Katia Bouazza - HSBC
Head of syndicated finance for Latin America at HSBC. Katia has over 12 years of experience of fixed-income business in Wall Street. She has been with HSBC for the past nine years and for the last six years has specialised in emerging markets origination with a focus on Latin America and previously Asia.
Alonso Molina - BBVA Securities
Head of syndicated loans, Americas at BBVA Securities, where he has been since 2001. Previously he worked in the infrastructure and project finance team at BBVA Bancomer in Mexico.
Bill Donovan - Santander Investments
Head of syndicated loans for Latin America at Santander Investments, where he has been since December 1997. He has 35 years experience in the fixed-income markets, with the last 20 being dedicated to international investment banking. Most of his career was spent with Kidder Peabody International and prior to joining Santander, Donovan was with UBS Securities in New York.
Juan Martin - ABN AMRO
Head of loan origination and syndication, Latin America, at ABN AMRO, where he has worked for 10 years. He was formerly at Bital in Mexico doing equity capital markets.
Jaime Frontera - Barclays Capital
Director in the global loans group and head of loan syndications for Latin America at Barclays Capital, where he has worked since 1998. In the four years to June 2006, he also worked on syndicating high grade and leveraged transactions generated in the USA. In addition, he is responsible for trading par loan and distressed Latin American secondary assets for Barclays.
Fernando Aftalion - Rabobank
Executive director at Rabobank New York, responsible for syndication in Latin America. He has been at Rabobank for nine years and was previously with Santander. He is mainly involved in agribusiness, commodities, telecom, media and internet.
Rodrigo Gracia - Calyon
Director, Latin America loan syndications at Calyon since October 2004. Prior to that, he was a vice-president in the Latin America debt capital markets group of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, which he joined in 2002.
Eugenia Wilds - Deutsche Bank
Head of Latin American loans at Deutsche Bank. Prior to joining Deutsche, she was head of emerging markets loan syndicate at DrKW.
Michael Jakob - BayernLB
First vice-president at BayernLB, with responsibility for its LatAm corporate business. Previously, he was at Deutsche Bank, running its LatAm syndications business.
Michael Lopez - BBVA Securities
Director, BBVA Securities, primarily responsible for transactions in Chile and Brazil. He has been active in the Latin American Syndicated Loan product for over six years. Prior to BBVA, he was a quantitative analyst at S&P.
Ricardo Rubio - JPMorgan
Vice-president, debt capital markets, Latin America, at JPMorgan. He is focused on the primary and secondary distribution of Latin American loans. Prior to joining Chase in 1998, Ricardo spent 10 years at the Bank of Nova Scotia and its predecessors.
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