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.

Martín Fernández-Romero is a Moody’s Managing Director and Regional Head of Latin America. In his role, Martín leads the Moody’s Investors Service (MIS) business across Latin America, develops the regional strategy, and manages the resources and capabilities to operate effectively across MIS rating groups and geographies. As head of the Latin America practice, Martín’s primary responsibilities are to manage regional operations, oversee policy and regulatory outreach, and coordinate global and domestic initiatives in Latin America. Martín has been with Moody’s since 2003. Prior to this position, Martín was a Senior Vice President and Manager for the structured finance franchise in Latin America. He also had responsibilities as Country Manager for Moody’s office in Argentina. He began his Moody’s career as lead credit analyst for structured finance transactions across Latin America. He holds an executive MBA from IAE Business School �“ Universidad Austral, and a Bachelor of Economics from Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. He is fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Felipe Valdés is the Chief Financial Officer of Itaú Corpbanca New York Branch since July 2014, being responsible for a $2 billion balance sheet financial statements, financial risk management and corporate planning. He has more than 15 years of experience in finance, investments and treasury. Mr. Valdés previously served as Deputy Treasurer at Banco del Estado de Chile New York Branch, running a Yankee Certificate of Deposit program and performing the investment strategy for the Chilean Educational Sovereign Fund in the international capital markets, among other things. In Chile, Felipe worked in the investment and finance divisions at MetLife, mainly focusing in the investment strategy, portfolio management, asset liability management and financial risk. He also was Teaching Assistant at the School of Economics and Business at Universidad de Chile for Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics and International Business undergraduate courses. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Chile and a Master of Science in Finance from University of Rochester. He is married and has two children, speaks English and Spanish and is passionate about soccer.