2026 COA Symposium and 31st BRAVO Business Awards

Roberto Alvo is LATAM's chief executive officer, a position he has held since March 31, 2020, prior to which he served as LATAM's chief commercial officer since May 2017, overseeing the Group's passenger and cargo revenue management, with all commercial units reporting to him...

Tarciana Medeiros has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and post-graduate degrees in administration, business and marketing and in leadership, innovation and management. She has been an employee of Banco do Brasil for over 20 years. In 2021, she held the position of...

Carlos "Ucho" Barrera is currently the CEO of Atlas Renewable Energy, a leading Renewable Energy company with operations in the Americas that is currently one of the largest solar IPPs in the region. Atlas started operations in early 2017 after a successful MBO backed by Actis, a...

Felipe Villamarín is a co-founder of Rappi, the Latin American super-app he started in Bogotá in 2015 with Simón Borrero and Sebastián Mejía. An economist by training from Universidad de los Andes, he came to Rappi from new-business roles at Imaginamos and Grability, and was...

Alex Carreteiro is regional president Americas and a member of the Executive Team at Heineken. He leads the company’s operations across North and Latin America, one of HEINEKEN’s largest regions.  Before joining HEINEKEN, Alex served as CEO of Brazil & South Cone Foods at PepsiCo...

Ángela María Orozco is a strategic leader with more than 30 years of high-impact experience in public administration, C-Suite corporate consulting, and board governance. She has a strong track record in negotiation, organizational transformation, and execution in highly complex...

Annali Duarte is a managing director and head of Global Payments Solutions (GPS) for Latin America at Bank of America. In this role, Annali is responsible for creating and executing the regional strategy for a suite of transaction banking solutions including payments, receivables...

Arvind Jain is the founder and CEO of Glean, the enterprise AI platform that serves as a trusted context and intelligence layer for global organizations, helping people find information, create content, and automate work. He oversees the company's overall direction and strategy...

As CEO of Latin America Foods, Athina Kanioura oversees the operating units within the LatAm Foods Region. Under her leadership, Latin America Foods is innovating with digital-first solutions, leveraging AI, and piloting new culinary initiatives that excite consumers.

As chief...

Brian Fonseca is vice provost for Defense and National Security Research at Florida International University (FIU), director of FIU's Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy, and a research professor. He is the founding executive director of Cybersecurity@FIU and teaches in...

Brynne McNulty Rojas co-founded Habi in 2019 alongside Sebastian Noguera, building the region's leading residential technology company. She is Latin America's only female unicorn founder and CEO.  Prior to founding Habi, she built her career in real estate investing at Goldman...

Can Kuterdem joined Philip Morris International (PMI) in 2020 as the vice president of strategy for Europe which is PMI’s largest region by volume and value. In 2024, he assumed the role of president of the Board and managing director of Philip Morris Poland. Recently, in August...

Carlos Capistran is managing director and Head of Latin America and Canada Economics Research at BofA Securities, which he joined in 2011 as chief Mexico economist. He has been ranked the #1 Latin America and Mexico economist in the Institutional Investor survey, and under his...

Francisco Gomes Neto has been president and CEO of Embraer since May 2019, leading a global team responsible for the company’s recent turnaround and delivering sustainable growth with market value for the business.

He brings 30 years of CEO experience leading companies in the...

Gonzalo García Estebarena is CEO of Despegar. He joined the company in 2017 and, over the years, held key positions including chief commercial officer for five years, leading marketing and product, and chief technology officer from 2022 until his appointment as CEO in April 2026...

Guillermo Garza Martínez currently serves as chief public affairs, communications and sustainability officer of Arca Continental, one of the largest bottlers of the Coca-Cola System worldwide, with nearly 100 years in operation, and the only Latin American bottler operating in...

Mr. González-Campo is the Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Senior Director of Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI). CMI is multinational family-owned corporation of Latin American origin that generates investment, employment, and development in the region. Founded in...

Juan Ignacio De Lorenzo holds a degree in business administration, marketing, and sales from the Catholic University of Argentina. With more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, he is currently senior vice president of consumer distribution for Chubb Latin...

Julio Figueroa is the head of Citi in Latin America. Mr. Figueroa joined Citi in 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina in the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division. Since then, he had several roles within CIB in Buenos Aires (1994-2001), Miami (2001- 2004) and New York (2004...

Maria Lourdes Teran is vice president of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and head of the AS/COA Miami office. With over 25 years of experience working with Latin America, she leads business-relevant public policy programs in Miami engaging public- and private-sector...

Martin Fernandez-Romero is an experienced financial professional with expertise in capital markets in Latin America. He has spent over two decades working in the industry, leading teams, and managing businesses in the region. He currently serves as the managing director of the...

Mauricio Janauskas is a senior partner in McKinsey's Santiago de Chile office and managing partner for Spanish Latin America. He previously served as leader of the Chile office and leader of McKinsey's Transformation Practice for Latin America. He has more than two decades of...

Peter Schechter is a Latin Americanist, global policy expert, political strategist, and business leader. Peter is an innovative international strategic thinker who has launched organizations that today are leaders in communications, policy, public affairs, and hospitality.

Schecht...

Ricardo Alário Arantes serves as CEO of ODATA and is one of the company's co-founders. He has nearly two decades of experience in telecommunications, media, information technology, and business development, with a distinguished track record at Intel Capital, where he served as an...

Richard J. Cooper is one of the preeminent cross-border bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers in the United States and is recognized as a leader in cross-border and sovereign restructurings involving companies and countries in Latin America and other emerging markets. His practice...

Roberto Lara is the CEO of Castillo Hermanos, an international business group with more than 139 years of constant evolution. Its purpose of: “Combining innovation and passion to share and celebrate every moment of your life generating wellness and sustainable development”, has...

Shu Nyatta is the co-founder and managing partner of Bicycle Capital, a new firm with $0.5B of capital, focused on investments in growth-stage technology companies in Latin America. From March 2015 until April 2022, Shu served in multiple senior investment roles at SoftBank...

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...

Sol Rashidi is the world's first chief AI officer appointed back in 2016. As a Sr. Fellow at Harvard with nine patents, a best-selling author, and a former Amazon executive and C-Suite executive for several Fortune 100s, Sol was named FORBES “AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st...

Susan Segal was elected President and CEO of Americas Society/Council of the Americas in 2003 after having worked in the private sector with Latin America and other emerging markets for over 30 years. Prior to her appointment, Susan was a partner at Chase Capital Partners...