Jordi Tasias

Jordi Tasias is a managing director in the private equity team at the CDPQ. He is the head of the Mexico office, from which he oversees the activities in Latin America (outside of Brazil), including CDPQ's private equity activities. He also supports the infrastructure team's business development activities. He joined CDPQ in April 2018 as a senior director of strategic partnerships in the growth markets team. He has almost 20 years of experience in investment banking in Europe and Latin America.

Managing Director, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)

Oscar Augusto Del Cueto Cuevas

Oscar Del Cueto Cuevas es presidente y representante ejecutivo de CPKC de México.

El Sr. Oscar Del Cueto tiene más de 30 años de experiencia en el sector ferroviario. Se unió a Kansas City Southern de México en 2006, donde desempeñó varios cargos, entre ellos, director de mecánica y de transporte, superintendente general de transporte y vicepresidente y director general.

President and Executive Representative, CPKC Mexico; President, American Chamber of Commerce Mexico

Flavio Cardoso

Flavio Cardoso has been the senior vice president and CEO for Latin America at American Tower Corporation since the end of 2020. In the past, he served as the CEO of American Tower for seven years in Brazil, where he focused on the development, growth, and transformation of the organization, started new business models, and created a solid infrastructure for wireless connectivity in the national territory.

CEO for Latin America, American Tower Corporation

Horacio Duarte Olivares

Horacio Duarte Olivares holds a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a master's degree in the study and prevention of gender violence from the University of Salamanca in Spain, and a master's degree in constitutional procedural law from the Universidad Panamericana. He has several studies in government, public policy, and government financial engineering. He currently serves as the undersecretary of employment and labor productivity for the federal government.

Head of Mexico's National Customs Agency

Juan Pablo de Botton

Juan Pablo de Botton is the deputy minister of expenditures for the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico. He served as head of the Banco de Comercio Exterior (Bancomext) and Nacional Financiera (Nafin) since March, 2022. He also served as the general administrator of planning in the Tax Administration Service (SAT). In his management, he strengthened risk models through massive data exploitations and preloads of tax return information.

Deputy Minister of Expenditures, Mexico

Rogelio Ramírez de la O

Rogelio Ramírez de la O has been Mexico's minister of finance and public credit since 2021. He has served as counsel and advisor to numerous Mexican and foreign companies with investments in Mexico and has made a permanent evaluation of economic policy and its impact on the performance of growth, employment, and distribution. He served as an independent director of Consorcio Peña Verde and has been a director of Reaseguradora Patria, a company of the same Peña Verde group. He was an independent director of Grupo Modelo and international banks.

Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, Mexico

Cristina Guevara

Cristina Guevara is a public policy programs associate at Americas Society/Council of the Americas, where she covers the Andean Region, the Women’s Hemispheric Network initiative, and her home country, Panama. Cristina has conducted extensive research on corruption, gender equality, public-private partnerships, and sustainable development across the Americas.

Public Policy Programs Associate, Americas Society/Council of the Americas

Jackie Berardo

Jackie Berardo is a former venture capitalist and current UX researcher at Instagram. It was her passion for financial empowerment and the creator economy that led her to NFTs and Web3. Jackie joined Surge to identify and mitigate barriers to mass adoption.

Partnerships Lead, Surge and UX Researcher, Instagram

Juliette Chevalier

As a software engineer and programming teacher, Juliette Chevalier works as a developer advocate at Aragon, helping engineers build the future of work through DAOs. She met co-founder Denise Schaefer online through a Web3 online course. The two have been building Surge remotely ever since.

Co-Founder and Engineering Lead, Surge