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Miami, September 3-4, 2014

Dear Participants: It is a great pleasure to welcome you all to the Trade Américas & ConnectAmericas Expo.

This event, held September 3 and 4 at the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami, represents a partnership between Latin Trade Group and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Both organizations strongly believe there is a need to promote infrastructure development and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the pace of infrastructure investment in the Americas is increasing, our respective organizations felt there was a need to provide a platform for companies and governments in the hemisphere to explore opportunities and share insights and ideas on the future of private and public sector investment in the region.

Although there is a tremendous need for infrastructure development in Latin America and the Caribbean, investment is on the rise. Between 2008 and 2011, the region saw US$440 billion in private and public sector investment, the majority going towards infrastructure development. While this trend is encouraging, the region as a whole would need to invest five percent of its GDP annually to bring its infrastructure up to international standards within the next decade. Now more than ever it is of crucial importance that companies explore the diverse opportunities in the region.

For their part, governments throughout the hemisphere are promoting private sector involvement and providing regulatory frameworks with the intention of drawing international investment. Private and public sector collaboration in the form of PublicPrivate Partnerships (PPPs) have increased infrastructure development in the region.

Governments across the Americas are improving these partnerships and establishing

favorable investment climates for regional and global companies.

Thus, Latin Trade Group is truly honored that this year the IDB has chosen to partner with us, combining the ConnectAmericas initiative with Latin Trade’s signature event, the Trade Américas Expo. The ConnectAmericas Initiative is designed to provide information about local providers and partners for infrastructure projects and also to assist companies to obtain certifications in efforts to comply with quality standards demanded by international developers. The Trade Amércias Expo, now in its third year, was launched to provide a platform and opportunities for small and medium sized enterprises across the Americas to meet, network and understand the potential for doing business across the region.

We owe a great deal of thanks to the IDB’s Chief of the Trade and Investment Unit, Fabrizio Opertti, along with Francisco Estrázulas and the ConnectAmericas team, who together worked very closely with the team at Latin Trade Group to produce a program combining leaders from the private sector, along with government officials. In addition to the IDB’s Trade Investment Unit, we would also like to acknowledge the diverse experts from the InterAmerican Development Bank, including senior officials from the Sectors of Knowledge and the Office of Outreach and Partnerships, for their valuable contributions.

Finally, we want to thank our sponsors, partners and the dedicated staff at Latin Trade Group for arranging a great program and conference. Latin Trade Group is a business dedicated to providing information, networking and intelligence services to companies operating regionally in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Rosemary Winters, CEO | Richard Burns, Chairman Latin Trade Group

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Latin Trade Group ABOUT US

Trade Américas (www.tradeamericas.com) is an innovative business-focused conference to educate small- to- medium-sized business executives on the growth and investment potential for expanding their businesses into Latin America. This two-day conference provides educational sessions and presentations on the opportunities and challenges of increased trade with Latin America as well as matchmaking services and networking opportunities.

The Latin Trade Group is the leading provider of information, networking and intelligence services to companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin Trade Group develops and publishes award winning content in Spanish and English for distribution throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States through a print, online and events platform.

Latin Trade Group business units include Latin Trade magazine, LatinTrade.com Market Intelligence, LT Events, BRAVO Business Awards and Datarisk.

Latin Trade magazine (www.latintrade.com) is a leading provider of global business information covering regional business trends, and corporate and government leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean.

LatinTrade.com Market Intelligence, formally known as Latin Business Chronicle, provides premium content with online daily reports, yearly rankings and unique indexes on Latin America’s business, technology, security and globalization.” Please remember to bold both product names.

The LT Events division organizes meetings for business, government and social leaders throughout the region and provides unprecedented access through its series of CFO Forums, the Latin Trade Symposium and the BRAVO Business Awards, and Trade Americas.

LT CFO Forums are a series of roundtable gatherings throughout the region for the chief financial officers and financial executives of multinational and multilatinas corporations, the largest of its kind in the Americas.

Latin Trade Symposium and BRAVO Business Awards is the leading forum for discussion and debate about the Americas for the business and government community in the region. The symposium is followed by Latin Trade’s BRAVO Business Awards Dinner and Gala to honor excellence and achievement in business, policy, finance and social development in the Americas.

In its 20th year, the BRAVO Business Awards (www.ltbravo.com) are widely acknowledged as the “Oscars” of Latin America business.

Datarisk (www.datariskglobal.com) is a Latin Trade Group company that provides corporate assurance services to global players who have operations in Latin America. Datarisk works with financial, procurement and compliance departments to develop highly efficient and value added due diligence programs to monitor vendors, suppliers and partners.

The Latin Trade Group, a Miami Media Company, is your business source for Latin America.

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8:00-9:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast Pre-Function Room South 9:00-9:15 AM Welcome Remarks Metropolitan Ballroom 1 Fabrizio Opertti, Chief of the Trade and Investment Unit, Inter-American Development Bank Rosemary Winters, CEO, Latin Trade Group 9:15-10:00 AM Creating an Environment for Infrastructure Development in the Americas Metropolitan Ballroom 1 Joe García, U.S. Representative for Florida’s 26th Congressional District 10:00-10:15 AM Networking Break & Exhibits Metropolitan Ballroom 1

10:15-11:15 AM Plenary Session I: Infrastructure Trends for the Next Decade in the Americas Metropolitan Ballroom 1 Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean would need to invest, on average, 5% of GDP annually—that is, double their current level of investment in infrastructure—in order to bring their infrastructure up to international standards within a decade. To face this need in a context of fiscal restraint, most countries have improved their investment climate for Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure. What is needed to maximize the benefits of this improved climate? What are the latest practices and technologies to maximize the “bang for the buck” in infrastructure investments? What new opportunities are emerging for both the public and private sector? This session will explore how the region will address trends that are impacting infrastructure development and look at ways for the region to achieve competitive advantage on other emerging economies.

Alberto Alemán Zubieta, CEO, ABCO Global (Former CEO of the Panama Canal Authority) Óscar Callejo, General Director of Highways, Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, Mexico José W. Fernández, Partner & Co-Chair Latin America Practice Group, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State) Christian Moller Laursen, CFO, APM Terminals Leonardo Rodríguez, President, Emerson Latin America Chaired by: Bernardo Guillamón, Manager of the Office of Outreach and Partnerships, Inter-American Development Bank

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

11:15-12:15 PM Plenary Session II: Building a Business Community in Infrastructure Metropolitan Ballroom 1 Government contracting agencies, corporate international infrastructure developers, and local providers are all essential players to securing infrastructure development in the region. This session will address why it is important to connect these players, and how the ConnectAmericas infrastructure community will do so. It will also address information and training that will be made available in the ConnectAmericas infrastructure community.

ConnectAmericas Infrastructure Future Flash Fabrizio Opertti, Chief of the Trade and Investment Unit, Inter-American Development Bank Isabel Agudelo, Director, Logyca Rodrigo Aguiar, President, ABESCO Edgar Botero, Director General, MGM Innova Energy Services Sergio Jaramillo, CEO, Konfirma Jorge de los Reyes, Manager of Advisory Services, PwC Chaired by: Tomás Serebrisky, Economic Principal Advisor for the Infrastructure and Environment Sector, Inter-American Development Bank 12:15-12:25 PM Future Flash Presentation: Americas Business Dialogue Metropolitan Ballroom 1 The Americas Business Dialogue (ABD) is a private sector initiative facilitated by the Inter-American Development Bank to foster a high-level policy dialogue between the business and political leaders of the Americas. The ABD involves a network of business leaders and major business associations of the Americas who are currently analyzing the key policy priorities for the private sector and the development of the region including Energy; Infrastructure, Logistics, Transportation; Trade Facilitation; Regional and Global Integration; Finance; and Innovation, among others.

Matthew Rooney, Executive Director – U.S. Section, Americas Business Dialogue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce 12:25-1:15 PM Networking Lunch Pre-Function Room South 1:15-1:30 PM Introduction to the Afternoon Sessions and Doing Business and Partnerships with the Inter-American Development Bank Group Metropolitan Ballroom 1 Bernardo Guillamón, Manager of the Office of Outreach and Partnerships, Inter-American Development Bank

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1:30-2:30 PM FINANCE CONCURRENT Session I: Financial Innovations in Infrastructure SESSIONS Metropolitan Ballroom 5 Explore alternative financial structuring mechanisms available to fund infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. What are the most innovative and successful initiatives?

Adi Blum, Director, First Reserve Corporation Sergio Hinojosa, International PPP Consultant, Ikons Atn Guilherme Loures, Investment Banking Analyst, Goldman Sachs Marco G. Monroy, CEO, MGM Innova Capital Sean Mulvaney, Member, Board of Directors, Export-Import Bank of the United States Chaired by: John Graham, Principal Investment Officer, Structured and Corporate Finance Department, Inter-American Development Bank Session II: Financing the Infrastructure Value Chain Metropolitan Ballroom 6 Access to finance and credit by SMEs in the infrastructure sector is a common challenge that tends to be particularly acute in developing countries. Value chain financing is a comprehensive approach which looks not only at the direct borrower but rather analyzes the value chain and those within it, and their linkages in order to best structure financing according to those needs. This session will examine existing models for extending credit to SMEs involved in infrastructure value chains.

María Agustina Calatayud, Financial Markets Senior Associate, Capital Markets and Financial Institutions, Inter-American Development Bank Matías Núñez Castro, Director for SMEs Division in Latin America, Banco Santander Diego Rodríguez, Vice President Commercial Solutions, Visa, Inc. LAC Chaired by: John Beckham, Chief of Debt Investments Division, Inter-American Investment Corporation 2:30-3:30 PM INFRASTRUCTURE TRENDS CONCURRENT Session I: Transportation and Logistics SESSIONS Metropolitan Ballroom 5 As the region gives way to a burgeoning middle class, the population demands a better quality of life resulting in opportunities for the private sector to introduce and capitalize innovative solutions to this immense demand on public infrastructure. Experts share insights on how to design transport networks that can accommodate growing transportation needs and ease congestion, while minimizing environmental impact.

Travis Cobb, Senior Vice President, Network Operations, DHL Express Americas Gonzalo Peschiera, Business Development Manager, OHL Americas

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Felipe Rivas Villatoro, Executive Director, FOVIAL (Fondo de Conservación Vial), El Salvador Jaime Szulc, President, Latin America Region, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Chaired by: Esteban Diez-Roux, Principal Transport Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank Session II: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Metropolitan Ballroom 6 Latin America has seen significant investment in renewable energy in the last decade. From biofuels, hydrocarbons, geothermal and hydroelectricity, major multinational corporations are focusing a substantial amount of research and development in Latin America’s abundant natural energy sources. This investment creates hundreds of thousands of jobs for local, small and medium-sized enterprises, but the cost of staying competitive with conventional energy poses great challenges. Panelists will discuss regulatory frameworks and the future outlook for renewable energy in the Western Hemisphere.

Jeffrey Barnett, Vice President of International Sales, Yingli Green Energy Americas Michael Díaz Jr., Founding and Global Managing Partner, Diaz, Reus & Targ, LLP Mario García, President & CEO, Garper Energy Solutions Alejandro Lew, CFO, Genneia S.A. Chaired by: Alejandro Melandri, Interim Head, Energy Division, Inter-American Development Bank Session III: Urban Infrastructure Metropolitan Ballroom 7 All levels of government—municipal, state/provincial, national and even international—are increasingly focused on creating the right mix of urban infrastructure to drive and support economic growth. Rather than being driven by investment in individual projects or sectors (an occupational hazard for siloed local governments), a growing number of cities now realize they can maximize their investment and enhance long-run economic returns by carefully considering what project or more importantly combination of projects will provide the best bang for their buck. This session will explore what considerations must be taken into account to find the right mix of projects for a given city, and will introduce some successful practices in the Americas and beyond.

Luis Fernando Arboleda, President, Findeter Verónica Baranda Sepúlveda, Director, Planning, Analysis and Control, Banobras Arnold Gómez, Institutional Affairs, Cementos Argos Mario Elías González, Inclusive Business Advisor, CEMEX Jorge Maguiña, Advisor to the Minister of Urban Infrastructure and Housing, Ministry of Urban Infrastructure and Housing, Ecuador Francesco Piazzesi, CEO, ¡Échale! a tu casa Chaired by: Ellis J. Juan, General Coordinator of the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, Inter-American Development Bank

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3:30-4:30 PM Plenary Session III: The Inter-American Development Bank as your Partner for Doing Business in the Region Metropolitan Ballroom 1 Explore the Inter-American Development Bank’s main projects, products, and priorities in transportation, logistics, renewable energy and urban development. Learn how to do business with the IDB. Presentation I: Transportation and Logistics Esteban Diez-Roux, Principal Transport Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank Presentation II: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Christiaan Gischler, Senior Energy Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank Presentation III: Urban Infrastructure Horacio Terraza, Water and Sanitation Principal Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank 4:30-6:00 PM Presentation of the ConnectAmericas Infrastructure Community Prototype Metropolitan Ballroom 1 The ConnectAmericas Infrastructure Community is designed to help overcome the information barriers that are preventing a greater number of bidders from submitting in infrastructure tenders in the region. The community will disseminate information about these tenders, and attach to each tender, a list of local partners and providers. The community will also offer knowledge and training tools for local partners and providers. In this session, participants will have the opportunity to provide feedback and ideas to improve the design of this community.

Francisco Estrázulas de Souza, Consultant, Trade and Investment Unit, Inter-American Development Bank 4:30–6:00 PM Investors’ Roundtable (Parallel activity organized by Latin Trade Group. By-Invitation Only) Metropolitan Ballroom 2 Private investors’ roundtable, coordinated by Latin Trade Group and hosted by a select group of government officials from Latin American and Caribbean countries, where hosts will share perspectives on trade and investment, while presenting major infrastructure investment projects and opportunities available to the international investment community.

6:00–7:30 PM Welcome Reception Pre-Function Room South

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

8:00–9:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast 9:00–9:15 AM Introductory Remarks Metropolitan Ballroom 1 Richard Burns, Chairman, Latin Trade Group Fabrizio Opertti, Chief of the Trade and Investment Unit, Inter-American Development Bank 9:15-9:45 AM Keynote Address: Connecting U.S. Small Businesses to Latin American and Caribbean Markets Metropolitan Ballroom 1 Stefan M. Selig, Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce 9:45-10:00 AM Introduction to the Concurrent Sessions on Public-Private Partnership Projects in Latin America & the Caribbean Metropolitan Ballroom 1 David Bloomgarden, Lead Specialist, Multilateral Investment Fund, InterAmerican Development Bank 10:00-11:00 AM PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS CONCURRENT IN LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN SESSIONS Presenters will share success stories of public-private partnerships that have resulted in positive advances in infrastructure, with a specific focus on the transportation, energy and urban infrastructure sectors.

Session I: Transportation and Logistics Metropolitan Ballroom 5 Augusto García Rodríguez, Executive Director, Cormagdalena, Colombia Carlos Pineda, Superintendent of Public Private Partnerships, Honduras Javier Vásquez, Chief of Financial Structuring, ProInversión Chaired by: David Bloomgarden, Lead Specialist, Multilateral Investment Fund, Inter-American Development Bank Session II: Renewable Energy Metropolitan Ballroom 6 Abraham Bichara, Executive President, AES El Salvador José García Herz, General Manager, Cascade Hydro Power Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga (Jr.), Associate, Jiménez de Aréchaga, Viana, Brause Chaired by: John Price, Managing Director, Americas Market Intelligence and Contributing Editor, Latin Trade

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10:00-11:00 AM Session III: Urban Infrastructure CONCURRENT Metropolitan Ballroom 7 SESSIONS José Manuel Loureda López, General International Business (Continued) Development Manager, Sacyr Naoll Mary, Concessions America Manager, FCC Aqualia Yannick L. Rault van der Vaart, CEO, Abramar Inc. Jorge Seré, Global Capital Projects & Infrastructure Coordinator, PwC Chaired by: Santiago Gutiérrez, Executive Editor, Latin Trade Group 11:00–12:30 PM Business Matchmaking Sessions Metropolitan Ballroom 2, 3, and 4 Rotating 20-minute sessions will provide businesses with the opportunity to meet with other businesses, investors, and government agencies from the Americas. The objective of this session is to enable companies to establish initial contacts that may lead to partnerships. The session will connect: • Large infrastructure developers with local providers of goods and services related to infrastructure • Contracting agencies (government or private) with large infrastructure developers • Large infrastructure developers with financiers 12:30–1:30 PM Networking Lunch Pre-Function Room South 1:30–3:30 PM Business Matchmaking Sessions Metropolitan Ballroom 2, 3, and 4 3:30–3:45 PM Networking Break & Exhibits Metropolitan Ballroom 1 3:45–5:45 PM Business Matchmaking Sessions Metropolitan Ballroom 2, 3, and 4

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Isabel Agudelo Director, LOGyCA Isabel Agudelo is the director of LOGyCA, a leader in logistics and supply chain innovation in Colombia and the region. Agudelo’s work experience spans 10 years in GS1 Colombia and LOGyCA, specifically in supply chain training and consulting.

Prior to that, she had five years of professional experience working for a fertilizer distributor in the Colombian coffee growing sector. Agudelo has served as executive director of LOGyCA’s Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation (CLI), a partnership with the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT CTL). In that role, she was involved with leading six research tracks: Supply chain impact in sustainability, supply chain technology, supply chain risk management, supply chain strategy, megacity logistics and logistics public policy.

An industrial engineer, Agudelo graduated from Javeriana University in Cali, Colombia. She earned her MBA from Los Andes University in Bogota and was an MBA exchange student at Tulane University in New Orleans. She also holds a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management (MSCM) from MIT in Cambridge.

Luis Fernando Arboleda President, Findeter Luis Fernando Arboleda, president of Findeter for the past three years, has more than 32 years of experience in infrastructure projects and management. Arboleda has served as a technical, social, economic and political project leader in several institutions and public companies. He’s held prominent positions as mayor of Manizales, and also in the management of public enteprises in Manizales, including Aguas de Manizales, Triple A and Metroagua SA Santa Marta. In addition, he managed the Modernization Program for the Ministry of Development in partnership with the World Bank. Arboleda has lectured on public services for the World Bank, IDB and AIDIS in the United States, Brazil, Perú, Ecuador, Panamá, Argentina, Paraguay, Israel, Spain and Colombia. He was speaker of the Global Poverty Program, Boston at Harvard Business School and co-author with John A. Pinto and Luis F. Ulloa’s of the book “The SMEs in Public Services.”

Arboleda studied public service administration at the Iberoamerican Institute of Public Administration of Spain, with additional studies in senior management at the University of Los Andes, Inalde and the Institute of Public Administration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Jeffrey Barnett Vice President of International Sales, Yingli Green Energy Americas Jeffrey Barnett is vice president of international sales for Yingli Green Energy Americas.

At Yingli, Barnett is responsible for the company’s sales and operations within Latin America and the Caribbean.

With more than 12 years of global experience in the renewable energy industry, Barnett has a vast background in many key areas of solar including product sales, project development and financing, manufacturing and technology investing.

Prior to joining Yingli, Barnett was president of Wirsol Solar Americas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wirsol Solar AG. Wirsol is a global developer of solar energy projects, offering industry-leading experience in the engineering, construction, financing, and operation of solar power systems. At Wirsol, he oversaw all aspects of the Americas operations, including business development, sales, marketing, engineering/procurement/construction, project finance and corporate finance.

Prior to joining Wirsol, Barnett was with Exelon Corporation, one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. In that role, he oversaw investments in solar and other renewable energy technologies.

Before joining Exelon, he founded and was CEO of Blue Square Energy, a manufacturer of silicon solar cells. Barnett also held various positions at AstroPower, including overseeing a national team responsible for the installation of commercial and residential rooftop solar systems. Barnett began his career with Intel Corporation.

Barnett earned his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

John Beckham Chief, Debt Investments Division, Inter-American Investment Corporation Since 2013, John Beckham has been Inter-American Investment Corporation’s (IIC) chief of the Debt Investment Division. As such, he leads a team of financial and development professionals that originate and structure debt transactions for borrowers and projects that will create financially and socially sustainable development.

Before taking charge of consolidated origination activities, he headed the IIC’s operations with financial institutions, including its first local-currency transaction. Beckham also led the IIC’s Corporate Projects Unit, where he improved the IIC’s ability to lend directly to small companies, enhanced its overall loan processing capacity, and grew the corporate loan portfolio by more than 50 percent.

Beckham has worked in international finance since 1991. His wide-ranging experience includes recovery of distressed loans and investments, lending to financial institutions, project finance, and syndications.

Beckham holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Ohio State University. He has lived in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.

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David Bloomgarden Lead Specialist, Multilateral Investment Fund, Inter-American Development Bank David Bloomgarden is a lead private sector development officer and coordinator of the Program to Promote Public-Private Partnerships in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In this capacity, he is a focal point for PPPs in the IDB group where he manages an advisory services program to build institutional and regulatory capacity as well as knowledge dissemination for PPPs in Latin America and the Caribbean. He also manages an innovative program developing marketbased business models to provide basic services for the poor in underserved areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining FOMIN in 2005, Bloomgarden was deputy director of the Office of Multilateral Development Banks in the U.S. Treasury Department’s International Office where he acquired extensive expertise in the development and oversight of multilateral development bank policies and programs, and served as advisor to the U.S. Director on the Boards of the African Development Bank, the IDB, and the International Fund for Agriculture and Development.

Adi Blum Director, First Reserve Corporation Adi J. Blum is a director at First Reserve, having joined the firm in 2011. His responsibilities range from deal origination and structuring to due diligence, execution, and monitoring and exit strategy, focusing on the energy infrastructure sector. Prior to joining First Reserve, Blum was a vice president at High Road Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm. Prior to High Road Capital Partners, he was an associate in Citigroup Markets & Banking’s Mergers & Acquisitions group.

Blum holds a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and an MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business.

First Reserve is the largest global private equity firm exclusively focused on energy. With more than 30 years of industry insight, investment expertise and operational excellence, the firm has cultivated an enduring network of global relationships and raised more than $26 billion of aggregate capital since its inception. Putting these funds to work, First Reserve has completed more than 475 transactions (including platform investments and add-on acquisitions) across six continents.

Its portfolio companies operate in approximately 50 countries and span the energy spectrum from upstream oil and gas to midstream and downstream, including resources, equipment and services and infrastructure.

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Miami, September 3-4, 2014

Richard Burns Chairman, Latin Trade Group Richard Burns is chairman of Latin Trade Group, which publishes Latin Trade magazine and digital news provider Latin Business Chronicle. The group also produces the BRAVO Business Awards, the Trade Américas & ConnectAmericas Expo and the CFO Forum series. The company also recently invested in Datarisk, a Buenos Aires-based provider of risk mitigation and commercial assurance solutions for companies operating regionally in Latin America.

Burns is also general partner at Isis Venture Partners, the owner of Latin Trade Group, a private equity firm he co-founded in 2002. Isis Venture Partners’ holdings include Miami Media and Manhattan Media, publisher of Avenue magazine and specialty publications in New York City and the Hamptons. Burns previously served as president and CEO of Thomson Financial Media, a division of Thomson Corporation. Before joining Thomson, he was president and CEO of Euromoney Publications America, where he served as CEO and publisher of Institutional Investor as well as president and editor-in-chief of Latin Finance.

He has served as a director on several corporate boards, including 24/7 Real Media and Interaudi Bank, and since 2007 has been an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History. Burns was educated at St. John’s College, Oxford, the LudwigMaximilians Institute at the University of Munich and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Travis Cobb Senior Vice President, Network Operations, DHL Express Americas Travis Cobb is the senior vice president of network operations Americas region for DHL Express.

In his current role, Cobb is responsible for all aspects of the Americas network operations and aviation. He is a member of the DHL Express Americas management board and the global network operations executive committee.

Previously, Cobb led the Americas hubs, gateways, and air and ground network operations functions, overseeing more than 2000 employees dedicated to providing the highest levels of service in the industry.

Cobb joined DHL in 2004 as director of the ground network and has held various progressive roles in the organization, including responsibility for the U.S. domestic operations restructuring in 2008-2009.

Prior to joining DHL, Cobb held various positions within the transportation/express industry with McClane, Emery Worldwide and UPS. Cobb holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Florida.

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Michael Díaz Jr. Founding and Global Managing Partner, Diaz, Reus & Targ, LLP Michael Díaz, Jr. is the founding and managing partner of Díaz, Reus & Targ, LLP, where he concentrates his practice on domestic and international trade and investment transactions, financial fraud, corporate governance and regulatory matters, and antimoney laundering investigations.

Díaz is a frequent publisher and guest lecturer and contributor at international legal, business, and banking seminars. He was selected among the top international experts in the anti-money laundering field to join the faculty of the first graduate course on “Money Laundering Prevention” at the University of Salamanca, sponsored by the Latin American Banking Federation. He has been recognized by Business Week and various other publications for his work in the international asset recovery field. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, registered with the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. Díaz is AV rated by his peers and has been recognized and received numerous awards and honors of distinction from various legal, scholarly and international organizations for his work in Latin America.

Esteban Diez-Roux Principal Transport Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank Esteban Diez-Roux is a principal transport specialist in the Transport Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C. He has more than 20 years of experience in the transport sector. Diez-Roux leads multidisciplinary project teams in the promotion, development and execution of transportation projects in Latin America.

He specializes in the areas of ports and freight logistics, air transport, road safety and transport economics. He presently coordinates all knowledge and research activities of the Transport Division.

A native of Argentina, Diez-Roux has worked in the public and private sectors in Argentina and the U.S. Prior to joining the IDB, he worked as an international transport consultant for a large U.S. consulting firm and as a commodity trader for an international trading firm.

Diez Roux received a civil engineering degree with a specialization in transport and completed graduate studies in port engineering in the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. He earned an Master of Science and Doctorate in Transportation Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

Francisco Estrázulas de Souza Consultant, Trade and Investment Unit, Inter-American Development Bank Francisco Estrázulas is a consultant at the Trade and Investment Unit at the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on the design, development and marketing of technology platforms for trade and investment facilitation, and is part of the core team of ConnectAmericas. Prior to joining IDB, Estrázulas was a manager at Castalia Strategic Advisors where he advised governments and private clients on economic, financial, and regulatory matters related to transport, logistics, water and sanitation, and energy in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Estrázulas holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

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José W. Fernández Partner & Co-Chair Latin America Practice Group Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State Nominated by President Obama on August 6, 2009, José W. Fernández was sworn in as assistant secretary on December 1, 2009. He is currently a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Latin America Practice Group. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and finance in emerging markets in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Fernández was named one of the “World’s Leading Lawyers” by Chambers Global for his M&A and corporate expertise, an “Expert” in International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Project Finance Lawyers, and one of the “World’s Leading Privatization Lawyers”

by Euromoney publications. He is recognized as a leading corporate finance attorney in the Latin American market in the Chambers Global 2008 legal guide and a leading Latin America attorney in the Chambers U.S. 2008 legal guide.

A lifelong supporter of education, the arts and commercial engagement, prior to his appointment at the State Department, Fernández served on the board of trustees of Dartmouth College and on the board of directors of Accion International and the Council of the Americas. He has been chair both of the American Bar Association’s Inter-American Law Committee and the Committee on Inter-American Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and co-chair of the Cross Border M&A and Joint Ventures Committee of the New York State Bar Association. He recently headed the Latin American and Caribbean division of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative. Fernández is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Joe García US Representative, Florida’s 26th Congressional District Congressman Joe García was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2012. He is a dedicated public servant who has called South Florida home for his entire life. With scholarships and money he had saved from cutting grass with his grandfather on weekends, Congressman García put himself through Miami Dade College and later the University of Miami where he completed his undergraduate studies and attended law school.

After graduating UM Law School, Gov. Lawton Chiles appointed Congressman García to the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC), the state agency regulating utilities. Serving under both Democratic and Republican governors, he helped usher in the single largest energy rate cut in Florida’s history—meaning lower electricity bills for Florida’s families through the 1990s.

Congressman García left the PSC in 2000 and was named executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation where he became one of the country’s leading advocates for human rights in Cuba and Latin America.

In 2009, President Obama appointed García to serve as a director in the Department of Energy where he focused on lowering energy costs for America’s families and greater access to renewable sources of energy. He also previously served as director of the New Democratic Network Hispanic Strategy Center and chairman of the Democratic Party of Miami-Dade County.

Congressman García is a staunch advocate of comprehensive immigration reform and has been a leader on the issue. In 2013, he introduced the Venezuelan Liberty Act and H.R. 15 – two important pieces of legislation aimed at fixing our broken immigration system. In early 2014, Congressman García introduced the HOME Act – legislation designed to help reform the nation’s current flood insurance regulations.

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José García Herz General Manager, Cascade Hydro Power José García is the CEO of Cascade Hydro Power, a development and operating company of small hydroelectric power plants in Peru. He is currently overseeing the completion of construction of the Junín plant (Canchayllo 5.2 MW) and also the structuring of the EPC and financing for a second power plant (Colca 12 MW) in the same region.

García has successfully participated as investor, board member and manager in all three tenders for tariff for renewable energy, winning a 20-year tariff contract for eight plants.

García was managing partner for various funds including, ACCESS SEAF Peru, SEAF Colombia and MAS SEAF Equity Partners (where he remains as partner and investment committee member).

He managed SEAF’s regional operations, successfully helping raise more than $150 million in Peru and Colombia, while supporting regulatory agencies in building the legal infrastructure to develop the private equity industry. García completed several transactions with exits – including the sale of a stake in a hydroelectric power company (where he was a board member) at an IRR of 28 percent.

Before that, García was a corporate finance manager with Fleming Latin Pacific Peru (a subsidiary of Robert Fleming). There, he managed transactions in excess of $1 billion in the power sector in Peru and Colombia. Before, García served as corporate finance vice president for Norbank.

As corporate finance project director of Barents Group-KPMG, García worked in the privatization of various sectors in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. García’s experience includes VestcorPartners Group in Miami, and Ferrostaal and the Institute World Economy in Germany. He has also been a corporate finance and economics professor at the Universidad del Pacífico and Centrum Católica.

García holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Universidad del Pacífico in Peru and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Mario Elías González Inclusive Business Advisor, CEMEX Mario Elías González is inclusive business advisor at CEMEX. He manages the business development and the operations for projects in Mexico, including more than 70 housing and clean stoves projects in low-income communities, partnering with NGOs, social entrepreneurs and governments. Before joining CEMEX, González served as community relations specialist at EURUS wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico.

As member of Acciona’s community engagement team, González led efforts to create and leverage within the communities and inclusive business social franchise model, which is now proposed as an strategy for the Mexican government and CEMEX to foster capabilities in social entrepreneurs and NGOs in the affordable housing space.

Mario holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Tecnólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). He is a candidate for a master’s degree in public policy from ITESM.

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John Graham Principal Investment Officer, Structured and Corporate Finance Department, Inter-American Development Bank John Graham is a principal investment officer with the Structured and Corporate Finance Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). In this role, he leads the origination, analysis, negotiation and execution of project finance transactions in the infrastructure space. His responsibilities also include working with private sector clients to expand their social inclusion programs and other matters related to sustainability. Graham’s project finance transactions at the IDB have focused on the transportation and renewable energy sectors in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru.

Graham, a United States national, is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese. He previously worked with Salomon Brothers in Mexico City and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in Washington, D.C. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University teaching “International Project Finance and Investment” as part of the Georgetown University M.S. /MBA program.

Graham holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree from the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Bernardo Guillamon Manager, Office of Outreach and Partnerships, Inter-American Development Bank Bernardo Guillamon is the manager of the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Office of Outreach and Partnerships. Guillamon has worked at the IDB, in the area of private sector development, since 1992. From 2007 until July 2008, he oversaw the operational program in the Integration and Trade Sector (INT), developing and managing its portfolio of loans and technical assistance grants to expand trade and promote regional integration among all borrowing member countries. INT’s portfolio includes innovative investment promotion projects and export development programs, as well as programs for trade facilitation, customs modernization, negotiation and implementation of trade agreements, and local access to global markets.

During 2006 and 2007, Guillamon was the principal private sector specialist in the Private Sector Coordination Office. He led the development of the IDB Group’s Integrated Business Plan for Private Sector Operations, and was involved in several initiatives to increase lending to new sectors and clients, and expand the participation of private companies and sub-national governments in the overall portfolio.

Between 2001 and 2006, Guillamon led the private sector evaluation area of the IDB’s independent Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE). Before joining OVE, he was in charge of microfinance, microenterprise and small enterprise development projects for the Andean region, and co-authored the bank’s Microenterprise Development Strategy. He introduced the pioneering equity investment of the IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund in microfinance institutions. Prior to his IDB career, Guillamon worked in agribusiness with small, large and multinational companies.

Guillamon graduated as an agricultural engineer from Uruguay’s Universidad de la República and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University in California. He completed additional graduate courses in business valuation, e-commerce, international trade, and project finance at New York University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.

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Santiago Gutiérrez Executive Editor, Latin Trade Group Santiago Gutiérrez is executive editor of Latin Trade. Previously, he was director of Dinero.com and economics editor at Dinero magazine. He has also been director of business magazine La Nota Económica, economics editor of daily El Espectador and correspondent for the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Gutiérrez has received a number of professional distinctions such as the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar in 2008, recognized as the most important award in Colombian journalism. He also received the Citigroup Journalistic Excellence Award in 2007, and three times the Premio Anif de Periodismo Económico, among others. These are the highest prizes for business journalism in Colombia.

Gutiérrez has been economics researcher at Fedesarrollo, Fenalco and the consulting firm Econometría. He has served as vice president for the Colombian Bankers Association and for the merchant bank IFI and general manager of the HMO Humana S.A. He has written numerous professional articles and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Banking, and Monetary Economics at Los Andes and Javeriana Universities.

He has also served as director of Colombian firms, including the ferronickel mine Cerro Matoso, rating agency BRC Investor Services, Clínica del Country, and as president of the Board of Trustees of the Clinic.

As for pro bono activities he has been involved in the formulation of a strategic plan for the Colombia Symphony Orchestra.

Gutiérrez completed his doctorate in economics at the University of Minnesota, and took short courses in Project Management at MIT and Business Journalism at Columbia University.

Christiaan Gischler Senior Energy Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank As a senior energy specialist, Christiaan Gischler is a leading expert on sustainable energy within the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with more than 14 years of experience in the energy and environmental sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Currently, he is at the forefront of several initiatives in renewable energy, energy efficiency, bioenergy, sustainable biofuels and climate change mitigation. Gischler is actively working and promoting sustainable energy projects and programs throughout the region. He is also the IDB energy division coordinator for Global Environment Facility (GEF) for climate change mitigation.

Gischler has designed, developed and executed projects worth over $600 million promoting sustainable energy in LAC, including GEF-funded projects and technical assistance with IDB grant funding. He has also participated in several conferences, promoting sustainable energy as well as policy and regulation to promote renewable energies, energy efficiency and carbon emission reductions.

Prior to joining the IDB, Gischler worked for Chile’s National Environmental Commission and for the private sector in air pollution control equipment, reuse of waste and energy efficiency. He has taught courses in environmental engineering in Chile and Sweden.

Gischler holds degrees in chemical engineering and biotechnological engineering from the University of Chile and a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure from the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden.

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Sergio Hinojosa International PPP Consultant, IKONS ATN Sergio Hinojosa has more than 25 years of experience in the design, implementation, evaluation and financing of infrastructure projects and public-private partnerships (PPPs), including projects in Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, Belize, Panama, Chile, El Salvador, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Mali, Ukraine, Senegal and Taiwan. He has also collaborated on infrastructure project studies in Egypt, the Philippines, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

Hinojosa is the principal advisor to the Program to Promote Public-Private Partnerships in Mexican States (PIAPPEM/MIF) and the team leader of the Regional Public-Private Partnerships Advisory Services Program implemented by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and BKP Development Research and Consulting in Guatemala, Jamaica and Peru. He currently serves as lead manager of value-for-money and structuring studies for a wind farm and the international airport in El Salvador, the design of integral cost-benefit analysis methodologies for PPPs in Chile, and the preparation of the guidelines for the inclusion of private capital in state enterprises for FONAFE in Peru. Through IKONS ATN, he has led the development of formal value-for-money and publicprivate comparison methodologies in Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Peru.

Hinojosa has an undergraduate degree in economics and graduated as a commercial engineer from Universidad de Concepción in Chile. He also earned a postgraduate degree in project evaluation from the Universidad Católica de Chile and a certificate in public-private partnerships from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In addition, he holds a master’s degree, studies in economics from Georgetown University, a Master of Science in Finance from The George Washington University and a doctorate in management sciences with a specialization in financial economics from ESADE Business School.

Sergio Jaramillo CEO, Konfirma Sergio Jaramillo Mejía is the CEO of Konfirma, which operates processes related to contracting, hiring, recruitment and compliance and is headquartered in Medellin, Colombia.

Konfirma solutions focus on design and operation with legal certainty. The company has developed three lines of services. The first, supply chain management, helps clients achieve adequate and efficient relationships with their supply chain members. The second line, contract process management, accompanies public and private companies to select the best deal for the execution of contracts. The third, real estate management, assists construction companies in acquiring the required land for the development of large infrastructure projects.

Konfirma works with large clients operating in Colombia, including the National Infrastructure Agency; Empresas Públicas de Medellín, ISA, ISAGEN – the main suppliers for electricity, gas, water and other services; Municipio de Medellín and Gobernación de Antioquia – city and state government.

There are more than 7500 suppliers from over 45 countries in Konfirma’s software. The company has also participated in more than 95 contracting, hiring and recruitment processes that have involved more than $10 billion.

Jaramillo currently chairs the board of the chamber of BPO - ITO - KPO of the National Association of Entrepreneurs and also belongs to the general board of the National Association of Entrepreneurs.

Jaramillo is a lawyer from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana with post-graduate studies in civil liability and insurance from Eafit University, Medellin.

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Ellis J. Juan General Coordinator of the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, Inter-American Development Bank In 2012, Ellis J. Juan assumed the role of general coordinator of the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ESCI). This initiative assists emerging cities in Latin America and the Caribbean in confronting the challenges associated with rapid urban growth and improving their environmental, urban and fiscal sustainability.

With already 40 cities included, the initiative has mobilized over $350 million in resources to support greater urban sustainability in the region.

Between 2008 and 2012, Juan served as the IDB country representative in Mexico, where he oversaw operations in the public, private and sub-national sectors, in addition to new business development. He has more than 20 years of experience in infrastructure financing through various positions at the World Bank, Santander Bank and the IDB. In addition, he has extensive management experience in Latin America, having worked in Venezuela’s private sector in both the industrial and financial sectors for nearly 20 years. From 1989-1991, he served as vice minister of privatization during the Economic Reform Program carried out under President Carlos Andrés Pérez, successfully privatizing several key state-owned enterprises.

Juan obtained an MBA from Columbia University and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Venezuela. Born in Venezuela, Juan is a permanent resident of the United States.

Alejandro Lew CFO, Genneia S.A. Alejandro Lew is chief financial officer of Genneia. Between 1994 and 2009, he held various positions in the financial system. He began his professional career with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Argentina within the Secretariat of Finance, in charge of the process of valuation of companies subject to privatization in which the state had retained a minority interest for further sale in capital markets. Between 1997 and 2004, he worked at the New York offices of JPMorgan Chase, primarily involved in debt capital markets origination. In 2004, Lew relocated to Argentina where he was in charge of local debt and derivative instruments origination and responsible for the commercial team of the treasury of the Buenos Aires branch of the bank. In 2007 he joined HSBC, overseeing their local and international debt as well as derivatives origination businesses for the Southern Cone and as of 2008, he was promoted to managing director and co-head of the Latin America International Debt Origination team based in New York.

Lew joined Genneia in June 2012 as chief financial officer. Currently, he also serves on the executive committee of Genneia.

Lew holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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José Manuel Loureda López General International Business Development Manager, Sacyr José Manuel Loureda López began his career in the consulting firm IBERINSA (Entrecanales Group) and subsequently joined Sacyr, where he has been engaged in various management positions (between 1998 and 2004 working in Chile).

Loureda has worked both in the construction field and highway concessions as CEO of several concessions. Between 2004 and 2012, Loureda was general director of the International Division of Sacyr Construction. Currently, he is general international business development manager for Sacyr (Sacyr Vallehermoso SA). Loureda is also director of numerous Sacyr subsidiaries and chairman of the board of directors of the Consortium GUPC (Contractor of Third Set of Locks of Panamá Canal Expansion).

Born in Madrid, Loureda earned a Master of Science in Civil Engineering, structural specialization from the E.T.S.I.C.C.P. Polytechnic University of Madrid. He also participated in the Advanced Executive Management PADE Program at the University of Andes (Santiago de Chile).

Jorge Maguiña Advisor to the Minister of Urban Infrastructure and Housing, Government of Ecuador Jorge Maguiña’s professional experience in development spans more than 23 years with technical, managerial, political and strategic contributions to development processes implemented by international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru and Costa Rica. Maguiña is an expert in a value chain approach to social housing, public policy in urban development and housing, capacity building for organizational development, project management, development of the local economy and microfinance.

Maguiña has served as advisor to various Ministers of State in Ecuador including Coordinating Minister of Social Development, Minister of Urban Development and Housing and Coordinating Minister of Heritage. He was deputy minister of Urban Development and Housing last year.

He has also worked in systematization of social processes, project impact assessments, policy development and organizational strengthening strategies, design and implementation of policies, planning, monitoring and evaluation in several countries and ministerial entities.

Maguiña received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the National University of Engineering of Peru and his master’s degree in social management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has also completed post graduate work at the National University of Colombia and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

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Naoll Mary Concessions America Manager, FCC Aqualia Naoll Mary manages concessions for Latin America at FCC Aqualia, the water division affiliate of FCC, the Spanish construction group. He has participated in a number of water programs and projects for two decades in more than 20 countries in America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as a consultant, within Suez, and now at FCC Aqualia, with multilateral and government agencies such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in the development of the integrated approach of water management from institutional, technical, infrastructural, social, environmental and financial point of view.

He is a director of the board and executive committee in two majors water aqueducts BOT of FCC Aqualia in Querétaro and San Luis Potosí. He’s also responsible for business development in Latin America.

Mary is a water and environment engineer, and also holds a degree in international finance.

Alexandre Meira da Rosa Vice-President for Countries, Inter-American Development Bank Alexandre Meira da Rosa, a Brazilian citizen, was appointed vice president for countries in July 2014. Before, he served as manager of the IDB’s Infrastructure and Environment Sector. Prior to joining the IDB, Rosa held different positions in Brazil’s Federal Government.

Until May 2010, Rosa was vice minister in charge of International Affairs at the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, a position through which he represented his country on the IDB Board of Governors as well as in five other multilateral development institutions, serving as the main Brazilian officer responsible for the formulation of policies in said institutions. In that capacity, he also headed the Committee on External Financing (COFIEX), the Brazilian government body responsible for the approval and monitoring of execution of all development projects—at the three levels of government—financed with foreign resources, totaling an active portfolio of more than $15 billion.

As a member of the Financing and Guarantee Committee (COFIG) between 2004 and 2010, Rosa participated in the structuring of loans and guarantees provided by Brazil to overseas infrastructure projects through the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and participated in numerous bilateral negotiations on loans and investment projects in Latin America and Africa.

Rosa was also a member of the Board of Furnas Centrais Elétricas S.A. and of the Board of Banco Popular do Brasil, a micro-finance subsidiary of Banco do Brasil.

Before becoming vice minister, Rosa also served as deputy vice minister and economic advisor to the Minister of Planning. During this period, he participated in the development of the Brazilian legislation for Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), which was sent to Congress in December 2003.

He also contributed to the studies that gave the foundation of the PPP Unit at the Brazilian Federal Government, and participated in the formulation of the investment parameters for the 2004–2007 Multi-Year Investment Plan of the Brazilian Federal Government.

Rosa holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, a master’s degree in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and a graduate certificate in finance from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Alejandro Melandri Interim Head, Energy Division, Inter-American Development Bank Alejandro Melandri is the interim head of the energy division of the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Infrastructure and Environment Department, responsible for energy, oil and gas, extractive industries and bioenergy for the Latin America and the Caribbean region. Melandri has worked with the IDB since 2005.

As a lead energy specialist of the energy division, he has led the preparation of investment lending operations to support major infrastructure projects, mostly focused on hydropower, as well as the implementation of programs that support sector policy reforms. Before joining the IDB, he worked as a consultant on energy and transportation projects, within both the public and private sectors, and also served as advisor to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing.

Melandri is a civil engineer who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires and obtained his MBA from the University of CEMA. Christian Moller Laursen Chief Financial Officer, APM Terminals Christian Moller Laursen has served as vice president and CFO of APM Terminals since 2004 and was appointed group vice president for the A.P. Moller–Maersk Group in May 2007.

Laursen has been a part of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group since joining as an economist with the Financial Planning Department of Maersk A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1990.

Laursen holds a master’s degree in finance from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and has participated in advanced business and management coursework at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Marco G. Monroy CEO, MGM Innova Capital Marco G. Monroy is currently CEO of MGM Innova Group, with offices in Miami, Medellin, Mexico, São Paulo and Buenos Aires. MGM Innova Group includes four complementary sustainable energy and climate change companies: MGM Innova Capital, a private equity investment firm that manages the MGM Sustainable Energy Fund, focusing on triple bottom line (financial, social and environmental) investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy in Latin America and the Caribbean; MGM Innova Energy Services, a project development company providing energy efficiency solutions to commercial, industrial and government clients; MGM Innova Renewables, developing solar energy projects; and MGM Innova Consulting, a multinational firm specializing in integrated sustainability and climate change services.

Monroy founded and served as CEO of MGM International, one of the leading global project development companies in the carbon market. In this role, he successfully built up a portfolio of more than 400 projects in 35 countries from 12 offices around the world. In addition, he has also made seed capital investments in Latin American start-up firms active in a wide range of sectors, including social gaming, sustainability and electronic payment firms in Brazil.

Monroy is an attorney licensed to practice law in Colombia and the State of New York and is considered one of the foremost pioneers in the Latin American clean energy markets. In 2002, the World Economic Forum named Monroy one of the 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow.

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Sean Mulvaney Member, Board of Directors, Export-Import Bank of the United States Sean Mulvaney is a member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). A presidential appointee, he was sworn-in on June 6, 2011. Prior to his appointment, Mulvaney served as director of Economic Policy Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Previously, he worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he served until November 2008 as assistant administrator for management, a presidentially-appointed and senateconfirmed position. In addition to his service in the executive branch, Mulvaney has ten years of legislative experience on Capitol Hill serving various members working on trade and other policy issues. Mulvaney received a B.A.S. in Economics and French from Washington University in St. Louis in 1990 and a master’s degree in international management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of Global Management in 1997.

Raul Murrieta Cummings Undersecretary for Infrastructure, Ministry of Communications and Transportation, México Raul Murrieta Cummings is currently undersecretary for infrastructure of México’s Ministry of Communications and Transportation. He was economic policy coordinator on the transition team of the incoming government.

From 2009 to September 2012, he was secretary of finance for the State of México, and before that, he served as undersecretary for administration and general director of material resources in the Ministry of Finance of the same entity.

Throughout his professional career in public administration, finances in the State of Mexico have strengthened by increasing levels of local tax revenue and a firm no debt policy. These measures have doubled the total state tax revenues, while the state public debt has increased its rating seven times by three recognized credit rating agencies. The consultancy firm Aregional has placed the State of Mexico in first place on the Fiscal Transparency Index.

Murrieta has also had an outstanding participation in the creation of the first and second generations of Public–Private Partnership (PPP) in the State of Mexico. He was a pioneer in the beginning of the state program “Public Service Commitment,” which significantly improved service to citizens in public offices.

His past professional experience in the private sector includes manager of technical products and business manager for larger financial accounts in Avantel, a telecommunications firm. He was manager of Lifetel enterprise, owned by Grupo Pegaso. He participated in the editorial area of Televisa and was in charge of their esmas.com website. Murrieta was also head of operations and special projects at Datasys América.

Murrieta graduated as an economist and earned his MBA from the Instituto Tecnológico Autonómo de México, ITAM.

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Matías Núñez Castro Director for SMEs Division in Latin America, Banco Santander Matías Nuñez Castro is currently director of the SMEs Division in Latin America for Banco Santander. He began his professional career at Banco Santander in Argentina, having served in various commercial divisions in executive positions and leading teams in the areas of banking, SMEs, and business and corporate banking. He was director of projects, information and planning in the areas of business, SMEs and agro, and later, director of SME business for Argentina. Finally, he was responsible for SME business at Banco Santander in the Americas Division.

Núñez Castro obtained a bachelor’s degree in administration from Universidad de Buenos Aires and has taken specialization courses at the IAE, EDDE and Di Tella.

Fabrizio Opertti Chief of the Trade and Investment Unit, Inter-American Development Bank Fabrizio Opertti is chief of the Trade and Investment Unit of the Integration and Trade Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He supervises an operational team in charge of a large portfolio of international trade, foreign direct investment promotion, and also loan and technical cooperation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Opertti is currently leading an IDB group-wide team in the design and implementation of the ConnectAmericas business platform. He also directs the IDB’s initiatives in the Services Globalization Sector, having led the preparation of services’ export promotion strategies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Jamaica, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay. Opertti also leads the organization of the IDB’s pan-regional trade events, including Outsource2LAC (Uruguay 2011, Colombia 2012, and Argentina 2013), the Asia LAC Fora (Korea 2007 and 2011, China 2010 and 2012, Japan 2013), and the CEO Summit of the Americas (Colombia 2012), among others.

Opertti holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins School of Business, a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a Bachelor of Arts in International Political Economy from American University.

Gonzalo Peschiera Business Development Manager, OHL Americas Gonzalo Peschiera is the business development manager for OHL in North and South America. He has been involved in expanding the activities of OHL in the U.S. and Canada since 2007. He brings 28 years of construction and design experience, as well as extensive knowledge in the business development arena in regards to owners and strategic partnering.

Some P3 projects in which he has been directly involved with for OHL include: The $2.1 billion University of Montreal Hospital, which is currently the largest healthcare P3 hospital project in North America and the $200 million Turnpike Service Plazas renovation in Florida. One of Peschiera’s main objectives is to look for strategic opportunities and partners for the company, especially in those areas and markets where OHL decided to expand. As such, he successfully contributed to the startup and growth of the OHL Group in Florida, Texas, New York, and Canada.

With his international position, Peschiera is not only continuing OHL’s presence in North America, but also further developing the company’s presence in Latin America with an emphasis on publicprivate-partnership projects through horizontal and vertical opportunities.

Peschiera holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

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Francesco Piazzesi CEO, ¡Échale! a tu casa Francesco Piazzesi is the CEO of ¡Échale! a tu casa, an auto-construction, communitybased model that addresses the lack of decent housing for Mexican families in rural areas. Through his program, people at the bottom of the pyramid can build their own homes. The concept draws from Piazzesi’s years of experience in the housing industry, and focuses on community-based finanacing and construction of safe, ecologically friendly and adequate homes to offer both dignity and resale value to low-income homeowners.

Piazzesi, a social entrepreneur, has spearheaded a number of initiatives, including Adobe Home Aid, a non-profit organization he founded to assist with self-build housing. He later launched Ecoblock International, a social housing production program that served as a financial intermediary so communities involved in auto-construction could be legally paid for their services.

He’s recevied numerous recognitions, including B Corporation Best for the World 2014 and The Buckminster Fuller Institute Award, among several others. He has been a member of the education committee of the National Housing Committee and a member and teacher of the Mexican Social Businessmen Association (USEM). Piazzesi has also taught at Anahuac University since 1980.

Piazzesi obtained an MBA from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITSEM), and a doctorate in strategic management for development policies from Anáhuac University.

John Price Managing Director, Americas Market Intelligence, Contributing Editor, Latin Trade John Price has practiced market intelligence in Latin America for the last 20 years, leading over 800 consulting assignments across the region. He founded InfoMex in 1992, which later became InfoAmericas with offices in São Paulo, Mexico City, and Miami.

In 2007, InfoAmericas was sold to Kroll Associates and Price founded Kroll’s Market Intelligence practice. More recently, he launched AMI with offices in Miami and Mexico and an affiliation with GIA, the world’s leading competitive intelligence provider with 25 global offices.

Price is a strategic advisor to clients. His teams of consultants provide competitive intelligence, market entry strategy, transactional market due diligence, and business risk analysis.

Price is a recognized thought leader in Latin America, as an author of more than 100 published articles on the region’s business environment and the co-author and co-editor of “Can Latin America Compete?” published by Palgrave in 2007.

Price is a popular figure on the Latin American speaker circuit, addressing business audiences in English and Spanish on the region’s economic, corporate, and political trends.

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Yannick L. Rault van der Vaart CEO, Abramar Inc. Yannick L. Rault van der Vaart is co-founder & CEO of Abramar, an award-winning certified Brazilian B-corp whose main activity is social urbanism, combining disciplines in real estate development, impact investment, design and enterprise technology, with threefold growth in 2013 positively affecting the lives of thousands of citizens in Southern Brazil. He remains an active shareholder of the social entrepreneurship space, HUB Madrid, and the Spanish low-cost mobile service provider, MasMovil. Previously, he established and sold Esmihogar, the first intra-country social housing brokerage in Spain for Ecuadorian clients. He also served as principal of the U.S. fund, CAC Management. Previously, he spent 10 years in the corporate world focused on internet enterprise technology and strategic consulting at Ariba, Arthur Andersen, and FedEx. Abramar pioneered Social Urbanism™ to go beyond social housing and deliver creative solutions to meet the world’s housing demand (Moonscrapers™) while harmonizing social, environmental, and financial returns (1indicator™). It began as a small family real estate investment company in 1992 and reinvented itself in 2008 to become a fast growing, profitable, award winning B Corp.

Abramar is regularly invited to speak at conferences, universities and corporations around the world such as TEDx, Columbia University and Google. The company is currently building more than a dozen large, affordable, yet high quality, mixed (income & use) urban communities in multiple cities.

Rault van der Vaart is a published author and a regular speaker on the topics of urbanism, social entrepreneurship, real estate, internet technology and education. He has been featured in a number of publications including The Economist and Money Today.

Rault van der Vaart holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with focuses on international finance and marketing, and minors in industrial engineering and computer information systems.

Jorge de los Reyes Manager, Capital Projects & Infrastructure Practice, PwC Jorge de los Reyes is a Houston-based manager in PwC’s Capital Projects & Infrastructure Practice. His industry experience helps clients more effectively manage their businesses in the areas of contract strategy, risk management frameworks and operations. He has hands-on exposure across various disciplines of the oil and gas industry and government, and has taken numerous assignments in Latin America, managing business relationships, ensuring effective communication and alignment with executive management and corporate strategy.

He has engaged with the highest levels of leadership, both with senior government and private sector leaders. Reyes’ combination of both upstream and downstream business practice in the energy sector translates to other Capital Project industries requiring similar methodologies for project execution. He has served in project management roles with government and has experience across the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.

Prior to joining PwC, Reyes managed the business of a major international oil company for an engineering and construction management services c ompany with specialization in the Energy sector, overseeing their strategic position and business development across the Western Hemisphere. Reyes speaks fluent Spanish and English.

Reyes holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds a Master of Arts from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City.

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Diego Rodríguez Vice President Commercial Solutions, Visa, Inc. LAC Diego Rodríguez is vice president of commercial products for Latin America and the Caribbean. In this position, he is responsible for the strategy and overall management of products for large, small and medium-sized businesses. Under his leadership, the segment has grown significantly, expanding existing products into new geographic areas and bringing to market new products like Visa Agro and Visa Cargo, consolidating Visa’s leadership in the commercial solutions field.

Previously, Rodríguez was business leader for emerging products, accelerating the adoption of smart cards in the region and strengthening the migration to chip in Brazil and Mexico. He also led the development and launch of products like the multi-applicative cards and Visa payWave.

In 2000, he was assigned the role of structuring the prepaid products segment for Visa LAC. He led this segment for four years, successfully launching products such as Visa Buxx, Visa gift cards and incentive cards, and also expanded Visa TravelMoney.

Rodríguez joined Visa in 1998, overseeing the administration and implementation of debit cards and credit Visa smart cards. Before joining the company, he spent several years developing payment solutions in the region. Previously, he worked in high-tech enterprises in the field of automation.

Rodríguez has 20 years of experience and holds a degree in electronic engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela and an MBA from Texas Tech University.

Leonardo Rodríguez President, Emerson Latin America Leonardo Rodríguez joined Emerson in 1973 and has served as president for Emerson Latin America since 2002. In this position, he oversees Emerson operations in Latin America with annual sales of $1.7 billion and plant operations output of $3 billion and Emerson Process Management Latin America with annual sales of $600 million.

He joined Rosemount as a sales engineer in 1973, which was acquired by Emerson in 1976. In 1980, he was promoted to regional manager for Latin America. In 1985, he joined Fisher Controls, a Monsanto company, which was also acquired by Emerson in 1992. He was then named president of Fisher-Rosemount Latin America Operations in 1994 and president of Emerson Process Management Latin America in 1996.

During his career at Emerson, Rodríguez has also held the positions of general manager, director of marketing & applications engineering and international marketing engineer. In those positions, he led all general management functions including planning, mergers & acquisitions, P&L responsibility, sales, marketing, operations and services for different Emerson Process Management Business Units.

Prior to his tenure with Emerson, he was sales engineer at Leeds and Northrup, Co., a subsidiary of General Signal Company in the Northern New Jersey and New York City territory.

Born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, Rodríguez obtained a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and also attended the Tuck Executive Program at The Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Matthew Rooney Executive Director – US Section, Americas Business Dialogue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Matthew M. Rooney joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in September 2103 as a senior fellow in the International Division, Americas department. Rooney works with the U.S. private sector and business associations throughout North America, Latin America and the Caribbean to create a business advisory body for the Summit of the Americas.

Prior to the chamber, Rooney served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs with responsibility for Mexico, Canada and regional economic policy. Previously, he was principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, where he coordinated the State Department’s agenda before the U.S. Congress. Before moving to legislative affairs, Rooney was director of the Office of Economic Policy and Summit of the Americas Coordination in Western Hemisphere Affairs, where he was closely involved in the successful 2009 Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. He led interagency and international negotiations that produced the Secretary’s Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas initiative, designed to ensure the benefits of economic growth are broadly shared in our societies, and the President’s Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas, an initiative to deal constructively with energy and climate issues.

As part of the Foreign Service, Rooney has served in the Ivory Coast, Germany, Gabon and El Salvador focusing on macroeconomic policy, energy exploration and trade issues. In Washington, he worked on civil aviation negotiations and was a Pearson Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Fred Thompson, focusing on trade promotion programs and the international implications of fiscal policy. As consul general in Munich, he managed a regional post of 120 staff and coordinated a vigorous public diplomacy campaign to overcome the crisis in German-American relations stemming from the U.S. action in Iraq.

Rooney studied Economics, German and French at the University of Texas at Austin and received a master’s degree in international management from the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Stefan M. Selig Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce Stefan M. Selig was confirmed on June 4, 2014, by the U.S. Senate to serve as President Obama’s undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Selig leads the International Trade Administration, which assists in the development of U.S. trade policy in the global economy; creates jobs and economic growth by promoting U.S. companies; strengthens American competitiveness across all industries; addresses market access and compliance issues; administers U.S. trade laws; and undertakes a range of trade promotion and trade advocacy efforts.

Additionally, in his current capacity, Selig serves as the executive director of the travel and tourism advisory board and sits on the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Previously, Selig served as executive vice chairman of global corporate & investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In that capacity, he focused on building and maintaining strategic relationships at the CEO and board-level with important clients of the firm. Before then, Selig was vice chairman of global investment banking and global head of mergers and acquisitions at Banc of America Securities. Under his leadership, the bank advised its corporate and private equity clients on more than $1 trillion strategic global transactions.

Prior to joining Bank of America in May 1999, Selig held various senior investment banking positions on Wall Street including co-head of mergers & acquisitions for UBS Securities. He began his investment banking career in the mergers & acquisitions group at The First Boston Corporation in 1984, and subsequently was an original member of Wasserstein Perella & Co. Selig holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wesleyan University, a general course certificate from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Jorge Seré Coordinator, Global Capital Projects & Infrastructure Division, PwC Latin America Seré is PwC Capital Projects & Infrastructure division coordinator for Latin America.

He is an international infrastructure expert with extensive experience in the provision of financial, contractual and strategic advice to public, private and multilateral entities, in relation to financial and contractual structuring of large infrastructure projects (mainly energy, transport and social sectors), feasibility studies, preparation of concession agreements and tender documents, fund raising, etc.

Seré has participated in the structuring or financing of infrastructure projects in more than 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Africa, including Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica, Honduras, Latvia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Tunisia, Peru, Russia, and Uruguay.

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Tomás Serebrisky Economic Principal Advisor for the Infrastructure and Environment Sector, Inter-American Development Bank Tomás Serebrisky is the principal economic advisor of the Infrastructure and Environment Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Serebrisky worked in Argentina as the chief economist of the Antitrust Commission and as a professor in Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. From 2002 to 2012, Serebrisky worked for the World Bank where he led the preparation and supervision of investment projects in several infrastructure sectors. His areas of expertise are the economics of infrastructure investments, PPPs, incidence of subsidies, logistics, economic regulation and antitrust. Serebrisky published extensively in refereed journals, including Journal of International Economics, Transport Reviews, Telecommunications Policy, Utilities Policy and World Competition. He is the author of the book “Airport Economics in Latin America: Benchmarking, Regulation and Pricing.”

Serebrisky holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago.

Jaime Cohen Szulc President, Latin America Region, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Jaime Cohen Szulc was appointed president of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Latin America in September 2010. He is leading the company in the transition to the opening of the markets in the region, delivering record replacement volume and share growth, while significantly improving the organization’s innovation and process capabilities.

Cohen Szulc has more than 25 years of international experience in multi-billion dollar companies, and has led multiple business turnarounds. Besides his successful experiences in global roles, he has run the Latin America, North America, and Europe regions, delivering record profit and sales growth in each.

He joined Goodyear in September 2010 from Levi Strauss & Co., where he was a senior vice president and the global chief marketing officer for the Levi’s brand. Prior to that, Cohen Szulc was the worldwide chief operating officer for Eastman Kodak Company’s consumer business, where he spent 10 years, and, for five consecutive years, was recognized for the best growth and profit results in the history of the regions he led.

Before Kodak, he worked at SC Johnson Latin America and Procter & Gamble Brazil, where he acquired a broad marketing expertise leading a diverse set of brands. Cohen Szulc’s experience spanned from classical brand management to geographic and category portfolio analysis, which involved brand acquisition and divestiture. He reversed multi-year negative share trends and delivered all-time high volume and earnings for the categories he led.

Cohen Szulc earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, with a functional knowledge of French.

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Horacio Terraza Water and Sanitation Principal Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank Horacio Terraza joined the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in 2008 as principal specialist leading the solid waste management activities of the Water and Sanitation Division.

Terraza previously worked for the World Bank as a senior environmental/urban specialist. In that role, Terraza was a task manager and technical specialist in complex urban-environmental operations.

He developed extensive experience in project development and implementation of international environmental protocols like the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), the design and implementation of Carbon Finance operations through the Kyoto Protocol; and the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances. His previous experience is in the private sector as project manager for an engineering and construction company providing treatment and final disposal services for hazardous wastes Terraza earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of La Plata in Argentina and a master’s degree in international economics from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Rosemary Winters CEO Latin Trade Group Rosemary Winters is CEO of the Latin Trade Group, appointed to the title upon the magazine’s acquisition by Isis Ventures in 2008. Latin Trade has long been recognized as the leading magazine for doing business in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as for its signature event, the BRAVO Business Awards. During the past six years, Winters has led the group in its expansion to provide information, networking, and intelligence services to companies operating in the region. In her current role, Winters has created strategic partnerships for the company and has helped to develop its unique positioning with governments and corporate communities.

Prior to Latin Trade, Winters led the Condé Nast Latin America office in Miami as executive director and was responsible for leading the business for the Latin American regional titles of Vogue and Glamour and liaised with Architectural Digest and GQ Mexico.

Winters has also worked as the director for Latin America for Thomson Financial Media (TFM), a company holding the banking insurance and electronic commerce media assets of the Thomson Corporation. She began her publishing career with Latin Finance where she worked for ten years and developed the Special Projects division and later managed the magazine and conferences as vice president and associate publisher.

Winters is a native Colombian and has lived in Brazil and Chile. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Loyola University in New Orleans and an MBA from Florida International University.

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Copa Airlines and Copa Airlines Colombia, subsidiaries of Copa Holdings, are leading Latin American providers of inflight services for both passengers and cargo shipments. The airlines currently offer service to 69 destinations in 30 countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. During Copa Airlines’ more than 65 years of uninterrupted operations, it has transformed the Hub of the Americas in Panamá into the leading hub on the continent. Copa operates one of the youngest and most modern fleets in the industry, consisting of 95 aircraft: 69 Boeing 737 Next-Generation aircraft and 26 Embraer-190s. It also has an on-time performance of almost 90 percent, on par with the major airlines worldwide. Copa received Skytrax awards for “Best Airline and “Best Cabin and Airport Crew” in Central America and the Caribbean in 2013. Copa is a member of the Star Alliance, the leading global airline network, offering passengers 1,316 destinations in 192 countries with more than 18,500 daily flights and 1,000 VIP lounges.

For further information, visit www.copa.com.

Emerson is where technology and engineering come together to create solutions for the benefit of our customers, driven without compromise for a world in action. We are a diversified global manufacturing and technology company. We offer a wide range of products and services in the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets through our Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions businesses. Recognized widely for our engineering capabilities and management excellence, Emerson has approximately 132,000 employees and 230 manufacturing locations worldwide.

For further information, visit www.emerson.com.

Goodyear is one of the world’s largest tire companies. It employs about 69,000 people and manufactures its products in 51 facilities in 22 countries around the globe. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry.

For further information, visit www.goodyear.com/corporate.

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Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments. We operate one of the world’s most advanced processing networks—VisaNet—that is capable of handling more than 24,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa’s innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid, or later with credit products.

For further information, visit www.corporate.visa.com.

Diaz Reus represents dealmakers around the world with a focus on emerging markets. With experienced lawyers in the U. S., Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, the firm is uniquely suited to handle a wide range of complex commercial, business, and financial transactions across international borders.

Diaz Reus lawyers have experience in government relations, trade, compliance, customs, tax, and immigration matters, as well as internal and government investigations, complex litigation, and arbitration matters. Diaz Reus operates offices in Miami, Florida; New York City, New York; Caracas, Venezuela; Shanghai, China; Dubai, U.A.E.; Iraq; Frankfurt, Germany; Bogotá, Colombia; Panamá City, Republic of Panamá; México City, México; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; Madrid, Spain; Lima, Perú; and an affiliate office in São Paulo, Brazil.

For further information, visit www.diazreus.com.

United Airlines operates more than 700 non-stop flights a week to 61 cities in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean from its U.S. hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark Liberty, San Francisco and Washington, D.C./Dulles. United serves 27 Mexican cities (more than any other U.S. airline from the U.S.), 10 cities in Central America, seven cities in South America, and 18 airports in the Caribbean. United’s Latinization initiative includes Spanish-language signage at many U.S. airports, bilingual flight attendants on many flights, a website in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and an automated Spanish-language information line for flight arrival, departure, and gate information.

For further information, visit www.united.com.

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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) supports efforts by Latin American and - Caribbean countries to reduce poverty and inequality. The bank aims to bring about development in a Partners sustainable, climate-friendly way.

Established in 1959, the IDB is the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, with a strong commitment to achieve measurable results, increased integrity, transparency and accountability. It has an evolving reform agenda that seeks to increase development impact in the region.

While the IDB is a regular bank in many ways, they it is also unique in some key respects. Besides loans, it they also provides grants, technical assistance and do research. The IDB shareholders are 48 member countries, including 26 Latin American and Caribbean borrowing members, who have a majority ownership.

The IDB Fund for Special Operations (FSO) provides concessional financing to the most vulnerable member countries. Given the shareholder base and prudent management, the bank has a strong financial position. As a result, the IDB is able to borrow in international markets at competitive rates and transfer that benefit to their clients.

For further information, visit www.iadb.org.

The Americas Business Dialogue (ABD) is a private sector initiative facilitated by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to foster a high-level policy dialogue between the business and political leaders of the Americas. The ABD involves a network of business leaders and major business associations of the Americas who are currently analyzing the key policy priorities for the development of the region in working groups on energy; infrastructure and connectivity; regional and global integration; regulatory cooperation; innovation and human capital; finance; trade facilitation; and natural resources. Based on this work, business leaders from throughout the Americas will meet with presidents and heads of state in the next CEO Summit of the Americas in Panamá in 2015 to present a policy agenda intended to promote sustainable social and economic development through greater integration in the region.

For more information, contact Shunko Rojas (americasbd@iadb.org) at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI) is a public-private partnership serving as Florida’s primary organization devoted to statewide economic development. EFI’s mission is to facilitate job growth for Florida’s businesses and citizens, leading to a vibrant statewide economy. EFI accomplishes this mission by focusing on a wide range of industry sectors, including clean energy, life sciences, information technology, aviation/aerospace, homeland security/defense, financial/professional services, manufacturing and beyond. In collaboration with a statewide network of regional and local economic development organizations, EFI helps to improve Florida’s business climate, ensuring the state’s global competitiveness. Enterprise Florida is committed to assisting companies confidentially with their expansion and location plans. We provide site selection services, demographic information, incentive information, trade leads and much more. We also coordinate introductions to our network of economic development partners located throughout the state.

For further information, visit www.eflorida.com.

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The United States-México Border Energy Forum XXI will be held in Monterrey, Nuevo León on October 15-17, 2014 at the hotel InterContinental Presidente Monterrey. Approximately 400 leaders from the United States and México are expected to attend. The mission of the United States-México Border Energy Forum is to exchange information about the best practices to produce and consume energy in the fast-growing U.S.-México border region, forge new partnerships and help both U.S. and Mexican energy stakeholders work together on the mutually reinforcing goals of economic development and environmental sustainability. The forum strives to point the way toward best use of all the energy resources available to the region. It has met at least once in each of the 10 U.S.México border states. Border Energy Forum XXII will be held October 14-16, 2015 in San Diego, California and Tijuana, Baja California.

For further information, visit www.borderenergyforum.org.

Founded in 1979, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) actively promotes the economic growth and development of our nation’s entrepreneurs. The USHCC advocates on behalf of nearly 3.2 million Hispanicowned businesses that together, contribute in excess of $468 billion to the American economy, each year. As the leading organization of its kind, the USHCC serves as an umbrella to more than 200 local chambers and business associations across the nation, and partners with more than 220 major corporations.

For further information, visit www.ushcc.com.

WEConnect International (WEC) is a corporate-led non-profit that empowers women business owners to succeed in global markets.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., WEConnect International identifies, registers, and certifies women’s business enterprises based outside of the U.S. WEC is making history by connecting these women business owners to its multinational corporate members that collectively represent over $700 billion in annual purchasing power. Global members are true pioneers in the growing field of inclusive sourcing and supplier development, such as: IBM, Pfizer, Marriott, Coca-Cola, HP, Cummins, DELL, Sodexo and WellPoint, among others. WEConnect International is empowering women business owners by providing the knowledge, networks, certification and platform needed to reach new markets and prosper. WEC is active on the ground in some of the most and least developed countries that together represent over 40 percent of the world’s population.

For further information, visit www.weconnectinternational.org.

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CNN en Español, CNN’s independently produced 24-hour network in Spanish, provides continuous news coverage of major world events, live breaking coverage supported by context and in-depth analysis, worldwide business and financial news, global weather updates, sports and feature programming on topics such as health, technology and entertainment. It is currently available in 30 million cable and direct-to-home households throughout Latin America and seven million households across the United States. In its 15 years, the network has set the standard for credible, timely and relevant news coverage that offers viewers a unique way to engage with their world, providing them with all the news, information and actuality they need to stay informed and make smart decisions to secure their futures.

For further information, visit www.cnnespanol.com.

Newlink Group is an integrated consulting firm committed to innovation.

Corporations, multinational businesses, governments, public figures and communities all across Latin America and the United States trust us to be the “new link” to reach their business goals. We develop and execute customized programs that deliver positive and sustainable results based on strategy, research, creativity and technology.

Newlink is ranked among the top 50 most important public relations agencies in the United States, according to an annual ranking by PR Week, and has won numerous industry awards. Headquartered in Miami, our excellence centers can be found in New York and across the Dominican Republic, Central America, Perú, Colombia, México, Chile and Argentina. Newlink has a wide array of bluechip clients including LATAM Airlines Group, Arcos Dorados, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Oracle Corporation, HBO, Sony and Pioneer, among others.

For further information, visit www.newlink-group.com.

PR Newswire is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 58 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content – from rich media to online video to multimedia – and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social channels. Combining the world’s largest multi-channel, multicultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists.

PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company (www.ubm.com).

For more information, please visit www.prnewswire.com.

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Promueve Bolivia facilitates, encourages and promotes exports in the public, private and communitarian sectors in the context of a diversified exporter pattern with higher added value. Our strategic goal is to promote the participation of micro, small- and medium-sized Bolivian producer companies in exporting processes. PROMUEVE Bolivia also works to open markets, diversify exportations and in the area of market consolidation.

For further information, visit www.promueve.gob.bo.

ProChile is the institution of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile in charge of promoting exports of products and services. ProChile contributes to dissemination of foreign investment opportunities and tourism promotion. ProChile has a network of over 50 offices worldwide and 15 Export Centers in Chile which have experience and tools to help boost the export sector and position Chile’s attributes in international markets.

For more information, please www.prochile.gob.cl.

Proexport Colombia is the organization in charge of promoting Colombia as an international tourist destination, attracting direct foreign investment and fostering nontraditional exports. Through our global office network, we provide support and comprehensive assistance to entrepreneurs by offering services aimed at facilitating the design and execution of internationalization strategies and seeking the generation and tracking of business opportunities. We foster international business through the identification of market opportunities, the design of penetration strategies, the internationalization of companies and contact between entrepreneurs in sales promotion.

For further information, visit us at www.proexport.com.co.

The Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) is the official agency responsible for the promotion of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI).

It was created by the fusion of the Center for the Promotion of Exports of the Dominican Republic (CEDOPEX) and the Office for the Promotion of Investments of the Dominican Republic (OPI-RD), according to Law 98-03, effective as of June 17, 2003. This institution is comprised of two main operational areas: export promotion and foreign investment promotion.

For further information, visit www.cei-rd.gov.do.

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JAMPRO, Jamaica’s investment and export promotion agency, serves as a catalyst for wealth creation in Jamaica by promoting business opportunities in export and investment to the local and international private sector. This process is driven through a focus on a number of targeted sectors including manufacturing, tourism, mining, information and communications technology, logistics, energy, agri-business and the creative industries (film, music, fashion etc.) In facilitating the implementation of investment and export projects, the organization is a key policy advocate and advisor to the government in matters pertaining to the improvement of Jamaica’s business environment and the development of new industries.

For further information, visit www.jamaicatradeandinvest.org.

ProMéxico is the Mexican government institution in charge of international economic promotion. It provides expert advice and support to promote exports, increase Mexican businesses’ presence in international markets and attract foreign investment into the country.

We want to be a successful partner; therefore, we have a list of products and services appropriate for each client. ProMéxico has a worldwide network of 45 offices in 30 countries and 29 offices Curva around the country.

For further information, please visit www.promexico.gob.mx.

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PRONicaragua is the official investment and export promotion agency of the Government of Nicaragua created in 2002. The agency offers complimentary support services to qualified investors interested in exploring business opportunities in Nicaragua. Its services include complete information packages on business opportunities in the country, the organization of customized site visits, assistance in finding local companies for possible joint ventures and identifying suppliers, assistance identifying the ideal Real Estate option, prospecting services for local and foreign companies and assistance in identifying the ideal trade partner and continuous aftercare services to ensure a smooth and successful operation in the country.

AGENCIA DE PROMOCION DE INVERSIONES Y EXPOR TACIONES INVESTMENT AND EXPORT PROMOTION AGENCY

For more further information, visit www.pronicaragua.org.

The Commission for the Promotion of Peru exports and tourism (PromPeru), is headquartered in the city of Lima as a subsidiary of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru.

Its mission is to develop Peru’s integrated and attractive position in the world, in order to prolative decree D. L. N ° 805, and participate in the design, coordination and implementation of strategic planning of investment promotion, in coordination with the competent authorities. Design, coordinate, set and implement actions to promote domestic tourism and inbound tourism to Peru.

For further information, visit www.promperu.gob.pe.

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invesTT is the Trinidad and Tobago’s investment promotion agency aligned to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Investment, committed to the diversification and growth of the economy.

It is the first point of contact for investment opportunities in Trinidad and Tobago, and encourages and facilitates new investment, and the expansion of existing businesses. They deliver customized investor solutions through our unique combination of knowledgeable sector experts, strategic alliances and value chain linkages.

Its’ targeted business clusters include: Tourism, Energy and Downstream, Maritime Industries, Creative Industries, Financial Services, Agri-Business/ Agro Processing, Information Communications Technologies.

For further information, visit www.investt.co.tt.

Uruguay XXI is the Uruguayan Promotion Agency that promotes foreign investments & exports. The Institute helps particularly the new foreign investors and also those who already have operating in Uruguay.

The Agency provides macro and sectorial information and regularly prepares reports on Uruguay and also refers to various sectors of the Uruguayan economy. Specifically, it develops and provides tailored information. Personalized information is prepared to respond to specific queries on macroeconomic data, labor market, taxes and regulations, incentive programs for investments, location and costs.

Uruguay XXI facilitates the contacts with key actors, government entities, corporate actors, financial institutions, R & D, potential partners and other ones. At the same time, our agency promotes investment opportunities in strategic events, missions and negotiations on specific sectors including Infrastructure Sector, Construction, Energy and others priority ones. Supports and advises on missions and visits to the country by foreign investors, including agenda organization.

For further information, visit www.uruguayxxi.gub.uy.

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IDB and Latin Trade bring together public and private sector leaders to boost infrastructure development in the americas.

Latin American and Caribbean government agencies, major infrastructure developers and local providers to gather in Miami in September to launch ConnectAmericas.com Infrastructure Community.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MIAMI, July 30, 2014 –Latin American countriesseeking to remain internationally competitive needto invest close to five percent of their GDP to bridge the region’s infrastructure gap. That presents big opportunities for firms throughout the hemisphere.

Those opportunities will be highlighted at the Trade Americas & ConnectAmericas Expo: Building the Americas, to be held Sept. 3-4 in Miami, Florida.

Organized by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and its ConnectAmericas initiative, in conjunction with Latin Trade Group, the infrastructure conference will bring togetherbusiness and government leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the United States and other regions of the world interested in exploring business and investment opportunities in the region. Also attending will be representatives from country agencies responsible for infrastructure development.

The conference programfeaturespanel discussions by public and private sector leaders on a variety of subjects, including financing available to small and medium size companies (SMEs); trends in renewable energy and energy efficiency; transportation and logistics; urban infrastructure; public-private partnerships (PPPs); mass rapidtransit systems; and doing business with the IDB. The infrastructure expo will includea full day ofbusiness matchmaking that will give participants the opportunity to connect with potential clients, suppliers and investorsfrom throughout the region and the rest of the world.

The Trade Americas & ConnectAmericas Expo will feature the launch of the ConnectAmericas.com Infrastructure Business Community, a virtual space where infrastructure developers will find potential local partners, suppliersand service providers for infrastructure tenders being published throughout the region.

Trade Américas & ConnectAmericas Expo partners include: Enterprise Florida, the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the US-Mexico Border Energy Forum XXI, and WEConnect International. Media partners include: CNN, PR Newswire and Newlink Group. ConnectAmericas.compartners include:Alibaba.com, DHL,Visaand Google.

Trade Américas & ConnectAmericas Expo sponsors include: Emerson and theGoodyear Tire&RubberCompany.

For more information, please visit http://tradeamericas.com/and http://connectamericas.com/ Latin Trade Group is a leading provider of information and business services to companies operating in Latin America. It publishes award-winning content in Spanish and English for distribution throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States through print, online media and events. Latin Trade Group publishes Latin Trademagazine, Latin Business Chronicle, and is the organizer of the Latin Trade Symposium and BRAVO Business Awards, the LT CFO Series for financial executives of multinational corporations, and Trade Americas &Connect Americas Expo.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is the leading provider of development financing and technical assistance in Latin America and the Caribbean. It supports efforts by governments and the private sector to improve standards of living through programs aimed at reducing poverty and inequality and promoting sustainable and climate-friendly development.

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Agencias gubernamentales latinoamericanas y del Caribe, importantes desarrolladores de infraestructura y proveedores locales se reunirán en Miami en septiembre para lanzar la Comunidad de Infraestructura de ConnectAmericas.com MIAMI, 1 de agosto de 2014 -- Los países latinoamericanos que buscan mantenerse competitivos a nivel internacional deben invertir cerca del cinco por ciento de su Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) para superar la brecha de infraestructura de la región, lo cual representa grandes oportunidades para empresas en todo el hemisferio.

Esas oportunidades se destacarán en el evento Trade Americas & ConnectAmericas Expo: Building the Americas, que se celebrará el 3 y el 4 de septiembre en Miami, Florida.

Organizado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y su iniciativa ConnectAmericas, conjuntamente con Latin Trade Group, la conferencia de infraestructura reunirá a líderes empresariales y de gobierno de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC), los Estados Unidos y otras regiones del mundo interesados en explorar oportunidades de negocios e inversiones en la región. También asistirán representantes de agencias nacionales encargadas del desarrollo de la infraestructura.

El programa de conferencia cuenta con paneles de líderes del sector público y del privado sobre una variedad de temas, entre ellos el financiamiento a disposición de pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMES); tendencias en energía renovable y eficiencia energética; transporte y logística; infraestructura urbana; alianzas del sector público y del privado (PPPs); sistemas de transporte rápido masivo; y como hacer negocios con el BID. La expo de infraestructura también contará con un día de reuniones de negocios uno-a-uno, que brindará a los participantes la oportunidad de conectarse con posibles clientes, proveedores e inversionistas de toda la región y del resto del mundo.

Trade Americas & ConnectAmericas Expo presentará el lanzamiento de la Comunidad de Infraestructura de ConnectAmericas.com, un espacio virtual dedicado a difundir información sobre licitaciones públicas de infraestructura en la región y potenciales empresas socias y proveedores para estos proyectos.

Entre los socios de Trade Americas & ConnectAmericas Expo figuran: Enterprise Florida, la Cámara de Comercio Hispana de los Estados Unidos, el XXI Foro de Energía de la Frontera Estados Unidos-México, y WEConnect International. Los medios asociados son: CNN, PR Newswire y Newlink Group.

Los socios de ConnectAmericas.com son: Alibaba.com, DHL, Visa y Google.

Los patrocinadores de Trade Americas & ConnectAmericas Expo incluyen a: Emerson y la Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

Para más información, por favor visite www.tradeamericas.com y www.connectamericas.com Latin Trade Group es un proveedor líder de servicios de información y negocios a compañías que operan en América Latina.

Publica contenido premiado en español y en inglés que se distribuye en América Latina, el Caribe y los Estados Unidos a través de medios impresos, en línea y eventos. Latin Trade Group publica la revista Latin Trade, Latin Business Chronicle y organiza el Latin Trade Symposium y los Premios de Negocios BRAVO, la serie de LT CFO para ejecutivos financieros de corporaciones multinacionales y la Trade Américas & ConnectAmericas Expo.

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) es el principal proveedor de financiamiento para desarrollo y asistencia técnica en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Brinda apoyo a iniciativas del gobierno y del sector privado para mejorar los estándares de vida a través de programas orientados a reducir la pobreza y la inequidad, así como promover desarrollo sostenible y respetuoso del equilibrio climático.

Contacto para medios de comunicación: Paula Gómez, +1-786-522-0177, Paula.gomez@newlink-group.com

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LATIN TRADE GROUP’S TRADE AMÉRICAS EXPO PARTNERS WITH THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK’S CONNECTAMERICAS PLATFORM Business and government leaders, large infrastructure developers, contracting agencies, financiers, and SMEs that provide goods and services related to infrastructure to gather in Miami for the Trade Américas and ConnectAmericas Expo FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MIAMI, June 25, 2014 – Latin Trade Group, the leading provider of information and business services to companies operating in Latin America has partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) recently launched ConnectAmericas initiative, to host the Trade Américas & ConnectAmericas Expo on September 3 – 4, 2014 in Miami.

ConnectAmericas is the first social network for businesses in the Americas, designed to link small and medium size companies with potential clients, suppliers, partners and investors to enable them to penetrate international markets.

“Latin Trade Group is honored to partner with the Inter-American Development Bank in the groundbreaking ConnectAmericas initiative, and to launch the face-to-face and live business matchmaking component of the online platform,” said Latin Trade Group CEO Rosemary Winters.

More than 25,000 people have visited ConnectAmericas.com and more than 5,650 have registered on the site, which was launched in March. The site, the first of its kind, offers free international business matchmaking services, as well as online courses, information on financing, trade data and tips on becoming export-ready.

“ConnectAmericas is designed to help businesses take the leap to go international, to become savvy exporters and establish a trusted network of business contacts and financing sources throughout the hemisphere, and the world,” said Fabrizio Opertti, the project manager of ConnectAmericas and chief of the Trade and Investment Unit in the IDB’s Integration and Trade sector.

During the past few years, the IDB has consolidated strong business communities in two industries: Global Services and Food Products, gained by organizing in-person business roundtables such as Outsource2LAC and LAC Flavors throughout the region. Both of those industry segments have special communities on the ConnectAmericas site, and a new community for the infrastructure industry will be launched at the Trade Americas & ConnectAmericas Expo.

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Infrastructure development is key to ensuring Latin America’s future prosperity. IDB studies indicate that the region needs to double its current investment in infrastructure development in order to remain internationally competitive. According to the Latin Business Chronicle 2014 Latin Infrastructure Guide, infrastructure bids in the region this year include 23 projects in six countries with a total combined value of $32.65 billion. Although many of the region’s nations are committing to making infrastructure development a priority, challenges remain.

By building an online business community in the infrastructure sector, ConnectAmericas will provide key services to help overcome the barriers that are preventing a greater number of international infrastructure developers from submitting bids for infrastructure projects in the region, including a lack of information and a skills gap.

“Trade Américas & ConnectAmericas are a natural fit,” said Winters. “The Expo will bring together key players in the infrastructure sector from throughout the Americas – the government agencies, the large corporations and the SMEs, to break down the barriers preventing progress in the industry, building on the connections from the digital platform to develop in-person business matchmaking and networking, as well as expand on the learning and financing opportunities.”

Trade Américas & ConnectAmericas Expo partners include: Enterprise Florida, the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the US-Mexico Border Energy Forum XXI, and WEConnect International. Media partners include: CNN, PR Newswire and Newlink Group.

ConnectAmericas partners include: Alibaba.com, DHL, Google and Visa.

For more information, please visit http://tradeamericas.com/ and http://connectamericas.com/ or listen to the kickoff webinar at https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/269/4711.

Media Contact: Paula Gómez, 786-522-0177, Paula.gomez@newlink-group.com

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