Events & Speakers

Pablo Azcárraga is Chairman of Posadas Board of Directors. Pablo Azcárraga is responsible for managing the board, maintaining board communication and acting as an adviser to the CEO. With more than 30 years of hotel industry experience, Azcárraga uses his expertise to oversee the hotel group’s investment evaluation committee and the development team that approves […]

Georges Ugeux is the founder of Galileo Global Advisors, which offers CEOs, boards of directors and governments independent advice on international business development, mergers and acquisitions, and capital raising. The firm specializes in cross-border transactions to and from emerging markets. Prior to founding Galileo, Ugeux was group executive vice president of International & Research at […]

Geraldo is from a family of entrepreneurs as his father founded in 1967 a leading company that invests in large-scale, high quality timberland assets, sustainable charcoal-based pig iron production and forestry services in Brazil. He held several key positions in his family business, Plantar SA. During this time he participated in the development and implementation […]

Ambassador Enio Cordeiro assumed the position of Consul General of Brazil in New York February 2018 after serving as the Brazilian Ambassador to Mexico for three years (2015-2018). Before that he was Undersecretary General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations and Brazil’s G20 Sherpa (2013-2015). He was also Ambassador […]

Fernanda Ribeiro Cahen is a visiting Researcher at USC Marshall – Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Assistant Professor of Management at Centro Universitario FEI, Brazil. Previously a Post-doctoral fellow at Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (2012-2013) and a PhD from University of Sao Paulo in Business Administration (2008-2012), Cahen specializes in […]

Vinika Rao is the Executive Director of the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute. After completing her MBA from IIM, Bangalore, Vinika started her career with a multinational bank in India, went on to become General Manager of an American Asian JV in the field of industrial chemicals and later became the Managing Director of a real […]

From 1997, Mr. Heyman developed Heyman y Asociados SC as a leading investment manager in Mexico, managing pension, endowment, and insurance funds for Mexican and multinational companies and educational, environmental, healthcare and other non-profit institutions. Prior to founding Heyman y Asociados, Mr. Heyman was President of ING Baring Grupo Financiero (México), S.A. de C.V., and […]

Alejandro Camino is the Chief Marketing Officer at Softtek. Alex joined Softtek in 1995, holding sales and consultancy roles prior to his move into marketing, including Director for the e-Business unit and later as Corporate Director of Technology. Camino has led the global marketing and communications efforts for Softtek since 2006, and today serves as […]

Professor Karolyi is an internationally-known scholar in the area of investment management, with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. His research […]