2ND CENTRAL AMERICA FINANCE & INVESTMENT FORUM March 10 -11, 2016 | Hilton Panama, Panama City LatinFinance’s Central America Finance and Investment Forum returned to the region on March 10-11 gathering key stakeholders from the public and private sectors for two days of informative panel discussions and 1-1 business meetings. Hosted in Panama, one of the region’s most promising economies, the country’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Dulcidio de la Guardia delivered the opening address touching on the region’s development, outlook, and access to capital markets and setting the pace and direction for the ensuing deliberations. The forum explored advances in regional integration, the development of the capital markets, ambitious infrastructure projects, successful Public-Private Partnerships and the pipeline for future developments. “I really believe that this kind of meeting for the region is extremely beneficial, the exchange of experiences and knowledge among colleagues and participants from different lines of business in the region has a positive effect of aligning objectives of both the public and private sectors, knowledge and implementation of best practices, success stories, among others.” Marelissa Quintero, Superintendent, Stock Market Superintendence, Panama Investors Reynaldo Sandoval, VP Private Funds Group, PineBridge Investments Abdiel Santiago, Secretary of the Fund, Fondo de Ahorro de Panama 2016 Event in Numbers: Martha Doblado Andara, Executive Director, Injupemp Roberto E. Alfaro, General Manager, Profuturo AFPC, S.A. Juan Pastor, CEO, Progreso S.A. Jean Paul Clement, Investment Director, BG Valores Total Alejandro Centeno Roa, General Manager, Popular Fondos de Inversión Attended Monica Navarrete, Senior Investment Officer - Inter-American Investment Corporation 267 Jorge Leonardo Laitano Torres, Investment Officer, AFP Atlantida Joaquin de la Guardia, Co-Founder and Director, Geneva Asset Management Elliot Sutton, Investment Manager, J. Safra Sarasin 1-1 Meetings 116 Corporates Stanley Motta, President, Motta International Fernando Poma, Managing Director Real Hotel and Resorts, Grupo Poma Gustavo Pimenta, CFO, AES Jose A. Montero, CFO, Copa Air Temistocles Rosas, CFO, Panama City’s Aeropuerto Internacional de Tocumen Antonio Lopez, CFO, FCC Construccion Mario Roberto Faraj, CEO, Diunsa Lawyers (2%) Digna María Moya González, CFO, Dos Pinos Press (4%) Carlos E. Barnes, Director, Empresa Nacional De Autopistas Issuers (31%) Ewald Scheel, Energy Division Manager, Enernova - Grupo Progreso Other (6%) Gustavo Rodriguez, President, Grodco Eduardo Jaspe, CFO, Grupo Melo Investors (6%) Rachid Maalouf Jr., CEO, Corporacion Lady Lee Claudio Otero, Head of Structure Finance, Grupo Terra Eduardo Escobal, Concessions Development Manager, Cosapi Advisors/Consultants/ Brokers (8%) Other prominent participants Dulcidio de la Guardia, Minister of Economy and Finance, Panama Ruben Morales, Minister of Economy, Guatemala Bankers (25%) Government Arnaldo Castillo, Minister of Economic Development, ProHonduras Ofcials (18%) Ivan Zarak, Vice-Minister of Economy, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Panama Eyda Varela, Vice-Minister of Finance, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Panama Victor Carlos Urrutia, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Energy, Panama Henry F. Acosta, Executive Secretary, Coalianza Alberto A. Aleman A., Director, Proinvex Panama Marlon Tabora, Executive Director, Inter-American Development Bank Marelissa Quintero, Superintendent, Stock Market Superintendency, Panama Sigfrido Reyes, President, PROESA, El Salvador Carlos Zarruk, Deputy Director, ProNicaragua www.latinfinance.com.