LAVCA spoke with Fernando Borges, Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, about his firm’s focus on Brazilian consumer sector growth and Carlyle’s successful partnership with Banco do Brasil. Read more
Member Profile: An Interview with Fernando Borges, The Carlyle Group
Tags: Brazil, Member Firm, Profiles, Retail
LP Profile: An Interview with Brooke Jones, The Carnegie Corporation
Brooke Jones, Associate Director at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, discussed her takeaways from a recent trip to Latin America and Carnegie’s emerging market investment strategy. Jones also shared her views on impact investing and the effect of Carnegie’s unique time horizon on its investment strategy. Read more
Entrepreneur Profile: An Interview with Queremos/WeDemand
Tags: Brazil, Entrepreneurs, Profiles, Tech
LAVCA spoke with Tiago Compagnoni, founder of Queremos/WeDemand, who discussed how his desire to bring top talent to Rio de Janeiro drove him to “crowdsource” concerts, creating a unique business model that is now expanding across Latin America. Read more
Entrepreneur Profile: An Interview with Daniel Avizú, ZoeMob
Tags: Brazil, Entrepreneurs, Profiles, Venture Capital
Member Profile: An Interview with Carlos García, Victoria Capital Partners
Tags: Argentina, Exits, Member Firm, Profiles
Carlos Garcia, Founding Partner & CEO of Victoria Capital Partners, shared insights into the recently formed firm and the keys to building a strong regional investment team. Read more
LP Profile: An Interview with Lindel Eakman, UTIMCO
Tags: LPs, Mexico, Private Equity, Profiles
LAVCA spoke with Lindel Eakman, Managing Director at the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), about the endowment’s expectations for Latin America private equity and special relationship with Mexico. Read more
Member Profile: An Interview with Jesus Zamora, Enfoca Inversiones
Tags: Member Firm, Peru, Private Equity, Profiles
Jesus Zamora, Founder and Chairman of Enfoca Inversiones, shares his insights into his firm’s success investing in Peru and his thoughts on how the presidential elections will affect the country’s PE industry. Read more
LP Profile: An Interview with HarbourVest Partners
Tags: Fund of Funds, Member Firm, Profiles
LAVCA recently spoke with Scott Voss and Peter Lipson, both Managing Directors at HarbourVest Partners, about changes in the firm’s strategy and perceptions of Latin America private equity since it made its first investment in the region in the 1990s. Read more
Entrepreneur Profile: An Interview with Pamela Chávez- Crooker, Aguamarina
Tags: Biotech, Chile, Entrepreneurs, Profiles
Pamela Chávez-Crooker, Founder of Aguamarina, recently spoke with LAVCA about how she took her biotech company from garage start-up to a go-to company for some of the world’s largest copper mines. Read more
Member Firm Profile: An Interview with leaders of HSBC Capital
Tags: GPs, Member Firm, Profiles
The Latin America PE/VC Report spoke with Cristiano Boccia, Head of Private Equity at HSBC Bank Brazil and Stephen Hindmarch, Managing Director of HSBC Capital about its current strategy for private equity investments in Latin America and the effects of a possible spin-out from HSBC Bank.
