David Beker is a managing director and chief brazil economist and LatAm Equity strategist, focusing on macro indicators and financial asset recommendations. Beker is also head of Latin America equity research. Prior to rejoining the firm in 2009, Beker was an emerging market fixed income portfolio manager at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. While at Merrill Lynch, he was the LatAm economist, based in São Paulo, before relocating to New York to work with Fixed Income Strategy.

Fábio Alves is a columnist at O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper and writes daily for its financial newswire Broadcast, where his column has run since 2011. Previously, he worked as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswire and Bloomberg News, based in New York City. In his career, he also worked for the BBC World Service in London and for many leading Brazilian media outlets, including Época magazine, Folha de S. Paulo, and Gazeta Mercantil newspapers.

Based in São Paulo, Brazil, Eduardo Bianchi Rolim is the LATAM & Canada Regional Information Security Executive of Bank of America, with experience in Technology, technological risks, and Information / Cyber Security since 2000, most of the time in the financial market.

Marcos Oliveira, executive with more than 25 years of experience in the IT and Cybersecurity market. In the last 14 years, he led 3 leading Cybersecurity companies in Silicon Valley as country manager in Brazil. He is currently country manager at Palo Alto Networks for over 5 years now. Before assuming his current position, Oliveira served as Country manager at Symantec, Blue Coat Systems and several leadership positions at Nortel Networks. .

Alessandro Fraga, with over 25 years of experience, has dedicated 13 years of his career to the Central Bank of Brazil. At the Central Bank, he specialized in Financial Market Infrastructures, covering areas such as financial risk, supervision, authorization, and regulation. As a proponent of innovation, Alessandro actively contributes to the Drex project, which aims to make the Brazilian CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) a reality. His educational background includes a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Brasília (UnB).

Juan Pablo Ronderos has a professional career of 20 years linked to macroeconomic and sector analysis. He has led areas of economic analysis and management advice in several consulting firms, covering lines such as Automotive and Mobility, Banking and Finance, Consumer Goods, and Raw Material Industries, among others. He is a graduated in Economics (UNLP), he has a Master in Economics from Torcuato Di Tella University, is a regular lecturer in economic conferences in different fields and is currently a Professor at the School of Economics of UNLP.

Fábio Alves is a columnist at O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper and writes daily for its financial newswire Broadcast, where his column has run since 2011. Previously, he worked as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswire and Bloomberg News, based in New York City. In his career, he also worked for the BBC World Service in London and for many leading Brazilian media outlets, including Época magazine, Folha de S. Paulo and Gazeta Mercantil newspapers.

Andrea Pinto is an experienced professional who has worked for Ford Motor Company for over 20 years. She has held various roles in accounting, treasury, and financial planning and analysis across South America.

She is responsible for South America Treasury, Accounting, FP&A and Internal Control since 2021. She joined Ford through the financial institution in 1998, called Ford Credit, where she spent 2 years. In 2000, she moved to the auto sector, in the FP&A area. 

Tadeu Marcon Teles is the country manager director at Moody’s Analytics do Brasil, contributing significantly to the company's overall global success in the region. With over 16 years of experience with the company, Tadeu has held various roles, including associate director and assistant director, where he was responsible for overseeing the implementation of Moody’s Analytics risk management solutions in the United States, Canada, and Latin America.

Maria Elvira Salazar represents Florida’s 27th Congressional District, passionately serving the people of South Florida. She currently serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as the House Committee on Small Business.