The Team - Acvay
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Financial Dynamism
in Latin America's largest projects
Our Directors
Multidisciplinary team with more than 20 years of financial experience
  • Results-oriented, recognized for a high degree of efficiency, achieving successful closures of tailored mandates throughout the Americas
  • We structure and execute complex transactions under international standards
  • Extensive experience and insight of various sectors of the economy
  • Specialists in bringing investors and strategic partners closer to solidly structured renewable energy and infrastructure projects across Latin America.
Angelica Leon Valencia
Founding Partner
Director General

She is a business administrator and finance specialist with a Master of Business Administration MBA from the Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, specializing on strategic planning and corporate governance.

Angelica was Regional Director of the Foreign Trade Bank of Colombia and has served internationally as a banker. She has more than twenty years of experience leading projects, strategic planning, financial structuring, risk management, asset, and wealth management for companies in Latin America.

Has extensive experience in M&A transactions, capital markets and structured financing, having advised both local and international companies. Has established solid relationships with private equity funds and other institutional investors.

Angelica is our Director General and is currently leading many negotiations and strategic alliances between international funding groups and Latin American companies.

Vinko Vrhovnik Del Real
Founding Partner
Director of Financial Structuring

Is a business administrator with a degree from Universidad Autonoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia, specializing in international marketing, organizational design and operational transformation.

Vinko has more than twenty-two years of experience between the financial and real sectors. Has represented leading international companies in asset and wealth management. Providing strategic-financial planning to entrepreneurs and companies throughout Latin America. Has worked on multiple private equity and venture capital transactions in Latam, playing a key role in business development and investment, structuring, fundraising, and negotiation.

Vinko is our Director of Financial Structuring, leads our financial analysis teams and oversees all mandate processes.

Carlos E. Ferreira
Founding Partner
Director of Business and Projects

Holds a bachelor's degree in Maritime Sciences, a graduate of the Naval School of Venezuela, a Master's Degree in International Trade from the European Postgraduate Institute in Madrid, as well as specializations in the areas of Quality Management ISO 9001 and Dispute Resolution.

Carlos is a business leader, with eighteen years of experience in the development of international corporate networking. Given his extensive network between Latin America and Asia, has led operations of complex logistics and financial projects for large corporations.

Carlos is our Director of Business and Projects, develops new business opportunities through our Project Division by providing comprehensive advice on infrastructure and energy projects throughout Latam.

Ana Maria L. de Torres
Legal Director & Corporate Governance

She is a Lawyer and Specialist in Administrative Law, graduated from The Autonomous University of the Caribbean, Barranquilla, Colombia. She has expertise and specialization in Commercial Law and Corporate Governance.
Ana María worked at La Defensoría Del Pueblo in Colombia and has been a Legal Adviser to national and regional companies on issues related to commercial and labor law. She provides advice to our clients in all areas of business law including the establishment, management and administration of companies, advice on conflicts between partners and internal corporate reorganizations.

She has more than twelve years of experience and has focused on strategic advice based on sustainability; structure, operation and monitoring of projects in all sectors of the economy, applicable tax efficiencies.

Ana María is our Legal Director and has the experience and knowledge to advise our international clientele in regulatory matters with government authorities, financing transactions such as project financing, syndicated credits, structured financing, and implementation of guarantee schemes.

Maria Jose Navarro L.
Director of Institutional Relations

She is a Business Administrator having graduated from Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. She is currently working on a Masters Degree with an emphasis on Successful Entrepreneurship, at the Eleventh Institute, Monterrey, Mexico.

María José worked in Analysis and Marketing at Triario, Inbound Marketing Agency in Colombia. Leading different institutional accounts, including Ban Colombia. Implemented a digital marketing methodology for common goals, creating a positive impact on customer?s ROI.

Her experience has taken place in defining objectives and developing programs that strengthen the relationship of companies with other institutions, companies, public and private entities. Establishing partnership frameworks and agreements that reinforce the values and mission of their customers.

María José leads our Institutional Relations area and is currently responsible for the relationship and interaction with our clients across all digital platforms and creates strategic alliances with companies and institutions in the different sectors of the Latin American economy.

Helen Gomez
Director of Business Intelligence

She has a degree in Business Administration from the Dominican University O&M., an expert in Customer Service. He has a Master in Business Intelligence from the Spanish University Unir. Helen has built a broad business and institutional relationship in the Caribbean and North America, managing great business opportunities in different economic sectors.

 

Helen has more than 12 years of experience in the real and air transport sector, acquiring extensive experience in international negotiation processes, which today places at the service of our customers successfully achieving the closures of their transactions.

 

Helen is our Director of Business Intelligence, and is currently a leader in business relationships with our clients in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico

Billy Leiva
Member of the Acvay Capital Management Team

Billy es Ph. D. (Doctorado) en Marketing especialidad en Responsabilidad Social Empresarial y en Oratoria Política Universidad Estatal de Alabama, Billy is PhD in Marketing specializing in Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Speaking at Alabama State University, United States. Specialist in Teaching Harvard Case Methodology. Specialist in Case Writing at Harvard University. Adviser in Oratory to political candidates for the presidency, government and mayors of the United States, Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Spain. Billy has management experience in banking, oil, services and products in New Orleans, United States. In addition, he has academic experience as a professor at the bachelor?s, master?s and doctoral level. As well as, Postgraduate Management and curricular generation for design of master programs in different universities in the Americas.

Maria Victoria Valencia
Member of the Acvay Capital Management Team

María Victoria is the founder of the Spanish American Business Congress, a company recognized by the United States Congress. She has been the founder of different enterprises in the countries where she has resided in recent years such as Spain, Canada and the United States. Among other achievements, she is Doctor Honoris and causes for the social contribution and leadership in Latin America granted by Universidad Orageu. She holds an honorary doctorate in culture of peace and corporate social responsibility from Universidad Aquino de Bolivia and the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias e Informática. He received the gold necklace for world peace by the foreign minister of Peru.  Among his academic achievements is a Master in Coaching and Leadership from the University of Barcelona and the National Institute of Education of Catalonia. He holds a Master?s Degree in Training and a Master?s Degree in People Selection from the Chamber of Commerce of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Madrid. He holds a master?s degree in Business Management and Human Resources from the Chamber of Commerce of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Madrid.

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