Dana Davis is VP of sustainability, product and business strategy at Mara Hoffman. Davis joined Mara Hoffman in 2010 and successfully centralized and grew the company’s Production and Design Departments, secured partnerships with facilities around the world, and was integral in the company’s transformation into the recognizable and widely distributed brand that it is today.
Ruth Álvarez-DeGolia is Mercado Global's co-founder and executive director. Álvarez-DeGolia has overseen Mercado Global's growth from a small non-profit working with a dozen artisans in Guatemala's highlands to its recognition as an innovator in social enterprise, partnering with hundreds of artisans and a number of major international specialty retail chains and catalogs. Ruth has been recognized for her role in founding and supporting a variety of programs and organizations related to international development and poverty alleviation.
Adalberto Maluf is the national secretary of urban environment and environmental quality for the minister of environment and climate change. Maluf holds a bachelor's in international affairs and an MSc in internal political economy at the Institute of International Relations of University of Sao Paulo (IRI/USP). Maluf was the director of government affairs, sustainability and marketing for BYD Brasil (Build Your Dream) from 2014-2023.
Luciana Barbosa de Oliveira Santos was appointed by President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva to take over the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in December 2022, and is the first woman to hold the position. Santos is an electrical engineer, graduated from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). She was president of the Institute of Weights and Measures of Pernambuco (IPEM), state deputy, mayor of Olinda, state secretary of Science, Technology and Environment, federal deputy and deputy governor of Pernambuco, as well as national president of PCdoB.
Maggie Trotta is the chief financial officer of Johnson & Johnson MedTech for Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Uruguay. She joined J&J MedTech in 2018 in her current position. Maggie has a global career as finance leader in diverse multinational companies such as PwC, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser and General Motors. Maggie is native from Argentina and has an extensive international experience having worked in the United States, Mexico and Brazil.
Residing in Chile, Lucas Grieve leads the transactional services sales to multinational corporations and local companies in Southern Cone countries covering Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Accountable for growing strategic client relationships and diversifying product set across treasury, liquidity management, foreign exchange, working capital and trade financing. Mr. Grieve has 19 years of experience in the banking industry and joined Bank of America in July 2018 as Treasury Sales Officer.
With over 20 years of banking experience, Jean Paul "JP" Antelo's responsibilities include leading a transactional services product team across Latin America responsible for the structuring and provision of working capital, trade & supply chain finance solutions to financial institutions, corporations and public sector entities and managing a material asset portfolio through E2E product investment, development and market commercialization of trade/SCF products, including loans, payables finance, receivables finance, core trade, and export agency finance in Latin America
Shannon Kellogg is a vice president of public policy at Amazon, leading the company's public policy efforts for Amazon Web Services (AWS) across the Americas. In this role, he oversees policy priorities and strategies for AWS, managing public policy and government affairs professionals in the U.S. (at both federal and state/local levels), Canada, Mexico, and throughout Central and South America.
Martha Viotti Beck has been responsible for the Ministry of Finance's coverage for Bloomberg since 2019. Former reporter and coordinator of Economics of the newspaper O Globo in Brasilia. She holds a journalism degree from the University of Brasilia.
Eduardo Mendonça Sodré Martins is a lawyer specialized in environmental law and has more than 10 years of experience. He was a member of the Environmental Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) between 2011 and 2018. He is currently a university professor at the Catholic University of Salvador, where he taught the discipline of environmental and urban law as well as human and environmental rights.