Event information
Agenda
5:30pm Registration
6:00pm Opening Remarks
6:10pm DE&I beyond corporate policies
In today’s world, diversity and inclusion policies are part of the minimum standards of corporate social responsibility. Increasingly, organisations are publicising their policies and highlighting their achievements in meeting diversity and inclusion goals. In this panel, we will share stories of companies that have succesfully committed to their DE&I programmes, barriers they may have faced, and the social and organisational benefits achieved. Topics will touch upon:
- Three models of Diversity and Inclusion: Disability, Gender and Sexual Orientation, Opportunities for all.
- Diversity for Colombia, post-conflict, post-penalty and Los Ninis.
- Barriers and opportunities.
7:00pm Gender, Equity and Prosperity
Although women’s rights have been materially recognised in recent decades, significant inequalities remain in areas that have not been explored or are still latent in our society. The concept of gender continues to be an implicit bias and is often unrecognised in the workplace. In this panel, we will discuss some gender-specific elements and disparities still present today when evaluating men and women and ways to further close these gaps. Some of the issues addressed will encompass:
- Wage Gaps.
- The Care Economy and Gender Pay.
- The Right to Time.
- Policymaking and Women’s Representation.
7:50pm Closing remarks followed by networking drinks and canapes
9:00pm Event concludes
Speakers
Alexandra Aguirre, Holland & Knight
Alexandra Aguirre is a corporate attorney in Holland & Knight’s Miami office. Ms. Aguirre focuses her practice on international mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and cross-border financing transactions, as well as private equity and venture capital investments throughout Latin America and the United States. In addition, Ms. Aguirre advises high net worth families and their family offices on matters related to the proactive management of a privately held corporation, providing tailored corporate advice, including corporate governance structure for family and all types of businesses, the generation of organizational policies and procedures, orderly wealth succession planning, as well as the creation and preservation of business value, liquidity optimization alternatives and exit strategies.
Juan Pablo Castillo, director of human resources for Sodexo Latam, director of corporate affairs for Sodexo Colombia
Juan Pablo Castillo is an economist with postgraduate training in Marketing Management and MBA in Senior Management Studies. He has more than 20 years of experience working for multinational companies in different management positions with responsibilities for Colombia, the United States and LatAm. He is a professor at the Faculty of Management of the Universidad de los Andes. He currently serves as Director of Human Resources for Sodexo LatAm and Corporate Affairs for Sodexo Colombia.
Diana Dallos, legal corporate manager, Geopark
Paola Ximena Hernandez, head of social responsibility, Sodimac Colombia
Paola Ximena Hernandez heads the Social Responsibility department at the national level of Sodimac Colombia, where she is responsible for managing sustainable/ESG projects and corporate affairs, aimed at generating value among the company’s different stakeholders to increase its corporate reputation. She has extensive experience in public affairs, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, stakeholder project management, diversity and inclusion, reputation, environment, human rights, inclusive business and supplier development.
Norberto Quintana, partner, Holland & Knight
Norberto Quintana is an attorney in the financial services practice in Holland & Knight’s New York and Miami offices and a member of the firm’s financial services group. Mr. Quintana represents a wide range of lenders, corporate borrowers, investors, project developers and private equity investors in cross-border and domestic financing transactions. Mr. Quintana has worked on a number of cross-border project financings for the infrastructure, oil and gas and energy sectors. Five of his Latin American infrastructure project financings received “Deal of the Year” recognition in the years of their respective financial closings. It also advises private equity and venture capital funds on underwriting lines, as well as other corporate, Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) and portfolio company financings.
Camila Quintero, legal vice president, CAF-ASHMORE
Camila Quintero is a lawyer from Universidad del Rosario, with a Master of Laws (LLM) from Duke University. She is Vice President of Legal at professional asset manager Ashmore CAF-AM, where she serves as manager of the first and largest infrastructure debt fund in Colombia with assets under management valued at COP$1.45 billion. Prior to joining the Ashmore CAF-AM team, she was a senior lawyer at PPU, where she worked for a little over 6 years. She was also a foreign associate for 1 year at Milbank’s New York office. Throughout her career, she has worked on corporate and project financings with a particular focus on infrastructure and has had the opportunity to advise both developers and lenders on the closing and monitoring of 4G road projects.
Maria Camila Silva, legal manager, Banca de Inversión Bancolombia S.A.
Maria Camila Silva is a lawyer from Universidad Javeriana and a specialist in financial legislation from Universidad de los Andes. She was recently promoted as Legal Manager of Bancolombia Investment Banking, one of the leading banks in the Colombian market and a pioneer in infrastructure financing. Maria Camila has held various legal positions at the Bank, which she joined in 2006. Throughout her professional career, she has had a transactional profile, including international leasing transactions, infrastructure leasing, corporate loans, structured loans, capital markets operations and large M&A transactions, both in the local and international markets.
Maria Juliana Saa, Holland & Knight
Maria Juliana Saa Hoyos is a lawyer in Holland & Knight’s Bogotá office, who focuses her practice in the areas of general financial services and is an expert in structured finance and project finance in the different infrastructure sectors. Maria Juliana has advised local and international financiers on a wide range of financing structures as well as major sponsors. She has also been involved in important financial transactions not only in Colombia but also in other Latin American countries, which has allowed her to develop a wide experience in those markets and in different financing structures, including complex capital structures involving multiple participants.
Paula Guerra Tamara, VP of corporate affairs and strategy, ETB
Paula Guerra Tamara is a lawyer from the Universidad Javeriana, with a specialisation in Telecommunications Law from the Universidad del Rosario, a Master’s degree in Administration and Information Technology from the Tecnológico de Monterrey and in Conflict Resolution from Carleton University in Canada. She is also a member of Mujeres Tic Bogotá.
Paula has more than 17 years of experience in corporate affairs, management and monitoring of relationship strategies, conflict resolution, telecommunications regulation, planning and execution of Social Responsibility strategies and sustainability projects. She has served as Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at Avantel. In ETB she worked as Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Manager between 2007 and 2017 and is currently the Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Strategy of this company. She also has experience in the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá and in companies such as ConenergÃa S.A. and Portales Urbanos.
Inés Elvira Vesga, partner, Holland & Knight
Inés Elvira Vesga is a corporate and transactional lawyer in Holland & Knight’s Bogotá office, where she focuses her practice on international mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate matters, as well as energy regulatory matters and complex transactions, particularly in the energy sector. Ms. Vesga is an expert in advising domestic and foreign clients in corporate and M&A transactions in different industries such as oil and gas, energy and natural resources, renewable energy, logistics, telecommunications and healthcare providers, among others. She has more than 15 years of experience advising on regulatory matters, oil and gas projects, and other complex corporate negotiations and is able to understand and serve clients in a wide range of transactions in numerous jurisdictions. Ines Elvira is our local chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee where she has been promoting exciting initiatives.
Nicolás Rozo Villaraga, legal head, UBITS
