Jorge Celio

Advise governments, governmental agencies, multilateral institutions, small firms and corporations in the design and implementation of development consulting, finance structuring, company valuation, fairness opinions, investments and divestitures in: • Banking – Risk Management • Securities and Capital Markets • Corporate Governance • Privatizations & Concessions • Mergers & Acquisitions Broad experience on corporate governance, corporate finance, strategic planning, project finance and investment banki

Assistant to the Board of Directors - Advised the board on all issues related with Capital Markets, Investor Relations and negotiations with Development Banks and Multilateral Agencies. • Responsible for designing and implementing the Corporate Governance plan for the bank. • Raised new funds with multilateral and private banks through various forms of innovative financial engineering. • Provided financial and macroeconomic analysis to the board and senior management.

Vice President, Lead Strategist (Acting COO) • Primary responsibilities included corporate development and strategy, evaluation of key legal and operational issues, capital raising, and development of consortium of leading financial entities to lead FireXchange. • Conducted one-on-one meetings with senior executives from leading companies and high level government officials in Latin America and actively cultivated and maintained relationships with key decision makers. • Managed the development of propriet

Associate Director • Helped direct expansion into new markets by identifying attractive targets for sovereign, corporate and structure ratings. • Responsible for the rating and surveillance of banks, corporates and countries in Latin America and Europe, and maintaining issuer and investor relations. Provided analysis to our structure group on international transactions. • Supervised analysis and published fundamental research on Latin American countries and corporates.

Lehman Brothers - New York, New York / Boston, Massachusetts Sr. Analyst - Emerging Markets Fixed Income • Provided analysis to debt strategist and traders. Worked on debt re-negotiations and bank re-structuring. Relayed analysis investment recommendations and market strategies to institutional and retail clients. Published reports on various Latin American countries. Co-authored portions of the Brady Market Handbook, Political and Economic Fact Sheets and Sovereign Risk Model. Contributed to various s