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12 MARTA CRUZ Argentina NXTP Labs Marta Cruz Co-Founder & Director at NXTP Labs, a seed capital fund with an acceleration program for Latin America, focused on Spanish-speaking technology startups that are pursuing global or regional opportunities. Marta is also Co-Founder of digital agency Nextperience, where she currently serves as a Director. Prior to these two ventures, Marta worked for more than eight years at MRM Worldwide, the McCann Worldgroup digital agency, as Latam Regional Director, managing accounts likes of HP, Intel, Coca-Cola, GM, Hilton Hotel, Nortel, and MasterCard. MARIA CLAUDIA CORREA Colombia Silva Capital Partners Maria Claudia joined Efromovich/Silva Capital Partners as Operating Partner in March 2014 and works out of the Bogotá office. Maria Claudia has more than 25 years of experience working in finance, both in the public and private sectors. She has worked at the Corporacion Financiera del Valle as the Director for Strategic Planning, at the Ministry of Finance as Advisor to the Minister, and as Chief of Staff at the Financial Superintendency of Colombia. She then moved to Skandia, Old Mutual, as CFO to later become CIO where she was responsible for Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay and had US$12B under management. BERNHARD EIKENBERG Colombia Bamboo Finance JONATHAN DUARTE Colombia Elevar Equity Bernhard is the Latin America regional director for Bamboo Finance, managing Bamboo's operations and regional activities out of the regional hub in Bogota. Jonathan Duarte is a Senior Associate at Elevar Equity, a global investment fund focused on investing in companies providing basic services in Latin America and India. He currently supports the fund's investments in the region which are mostly financial services companies. Prior to Elevar he worked at the Monitor Group as part of the Markets & Customers practice in New York and Boston. He's also co-founder of ESCALA, a start-up aiming to provide higher education financing solutions to families in LatAm. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.