COLOMBIA
Jury President, Latin America

Film Producer

Producing advertising spots for major multinational companies

Mrs Joyce Ventura has conducted studies, internships and various film workshops (with Jean Claude Carriere, Gabriel Garcia Marquez among others) in Colombia, France, the USA, Germany and Cuba. A film producer with an entrepreneurial spirit, she co-founded the film and advertising production company UNO Ltda, created in l971 in Bogota (Colombia) and has worked on more than 2 000 advertising spots for clients such as Pepsi-Cola, Marlboro, Renault, Mazda, Iberia, Unilever, Colgate Palmolive... More recently, she was involved in the founding of the film-production channel G3, an international partnership project between Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.

Involvement in short films and feature films

Mrs Ventura's work encompasses both short films and feature films. She was the director and screenwriter of a short film on child prostitution, No Hay Mal Que Dure Cien Anos (No evil can last a hundred years) which received the Grand Prize at the Moscow Film Festival in 1980. Among the 12 feature films she has produced: Gamin by Ciro Duran, a Franco-Colombian coproduction, presented at the Cannes Film Festival Quinzaine des Realisateurs, Tropical Snow by Ciro Duran, a US/Colombian co-production with Madeleine Stowe and David Carradine, Paramount Pictures worldwide distribution.

In addition, Mrs Joyce Ventura serves as image consultant for the Colombian Tourism Promotion Fund and has worked with the Colombian Ministry of Culture on the creation and executive production of the Film Marketing Seminar in Bogota and Carthagene.

Mrs Ventura serves on the International Advisory Board of the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society.

COSTA RICA

President, INCAE School of Business
www.incae.edu/ES

Education

• Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Harvard University, Graduate School of Business, 1992
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), INCAE, 1982
• B.S. Naval Engineering, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, 1980

Professional

• President, INCAE, 1999-present
• Dean, INCAE, 1996-1999
• Director and founder, Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS), 1995-1999
• INCAE is the premier school of business in Latin America and CLACDS is one of the most important think-tanks in topics of social, economic, and competitive development in the region, serving 12 countries in Latin America)
• Trust Protector, ViVa Trust, one of the largest philanthropic organizations working in Latin America
• President of MARVIVA de Costa Rica, a private, non-profit organization created to protect selected insular and coastal areas of Latin America
• Director, Central American Leadership Initiative, a joint program of INCAE, the Aspen Institute, Fundem's, and Technoserve
• Director of several private corporations including COPA Airlines (a public company listed in NYSE), COCECA (Central American Brewery), Rostipollos (the largest local food franchise in Costa Rica), CM Datatex (a technology and communications company), W2W Costa Rica (a sports promotion corporation)
• Advisor to AED, the largest local philanthropic group in Costa Rica; FUNDESA, a social equity foundation in Guatemala; and several other philanthropic and development organizations in the region

Experience

• Private consulting, has provided strategic planning services and advice to corporations such as Bunge (Brazil), Purdy Motor (Toyota of Costa Rica), Cemento Panam (Panam), INTEL (Costa Rica) and many others in more than 12 countries of Latin America
• Public sector, has been advisor in competitiveness to more than 20 government teams in 8 countries, including those of Central America, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Croatia in topics of national competitiveness and socioeconomic development. Has also served as advisor in topics of development and competition to the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), and many public-private interphase organizations in topics of competitive and sustainable development.

Publications

• The Competitiveness of, has written five monographs, one per country, for each of the national economies of the five Central American Nations, 1998
• Cambiar para prosperar, Centro America ante el nuevo siglo (Prosperity Through Change, Central America before the New Century), 1999
• Between 1994 and 2004 he has authored or coauthored more than 50 monographs and working papers in topics of the impact of logistics, telecommunications, customs, etc. of national competitiveness, as well as competitiveness analysis of productive sectors such as tourism, agribusiness, textiles, transportation, etc. in at least seven countries.
• The recent focus of his work is on social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility and their impact on the process of sustainable development.

Other

He has been keynote speaker in more than 40 national or international conferences, on topics of competitiveness, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and social entrepreneurship in 16 countries including all the nations in Central America, U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Thailand and Croatia. He has been guest speaker for the Council of the Americas, the Interamerican Development Bank, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, Caribbean Latin American Action, and other international organizations in Japan and Taiwan.

Personal

Born in Costa Rica, 46 years of age, proficient in Spanish and English at native level, has worked in more than 30 countries around the world and traveled extensively in five continents. Married to Marcella, 3 children of 21, 19, and 13.

BRAZIL

Partner of Participações Morro Vermelho
www.camargocorrea.com.br
Chairperson of the Board of Childhood Brazil
www.childhood.org

Rosana is one of the controlling shareholders and Director of Morro Vermelho S.A. (PMV), which is the controlling holding company of the Camargo Corrêa Group, one of the largest private business conglomerates in Brazil. The Group comprises 18 companies, mainly within the industrial, infrastructure and consumer products arenas, employing over 30,000 people.

Over the past 12 years, Rosana has been very active and increasingly involved in the most relevant and strategic matters of the Group. She has participated in the development of the Group's growth strategy, including international expansion to other countries in Latin America, Europe and more recently Africa, as well as acquisitions, divestitures, investment policies and selection of some of the key executives of the Group.

Rosana has a great retribution drive, focused on helping the development of sustainable life dynamics for less favored individuals and families. In parallel with her corporate attributions, she has been a very active board member of several non profit organizations - notably in the areas of endangered youth protection, education, community development and corporate social responsibility, either through entrepreneurial initiatives or serving in already consolidated organizations. She is currently:

• Chairwoman of the Board of the World Childhood Foundation in Brazil;
• Chairwoman of the Board of the Instituto Camargo Corrêa (Brazil);
• Board Member of the World Childhood Foundation (Sweden);
• Board Member of the Loma Negra Foundation (Argentina);
• Board Member of the Instituto Alcoa in Brazil;
• Board Member of the ICE (Institute for Corporate Citizenship) in Brazil;
• Member of the Superior Council of Social Responsibility of FIESP (Sao Paulo State Industry Federation), Brazil;
• Member of the Orientation Group of Itaù Social Program, Brazil.

Rosana was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is married to Fernando de Arruda Botelho, has two daughters and one son, and two grandchildren. She holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from the Mackenzie University in Brazil.

MEXICO

Principal, McKinsey & Company
www.mckinsey.com

Xavier Leroux is a Principal in the Mexico City office of McKinsey & Company, which he joined as an associate in 1999. His practice focuses on serving clients in the oil and gas and the telecommunications sectors. He has also served several branches of the government sector in Mexico. He has worked for clients in Mexico, the U.S., and South America, on topics related with strategy, organization, and operational improvement.

Before joining McKinsey, Xavier worked for Chase Securities Inc. in New York and for the Procter & Gamble Company in Mexico.

Xavier holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

ARGENTINA

Director of Public Affairs, Rincon de Corrientes S.A.

An international background in banking and telecom

Maria Margarita Melo de Vaquer was born in Washington D.C., USA, but is an Argentine citizen.

Daughter of an Argentine diplomat, Mrs Margarita Vaquer lived and studied in Brazil, Peru, France, Algiers and Switzerland. She graduated as an Economist from the University of Buenos Aires and started her career in the banking sector, working for Boston Bank Foundation in Buenos Aires, and the Credit Lyonnais in Paris and Argentina.

During her time at the Credit Lyonnais she participated actively in the privatization process that took place in Argentina in the '90s. In particular, she assisted France Telecom which, in association with the Italian Stet, acquired the privatized telecommunications company Telecom Argentina. Hired later by the France Telecom group to organize and manage France Cables et Radio office in Buenos Aires, she would remain in that position until 1995, when she moved to Geneva, Switzerland due to family reasons.

Launching micro-credit programs in rural areas

Since 2000, she is the Director of Public Affairs of Rincon de Corrientes S.A., a food-industry group which owns cattle-producing ranches or "Estancias", an extremely important activity for Argentina both for the local market and for export. As such, she works closely with the authorities, at the provincial and national levels, on issues of environmental protection, road construction and maintenance etc. In 2006, in the province of Corrientes where the largest Estancia is located, she participated in the launch of a micro-credit program directed at remote rural areas.

Margarita Vaquer speaks 4 languages: Spanish, French, English and Portuguese. Married, with four children, she currently resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

COLOMBIA

Founder of Winters Media Consulting

Rosemary Winters is the founder and Executive Director of Winters Media Consulting a firm that specializes in providing consulting for publishing groups in the areas of integrated marketing programs in print, online and event coordination.

Prior to that and until April 2007, Rosemary was working for CondeNast Latinoamerica as the Director for Latin America. In that role she was responsible for managing a sales team in the Miami office and a network of international sales representatives in Latin America for the pan-regional Spanish editions of Vogue and Glamour Latinoamerica and Mexico. She was also responsible for the US Sales into the Mexico editions of Architectural Digest and GQ. In her capacity as the Director, she was responsible for strategic planning including the reporting of the Miami operation to the head office in Mexico and the international operation of CondeNast in London. She supervised and coordinated the logistics of local and international event participation and flagship ceremonies including the Glamour Beauty Awards to achieve branding and positioning of each publication.

In 2003, Rosemary founded Winters Media Consulting and through this firm she represented two large publishing groups; Source Media-formerly Thomson Media, as the Director of Latin America & the Caribbean and LatinTrade magazine as the Managing Director of Government Relations. Among her responsibilities were the generation of 100% new business development for Latin America and the Caribbean for Source Media, a $1.44 billion provider of worldwide e-information services and integrated work solutions headquartered in New York representing American Banker, US Banker, Bank Technology News, and Card Technology.

As the Managing Director for Government Relations for Latin Trade she developed special programs for the Latin American and Caribbean governments both federal and state authorities to help promote economic development and tourism to the international investment community.

From March 1990 until June of 1999 she was Vice President & Associate Publisher of
LatinFinance, a Euromoney publication. As an executive member of the management team, Rosemary was responsible for strategic planning and new business development including, budget planning and overall decision-making to achieve corporate goals for the leading monthly financial publication for Latin America. She also managed the international advertising and conference operations based in Miami with representatives in New York and London.

Rosemary Winters holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Florida International University, Miami, Florida 1990 and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology-Second Major Business Administration from Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

CHILE

Publisher & Editor of Harvard Business Review América Latina
www.hbral.com

An entrepreneurial media professional

Ricardo Zisis is the Publisher & Editor of Harvard Business Review América Latina. Besides being a seasoned business editor, Ricardo is also an entrepreneur himself. In 2002 he founded Impact Media, a publishing and education company which publishes Harvard Business Review in Latin America and develops conferences and executive education programs throughout the region.

Ricardo was formerly part of the founding team of América Economia, a pan-regional business magazine, where he was at different times editor-in-chief, publisher and executive vice-president, from 1986 trough 2000. During his career, Ricardo has extensively worked with, visited and supervised projects in all Latin American countries, and he has been a frequent speaker in Conferences in the region and the U.S.

He holds a B.A. in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a M.A. in Economics from the Universidad de Chile.