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.
Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar proudly represents Florida’s 27th Congressional District, passionately serving the people of South Florida. She currently serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs as chair of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee and on the House Committee on Financial Services.
U.S. Representative (R-FL27)
Adriano Espaillat represents New York’s Thirteenth Congressional District.
Representative Espaillat is the first Dominican American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and his congressional district includes Harlem, East Harlem, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, Inwood, Marble Hill, and the north-west Bronx.
First elected to Congress in 2016, Representative Espaillat was sworn into office on January 3, 2017, during the 115th Congress and is serving his fourth term in Congress.
Luis Gilberto Murillo Urrutia is the Acting Minister of Foreign Relations of Colombia. In July 2022, Murillo was nominated by president-elect Gustavo Petro to serve as ambassador to the United States.
Rebecca Lissner has served as the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President since May of 2022. Previously, served on the National Security Council Staff as the Acting Senior Director for Strategic Planning. In that role she served as the lead author of the Biden-Harris administration’s National Security Strategy and directed the Russia-Ukraine “Tiger Team” contingency planning process.