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       Ricardo Salinas Pliego, TV Azteca/Grupo Elektra Since assuming the presidency in 1981 of Mexican home electronics and furniture retailer Grupo Elektra, Ricardo Salinas Pliego has guided the company through a series of market crises to its position as one of Mexico’s premier companies today. In 1993, he led a group of investors […]

       Robert Koffler and Dario Pedrajo, Americas Trust Bank Robert Koffler, previously managing director of defunct Vestcorp Asset Management, is now president of Americas Trust Bank. After graduating from college in the US, Koffler joined Citibank in Peru in 1982. There he was soon offered a position in New York to deal with […]

       Roberto Setubal, Banco Itau Roberto Egydio Setubal is the 43-year-old president of Brazil’s Banco Itaú, the second largest private bank in Brazil. He has been at Itau since 1984, and prior to that spent two years at Citibank. Below, he gives his views on why the Real Plan turned out to be […]

Samuel Quiros, Andino Capital Markets Samuel Quiros was one of the founding partners of VestcorPartners. Today, he continues the tradition of providing financial services to the region’s under-served firms at Andino Capital Markets, including asset management, structured finance, and a new twist-private equity. On key events in the region’s development… One positive change is that […]

Shaw Wagener, Rob Lovelace and Victor Kohn, Capital GroupAmong the earliest and largest institutional investors in the region, the Capital Group has ridden the roller-coaster of Latin American equities through good times and bad. Chosen by the IFC in 1986 to manage the incipient Emerging Markets Growth Fund, Capital today has over $4 billion invested […]

Stephen Dizard, Salomon Smith Barney Stephen Dizard started Salomon’s emerging markets trading operation in 1984, and currently heads the emerging markets desk in the fixed income trading department. Before joining Salomon, he was a vice president in international investment banking at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. Below, he recalls the moment when he and his fellow […]

       Ted Truscott, Scudder, Kemper InvestmentsTed Truscott is a managing director of Scudder, Kemper Investments, Inc., which now manages over $200 billion in assets globally. While these days Truscott helps run the company’s financial services, health care and technology funds, back in the early 1990s he was lead portfolio manager at Scudder’s closed […]

       Timothy Heyman Timothy Heyman went to Mexico in 1976 with English investment bank Roth Strauss. He left that bank in 1979, and then spent 11 years with Estrategia Bursatil, starting as a research analyst. He rose to head of research and then head of mutual fund operations, before being approached in 1990 […]

       Victor Segal, Singer and Friedlander As international director at the London investment bank Singer and Friedlander, Victor Segal was one of the pioneers of the LDC debt trading market in the 1980s. From his office in the heart of London’s “City” financial district, Segal traced the evolution of that market into the […]

       William Rhodes, Citibank Citibank’s William Rhodes was a central figure in the resolution of Latin America’s debt crisis throughout the 1980s. His determination, tenacity, familiarity with the region and sheer refusal to take no for an answer are all characteristics that his contemporaries cite as key traits which allowed him to bring […]