local markets in Latin America. He was responsible for executing the most recognized debt issuances and liability management operations in local and foreign currency during the last years in the region.

In addition, Mr. Olivares was former Chairman of the Steering Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean Debt Group (LAC DEBT GROUP – IDB) and Director of the Government Treasurers Forum of Latin America (FOTEGAL). He was also a Board Member of Fondo MIVIVIENDA, Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo (COFIDE), SEDAPAL and Banco Agropecuario (Agrobanco). He has been Delegate at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Alternate Governor of the Republic of Peru at the Assemblies of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC). He has an extensive professional experience working in prestigious companies in the public and private sector in Perú.

Mr. Olivares is Economist from Universidad del Pacífico (Perú) and obtained a Master’s Degree in Financial Engineering from Universidad Alcalá de Henares (Spain). He also won a fellowship from Carolina Foundation to do post graduate studies of Expert in Financial Institutions Management at Spanish Savings Banks Foundation (FUNCAS) in Spain and he has completed the CFO’s Executive Program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (USA).

Mr. Ricardo Navarro is Co-Head of Latin American Investment Banking at Itaú based in New York, where he oversees the bank’s Fixed Income activities in the region. Mr. Navarro has been with Itau for over 8 years, initially from 2010 to 2016 when he led Latin American Debt Capital Markets and in his current role since 2019. Mr. Navarro also spent over 5 years in the buy-side, most recently from 2016 to 2019 as the portfolio manager of the Emerging Markets Credit Opportunities Fund at Noctua Partners, an Emerging Markets focused asset manager, and from 2007 to 2009 as a Credit Analyst at Stark & Roth, a multi-strategy US-based hedge fund. With over 18 years of experience in the financial markets, Mr. Navarro has successfully invested and traded Emerging Markets corporate and sovereign bonds and has advised Latin American issuers on over $30 billion of capital market transactions; including recent international bond issuances for sovereign issuers such as the Republic of Chile, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay, as well as corporate transactions across the region, syndicated and structured loans, project financings and private placements. Mr. Navarro holds a BS in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University, an MBA from Columbia University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Kathleen Fuentes Holtzman is Managing Director of Latin America business relationship management at Fitch Ratings. Kathleen is responsible for business relationships across corporates, sovereigns and supra-national issuers in addition to bankers and private equity.

Kathleen was previously Vice President in the private placements group of Daiwa Securities responsible for originating and structuring financial and commodity future flow securitizations. Kathleen began her finance career in the project finance group of Lucent Technologies.

Kathleen earned a BA of political economy and philosophy at Trinity College, University of Toronto; an MBA from The Wharton School with a concentration in finance; and an MA in international studies from The Lauder Institute of The University of Pennsylvania. Kathleen speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.

In his current role of Regional Vice-President – Americas Gregory leads the strategy and Business Development activity for the USA and Latin America at Export Development Canada.

Prior to his current role, Gregory held various leadership positions in financing and insurance disciplines at EDC across several industry sectors. Gregory brings 20 years of trade finance expertise to his role which includes delivery of financing and insurance solutions to clients in aero-space, automotive, advanced technology, forestry, extractive, and retail sectors.

Gregory received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from McGill University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Romina Reversi is the Head of Sustainable Banking for the Americas at Credit Agricole CIB. Romina and her team structure sustainable transactions for Americas issuers and borrowers. Prior to joining CACIB, Romina worked at J.P. Morgan for 8 years where she was one of the founding members of J.P. Morgan’s ESG DCM franchise. Romina is a sustainable finance expert and actively leads engagement with ESG investors. Romina is an active member of and contributor to the Green and Social Bond Principles and its various working groups, including the New Markets Taskforce and the Sustainability-Linked Bonds Working Group. Romina graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business with a BBA.

Jack Deino, CFA, Director, is Head of the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt Team and a lead portfolio manager within BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Group. He is responsible for overseeing the team's fundamental credit research process and implementation, which includes all aspects of ESG research, as it pertains to EM corporate credit. In addition, Mr. Deino is a member of BlackRock's Latam Infrastructure Debt Investment Committee.

Prior to joining BlackRock in December 2015, Mr. Deino spent more than 9 years at Invesco where he was most recently Head of Emerging Market Portfolio Management and lead portfolio manager for the firm's award winning corporate and sovereign credit funds. In addition, he has been involved in the restructuring of diverse credits on a global basis and has played a key role in the implementation of the Emerging Markets corporate and quasi-sovereign fundamental research processes at his previous firms. Prior to Invesco, Mr. Deino held positions at Daiwa Securities America, Zephyr Management, Orix Capital Markets and APS Financial Corp. He has 24 years of combined industry experience in EM fixed income and equities.

Mr. Deino earned a BA degree in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish and conversant in French.

Maher Al-Haffar joined CEMEX in 2000, and has held several executive positions, including Managing Director of Finance, Head of Investor Relations, and most recently, Executive Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs. He is also a member of the NYSE Advisory Board. Before joining CEMEX, Maher spent nineteen years with Citicorp Securities Inc. and with Santander Investment Securities, as an investment banker and capital markets professional. Maher holds a BS in Economics from the University of Texas, and a master’s degree in International Relations and Finance from Georgetown University.

Oscar Stephens is a corporate shareholder at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP (GT).

Oscar Stephens represents issuers, borrowers, underwriters, investors and lenders in a wide variety of multi-currency financings, in diverse transactions such as project finance, project bonds and acquisition finance. As a member of the firms’ New York office, Oscar has relevant experience in the renewable energy, infrastructure and construction industries. A native of Chile, he conducts business in both English and Spanish and has broad experience in civil law jurisdictions throughout the Americas and legal structures used in non-recourse financing.

Stephens received an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law and a J.D. from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is admitted in New York and in the Republic of Chile.

Cristiane is a Senior Vice President, based in Sao Paulo with management responsibility for the rating agency coverage of project finance, infrastructure and sub sovereign credits across Latin America. In her role, she oversees a team of analysts covering those sectors, developing research on sector trends and conducting outreach activities with key market participants.

Cristiane has over fifteen years of experience in the financial services industry. Since she joined the firm in January 2007, Cristiane covered several infrastructure credits in the transportation, sanitation and electricity sectors and project finance transactions. Cristiane has also worked as a senior analyst with Moody's corporate finance team covering high yield and financially distressed issuers in the real estate, construction and transportation sectors until 2016.

Before joining Moody's, Cristiane developed credit analysis at WestlB and fixed income portfolio management activities at Bankboston. Cristiane holds a Master's degree in Finance from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a MBA in Real Estate from the University of Sao Paulo.

Guillermo recently joined Intesa Sanpaolo where he has a mandate to originate and lead bank lending, capital markets and financial advisory for project, acquisition, leverage and corporate finance transactions covering all sectors within economic infrastructure—renewable and conventional power, infrastructure as well as oil and gas—across the Americas.

His most recent experience before Intensa Sanpaolo was with MUFG where he played a key role in the bank's leading positions for several transactions in all major countries in the Latin America region. During his tenure with MUFG he was also instrumental in a select number of deals in the U.S.

Prior to MUFG, he was a member of the Structured Finance team within the Oil Division at GLENCORE based in London where he executed M&A, pre-export finance, reserve based lending as well as project financing transactions in the South American, West African and European regions.

Previous to his time with GLENCORE, he worked in New York for Citigroup on numerous project finance arranging and advisory assignments in the Americas within a range of different sectors, from power to oil and gas and infrastructure.

Before joining Citigroup, he performed project appraisal for a number of investment and M&A opportunities at the Linde Group, based in the U.S. Prior to this, he worked for Pemex Natural Gas Division and was involved in the implementation of key pieces of the new regulatory framework applicable to the natural gas sector in Mexico after collaborating in various capacities with Swiss Re and Cemex.

Guillermo holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Universidad Regiomontana in Monterrey, Mexico and an MBA from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Cristhyan Rey is an Executive Director within the Latin America Power & Renewables team at SMBC New York Branch. Cristhyan joined SMBC in September 2015 to continue leading the origination and execution of structured financing solutions within the Latin America power sector team.

Cristhyan has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry including 14 years in the origination, structuring and execution of financial advisory, project finance, acquisition finance and structured debt transactions across several sectors in Latin America and the US. Prior to joining SMBC, Cristhyan worked for Espirito Santo Investment Bank's Origination and Structured Finance group and for WestLB’s Global Energy Team where he focused on project finance and advisory services in the Americas.

Nicolai Sarad advises financial institutions, developers, equity investors and governmental agencies in the United States and internationally on project structuring, development and financing, acquisitions and dispositions, and restructurings, as well as operation and maintenance. He focuses on infrastructure projects, including public private partnerships (P3), thermal and renewable energy, water, mining, process plants and major manufacturing. Nick also represents lenders and borrowers in secured and unsecured corporate, asset-based and structured financings outside the projects space.

Eric Wittleder is a Senior Vice President within Brookfield’s infrastructure debt group with responsibility for origination, execution, and asset management for transactions across the Americas. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2017, Eric held roles at leading project finance banks advising on and raising debt capital for energy and infrastructure projects in the US and Latin America. Eric holds a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University.

• Mr. Otero joined Itaú in October 2012, as part of the Corporate Finance team of Itaú BBA Corporación Financiera in Colombia. Since March, 2017, once Itaú took control of Corpbanca operations in Colombia, Mr. Otero acts as Head of Corporate Finance of Itaú Colombia.
• Prior to joining Itaú, Mr. Otero worked for Inverlink, an investment banking boutique in Colombia, as VP for two years. Previously he worked in Sumatoria, other investment banking boutique in Colombia, as an Associate for ten years, and before that, he worked in the Investment Banking Division of Corficolombiana in Bogotá, as an Analyst for two years.
• Mr. Otero holds a B.S in Industrial Engineering and a Master degree in Economics, both from Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia.

He lectures on corporate finance and regularly participates in business and academic forums specializing in infrastructure, project financing and bank regulation.

Education:

• Degree in Economics from Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru
• MBA in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business
• CFA Charterholder

Professional experience:

• Chief Financial Officer at COFIDE (2019-present)
  
• Professor of Finance at Universidad Catolica del Peru (2016-present)
• Head of Investments at Interseguros / IFS (2017-2019)
• Director at Moody’s Local (2015-2017)
• Head of Credit and Market Risk at CAF (2007-2015)

Iván leads the portfolio management unit at CIFI.

Before he was appointed Portfolio Director, he held the Director of Structured Finance position.
He has a master’s degree in International Trade from the Center of Economic and Trade Studies in Madrid and is a SAIS ‘07 MA with concentration in International Policy of Emerging Markets Economy. He is a 2015 Socrates Fellow of the Aspen Institute and recipient of the Caja Madrid post-graduate scholarship and the Marie Kraus and Johns Hopkins fellowships.

AJ Santos is responsible for all commercial activities for Sustainable Finance, Infrastructure/Project Finance and Structured Finance in Latin America.

Before joining S&P Global Ratings in 2015, AJ worked at Fitch Ratings as Head of Latin America Infrastructure and Project Finance and prior to that appointment was a senior member of the Structured Finance Analytical Practice for the Americas. Other leadership roles include Head of Warehouse Capital and underwriting for a middle market financing firm in New York.

AJ has over 20 years of financial service experience in both commercial and analytical for corporate finance, structured finance, project finance and sustainability in North and South America.

Alejandro Sainz was the founding partner of Cervantes Sainz which was spined off into Sainz Abogados. He chairs the restructurings and insolvency practice area and is a member of the Finance, Compliance & Investigations, and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups at Sainz Abogados.

He has more than 30 years of experience advising and representing clients in the practices of cross-border Insolvency and Restructurings (out-of-court & in-court - concursos mercantiles), Finance, Refinancing and Corporate Reorganizations, as well as in the purchase & sale of assets in special situations and distress. Throughout his vast experience, he has represented clients and debtors from various industries, both nationally and internationally, domestic and foreign companies, public and private, as well as several ad-hoc committees of international bondholders and noteholders issued abroad by Mexican issuers.

He has also been characterized by its service to the community, advising pro-bono new entrepreneurs and companies, as well as nonprofit organizations who need help in specific matters of law.

Alejandro is also a certified Mediator by the Mexican Institute of Mediation, and was a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana; he has taught and spoken in various courses, seminars, post-graduate courses and conferences, in Mexico and abroad, in matters of corporate restructurings and cross-border restructurings and insolvency proceedings. He participates in various boards of directors and committees.

Alejandro Ayala, CEO and Funding Partner of Kapital Financial Services a financial services boutique in Colombia, he has more than 13 year of experience arranging and structuring debt for Midcaps in Colombia for the traditional banking system and for International Private Debt Funds for the last 10 years he has participated in transactions for more than USD 400 M in the areas of structured debt, syndicated loans, club deals, mezzanine debt and others Business Manager and Marketing Specialist from the University of Los Andes Corporate Finance Specialist from CESA Member of FBN (Family Business Network) since 2008 and Bord on Directors of Grupo Pollo Fiesta S A Colegio Andino Deutche Schule And Fidecomiso Lagos de Torca

Fabio acts in the supervision and conduct of international and domestic arbitrations, as well as strategic and complex legal proceedings, i.e., commercial disputes related to Banking, M&A, Construction and Infrastructure agreements. Fabio has accumulated experience in proceedings related to disputes involving the Public Administration, notably in bidding processes. Additionally, Fabio advises clients on extrajudicial and judicial restructuring processes, including distressed M&A and Asset Tracing matters. Fabio also advises clients on investigations and proceedings related to the compliance and competition areas. Fabio has international experience, having lived, and worked in California, USA and Madrid, Spain. Fabio has also been frequently appointed to act as an arbitrator in several arbitration institutions. With several articles published, Fabio is the author of the books: Arbitration – Practical Collection of Law – Vol. 16 (Saraiva, 2009) and Preliminary Contract – Levels of Effectiveness (Almedina, 2018).

Guilherme Ferreira is a Managing Partner of Jive Investments. Guilherme joined Jive from Lehman Brothers, where he worked at the Latam Fixed Income desk in NY after a career as a corporate lawyer in Brazil and New York. He holds an LL.B. from the University of São Paulo, and a LL.M. from Columbia University.

Mr. Madinaveitia is a professional with over 17 years of experience in Investment Banking and Debt Capital Markets, having worked and held senior positions in top leading global Investment Banks such as Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and UBS. In 2019, Mr. Madinaveitia became independent and founded, along his long-time partner Jose Manuel Ruiz, RM | Capital, a financial boutique specialized in advisory of capital raising matters and in particular, in the structuring of debt Private Placement Notes. Since its foundation, RM | Capital has become one of the leading structuring agents of Private Placement debt, having raised close to US$1.0bn in proceeds for its clients. Mr. Madinaveitia has extensive knowledge of financial markets and the LatAm DCM landscape, and has developed extensive relationships with the largest and most important institutional investors that are active players in the Private market

Jason Boe is a Managing Director in Corporate Finance for Prudential Private Capital, located in Mexico City*. He leads a team responsible for marketing, originating and managing private placement investments in Mexico, Central America, South America, and Caribbean. He joined Prudential in 2001 in the Chicago Corporate Finance office. In 2004, Jason relocated to London until joining Corporate and Project Workouts in 2007 and returning to Chicago. In 2018, Jason opened the Mexico City office. Jason received a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst®.*Operates through PGIM Real Estate Mexico S.C.

Jorge Siller joined Xignux in 2017. He is responsible for corporate finance, financing, derivatives, relationship with financial institutions, rating agencies and investors. He has over 23 years of experience in banking, treasury and corporate finance. Before joining Xignux, he held managing positions in corporate banking in Scotiabank and Citibank. He also served as Treasurer for CAINTRA (The business organization that represents the industrialists of Monterrey) during the period of 2018-2020 and he is a member of its Finance Committee. He holds a BS in Economics from ITESM and an MBA from EGADE Business School.

Emil Arca is a partner in the firm's global Capital Markets leadership team. He represents underwriters, placement agents, issuers, investors, lenders, borrowers, and insurers in debt capital markets, banking, and restructuring transactions in the United States and around the world, particularly in emerging markets. Originating in two dozen countries and involving diverse industries, many of the transactions were the first of their type involving a particular structure, asset type, or country.

In emerging markets, Emil has worked with structured finance transactions backed by operating assets (airports, drill ships, mines, and toll roads); future flow cross-border assets (airline tickets, credit card merchant vouchers, diversified payment rights, export receivables, oil royalties, and telephone receivables); existing financial assets (commercial real estate leases, construction loans, residential mortgage loans, telephone receivables, and vehicle loans and leases); and more.

Kathleen Fuentes Holtzman is Managing Director of Latin America business relationship management at Fitch Ratings. Kathleen is responsible for business relationships across corporates, sovereigns and supra-national issuers in addition to bankers and private equity.

Kathleen was previously Vice President in the private placements group of Daiwa Securities responsible for originating and structuring financial and commodity future flow securitizations. Kathleen began her finance career in the project finance group of Lucent Technologies.

Kathleen earned a BA of political economy and philosophy at Trinity College, University of Toronto; an MBA from The Wharton School with a concentration in finance; and an MA in international studies from The Lauder Institute of The University of Pennsylvania. Kathleen speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish.