Gary Nusbaum joined Palladium Equity Partners, LLC in 2006 and serves as managing director. He has more than 15 years of experience in private equity and asset management. As managing director at Warburg Pincus, Nusbaum had responsibility for more than 20 investments including companies in the media, telecommunications, environmental, and logistics sectors. He opened and ran its Sao Paulo office. Nusbaum also served as managing director of Aetos Capital, an asset management firm where he served as chief financial officer and was a member of the investment committee for the firm's Japan-focused real estate fund, Aetos Capital Asia.

As Managing Partner of InSpirit, a company that partners with Latin American business leaders, Simon Zisman, continues his career in development and consulting. Early on Simon spent nine years in management consulting at Arthur D. Little, eventually being appointed the youngest Associate Director (Partner) in the Latin American region. His expertise grew in telecommunications, strategy and organization. In 2001, Zisman co-founded Comerxia (www.comerxia.com), where he remained on board as CEO until 2004. Zisman is the co-founder of two highly successful entrepreneurial ventures in the restaurant and personal security business.

Since 2003, Luis Alberto Suarez has managed a diversified retail and real estate portfolio as a wealth manager for Global Solutions, S.A. Over the past two decades, Suarez has filled several roles including founder and director of finance and planning for Vitroaceros, corporate finance area manager for Citibank Guayaquil and director of finance and planning for Masta, S.A. Machines and Motors. A graduate of Brown University, Suarez has also served as adviser to Ecuadorian companies and economic groups such as Consorcio Noboa in Ecuador.

Based in New York, Eduardo Hauser Sr. is an active investor with a talent for leading. After earning a degree in Chemical Engineering and Financial Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1959, Hauser returned to Venezuela to join IPA (Industria Productos Asfalticos). Founded by his father Adolfo Hauser in 1943, IPA became Venezuela's largest producer and distributor of asphalt-based products. Hauser became a managing partner in 1970 and remained at the helm until he sold the company in 1982.

Palladium Equity Partners, LLC (www.palladiumequity.com) is an investment firm targeting companies in media, business and financial services, consumer/retail, food/restaurants, healthcare, and manufacturing. The principals of Palladium have invested more than $2.5 billion of equity in more than 50 portfolio companies over the past two decades. Formed in 1997, Palladium has capital under management in excess of $750 million.

Led by Miles Gilburne, ZG Ventures is a Washington DC-based private investment firm. Gilburne is a unique corporate strategist, venture capitalist, deal maker and technology lawyer with more than 25 years of experience. From 1994 to 1999, he served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of America Online (AOL), where he was responsible for strategic planning and major corporate acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances. Before joining AOL, Gilburne was a founding partner of The Cole Gilburne Fund, an early stage venture capital fund, and a founding partner of technology and media law firms in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

An international, independent, asset management and professional consulting organization providing financial advisory, strategic consulting and outsourced management services to some of Latin America's leading corporations and select international clients with ties to Latin America. Global Solutions was founded in January 2000 by its Chief Executive Officer, Jose Luis Suarez. Before forming Globso, Suarez held senior positions in the public and private sector, including Economic Advisor to Ecuador's President Gustavo Noboa.