Javier Treviño Cantú es Vicepresidente Senior de Asuntos Corporativos de Walmart de México y Centroamérica, donde lidera los programas de comunicación corporativa, la estrategia ASG (ambiental, social y de gobernanza) y sustentabilidad, así como el relacionamiento de la compañía con autoridades, organizaciones de la sociedad civil y otras instituciones vinculadas al desarrollo de la empresa en la región.
SVP of Corporate Affairs, Walmart México & Central America
Sofía Pérez Gasque Muslera es Directora General de la Asociación Mexicana de la Industria de Tecnologías de Información (AMITI), donde lidera la agenda del sector tecnológico en México con foco en inteligencia artificial, ciberseguridad, nearshoring y desarrollo del talento con perspectiva de género. Es estratega en desarrollo económico, género y tecnología, con más de 20 años de experiencia movilizando capital, políticas públicas y talento para cerrar brechas en América Latina.
General Director, Mexican Association of the IT Industry (AMITI)
Olga Patiño es Vicepresidente Regional del Sector Público en Salesforce México, donde lidera estrategias de transformación digital enfocadas en la adopción de tecnologías como nube, datos e inteligencia artificial en instituciones gubernamentales. Cuenta con una trayectoria de más de dos décadas en el sector tecnológico, con experiencia en ventas estratégicas, desarrollo de negocio y liderazgo comercial en empresas globales.
Regional Vice President, Public Sector Mexico, Salesforce
Alejandra León, is an associate director of research and analysis at S&P Global Energy, specializes in the Latin American oil and gas upstream market and in refined products analysis.
Associate Director, Strategy & Business Development, Latin America, S&P Global Commodity Insights
Ada Ferrer is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. From 1995 to 2024, she taught at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of Cuba: An American History, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in history, and a finalist for the Cundill History Prize.
Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University
Peru's Central Banker Julio Velarde was honored and officials from Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Uruguay met with COA members.
Juan Esteban Orduz is a seasoned global leader, board member, and executive with over two decades of experience across Latin America, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Multilingual and multicultural, he served as President of the Colombian Coffee Federation, Inc. (New York)—the North American subsidiary of the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia, the leading Colombian coffee strategy and positioning in North America and globally (2003–2023). Earlier, as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Colombia in Washington, D.C.
Columnist, El País; former Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Colombia in the U.S. (1998–2002) and core team member for design and implementation of Plan Colombia
Nelson Ferreira is a Senior Partner at McKinsey’s São Paulo office, where he has worked since 2000. He leads the Agribusiness practice in Latin America and is one of the firm’s global leaders in agriculture (including biofuels) and basic materials.
Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company
The head of McKinsey Digital in Mexico, Haugwitz joined the firm in 2014 at the Berlin office and relocated to Mexico in 2016. He specializes in digital and Artificial Intelligence transformations, as well as innovation topics across various industries, spanning both the public and private sectors throughout the Americas and Europe.
He also serves as a mentor to several startups in the region and currently leads a collaboration between McKinsey and the World Economic Forum (WEF) for Latin America focused on AI competitiveness.
Partner at McKinsey & Company and Leader of McKinsey Digital in Mexico
With more than three decades of experience leading hotel operations in Central America and Peru, Eduardo Quiñonez is currently president of Grupo AGRISAL, where he works with the team to strengthen operational excellence and expand the impact of the organization. His focus is on optimizing processes, developing innovative strategies, and fostering collaboration across various areas. He shares the company's commitment to sustainable growth and values creation through strategic leadership.
President, Agrisal