Santiago Bilinkis is co-founder of Officenet, a company that revolutionized the office supplies industry in South America. He is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Initially backed by local angel investors, Officenet raised capital from some of the best private equity funds, such as Goldman Sachs, GE Capital, George Soros, JP Morgan Chase, Warburg Pincus, KKR, THLee, Fleet-Boston Bank, GP Investimentos and Banco Santander Central Hispano. Mr.

Carlos R. de la Vega has been president of the Argentina Chamber of Commerce (Cámara Argentina de Comercio) since April of 2003. Previously, he was president of the Permanent Secretariat of the Hemispheric Congress of Chambers of Commerce and president of the Iberoamerican Association of Chambers of Commerce. Mr. De La Vega is member of the Board of Directors of the Fundación de Investigaciones Económicas Latinoamericanas (FIEL) and has held previous positions such as include founding member of the Council of Chambers of Commerce of MERCOSUR, member of the YPF S.A.

Marcos Galperin is president and CEO of MercadoLibre Inc and is president of the Board of Directors. He is a co-founder of the company which is now a dominant player in the Latin American region with sites across nine countries including Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. Additionally, every month the company manages more than 1.2 million transactions, attracting 750,000 unique buyers. Mr. Galperin is a board member of Endeavor and a board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to MercadoLibre, he worked in the fixed income department of J.P.

H.E. Hernán Gaspar Lorenzino has been Argentina’s Minister of Economy since 2011. Previously, Minister Lorenzino was appointed secretary of finance under the minister of economy Carlos Rafael Fernández, where he renegotiated the second phase of the Argentine debt restructuring. He was also the financial representative for Argentina in the United States, serving in Washington D.C. Prior to that, Minister Lorenzino was provincial director of funding policy and public credit for the Province of Buenos Aires, appointed in 2004.

Ali Moshiri is president, Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company, a newly formed organization based in Houston, Texas. He joined Chevron as a reservoir engineer and later as a drilling engineer. Mr. Moshiri became senior production engineer with supervisory responsibilities in the Gulf of Mexico in 1983 and served as supervisor of reservoir and facilities engineering for Chevron Energy Technology Company in Houston, with responsibilities supporting upstream activities.

Hon. Jorge Augusto Sapag, a member of the Neuquino People's Movement (MPN) party, has been governor of the Province of Neuquén since 2007 – with a term until 2011. He was reelected as governor until in 2011 until 2015. Previously, Governor Sapag was elected vice governor of Neuquén Province in 1999, under Governor Jorge Sobisch. Also under Governor Sobisch, Sapag served as minister of government, education, and justice from 1991 to 1995.