Founding Members and Directors

He has more than 20 years of experience in the financial sector. He is currently Vice President of Legal Advisory and Compliance at Banco Santa Cruz. He is also a member of the board of directors of Inversiones Santa Cruz, S. A., Puesto de Bolsa, and of FUNDAPEC.

He graduated as a lawyer in 1994 from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. In 2001 he completed a master’s in International Commercial and Financial Law at King’s College London, University of London, and in 2010 a master’s in Financial Management at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, with a dual degree from the Université Bordeaux IV (France).

Economist (B.A.) with a Master’s (M.A.) in Financial Risk Management and postgraduate studies in Data Science. He is a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and holds the professional designations Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and Energy Risk Professional (ERP).

Business administrator, a graduate of the Universidad Católica de Santo Domingo (UCSD), with a Master’s in Business Administration (EMBA) from Barna Management School. He has 27 years of experience in the financial system, with more than two decades in strategic and executive positions in risk management, credit analysis, business, recoveries, operational efficiency and continuous improvement.

A professional with 30 years of experience auditing financial institutions and companies in the tourism and industrial sectors. She has taken extensive part in special projects, such as operational compliance audits, due diligence and consolidations, and has training in auditing standards, accounting standards, banking regulation and PwC methodology.

With more than a decade in risk management, she leads risk, quality and compliance management as Chief Risk Officer at Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina, the main mixed-capital (public and private) company in the Dominican Republic.

A professional with more than ten years of experience in integrated risk management, specialized in operational and technology risk, business continuity and regulatory compliance. She is Deputy Director of Integrated Risk at the Superintendency of Banks, where she leads the design, implementation and supervision of the Risk Management and Business Continuity System, to strengthen the resilience of the Dominican financial system.

International executive with a broad career in advanced analytics, risk management, credit and fraud prevention for the Latin American financial industry. He is part of FICO, where he advises financial institutions on decision strategies based on data, artificial intelligence and analytical models that strengthen profitability, resilience and financial inclusion.

She has more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry. She is a risk expert, with an emphasis on integrated risk and market and liquidity risks. She began her career at Citibank, where she held different local and regional positions, interacted with regulators and took part in project and regulation review committees.

Industrial engineer who graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), with an MBA in Finance, a dual degree between UNIBE and Florida International University (FIU). She holds certifications in integrated risk management, information security, business continuity and anti-money laundering, among them ISO 31000, ISO 27005, ISO 22301 and CAMS.

She has a career of more than 30 years in the financial sector, including 20 years in management positions in business, digital banking, technology services and risk management. She has led pioneering initiatives that strengthened the control culture, operational efficiency and institutional resilience, and has actively contributed to the transformation of the sector.

Audit and Assurance Partner at Deloitte Dominican Republic and Talent leader of the cluster of the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua. She has more than 24 years of experience in audit for local and multinational clients in various sectors, especially financial, commercial and manufacturing companies. She is a member of the firm’s Agribusiness Committee for the cluster.

President of the Spanish Risk Management Club (CGRE), where he leads the risk certification promoted by ASBA, FELABAN and the CGRE. He has been Corporate Risk Director at Bankia, General Risk Director at BBVA Bancomer, Corporate Risk Management Director at the BBVA Group, Director of the Office of the Chairman at Argentaria and Deputy General Director at Banco Exterior.

Financial expert and evaluator of programs for multilateral organizations (IMF, World Bank, IDB, USAID), central banks and governments in Latin America: asset optimization in Colombia, Basel assessments and liquidation of banks intervened during crises in the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras. Economist from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, he has been a global banking executive in Spain and a board member.