Stacy-Marie Ishmael is the Managing Editor for Crypto at Bloomberg. She's based in New York with a global team charged with covering every element of this 24/7 asset class. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she was the editorial director at The Texas Tribune in Austin.
Albina Ruiz Ríos is Peru's minister of the environment. She has valuable experience in the sector, having served in 2019 as deputy minister of Environmental Management of the Ministry of the Environment. She has been an international consultant in local development projects, with emphasis on comprehensive solid waste management with a focus on sustainability and inclusion, rational use of water and environmental planning and management. Her professional work has been recognized nationally and internationally.
Ana Dolores Román Aguinaga has been with Pfizer since 1995, following the merger with Parke Davis. Since February 2020, she has held the position of Country Manager of Pfizer for Colombia and Venezuela, after leading Pfizer's General Management for Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
She is an executive with extensive commercial experience in marketing and sales in the pharmaceutical sector in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia, with the ability to develop new organizational models oriented to excellence results and productivity improvement.
Edgardo Pappacena has over 35 years of global business experience and worked in 50+ countries throughout his career. As a senior partner in PwC, he held executive leadership roles at global, regional, and country levels, in addition to his client service responsibilities.
Ambassador Ana Cecilia Gervasi is Peru’s minister of foreign affairs. Her previous positions include: vice minister of foreign affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; vice minister of foreign trade at the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism; director general for economic affairs, director general of economic promotion and director of investment promotion at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; consul general of Peru in Toronto (Canada); consul general of Peru in Washington, D.C.
Simoni Morato has been the chief executive officer of Safra National Bank of New York, a company part of the J. Safra Group, since February 2006. She also serves on the bank’s Executive Committee and is a member of the bank’s Board of Directors. Under Simoni’s leadership, Safra National Bank of New York specializes in providing Private Banking and Wealth Management services to high-net-worth clients both internationally and domestically. Morato has been working for the J. Safra Group since 1994.
Jim Brennan is a senior partner and managing director in the New York office of the Boston Consulting Group. Jim is the global leader of the Consumer Private Equity team—and has extensive experience in revenue management, go-to-market, and due diligence.
As part of his work, Jim often speaks at industry events such as the Consumer Brands Association, the Food Marketing Institute, the American Express Luxury Summit, and the Harvard Association for Law and Business.
Venkat Gopalan is an accomplished executive serving as the Chief Digital, Data & Technology Officer at Belcorp. With an impressive track record spanning over 25 years, he has led global technology organizations, driving exponential growth and overseeing large-scale digital transformations.
Ignacio González joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay in 2009. Posted to Brussels, Belgium, from 2012 to 2017, he has worked at the political and international cooperation department at the Uruguayan Mission to the European Union.
Returning to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Uruguay from 2017 to 2019, he worked at the Directorate General for Political Affairs and later at the Minister of Foreign Affair’s Cabinet.