Profiles

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. Member Profile:…

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…

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…

ZoeMob Co-founder, Daniel Avizú, spoke with the Latin America PE/VC Report about how his previous job in Brazil sparked an idea that is now a growing start-up reaching customers around…

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. Member Profile: An…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…