Michele Golodetz Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Chair of the Compensation/People and Culture Committee

Fresno, California

An agricultural management company of nut and citrus orchards

Santiago, Chile

Private Investment Company

Santiago , Chile

Angel Investor Network located in Santiago Chile

Lampa, Chile

Manufacturer of Copper Tubing in Santiago, Chile

Santiago Chile

Private Equity Investment Fund in Santiago, Chile

This US$23 million Private Equity Fund has invested in ten companies in the Chilean agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors.

Santiago, Chile

SIF S.A. is the Forest Advisor to the Forest Investment Fund Lignum. The fund raised US$40 million fund in April, 2006 with capital from local and international investors to acquire forest assets in Chile.

Santiago, Chile

SIF created a new mechanism to promote afforestation in Regions VII and VIII of Chile and generate a new financial instrument for the Forestry Sector. In November 2002 SIF sold the first forest asset backed security to be placed in Chile’s capital markets and the first worldwide to plant forests on marginal lands owned by small and medium farmers. Acquired land use rights to young forests whose future harvests provided the source of repayment to the bond holders, and established Pine and Eucalyptus plantations on 3,100 hectares of bare land. Formalized the acquisition rights to these assets through the use of cost-free options.Designed a model for sustainable development whereby land use contracts function as lease arrangements and the owners retain possession of their property. An annual fee is paid for each hectare planted and a percentage of the net harvest proceeds. The project was viewed by the local press and the Chilean government as a model for poverty reversal and has been copied broadly in the forestry sector.Negotiated long term commitments from two of the three major Chilean forestry companies to provide administrative and planting services to SIF, and grant important volume and commercialization guarantees to the bond holders.Achieved AA- and A+ ratings. Investors included the local pension funds, banks, insurance companies, mutual funds and private investors.Managed all facets of design, organization and sale of the bond instrument with a small team of 3 full time employees and more than 20 subcontracted service companies. Obtained approval from USIJI (“U.S. Initiatives Jointly Implemented”) for carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol for Climate Change. Managed SIF until it was sold in 2009 for US$8.5 million, achieving a 25% compounded return on investment over a 10 year period.

Responsible for developing business plans and negotiating with strategic partners for Fundación Chile*s Agribusiness, Marine Resources and Forestry departments.

Designed and marketed the Andean Emerging Growth Fund, a US$50 million fund for foreign investors targeted at investments in private companies in Chile, Peru and Bolivia. The fund was discontinued after receiving commitments for 30% of the total.

A diversified holding company with an emphasis in International Commodity Trading, Financial Services, Industrial Investments, and Agriculture.

Designed and sold the first long term tax-exempt interest rate derivatives in the United States. Responsible for risk analysis, hedging and trading strategies, negotiating joint ventures with Citibank, Security Pacific, Norwest Bank, and Banque Brussels Lambert, raising investment capital, structuring contract terms, and new product development. The company acted as principal in derivative contracts exceeding $1.5 billion. Designed the world's first LIBOR-based long-term (12 year) interest rate cap and participated in the issuance of the first capped FRN, a 12 year capped floating rate Eurodollar note. Negotiated the sale of assets to several strategic buyers in 1992.

Director of New York Marketing for this Boston based econometric forecasting and economic consulting company. Manager of agricultural consulting activities.

Mba, Agribusiness

Activities and Societies: Recipient of the Harvard Ullman Agribusiness Research Award Author of a case study "Ovutime Inc.".

Ba, Mathematics Major

Activities and Societies: Center for Urban Studies