Ricardo Cano - BBVA Bancomer
Cano is managing director and head of debt capital market at BBVA Bancomer. He joined BBVA Probursa in 1997 when the debt capital markets group was created. Prior to that, he worked in the Latin American project finance team at ABN AMRO in Miami and in various investment banking functions at Mexival Banpais.
Mauricio Alazraki - Pemex
Alazraki is associate managing director of finance at Pemex, a position he has held since 2002. He has also been head of capital markets at the oil company. Prior to that, he was manager for Latin America at West Merchant Bank in London.
Juan Pablo Carriendo - CONSAR
Carriendo is the general director of financial supervision at Mexico’s pension fund regulator CONSAR. He has also held various positions at the Comision Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, the regulatory body that overseas Mexico’s financial institutions. He has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and Ford Motor Company
Juan Claudio Fullaondo - HSBC
Fullaondo is head of investment banking-financing at HSBC in Mexico. Prior to joining HSBC, he served as head of investment banking at Mexican brokerage IXE and at Operadora de Bolsa Serfin’s debt capital markets division.
Humberto Cabral - Banamex
Cabral is director of the local debt capital market at Banamex, a position he has held since 2004. He joined Citigroup in 2000 as vice president and has more than 15 years experience covering Mexico’s capital markets, specialising in local and foreign unsecured issues as well as structured transactions.
Ricardo Rivera - America Movil
Rivera is deputy director of treasury and finance at Latin America’s largest wireless operator America Movil, where he started working in 2004 as financing manager. He also worked for three years as advisor to Mexico’s deputy minister of finance.
Arturo Arce - JPMorgan
Arce is vice president in the investment bank of JPMorgan Mexico. Since 2001, he has been head of local capital markets and institutional sales in Mexico, and responsible for origination and structuring of debt offerings for high-grade corporates. He has been with the bank since 1991.
Ricardo Fernández - Credit Suisse
Fernández is a vice president in Credit Suisse’s Latin American debt capital markets group, and is responsible for origination and execution of all debt transactions in Mexico’s local markets. He joined Credit Suisse in July 2005 and previously worked in the debt capital markets department at JPMorgan in New York and Mexico City.
Alicia Núñez de la Huerta - Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
Núñez is deputy director general of debt issuance at the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit. Between 1999 and 2001, she was director of risk management and deputy director general of external credit. She returned to the ministry this year after a stint in the private sector, where she has worked as CFO for America Movil’s Brazilian subsidiaries and as vice president at JPMorgan’s Latin American derivatives group.
Octavio Calvo - Calyon
Calvo is director, Latin American capital markets, at Calyon. He joined Calyon in 2006 as managing director responsible for corporate and investment banking coverage. Calvo was also director of public debt offerings at Operadora de Bolsa Serfin and has worked for Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank and Wachovia covering Latin American clients.
Raul Martínez-Ostos - Deutsche Bank
Martínez-Ostos is head of client coverage, global markets at Deutsche Bank in Mexico. He is responsible for fixed-income, derivative and equity products. Prior to that, he also held various posts at the Ministry of Finance, including director general adjunct for financial planning, and has worked at Banco de Mexico and hedge fund Farallon Capital Management.
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