Francisco Alvarez-Demalde is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital. Founded in 2008, Riverwood manages $5.9 billion and makes investments in high-growth technology businesses globally. Mr. Alvarez-Demalde has built the Riverwood franchise into a leading investment firm, as a partner to founders and management teams helping scale companies from the $10s of millions to the $100s of millions in revenues. During the past decade, Riverwood has been an active investor in 70+ tech companies, which have grown their revenues at 47% per year on average during that period.

Prior to establishing Riverwood, Mr. Alvarez-Demalde was an investment executive at KKR and also previously held roles with Eton Park Capital Management and Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Alvarez-Demalde earned a Licentiate (Honors) in Economics from Universidad de San Andres, Argentina (including an exchange program at the Wharton School). He has led investments in or is a current or former Director or Advisor of several tech companies, including 99, Alog Data Centers do Brasil, Billtrust (Nasdaq: BTRS), Cloudblue, Dock, Globant (NYSE: GLOB), GOintegro, Greenhouse, Industrious, Insider, LAVCA, Mandic, MotionPoint, Navent, Nubox, Pixeon, RD Station, SecurityScorecard, Shiphero, Technisys, VTEX (NYSE: VTEX), among others. Mr. Alvarez-Demalde is also a Global Ambassador with Endeavor.

Vanessa Colella is Visa’s Head of Innovation and Digital Partnerships. In her role, Vanessa leads the development and commercialization of Visa products and solutions for Big Tech, Fintech, and Platform Partners. Colella also leads Visa’s global network of Innovation Centers. She joined Visa in 2022. Before joining Visa, she served as the Chief Innovation Officer at Citi and as the lead for Citi Ventures and Citi Productivity. Prior to this role, she ran marketing for Citi’s North America Consumer Bank. Previously, Vanessa held roles with U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Yahoo, McKinsey & Company, and was teacher and charter corps member of Teach For America. She has been consistently recognized as a leader in innovation, fintech and venture capital investing. She was named a BIG Innovation Award Winner in 2021 and 2022 by the Business Intelligence Group and one of the “Most Influential Innovators” in 2021 by Innovation Leader. In 2020, Colella received a Silver Stevie Award for her work as a champion of innovation. She has also been recognized as part of the Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist from 2017 to at Citi her work launching CitiBike won Advertising Age’s 2013 Creativity Award and the Gold Pencil award in 2014. Vanessa currently serves on the Corporation’s Visiting Committee for the M.I.T. Media Lab and holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T.’s Media Lab and masters’ degrees from M.I.T and Columbia University. She earned an S.B. in molecular biology from M.I.T. She is a published author and served previously as a research fellow at Rockefeller University and a lecturer at the Santa Fe Institute.

Pierpaolo Barbieri es un emprendedor argentino de 36 años y el fundador de Ualá. Fue becado
para estudiar Historia y Economía en la Universidad de Harvard a los 17 años y luego continuó
sus estudios de posgrado en Cambridge.
Es también Director Ejecutivo de Greenmantle, una consultora geopolítica y macroeconómica
basada en Nueva York; y fundador de 17Sigma, venture capital para invertir en proyectos de
América Latina en etapas iniciales. En 2015 publicó el libro La Sombra de Hitler, un análisis sobre
los vínculos económicos que existieron entre la Alemania de Hitler y la España de Franco.

Myriam is Board Member and Chief External Affairs Officer, and former COO and Head of Business Development, of Clip, the first Unicorn Fintech in Mexico that is specialized in mobile payments for Micro and Small Merchants. She has +30 years of experience, in different industries, from telecommunications to pharmaceutical and financial institutions. Before Clip, Myriam worked 11 years in American Express where, among others, she was responsible for the acquisition, retention  and development strategies for small, medium and large merchants.

In American Express Myriam developed and launched the integration strategy with Santander and Banorte/IXE banks to share POS and allow merchants to sign an Amex acquiring contract thru these bank’s branches and sales forces. Myriam joined Amex to lead the development and launch of the first industry-specific Amex corporate card, Gasoline Card, for which she was awarded with the “Chairman’s Award for Innovation” given by Amex’s CEO, Kenneth Chenault, in 2006. Myriam holds a BE, Electronic and Electric Systems Engineering from the Anahuac University and an MBA from ITAM.

Iván es un regiomontano que a través de sus casi 20 años de experiencia laboral ha llevado la tecnología financiera a su máxima expresión, tanto en México como en el extranjero. Hoy, como Director General de Nu México, lidera la operación de la compañía en todo el territorio nacional y enfoca su expertise en comprender al consumidor mexicano para así crear una experiencia de producto inigualable que ayude a cumplir con la misión de la compañía de combatir la complejidad y la burocracia.

Su historia morada comienza en el 2019, cuando se incorporó como uno de los primeros Nubankers en el país para liderar el área de producto y posteriormente fungió como COO de Nu México siendo una pieza clave para el crecimiento de la compañía y su expansión de portafolio de productos.

Iván divide su tiempo dentro de Nu liderando su estrategia, además del grupo de afinidad NuPride en Nu México por su experiencia previa con la comunidad LGBTTTIAQ+ en empresas como Amazon y universidades como Stanford. Antes de sumarse a Nu, Iván ocupó la dirección de producto en BlackRock (FutureAdvisor) en donde estuvo al frente de un equipo multidisciplinario de gerentes de producto, diseñadores e ingenieros. También ha colaborado en otras compañías del sector tecnológico, financiero y de negocios como: Amazon, Credit Suisse y Merrill Lynch. Ingeniero en Ciencias de la Computación por la Universidad de Cornell y con una Maestría en Administración y Dirección de Empresas por la Universidad de Stanford, Iván se ubica hoy como una pieza estratégica para el crecimiento y desarrollo de Nu en México.

Pedro Rivas has recently joined as GM of Mercado Pago Mexico. After spending over 15 years in tech-enabled hypergrowth companies, he has teamed-up with Mercado Pago to help advance the company further as an innovative high-growth business. Pedro recently served as COO for OXIO, where he established the first commercial operation of a Telco-as-a-Service platform in Mexico. Prior to OXIO, Pedro helped revolutionize urban transportation in LatAm and Spain as he served as CBO for Cabify (ridehailing) and CEO for Movo (electric micro-mobility).

Pedro has also co-founded and exited 2 food-tech companies based out of NYC. Previously he acted as the managing director for Peixe Urbano in LatAm where he established and grew operations across 5 countries. He started his tech-focused career at Apple where he spent 4 years managing operations for the iPhone product line. Mr. Rivas has not only help raise over $100M for venture backed businesses but is also an active angel investor and start-up advisor. He has invested in over 20 capital raises of tech-centric companies in LatAm Pedro holds a MBA from Stanford University and B.S in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana.

Sinéad O’Connor joined Citibanamex in November 2018 as Director of Digital Customer Experience, focused on optimizing the sales and service experience for customers across all telephone and digital touchpoints. In December 2020 she was appointed as Chief Digital Officer of Citibanamex. integrating the following areas: Digital Channels, ATMs, Digital Business Development and Partnerships, Payments, Advanced Analytics & CRM. As of April 1, 2022, Sinead is head of Consumer Banking of Citibanamex. Prior to joining Citibanamex, Sinéad served as Managing Director in Santander Group Spain, where she led the definition and implementation of core digital capabilities across the Groups’ geographies. Prior to this she was Director of Multichannel in Santander’s Spanish operation, consolidating digital and telephone channels as key contributors to customer satisfaction and revenue generation. Sinéad began her career in ICG Citigroup in Madrid and London in Corporate Treasury. Sinead has a degree in B.A. European Studies University College Cork a Masters in European Business from ESCP (China, UK, Spain) and FSA Certification (investment advisor function in securities & financial options).

Como Country Manager de Mastercard México, Mauricio contribuye con su experiencia a mejorar el ecosistema de pagos haciéndolo más accesible, seguro y conveniente, además de impulsar la construcción y entrega de soluciones digitales que respondan a las expectativas del consumidor. Cuenta con más de 18 años de trayectoria en las industrias de servicios financieros y de tecnología, tanto en el segmento empresarial como en el de consumo. Colabora desde hace cuatro años con el ecosistema emprendedor como mentor de Endeavor, un rol que le ha permitido conocer diferentes perspectivas sobre la relevancia del emprendedurismo a nivel global.
En Perú, de donde es originario, ocupó diversos cargos de liderazgo en Citibank y posteriormente en Citibanamex en México, donde lideró la estrategia, gestión de productos, esfuerzos comerciales y de innovación para Pagos e Inclusión Financiera. Mauricio se une a Mastercard desde su rol como CEO de RappiBank en Perú, el banco digital de Rappi, donde incursionó en el sector Fintech y estuvo a cargo de la estrategia, puesta en marcha y crecimiento de la entidad, convencido de que la entrada de nuevos jugadores al mercado ofrece modelos de negocio más innovadores. Licenciado en Ingeniería Industrial por la Universidad de Lima, Mauricio cuenta con un MBA por el Tecnológico de Monterrey y Thunderbird School of Global Management; además de tener una certificación de Liderazgo Empresarial en Harvard Business School.