Team
Years Investing
30
+
Local
Knowledge
Global
Reach
Committed to
lasting impact
Directors
M. Cristián Shea
Partner
- Attorney-at-law, Chile and New York
- LL.B., Universidad Diego Portales; LL.M., Yale Law School; ALI, Harvard University; Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) Harvard Business School
- 25+ years of experience in venture capital & private equity
- DRCLAS (Harvard University), Advisory Board member in Cambridge and Chile
Vicente Pérez
Partner
- B.Sc. in Business Administration, Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile
- 30+ years of experience in operating companies in industries such as fishing, salmon aquaculture, mining & logistics
Jaime Carey
Director
- Attorney-at-law, Chile
- LL.B., Universidad Católica de Chile; Diploma on Legal Instructions, Harvard Business School
- 30+ years of experience in tax planning, local and international tax consulting, project financing, M&A & foreign investment transactions
Management Team
Fernando Pérez Lehmann
Managing Director
- Economist, Universidad de Chile; MBA SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy
- + 6 years of experience in agroindustry, corporate finance, investments & academia
Luciano Kasakoff
Head of Portfolio
- Economist, Universidad de Buenos Aires; MBA Universidad Di Tella, Argentina
- + 20 years of experience in financial services & private equity
Quitterie Valette
Head of Finance & Administration
- M.Sc. in Finance, Technology, Life & Environmental Sciences from AgroParisTech, Paris
- 20+ years of experience in finance & information systems
Marco Antonio Muñoz
General Counsel
- Attorney-at-law, Chile
- LL.B., Universidad Católica de Chile; LL.M., University of Chicago
- 15+ years of experience in corporate law, venture capital & regulatory matters
Francisca Carrasco
Compliance
- Lawyer from Universidad Diego Portales, with diplomas in Corporate Compliance (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez) and in Implementation & Management of Compliance with an ESG perspective (Universidad Diego Portales).
- +7 years of experience in Compliance and Corporate Governance.
Patricio Albornoz
Senior Controller
- Certified Public Accountant, Universidad de Chile
- 40+ years of experience in accounting, financial & HR services in industries such as financial & banking services, leasing & food industry
Cesar Bucarey
Controller
- Certified Public Accountant and Master in Taxation, Universidad de Chile
- 28+ years of work experience in medium and large companies.
Daniela Rojas
Office Manager - Executive Assistant
- Business Administration Degree at Manpower Chile
- 20+ years of experience as office manager and as a bilingual assistant to directors, partners and senior management
Advisors
Alfred Gusenbauer
Chairman Advisory Board
Austrian politician who studied law, philosophy, political science and economy at the University of Vienna, completing his PhD in political science. As a politician, he served as Chancellor of Austria and head of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPö) for eight years. Today, he works as a consultant and university lecturer, and as a member of advisory boards of Austrian and foreign private and not-for-profit companies.
Patricio Walker
Advisory Board Member
Lawyer from Diego Portales University with a Master in Regulatory Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica (LLM-UC). He has been a professor at Georgetown University (GCL) and is currently a professor of the Master of Environmental Law (LLM UC) and the Master of Environmental Law at Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD). During his political career, he was a Congressman for the Coquimbo Region and Senator for the Aysén Region, and served as President of both Congress and the Senate. He later joined VGC Abogados as a lawyer and Senior Counsel.
Alejandro Espinoza
Advisory Board Member
Lawyer from Universidad de Concepción, and Senior partner at EH Abogados. Vast experience in complex trials and proceedings, leading the defense of media companies and high profile public officers, among others. His corporate practice focuses on criminal litigation, having represented banks, financial institutions, real estate and insurance companies, airlines, energy, fishing and telecom companies, among others.