Mr. Paredes was created Knight Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in 2012. He currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Advocate Community Providers (ACP). Mr. Paredes continues his affiliation with American Bible Society (ABS) as a member of the Board of Trustees after retiring as its Presidential Liaison to Roman Catholic Ministry. He is a Founder and Chairman of the Board for Catholic Association of Latino Leaders (CALL) and is today its Chairman Emeritus. Mr. Paredes is also a member of the Board of Directors of America Media, is a Director and former President of the North American-Chilean Chamber of Commerce of New York and is the Treasurer and former Vice President of Gabriela Mistral Foundation. Mario joined Merrill Lynch as Vice President of Business Development in April 2001 and was appointed Director of the U.S. Hispanic Market for the Multicultural & Diversified Business Development Group in 2002. In February of 2007, he was transferred to the Corporate Division. Under Mayor Ed Koch, he served as Commissioner for the Charter Revision of New York City. Mr. Paredes served as Personal Advisor to John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York and has also served as Consultant to the Latin American Commission to the Vatican and the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. For 30 years, Mr. Paredes directed the operations of the USCCB's (United States Catholic Conference of Bishops) in the Northeast Region. He served as Founder and Director of the Northeast Hispanic Catholic Center. Mr. Paredes earned his Masters of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Argentina, Masters in Religious Education at Loyola University Chicago and postgraduate studies at Georgetown University. He is founder of the national weekly El Visitante Dominical in USA and El Visitante de Puerto Rico. Mario has served as an Editorial Board Member of El Diario-La Prensa, Catholic New York, The Tablet and El Pregonero. Mr. Paredes is editor of the Polyglott Boble and Camino a Emaus, both published by ABS, and the Leccionario Dominical and Ferial for the United States. In addition, he is the author of The History of the National Encuentros (2014, Paulist Press), Un Papa para la Urbe y Orbe (1979, Catholic Center of New York), Hispanics in USA (1980, Catholic Center of New York), Official Lectionary for U.S. Hispanic Catholics (1985, Northeast Catholic Center) and Catecismo del Pueblo (1976, Our Sunday Visitor). Mario has received awards the Catholic Press Association, Archbishop Patrick Flores Medal from the USCCB, the Joseph P. Fitzpatrick Award from Fordham University and the The Pierre Toussaint Medallion.

Tim is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and co-heads the Global Power Business within the Investment Banking Division. From 1991 to 2001 he served as a founding member of the Latin America Group at Goldman ultimately serving as Chief Operating Officer. Part of Tim’s family has resided in Chile for five generations and they still manage a working farm in Casablanca: www.kingstonvineyards.com where Tim worked after college and prior to joining Goldman in 1988. Tim is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is on the Advisory Board of the Program of Latin American Studies at Princeton, the North American Advisory Board of INSEAD, he is a member of Technoserve, LevantandoChile.org, and the President’s Council of Accion. Tim is a graduate of Princeton University and has an MBA from INSEAD.

Oliver Armas is a Partner at Chadbourne & Parke LLP where he handles complex domestic and international disputes. He has an extensive practice in U.S. federal and state courts, as well as before regulatory agencies, such as the SEC, the U.S. Department of Justice, the New York Attorney General and state insurance regulators (including internal investigations, FCPA investigations, advice on OFAC and export controls, etc.). A significant part of Mr. Armas's practice involves representing foreign and domestic clients in arbitrations before the ICC, AAA/ICDR, LCIA, ICSID, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and other arbitral tribunals. Because he is fluent in Spanish (and can understand Portuguese), he routinely counsels clients on matters involving Latin America. Mr. Armas has acted as a legal expert in certain aspects of U.S. law in foreign proceedings (e.g., Mexico and Peru), and has supervised litigation and conducted FCPA investigations in almost every country in Latin America. Mr. Armas is a recognized practitioner in legal guides around the world, including Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, Chambers USA, Who's Who of International Arbitration, Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration, Who's Who of International Litigation and Benchmark: Litigation. He earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his B.A. from New York University.

Marc M. Rossell focuses his practice on capital markets transactions, including both equity and debt securities offerings and structured financings. Marc has been involved in many of the largest securities offerings out of Latin America, including landmark privatization offerings by the Argentine government's national oil company and telephone companies, the privatization of the Peruvian telephone company, as well as many high-yield debt offerings and equity offerings of companies in Argentina, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Peru and other countries. During the 1980s, he spent a considerable amount of time as bank advisory committee counsel, focusing on the restructuring of the external debt of many countries in Latin America. He also represents creditors and debtors in liability management transactions and has considerable experience with the issuance of project bonds to finance construction projects, many of which have won awards from industry publications.