Archive for 2012
Latin Trade Symposium & the 18th Annual BRAVO Business Awards
Every year Latin Trade Group gathers the Latin American and Caribbean most influential business and government leaders during the Latin Trade Symposium, a one day forum of discussion focusing on Building the New Latin America preceding the annual BRAVO Business Awards. The signature event has recognized excellence and leadership in government, business and social contributions [...]
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Latin Trade Group: Senior Sales Account Executive – BRAZIL
Job Opening: Immediate, full-time position Based in Miami, Florida (or Brazil based representative) Please send resume with salary history to: Maria Lourdes Gallo Responsibilities Seeks out and targets new customers and new sales opportunities, implements action plan to approach and secure new business for the company. Expand existing client base for LT Group in BRAZIL, [...]
Latin Trade Group: Senior Sales Account Executive
Job Opening: Immediate, full-time position Based in Miami, Florida Please send resume with salary history to: Maria Lourdes Gallo Responsibilities Seeks out and targets new customers and new sales opportunities, implements action plan to approach and secure new business for the company. Expand existing client base for LT Group Sell sophisticated media products to large [...]
Events Director
The Events Director will be directly responsible for the strategic planning and execution of all Latin Trade Group events including the signature event Latin Trade Symposium and BRAVO Business Awards, Bravo Councils and the CLevel seriesCFOs and Trade Americas conference and expo. The Events Director ensures the complete success of all aspects of the event [...]
CFO World – Earnings and more
The youngest are in Europe and South America, the biggest earners are in North America and, once again, the ones left behind are the women –in terms of the jobs they hold and the pay they receive. These are some of the results to come out of a survey carried out by Michael Page among [...]
Luis Alberto Moreno: President Inter-American Development Bank
Having learned from the lessons of the past, Latin America will confront the challenges of improving education and infrastructure and building efficient and sustainable cities “Over the last 20 years we have learned from so many errors and so many crises,” said Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, referring to what he [...]
Enrique GarcÍa: President of CAF
Moody’s Investment Services downgraded 15 of the world’s largest banks, including Barclay’s and Citigroup, on June 15. The same day, CAF Banco de Desarrollo de America Latina, received its 16th credit upgrade. The juxtaposition of events isn’t surprising, said CAF President Enrique Garcia, who has led the Caracas-based development bank since 1991. “Non-performing loans make up [...]
Celso Amorim: Defense Minister of Brazil
Celso Amorim, the current Brazilian defense minister who served as foreign minister during the eight years of the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government, brought innovative policies to each of the areas under his management. Now, his challenge is to bring in a national and regional security policy that’s consistent with the ideal of South [...]
Susan Segal: President and CEO, Americas Society and Council of the Americas
Susan Segal has been travelling all over Latin America since 1976, first as a banker, then as a venture capitalist, and for the past nine years as President and CEO of Americas Society and Council of the Americas, a hemispheric organization whose members include some of the most important global companies. Segal has seen the [...]
Chairman and CEO of Arcos Dorados, Woods Staton
Is it possible to innovate within the standardized parameters of a franchise? Arcos Dorados, the biggest McDonald’s restaurant operator in Latin America and the world’s biggest franchisee of the brand, offers plenty of examples of just this. Among its innovations, it opened a kosher restaurant in Buenos Aires, installed dessert centers in most of its [...]
Carlos Raúl Yepes: President, Bancolombia
A tale from recent financial history. How the financial sector has aided regional development. Bancolombia’s new strategy for creating a more humane bank. Banking has undergone a very important transformation over the last twenty years, mainly in connection with the way banks relate to their customers, says the president of Bancolombia, Carlos Raúl Yepes. Bancolombia [...]
Ricaurte Vásquez: VP of government affairs and public policy for GE Latin America
GE has been operating in Latin America for 115 years, having disembarked in the region 19 years after opening its doors in the United States, under the banner of Edison Electric Light Co. One sign of GE’s major innovative impact on the region is visible even today at the Panama Canal, said Ricaurte (Catín) Vásquez, [...]
Walter Bayly Llona: CEO Banco de Crédito del Perú
“What had made us successful in the past was clearly not what was going to make us successful in the future.” Peru was in a tough spot 20 years ago. A violent insurgency by leftist rebels was threatening to topple the government, while the economy was coming out of a long stretch of hyperinflation that [...]
Blanca Treviño: CEO Softtek
The woman has crisscrossed borders throughout the world with a technology company that boasts a worldwide staff of 7,000. But at the same time she modestly states that sharing the company was Softtek’s highest-yielding innovation. The algorithm is simple for CEO Blanca Treviño, the much-admired native of Monterrey, Mexico: “When we started the company we [...]
Claudio Muruzábal: CEO, Neoris
At Neoris, innovation means adopting an uncommon approach to IT consulting: working alongside clients in and outside their companies. Neoris’ strategy, according to company CEO Claudio Muruzábal, is to combine two elements – the practical and the visionary. “This is not just a nice marketing statement,” said Muruzábal, who has led Neoris since 2004. “The [...]
Armando Laborde: Director of Ashoka Central America and Mexico
Social entrepreneurship has seen a surge over the past decade with the rise of social networking websites like Facebook that allow people to reach wider audiences and find more funding sources. Armando Laborde understands this well. The 47-year-old has been running the Central America and Mexico operations of Ashoka since 2006 and is also co-director [...]
Hernán Rincon: President of Microsoft Latin America
“The market has exploded in Latin America,” said Hernán Rincón, president Microsoft Latin America, describing the speed with which sales are growing in the region. He told Latin Trade that of the thirteen regions into which the company divides the world, his is the one with the highest growth rate, expanding by rates of 3 [...]
Manuel Medina-Mora: CEO Global Consumer Banking and Executive Chairman of Latin America and Mexico, Citi
Carrying a Banamex-branded credit card could be considered cool in the Mexican capital. Here, Banamex card holders can cut in line for concert tickets and are even offered the opportunity to purchase seats for shows by performers like U2 and Madonna two days in advance of anyone else. “We try to lead the entertainment dimension,” [...]
Lucía Herrera: President of Pantaleón Foundation
Students at the Wilfrido Campos Poveda school, in Choluteca, Honduras, used to have no option but to have their lessons outdoors. It wasn’t until this year that they could study in classrooms with roofs, thanks to the work of the Pantaleón Foundation. The Foundation is one of the best examples of a corporate initiative aimed [...]
Alberto Alemán Zubieta
The Panama Canal’s construction was an epic that pitted the human spirit against nature. More recently, the problems haven’t been flies but internal resistance to change and the need to face competition. Alberto Alemán Zubieta is an engineer, a very feisty one. And very political too, despite his claims to the contrary. Alemán twice headed the [...]
Stephen Fenwick: CEO DHL Express Americas
DHL was started by innovators and grew by using innovation to respond to customer demand all over the world, said Stephen Fenwick, CEO of DHL Express Americas. “Conceptually, DHL was a garage start-up. We started out with a few people sitting on planes flying documents from San Francisco (California) to Hawaii,” said Fenwick, who has [...]
Rodolpho Cardenuto: President SAP Latin America and the Caribbean
“What has changed in our industry in recent decades? Everything!” exclaimed Miami-based Rodolpho Cardenuto, an electronics engineer and president of business software giant SAP for Latin America and the Caribbean. “We were still programming with mainframes and using languages like COBOL. The IT user then had to be an IT expert,” said Cardenuto, a Brazilian [...]
Ferdinand Kurt: CEO of Panalpina for the Americas
Fifty years ago the Panalpina Group, one of the leading global providers of supply chain solutions and logistics services, started developing its Latin American network with its first operations in Colombia and Venezuela, said Ferdinand Kurt, the regional CEO of Panalpina for the Americas. “We provide end-to-end solutions to a variety of industries, including oil [...]
Whopping Results from Social Media
Social networks have transformed the way Burger King relates to its customers, especially in Latin America. José Tomás, president of Burger King for Latin America and the Caribbean, told Latin Trade the fast food chain’s promotional campaigns through social media are more successful in Latin America than in other regions. He attributes this to enormous [...]
Eduardo Eraña: President of Visa International for Latin America and the Caribbean
“Remember those manual machines we used to use for processing credit cards?” asked Miami-based Eduardo Eraña, president of Visa International for Latin America and the Caribbean, when asked about how things had changed for Visa in Latin America over the last few decades. “Today, we swipe our cards electronically and it takes about three seconds [...]
Juan Benavides: Member of the Board of Banco Falabella
The essence of retail business– supplying customers with a wide mix of products, good prices and good service– has not changed, said Juan Benavides, Member of the Board of Banco Falabella, the financial arm of large regional department store Falabella. “What is different is the rate of change,” added Benavides, who oversaw the group’s rapid [...]
Rob Steigerwald: Chief of Operations Marriott International
Marriott, the American hotel chain, is betting that the greater social mobility of Latin Americans will be a blessing for its sector. It’s preparing for the rush with a plan to build new hotels and to adopt new techno-logy that will enable guests to make hotel reservations from a simple mobile phone. “When people leave [...]
Osvaldo Librizzi: Co-President for the Americas of Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Big international luxury hotels were relatively scarce in Latin America a decade ago. There were at best a few in the main cities, and the service there wasn’t on a par with that of grand hotels in the great capitals of the world. Today, thanks to the region’s huge economic growth, which is attracting business [...]
Kirk Kinsell: President, IHG
IHG Group, the parent of InterContinental Hotels and other famous brands in Latin America, is moving aggressively to meet burgeoning demand in the region, especially in mid-scale hotels for underserved cities, said Kirk Kinsell, president of IHG for the Americas. “Hotels in the past were full-service, luxury properties located in a central city,” said Kinsell, [...]
