Marion Díaz

Marion Díaz is treasury product and referral bank manager for Andean and Southern Cone Region. In this role she is supporting corporate, public sector and NBFI clients delivering a value-add proposition by reviewing treasury challenges and goals, and advising on best practices, business continuity plans, and promoting services to help them to get more efficient processes. Marion has 18 years of experience in banking, and about 10 in telecom in areas of marketing, sales strategy, and product development.

Head of Products Global Payments Solutions, Andean and Central America (A&CA), Bank of America.

Cristina Junqueira

Cristina Junqueira is the co-founder and chief growth officer of NuBank since August 2022. Before founding NuBank in 2013, she worked for several years at Itaú Unibanco S.A. with consumer credit, card products and marketing. She was recently featured in the Financial Times' 25 Most Influential Women for the year of 2024. Cristina holds an Engineering Bachelors degree and a Masters degree from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), and also an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer, Nubank

João Schmidt

João H. Schmidt is the chief executive officer of Votorantim S.A., a position he has held since 2020. He also serves as chairman of the Board of Auren Energia and Motiva (formerly CCR), as well as board member of Hypera Pharma, Banco BV and 23S Capital. Mr. Schmidt joined Votorantim in 2014 as managing director for Corporate Development. Over the years, he has also served on the boards of Fibria, CESP, Citrosuco, and Votorantim Siderurgia. In addition to his corporate roles, he is actively involved in global and regional business ecosystems.

CEO, Votorantim S.A.

Dan Ioschpe

Dan Ioschpe is chairman of the Board of Directors at Iochpe-Maxion and a board member at WEG, Marcopolo, and Embraer. He also serves as one of the vice presidents of FIESP, IEDI, and is a member of the Board of Directors at Sindipeças. In 2024, he served as chair of the B20 Brazil.

Vice President, Federação das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo (FIESP)

Claudio Soto

Mr. Claudio Soto Gamboa is a commercial engineer from Universidad de Chile and holds an M.S. from the same university and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University (NYU). Former positions include being the manager of Research and Public Policy at Banco Santander Chile as from 2017 until his appointment as a Board member of the Central Bank of Chile.

Between 2014 and 2017 he was chief macroeconomic advisor to the Chilean Finance Minister.

Board Member, Central Bank of Chile 

Julian Herman

Julián Herman is a managing director and partner based in Santiago. With more than 20 years of experience in digital and technology consulting, he has advised blue-chip companies across the globe on the most complex intersections of strategy, technology, and transformation.

He is part of the the founder team of the BCG Platinion practice for the Iberia–South America region, and a member of the regional Leadership Team of BCGX.

Partner & Managing Director, BCG Santiago

Fernando Hasenberg

Fernando Hasenberg began his career in CMPC in 2000, where he served in the finance division in Chile, Mexico, and Brazil. He has participated in the acquisition of the Guaíba plant in Brazil and other relevant M&A transactions. In 2019 he turned CEO of the Sack Kraft business where he led the acquisition of Samcarsa in Mexico and Iguaçu in Brazil. In January 2022 he was appointed CGO of the company where he is responsible for corporate finance, accounting, internal reporting, investor relations, insurances and procurement.

CFO, Empresas CMPC

Ariel Szarfsztejn

Ariel Szarfsztejn is the current president of Commerce and incoming CEO at Mercado Libre. In this role, he is responsible for the e-commerce business across Latin America, which includes Marketplace (third-party sellers), Retail, Ads, Logistics and Fulfillment services. Ariel joined Mercado Libre in 2017 as VP of Strategy and Corporate Development. After a year in this seat, he moved to Mercado Envíos, where lead the design, planning and execution of all the logistics and fulfillment operations for the company for four years.

President of Commerce – Incoming CEO, Mercado Libre