Corporate Governance
Jorge Muñoz
Mr. Muñoz has over 30 + years of Private International, Commercial and Public Development banking experience. He currently serves as the Chairman of Banco Amazonas and former CEO, in Ecuador. Prior to joining Banco Amazonas, he worked for Citibank and Bank of America, among others. He has been appointed to advisory boards in major regional corporations and has held executive positions as CEO and COO in sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, international trade, education, non-profit organizations, among others. He also acted as Economic and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of Ecuador.Mr. Muñoz obtained a B.S. from the Pan American Agricultural School (Honduras) and is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a B.S. in Agricultural Economics and a master’s degree in Applied Economics. Mr. Muñoz is also bilingual in Spanish and English.
Pedro Viera
Mr. Viera has over 30 years of experience as a business executive in both the private and the non-profit sectors. His experience includes executives’ positions as a Partner, CEO, President and COO positions in the manufacturing, banking, Housing, construction and development, education, start-ups, among others. He has participated and been appointed to multiple U.S. federal government executive and advisory boards and managed federal programs with a national scope. He is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico with a degree in Economics and Urban Planning with post-graduate studies in economic and planning from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a professor and lecturer at The University of Puerto Rico and business consultants for multiple corporations in the US. Bilingual in Spanish/English.
Jorge Muñoz
Mr. Muñoz has over 30 + years of Private International, Commercial and Public Development banking experience. He currently serves as the Chairman of Banco Amazonas and former CEO, in Ecuador. Prior to joining Banco Amazonas, he worked for Citibank and Bank of America, among others. He has been appointed to advisory boards in major regional corporations and has held executive positions as CEO and COO in sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, international trade, education, non-profit organizations, among others. He also acted as Economic and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of Ecuador.Mr. Muñoz obtained a B.S. from the Pan American Agricultural School (Honduras) and is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a B.S. in Agricultural Economics and a master’s degree in Applied Economics. Mr. Muñoz is also bilingual in Spanish and English.
Pedro Viera
Mr. Viera has over 30 years of experience as a business executive in both the private and the non-profit sectors. His experience includes executives’ positions as a Partner, CEO, President and COO positions in the manufacturing, banking, Housing, construction and development, education, start-ups, among others. He has participated and been appointed to multiple U.S. federal government executive and advisory boards and managed federal programs with a national scope. He is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico with a degree in Economics and Urban Planning with post-graduate studies in economic and planning from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a professor and lecturer at The University of Puerto Rico and business consultants for multiple corporations in the US. Bilingual in Spanish/English.
Jorge Muñoz
Mr. Muñoz has over 30 + years of Private International, Commercial and Public Development banking experience. He currently serves as the Chairman of Banco Amazonas and former CEO, in Ecuador. Prior to joining Banco Amazonas, he worked for Citibank and Bank of America, among others. He has been appointed to advisory boards in major regional corporations and has held executive positions as CEO and COO in sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, international trade, education, non-profit organizations, among others. He also acted as Economic and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of Ecuador.Mr. Muñoz obtained a B.S. from the Pan American Agricultural School (Honduras) and is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a B.S. in Agricultural Economics and a master’s degree in Applied Economics. Mr. Muñoz is also bilingual in Spanish and English.
Jorge Muñoz
Mr. Muñoz has over 30 + years of Private International, Commercial and Public Development banking experience. He currently serves as the Chairman of Banco Amazonas and former CEO, in Ecuador. Prior to joining Banco Amazonas, he worked for Citibank and Bank of America, among others. He has been appointed to advisory boards in major regional corporations and has held executive positions as CEO and COO in sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, international trade, education, non-profit organizations, among others. He also acted as Economic and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of Ecuador.Mr. Muñoz obtained a B.S. from the Pan American Agricultural School (Honduras) and is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a B.S. in Agricultural Economics and a master’s degree in Applied Economics. Mr. Muñoz is also bilingual in Spanish and English.
Pedro Viera
Mr. Viera has over 30 years of experience as a business executive in both the private and the non-profit sectors. His experience includes executives’ positions as a Partner, CEO, President and COO positions in the manufacturing, banking, Housing, construction and development, education, start-ups, among others. He has participated and been appointed to multiple U.S. federal government executive and advisory boards and managed federal programs with a national scope. He is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico with a degree in Economics and Urban Planning with post-graduate studies in economic and planning from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a professor and lecturer at The University of Puerto Rico and business consultants for multiple corporations in the US. Bilingual in Spanish/English.
Pedro Viera
Mr. Viera has over 30 years of experience as a business executive in both the private and the non-profit sectors. His experience includes executives’ positions as a Partner, CEO, President and COO positions in the manufacturing, banking, Housing, construction and development, education, start-ups, among others. He has participated and been appointed to multiple U.S. federal government executive and advisory boards and managed federal programs with a national scope. He is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico with a degree in Economics and Urban Planning with post-graduate studies in economic and planning from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a professor and lecturer at The University of Puerto Rico and business consultants for multiple corporations in the US. Bilingual in Spanish/English.
Julio Márquez
Julio has 30+ years of experience in cross-border principal investments and M&A. He is the Managing Partner of New York Bay Capital, one of the leading cross-border boutiques in New York. He is also Managing Director at Young America Capital, a FINRA-licensed broker-dealer, where he heads the Latin American department.Julio previously worked at institutions such as Global Emerging Markets Group (Managing Director and Head for Latin America), Violy Byorum & Partners (Director and Head of Analytics — Latin America), Wasserstein Perella (Vice President-International), Citibank (Latin America Private Banking) and Morgan Stanley (Analyst).He has developed particular expertise in structuring foreign investments in Latin America in industries as diverse as media/telecom, manufacturing, retailing, energy, oil & gas, plastics, and steel. Julio holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree with honors in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Director
Jorge Muñoz
President
Has over 30 + years of Private International, Commercial and Public Development banking experience with a vast network of contacts in the banking and financial realms. His latest participation in banking was as Chairman of Banco Amazonas up until Q1 2023 and former CEO, in Ecuador. Prior to joining Banco Amazonas, he worked for Citibank and Bank of America, among others. He has been appointed to advisory boards in major regional corporations and has held executive positions as CEO and COO in sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, international trade, education, non-profit organizations, among others. He also acted as Economic and Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture of Ecuador. Mr. Muñoz obtained a B.S. from the Pan American Agricultural School (Honduras) and is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned a B.S. in Agricultural Economics and a master’s degree in Applied Economics.