Tomás GOLDING Valle de Caracas desde Colinas del Tamanaco, 1939 Oil on masonite 59.7 x 70.5 cm Caracas, 1909 - 1985 Began painting at eleven under the guidance of Antonio Alcántara. From 1922 to 1924 studied at the Caracas Academy of Fine Arts. Traveled to New York in 1925 to study at The Cooper Union school of art. Upon his return to Venezuela devoted all his time to landscape painting and is now known as one of the most prolific representatives of the “School of Caracas”.
Board of Directors Directors Gustavo Antonio Marturet Machado President Degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Central de Venezuela (1962), President and member of the Boards of Directors of Mercantil Servicios Financieros and Mercantil Banco Universal. Chairman of the Boards of Directors of Mercantil Commercebank Florida Bancorp, Mercantil Commercebank N.A., Mercantil Merinvest and Fundación Mercantil. Member of the Board of Directors of Mercantil Seguros and Mercantil Bank (Schweiz) AG. Vice President Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VenAmCham). Member of the Chairman’s Advisory Council of the Council of the Americas. President of the John Paul II Foundation for Ecclesiastical Education (FESE). Former Executive President of Mercantil Servicios Financieros and Mercantil Banco Universal, President of the Venezuelan Bankers Association (ABV), National Banking Council (CBN), Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Finance, Inc. (IIF), Council of Venezuelan American Entrepreneurs (CEVEU), Colombian Venezuelan Economic Integration Chamber (CAVECOL). Former Member of the Advisory Council of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), Member of the Board of Directors of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and board member of various associations connected with the financial and production sector. Alejandro González Sosa Executive President Management Degree in Chemical Engineering, Universidad Metropolitana. MBA Babson College, Massachusetts, USA. Twenty-nine years of service at the Institution. Member of the Executive Committees of Mercantil Servicios Financieros, C.A., Mercantil C.A., Banco Universal, Mercantil Commercebank Florida BanCorp and Mercantil Commercebank , N.A. Member of the Boards of Directors of Mercantil C.A., Banco Universal, Mercantil Commercebank Holding, Mercantil Commercebank Florida BanCorp, Mercantil Seguros, C.A., Mercantil Merinvest, Casa de Bolsa, C.A., Mercantil Merinvest, C.A. and Fundación Mercantil. Chairman of the Board of Todo1 Services, Inc. and the Supervisory Board of Mercantil Bank Curaçao N.V. and Mercantil Bank (Panama), S.A. Was Executive President of Mercantil C.A., Banco Universal, President of Interbank C.A., Banco Universal, Mercantil Merinvest, C.A. and Mercantil Merinvest, Casa de Bolsa, C.A. Director of the National Banking Council (CBN), the Venezuelan Banking Association, the Venezuelan-Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National Council for Investment Promotion (CONAPRI) and Educrédito, A.C. Gustavo J. Vollmer H. Former Chairman of the Board of Banco Mercantil, C.A. (Banco Universal) Degree in Civil Engineering from Cornell University (USA); Doctorate from Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Member of the Boards of Directors of Mercantil Servicios Financieros, C.A. and Mercantil Banco Universal. Former member of the Boards of Directors of S.C. Johnson & Son de Venezuela, C.A., IBM de Venezuela and IBM World Trade, Americas Far East. Former Chairman of the Boards of Directors of Banco Mercantil, C.A. (Banco Universal) and Consorcio Inversionista Mercantil Cima C.A. and President and/or Director of a number of Venezuelan sugar, metalworking, cement, finance, construction, alcoholic beverage companies and several international corporations. Former President and Director of several business organizations and organizations and foundations in Venezuela and abroad. Mercantil Servicios Financieros 109 Alfredo Travieso Passios Senior partner Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, Attorneys at Law Graduate and postgraduate degrees in law from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), postgraduate degree from the University of Michigan, USA. Senior partner of Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, Attorneys at Law, President of Grupo Emboca, C.A., Member of the Boards of Directors of Mercantil Servicios Financieros, C.A. and Mercantil Banco Universal, Mercantil Commercebank Holding Corporation, Ars Publicidad C.A., C. Hellmund & Cía., Desarrollos Judibana, C.A. and Centro Empresarial de Conciliación y Arbitraje (CEDCA); President of the Venezuelan Association of Financial Law (AVDF), Member of the Venezuelan Association of Tax Law (AVDT), the International Bar Association and the International Academy of Estate & Trust Law. Luis A. Romero M. Electrical Engineer Graduate of Universidad Metropolitana, MBA from Babson College, PMD and CEP from Harvard University, USA. Member of the Boards of Directors of Mercantil Servicios Financieros, C.A., Mercantil Banco Universal, Mercantil Commercebank Holding Corporation and Mercantil Commercebank Florida Bancorp. and Mercantil Commercebank, N.A. Member of the Venezuelan American Business Council (CEVEU). Director of Sociedad de Amigos del Árbol “Sadarbol”. Director of International Briquettes Holding (IBH), Director of Caurimare, S.A. and Desarrollos e Inversiones, S.A. Former Corporate Director of Strategic Planning of Siderúrgica Venezolana, SIVENSA, S.A. Gustavo Vollmer Acedo President of Grupo Palmar Degree in Economics from Duke University, USA; Postgraduate in Economic Development from Cambridge University, UK; PED in Business Administration from IMEDE, Switzerland. President and CEO of Corporación Palmar, S.A., and other companies in the Palmar Group. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Empresas PMC. Chairman of the Boards of Directors of: Mercantil Servicios Financieros, Mercantil Banco Universal, Mercantil Commercebank Holding Corporation, Siderúrgica Venezolana, S.A. (SIVENSA), The Pantaleon Group Inc., Vetra Energía, S.L., and Director of S.C. Johnson for the Andean Countries. Member of the Advisory Committee of the Venezuelan Confederation of Industry (Conindustria). Former chairman and currently member of the Board of Directors of Venezuela’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Administration (IESA) Member of the Development Council of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Former International President of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and Alianza para una Venezuela sin Drogas.
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