Consejo Consultivo
Tanto en estrategia de negocios como para visualizar diferentes escenarios futuros, TransEconomics es asesorada por el socio de Pablo Rión y Asociados Martin Plettner; la fundadora y CEO de a'govest Marisol Pérez-Chow; el profesor de Asuntos Internacionales Jenik Radon; la presidente de Quest Management Mary A. West; el Director de Actinver Wealth Management en Madrid Luis Orvañanos Riveroll; el fundador de Contaayuda Christopher López; y el Director de Unifin Financiera Oscar Ortiz.
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Mr. Plettner is a partner at the investment banking firm of Pablo Rión y Asociados, where he has over 10 years of experience and has participated in over 60 transactions including sales processes, acquisitions, debt and equity raisings (both private and public), restructurings, valuations of diverse assets as well as damages, among others. Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Mr. Plettner worked for 3 years as manager of Publix, S.A., a graphic design studio, and Star Technologies, S.A., a company active in the design of information systems, businesses he founded in 1996 and 1997, respectively.
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Previously, Mr. Plettner worked as a trainee in brand management at Procter & Gamble Mexico, and during the summer of 2001, Mr. Plettner worked as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Mr. Plettner holds a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Marisol is the founder and CEO at a’govest - a women-focused financial tools and education platform for women in Mexico. Prior to a’govest, she co-founded and was COO of Play Business, the first and largest equity crowdfunding platform in Mexico. In 2016, she was named the “Most Influential Entrepreneur” in Mexico by the National Institute of Entrepreneurship and led the company to be one of Forbes “30 Promises in Business”.
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Marisol has been a mentor and judge at various incubators and accelerators in Mexico. She has a BA in Management from ITAM University and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She received the 2017 “Herman Family Fellowship for Women Entrepreneurs” Scholarship and the 2019 “Against All Odds Award”. Both merit-based awards given to only one student per class.
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Jenik Radon is Adjunct Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs, Columbia University,
where he teaches in the area of sustainable natural resource development with a focus on risk and strategic
management, sovereignty and human rights, especially environment, minority rights (including social license)
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He is the founder and director of the Eesti and Eurasian Public Service Fellowship, which has provided
students from Columbia, Stanford Law School and other institutions the opportunity to intern with government
officials and civil society in developing and emerging nations across the global, including Bhutan, Cambodia,
Ecuador, Estonia, Georgia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal, Philippines, Tanzania and Uganda. Radon is a recipient of
SIPA's "Top Five" teaching award for the spring 2010 and 2013 semesters; and his 2012 Capstone class won the
Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson Award for Human Values in International Affairs for the report “Oil: Uganda’s
Opportunity for Prosperity.” He has also supervised Capstone classes examining the resource curse, and its
impact, in Colombia, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru and Tanzania and the potential of small states, specifically
Estonia and Namibia, to be global leaders. Radon was awarded a Fulbright to the Makerere University Law School
in Uganda. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of Stevens Business School, Direct Relief and the
Harriman Institute.
Go to Jenik Radon's page at Columbia.
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Mary West is the founder and President of Quest Management, LLC, based in the southwest United States. She provides the full range of executive management services that accelerate results for domestic and international businesses in for profit, non-profit and federally-recognized tribal government sectors. Mary has provided her leadership and advisory services to firms in the hospitality, information technology, packaging, medical, archaeological, planning and engineering, communications, training and economic advisory industries.
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In addition, Mary has worked for two international fortune 100 companies to implement innovative restructuring in their operations and management systems, performance measurement, internal processes, conversion to virtual teams, and ISO quality management systems; resulting in significantly improved performance for all key performance measures.
Mary obtained her degree in Business Management and French Language and Literature from St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN.
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Luis Orvañanos Riveroll es el Director y Consejero Delegado de Actinver Inversiones y Valores en Madrid, tras haber dirigido desde 2009 el proyecto de crear esa entidad financiera española como parte de la internacionalización de Actinver.
Desde 1984, su trayectoria profesional ha estado totalmente orientada a los mercados financieros; ha desarrollado diversas funciones relacionadas con la gestión de inversiones y gestión patrimonial para clientes en casas de bolsa y bancos, y de 1994 a 2008 participó en firmas independientes enfocadas al manejo, administración y planeación patrimonial, habiendo fundado en 1994 una de éstas como Asesor Independiente de Inversiones.
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Estudió Administración de Empresas en la Universidad Iberoamericana; en 2012 finalizó el Top Management Program del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Concluyó los cursos Private Wealth Management LATAM Program y Family Governance Program impartidos por The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, además de diversos cursos de especialización para manejo de portafolios de inversión; de 2006 a 2009 participó como capacitador en el Taller de Inversiones Financieras de Consejería Bursátil, S. C., con Cristina Hernández y Pedro Alonso.
En el campo de la responsabilidad social, participa intensamente desde hace más de veinte años en la Fundación Clara Moreno y Miramón, IAP.
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Contador por el Tec de Monterrey con especialidad en Finanzas Corporativas por la Universidad de Illinois, Maestro en Impuestos por la UAQ y Alumno de la Maestría en Inteligencia Artificial por el Tec de Monterrey. Trabajó cuatro años en Iuvity, una de las primeras Fintech en construir software para Bancos en América Latina. Es profesor en el Tec de Monterrey y la Universidad Anáhuac, presidente de la Comisión de Tecnología Contable en el Colegio de Contadores de Querétaro, Co-Fundador la Asociación Exatec Contadores y Fundador de Contaayuda.
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Contaayuda es un sistema basado en inteligencia artificial usado por miles de negocios para calcular impuestos en México. Contaayuda ganó en 2021 el programa de Finance Forward de Village Capital Latinoamérica y fue parte de la primera generación de PASIA, programa de aceleracin de Startups de IA del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el Tec de Monterrey en 2020. A partir de 2024, Contaayuda es parte del fondo de inversión Techstars, cuyo portafolio de empresas tiene un valor de 106 mil millones de dólares.
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Oscar Ortiz is currently a Director at Unifin Financiera, where he is responsible for structuring and delivering leasing solutions to corporate clients in Mexico. He has held senior management positions in financial services companies including Multivalores, GE Capital, Bank Boston, and HSBC. He has been responsible for tailoring wealth management products and services, corporate and investment banking products, and investments and insurance products for individuals and corporate clients in Mexico and USA.
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Oscar holds a JD degree from Universidad Panamericana in Mexico and an MBA from Instituto Panamericano en Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE) and the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.
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