ANNUAL REPORT 2010

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.
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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.