- Entrusted with three products: LatAm equity strategy, Mexico equity strategy and Latam Technology, Media & Telecommunications.- Directly covered 7 listed names in the region, including two IT service names: Globant (GLOB US) and Sonda (SONDA CI). In the case of Globant, I was the first Latin American analyst covering the name.- Supervised and mentored two junior analysts, and worked collaboratively in an expanded cross country team.Maintained contact with a 400+ clients list on a regular basis.Achievements:- Key contributor in taking Itaú BBA research team to consistently reach the top positions of the prestigious Institutional Investors magazine annual ranking.- Engaged, leveraged and filtered the entire Itaú BBA's LatAm 20+ Latam macro and equity research team to contribute regularly to a LatAm equity model portfolio that outperformed the MSCI LatAm Standard Index by 24 percentage points over the 4+ years of existence (since launching in 8/30/14 to 2/22/19).- Appeared consistently in the broker rankings of key institutional clients.Invited to a discussion forum about Mexican telecom regulation in 2018 (click here for certificate)- Quoted several times in relevant newspapers in Mexico, Brazil and Chile, as spokesman of Itaú BBA's equity views.

Headed the LatAm Technology, Media and Telecommunications coverage.Achievements:- Key contributor in taking Santander's TMT team to the top positions of the prestigious Institutional Investors magazine annual ranking.

- Lead a team of 11 to cover two areas of responsibility: the investor relation office of this NYSE-listed company having Verizon as largest minority shareholder, and the business development effort.- Lead specific areas of the company's yearly strategic planning cycle, while being involved in the entire effort.Achievements:- Managed two corporate acquisition processes: attempt to purchase Digitel, Telecom Italia Mobile's subsidiary in Venezuela (US$ 450 million value), and a USD 350 million bid for a 50% equity stake in Colombia Telecomunicaciones. - Coordinated the Board's reaction to the take-over attempt launched by América Móvil in 2006, with support of Goldman Sachs team, and later on to the tender-offer launched by the Venezuelan government in 2007.

- AES Venezuela (C.A. Electricidad de Caracas) was a publicly listed integrated electricity company, subsidiary of AES Corporation.- Reported to the company's CEO and CFO.Achievements:- Managed a large cross functional team of company executives and external service providers to design and execute successfully a repurchase offer of shares held by workers. Functions involved were accounting, legal, investor relations, auditors, IT among others.

The company became one of the three largest security brokerage houses in Venezuela.Achievements:- Took the company from a small 20 people operation to a medium sized 90+ one, while designing, launching and executing an historic offering that provided secondary market to government bonds held by employees of public universities across the country.

- Complete revamp of the sales force effort of a domestic pharmaceutical company in Venezuela.- Design of the e-fulfillment strategy of a large multinational telecommunications group.- Problem-solving for the development of the strategic plan for the fifth largest bank in Italy, and for a large telecommunication group in Venezuela.

Achievements:- Structured, raised over US$ 20 million, invested, and managed a private equity investment vehicle - The Venezuela Restaurant Fund -, that bought two local brands, revamped and expanded one of them, and converted the other into the first Wendy's franchisee in South America expanding it from 23 locations into over 50 across the country. (click here for article in the November/December 1997 edition of the Latin American Private Equity Analyst)- Advised on several transactions: the acquisition of Satvenca, a regional Venezuelan cable TV company by NetUno (1995); acquisition of the major salt mine in Venezuela by an international consortium (1995); and origination and advisory for Newbridge Andean Partners and WestSphere Investment Partners, two private equity funds (1995 – 1996)

Investment, monitoring at the Board of Directors level, and exiting of several private equity investments in Argentina and Venezuela: two gas distribution companies in Argentina (1993); hydrocarbons e&p areas in Argentina (1992); a real estate development investment in Argentina (1992); and an investment in an agro-industrial project in Venezuela (1993).