Twenty-five years of capital, from the Andes to the Gulf.

Now

• Non-executive director and board advisor to owners, funds and family offices in the Gulf and Latin America — transactions, capital structure, governance and ESG integration.
• Director of SOLID Equipment Solutions, a leading equipment-rental business serving Peru's infrastructure, industrial and agribusiness sectors, since 2014.
• Selective mandates in metals, mining and infrastructure, where the network built at UBS, SinoLatin and Synergy still runs from Santiago and Lima to Shanghai and Dubai.
• Keynote and panel speaking on cross-border M&A, private equity in emerging markets and sustainable value creation.

Selected work

Experience

1. 2014 – Present

   Director

   SOLID Equipment Solutions · Lima, Peru

   • Board director of a leading provider of equipment-rental solutions to Peru's infrastructure, industrial and agribusiness sectors.
2. Apr 2019 – Mar 2025

   Partner · Managing Director (2019–2022)

   Synergy Capital · Dubai, UAE

   • Partner at a private equity firm investing globally in the industrials, metals and infrastructure sectors.
   • Managing Director for the first three years, building the investment platform and team in Dubai.
3. 2015 – 2019

   Senior Director, Corporate M&A

   PepsiCo · Dubai, UAE

   • Led cross-functional teams optimising PepsiCo's operating footprint through divestitures, joint ventures and bottler optimisation; ran internal restructurings with project teams of more than 150 people.
   • Executed acquisitions and minority investments; prepared and presented strategic reviews to senior management.
   • Negotiated and completed around $4 billion of transactions, generating roughly $400 million of capital gains. Recipient of three Financial Excellence Awards.
4. 2012 – 2015

   Partner and CFO

   SinoLatin Capital · Shanghai, China

   • Originated and evaluated investments for a mandated Latin America natural-resources private equity fund sponsored by China Eximbank and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as club deals.
   • Headed operating-transformation initiatives across portfolio companies: ISO 9001 and OSH certification, IFRS adoption, and policies and KPIs for working capital, asset utilisation, capex and debt.
5. 2001 – 2011

   Executive Director

   UBS Investment Bank · New York

   • Metals and mining: originated and executed M&A and capital raisings for Antofagasta, BHP Billiton, Codelco, Grupo México and Volcan, among others; expanded coverage to junior and mid-tier Latin American producers.
   • M&A: member of the Fairness Opinion and Valuation Committee; specialised in cross-border transactions in metals and mining, oil and gas and infrastructure.
   • Latin America: spearheaded M&A origination and sector coverage for the region; as Operations Officer, managed a team of 15 bankers in New York and Mexico City and led junior recruiting for two years.
6. 1999 – 2001

   Analyst

   UBS Investment Bank · Argentina

   • Client coverage for the Southern Cone and execution of M&A and debt capital markets transactions.
7. 1999

   Strategic Planning Analyst

   Ternium · Argentina

   • Analysed vertical-integration targets and the performance of past acquisitions; market studies in the automotive and construction industries.

Education

• 1994 – 1998
  BA, Economics — graduated with honours; academic scholarship and Best Graduation Thesis · Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires

Honours

• 2018
  Finance Leadership Award · PepsiCo
• 2017
  AMENA Finance Award: Best of the Best, Strategic Impact · PepsiCo
• 2015 – 2019
  Financial Excellence Awards (three) · PepsiCo
• Deal of the Year recognitions · Investment banking and private equity

Expertise

Beyond the boardroom

• Argentine by birth, an economist by training, and at home in Dubai after a career that has run through Buenos Aires, New York, Mexico City, Shanghai and Lima.
• Native in Spanish and English, working Italian, some Portuguese.
• A long-standing advocate of ESG integration as a driver of value rather than a reporting exercise, and a regular keynote speaker and panellist on cross-border investment.

Contact

Open to non-executive and advisory roles, and to conversations about transactions in metals, mining, infrastructure and industrials — in the Gulf, Latin America and between the two.