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Jonathan Coles W.
Assistant Professor of IESA
Graduate of Yale University, with an MBA from Venezuela’s Institute of Advanced
Studies in Administration (IESA). Member of the Boards of Mercantil Servicios
Financieros and Mercantil Banco Universal. Director of Mercantil Commercebank,
N.A. and Mercantil Commercebank Holding Corp.; General Manager, Executive
President and President of the Board of Directors of Mavesa, S.A.; Former Minister
of Agriculture; Director of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV); speaker at
national and international institutions. Publications: “Reforming Agriculture”, in
Lessons of the Venezuelan Experience, Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars and Johns Hopkins University (1995). “Inequality-Reducing Growth in
Agriculture: A Market-Friendly Policy Agenda,” in Beyond Tradeoffs, Market
Reform and Equitable Growth in Latin America, Inter-American Development
Bank (IDB) and the Brookings Institution (1998). J. Coles and C. Machado,
“Trayectoria de las políticas agrícolas venezolanas: Aprendizajes y exigencias para
el futuro,” in Agronegocios en Venezuela. Ediciones IESA (2002).
Víctor J. Sierra A.
Director of Valores and Desarrollos VADESA S.A.
Degree in Law from Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV). Currently Director
of Valores and Desarrollos VADESA, S.A., Vice President of Inversiones Capriles
and Legal Representative of Cadena Capriles. President of Publicaciones
Capriles, C.A. Member of the Boards of Directors of Mercantil Servicios
Financieros, C.A. and Mercantil Banco Universal. Former Legal Adviser, Legal
Representative and President of Cadena de Publicaciones Capriles publishing
group and the Capriles group of companies. Director of Valinvenca, Inversiones
Finalven, Sociedad Financiera Finalven, Servicios Finalven, Banco República,
Inversiones Diversas, C.A. (INVERDICA) and C.A. La Electricidad de Caracas.
Former Director of C.A. Venezolana Guías (CAVEGUÍAS).
Roberto Vainrub
Executive Director of Actibienes and Holding Activalores
PhD in Engineering (UCAB-1999 Summa Cum Laude), Master’s Degree (Stanford
University-1981), Industrial Engineer (UCAB-1978).
Has been a professor at IESA since 1997. Founder of IESA’s Center for
Entrepreneurship and its first coordinator.
Former Vice President and Alternate President of IESA, member of the Board of
Directors of IESA and the IESA Foundation. He is a full tenured professor at
Universidad Católica Andres Bello where he taught at the Engineering School from
1982 to 2003 – Gold Medal, UCAB. Vainrub started his managerial career in the
Marketing Department of Procter and Gamble. Former partner and Executive Vice
President of the Venezuelan industrial group Frigilux. Was Director of the Savings
and Loan Association Prosperar, E.A.P. (1998 - 2002) and Tucarro.com (2003-2008).
Executive Director of Actibienes and of financial group Holding Activalores.
Member of the Boards of Directors of Mercantil Servicios Financieros, Mercantil
Banco Universal and Mercantil Commercebank Holding Corp. Director of
Farmatodo C.A. and President of its Audit and Risk Committee.
Vainrub has authored many books and articles and participated in national and
international conferences. Director of Educrédito, member of the advisory
committee of Conciencia Activa. Former president of the National Association of
Manufacturers of Refrigeration Equipment, director of CAFADAE and member of
the Conciliation and Arbitration committee of Union Israelita, the Venezuelan
Jewish community in Caracas.
Miguel A. Capriles L.
President of the Capriles Group of Companies
Degree in Administrative Sciences from Universidad Metropolitana. President of
Cadena Capriles, Director of the Boards of Mercantil Servicios Financieros and
Mercantil Banco Universal. Director of Mercantil Commercebank Holding Corp.;
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mantex C.A., Director of H. L. Boulton, S.
A.; member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Advanced Studies in
Administration (IESA); former Director of C.A. La Electricidad de Caracas and
Cerámicas Carabobo, C. A.
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Alternate Directors
Luis A. Sanabria U.
Legal Adviser to Corporación Palmar
Law degree from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) and studied at
Georgetown University, Washington. Currently Director of Inversiones AEFEVE,
C.A., C.A. Ron Santa Teresa, Constructora Alvo. Alternate Director of the Boards
of Mercantil Servicios Financieros and Mercantil Banco Universal.
Oscar A. Machado K.
President of Siderurgica Venezolana SIVENSA, S. A.
Industrial Engineer graduated from Universidad Católica Andrés Bellok 1974. First
Vice President of the Venezuelan Confederation of Industrialists
(CONINDUSTRIA) and Vice President of the Latin American Iron and Steel
Institute (ILAFA) and of the Board of Directors of IESA and the IESA Foundation.
Director of Aeropuerto Caracas, S.A.; Board of Directors of the Venezuelan
American Chamber of Commerce (VenAmCham), Venezuela Competitiva,
Instituto Venezolano de Siderurgia (IVES) and the IESA Foundation, Adviser to
the Venezuelan Association of Executives (AVE).
Alternate Director of the Board of Directors of Mercantil Servicios Financieros,
C.A. and Mercantil Banco Universal. Member of the Executive Committee of the
Latin American Iron and Steel Institute (ILAFA).
Ex–President of Venezuela Competitiva, Instituto Venezolano de Siderurgia
(IVES), Venezuelan Association of Executives (AVE) and the Latin American Iron
and Steel Institute (ILAFA).
Eduardo A. Mier y Terán
President of Desarrollos e Inversiones, S.A.
Degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, MSc from
Stanford University. Currently Chairman of the Board of Caurimare S.A. and
Desarrollos e Inversiones S.A. Director of Moore de Venezuela,S.A., H.L.Boulton
& Co.,S.A. and Fundación John Boulton. Alternate Director of the Board of
Mercantil Servicios Financieros and Mercantil Banco Universal. Former General
Manager of Inversiones Tacoa, C.A. and President of Educrédito.
Luis Esteban Palacios W.
Founding Partner of law firm Palacios, Ortega y Asociados
PhD in Law from Universidad Central de Venezuela and postgraduate degree
from New York University, MCJ. 1958. Founding partner of Palacios, Ortega y
Asociados; Director of the Venezuelan Scout Foundation; Alternate Director of
Mercantil Banco Universal and Mercantil Servicios Financieros; Vice President
of the Venezuelan Arbitration Committee.
Adviser on corporate law, banking law and capital markets. Has participated in
a number of financing transactions through bank syndicates and project
financing.
Former member of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council of the
Superintendency of Foreign Investments (SIEX); Director of Cantv, Secretary of
the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of the Federal District of Caracas
and President of Montepío de Abogados de Venezuela. Was Professor of Labor
Law at Universidad Central de Venezuela and assistant to the President of the
Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV).