2022 Latin American Virtual Conference

• Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  11:30 am - 12:25 pm: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Carlos Eduardo Gondim

Carlos Eduardo Gondim is Executive Director of Life and Pensions at Porto, responsible for individual and group life, travel and credit life insurance, as well as Private Pension products. Prior to joining Porto, Gondim worked for more than 20 years with Strategy and Business Transformation at Booz-Allen Hamilton and McKinsey consultancies and at Patria Private Equity. Gondim graduated from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) as an Electronic Engineer and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  9:35 am - 10:35 am:

Mauricio Fonseca Valverde

As Agency Director, Mauricio created a company called ALFA CONSULTORES EN SEGUROS where he is responsible for executing start-up strategies, including:

• Recruiting and evaluating new candidates to select quality agents for the organization.
• Development and training based on coaching, with the aim of developing new agents in both professional and economic growth.
• Retention of agents based on an attractive career plan that provides activity and generates income for agents.
• Compliance with goals and objectives set by the company and by ourselves.

Prior to his current position, Mauricio worked at several other insurance companies, most recently at MetLife, where he was a member of the MDRT from 2017-2021 and gave talks, courses and conferences to different agents and promoters within the company about products, sales techniques, and objection handling.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  9:35 am - 10:35 am: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Rajatesh Gudibande

Rajatesh Gudibande is the co-founder and CEO at GraphWear Technologies Inc., a venture-backed startup based in San Francisco, California that is transforming the way human health is mapped. GraphWear is building the first no-needle, no-blood platform to diagnose and monitor diseases continuously without breaking the skin, with the first target being glucose levels for patients with diabetes. Before founding GraphWear, Rajatesh was the lead scientist and later Sr. Product Manager at Graphene Frontiers, where he managed the development of a cardiac troponin diagnostic test for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI). Prior to that Rajatesh was a nano-fabrication engineer at University of Pennsylvania, where he developed, characterized, and fabricated devices made of novel 2D nanoscale materials-including the Nobel prize winning material, Graphene. Rajatesh received his M.S. in Nanotechnology from University of Pennsylvania and B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in India. Rajatesh has patents and peer reviewed publications in electrical engineering, nanotechnology and signal processing.

• Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  10:35 am - 11:05 am: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Antonio Guzman Buscemi

Antonio leads In Motion’s cutting-edge new solutions, currently focused on the product suite called Nebula. Having worked in multiple roles throughout his more than 7 years at In Motion, he is now in charge of product ideation, roadmaps, strategy, recruitment, delivery, and technological direction across all products in the Nebula suite. He holds a master’s in information technology from Carnegie Mellon and a bachelor’s in software engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  11:45 am - 12:45 pm: CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Richardo Hausmann

Ricardo Hausmann is a pioneer in researching the causes of macroeconomic volatility in emerging markets, studying the role of budgetary and political institutions in achieving a fiscal balance, the role of external debt in foreign currency in economic crises, and its effects on the growth, poverty and inequality in developing countries. Under his leadership, Harvard’s Growth Lab has grown into one of the most well regarded and influential hubs for research on international development.

Since launching the Growth Lab in 2006, Hausmann has served as principal investigator for more than 50 research initiatives in nearly 30 countries, informing development policy, growth strategies and diversification agendas at the national and sub-national levels. His work has been published in top international economic journals, including Science, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of International Money and Finance, Economic Policy and the Journal of Economic Growth. These publications have been cited more than 42,000 times, and their main findings have been highlighted in mass media outlets such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Before joining Harvard University, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, Minister of Planning of Venezuela, a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela, and Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  10:45 am - 11:30 am: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Harry Hoopis

Harry Hoopis is the Chief Executive Officer of the Hoopis Performance Network and is a renowned entrepreneur, leader, speaker and industry icon. Over his 40 year career, he built one of the largest and most successful financial services firms in the world in Chicago, Illinois. During his illustrious career, Harry was awarded the Master Agency Award every year since its inception, received the Robert Templin Award for his many contributions to management development and is the recipient of NAIFA Chicago’s Leadership in Life Award. Harry was inducted in the GAMA International Management Hall of Fame. He served on the Board of Trustees for the GAMA International Foundation and is Past President of GAMA International as well as Northwestern Mutual’s General Agent’s Management Association. He is still an active member of two of the industry’s most elite study groups, the LIMRA Research Agencies Group and the General Agents Symposium. Harry is also the principal author of The Essentials of Management Development, creator of the Firm Foundations seminar series, and developer of the Fixed Activity Commitment System. Harry is the author of the best-selling book, The Road to the Bountiful Life: Achieving Success in Financial Services and donates all proceeds to the GAMA Foundation.

• Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  9:30 am - 9:40 am: WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

Carlos Islas Murguía

For more than 25 years, Carlos has worked for in the insurance and banking sectors in several positions as officer in various insurance companies; most recently as director of AXA Corporate University leading a new distribution channel, overseeing 300 direct agents in two different cities.

He was Risk Management Director in Grupo Financiero Promex Finamex, and prior to this, he was an insurance agent for Grupo Nacional Provincial, holding important positions in sales and attending Conventions every year.

He served as co-Chair of AMIS´ Distribution Channels Committee, participated as a spokesperson promoting an insurance culture in national media in programs such as Fernanda Familiar, was a columnist for Forbes Magazine and was on TV for more than 2 years in Excelsior TV with journalist Rodrigo Pacheco.

Academically, Carlos has a degree in Business Administration from La Salle University, a degree in Psychology from the University of the Valley of Mexico, a Master´s Degree in Clinical Psychology and a Ph.D. in Neuropsychoanalysis from the Intercontinental University. 

• Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  9:40 am - 10:30 am: OPENING KEYNOTE

Joe Jordan

Joe Jordan, inspirational speaker and behavioral finance expert, is the author of the award-winning book Living a Life of Significance which has sold over 100,000 copies and is translated in five languages. Formerly, Joe ran insurance sales at PaineWebber and more recently was a senior vice president at MetLife. He was responsible for retail product development and started their fee-based financial planning program and behavioral finance department. Joe is also a founder of the Insured Retirement Institute (formally known as the National Association of Variable Annuities or NAVA) and has been featured on the cover of Life Insurance Selling magazine.  For three consecutive years, he has been honored by Irish America magazine as one of the “Top 50 Irish Americans on Wall Street.” He was inducted into the Fordham University Football Hall of Fame and has played rugby for the New York Athletic Club for 30 years.

• Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  12:30 pm - 1:00 pm:

Claudia Mercedes Padrón Mercado

Claudia Padrón is the Director of Management and Knowledge Transfer, and Postgraduate Director in Consumer Psychology Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz. As a researcher with 12 years of experience in market and social studies, she has also been a teacher for 10 years in the areas of qualitative research and decision making and choices as they relate to consumption.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  9:35 am - 10:35 am: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Oren Nissim

Oren is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and the founder and CEO of Brook Health, a leading healthcare platform for chronic disease management and remote patient monitoring. Oren’s background is in consumer software where he created foundational elements of the mobile mapping and location eco-system through leading one of Israel’s most successful mobile companies, Telmap, which then successfully was acquired by intel corp.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  9:35 am - 10:35 am: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Pratyay Poddar

With 9+ years of professional experience in Physics (Cambridge) and a $100bn electronics multinational corporation with a major interest in healthcare, Pratyay has collaborated and managed large-scale global projects and represented Hitachi and Cambridge University at multiple international conferences, and won many awards, including the Royal Commission 1851 Industrial Fellowship and the Kenkai Award in 2016 for “commercialisation of his academic research”.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  10:45 am - 11:30 am: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Salomón Spak

Salomón has nearly 20 years of industry experience working with organizations throughout Latin America.  He currently leads the Insurance practice for South America, advising clients on digital transformations, analytics and operational model changes. More broadly, he works with financial institutions to develop their digital and analytical capabilities to achieve substantial performance improvements.

• Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  11:30 am - 12:25 pm:

Terry Sullivan

Terry Sullivan is a thought leader and technology advisor in the world of Social Media. He previously served as Director of Marketing for Verizon Communications where he launched many successful national marketing programs that gained more than 456,000 new customers and reduced churn by more than 6% annually, in spite of multiple price increases and competitor product launches. In 2012, Terry founded BuzzPro, an Integrated Marketing and Social Media Marketing and Training company, to meet the needs of business owners and leaders that were unsure about how to use online marketing tools to find and connect with potential prospects and clients. He now works with his clients to show them how to fill their sales funnels with more sales using advanced LinkedIn branding and Social Selling strategies. His presentations have helped hundreds of clients learn how to expand their influence and grow their businesses. His programs focus on keyword optimization, branding and Social Selling strategies that help his clients tap into the unlimited world of Social Media to get better leads, more prospects and clients. Terry received his Social Media Marketing Certification from Splash Media University, one of the nation’s premier Social Media training companies.

• Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  11:30 am - 12:25 pm: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

José S. Suquet

José leads Pan-American Life Insurance Group as Chairman of the Board and CEO, overseeing operations in 22 countries and spearheading the company’s strategic planning.  José joined Pan-American Life in November 2004 and has led the organization to record growth and success thanks to an initial restructuring of the Group’s operations; a renewed and strategic focus on life, accident and health insurance solutions; and a combination of organic growth and strategic mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Pan-American Life, José held senior management posts in the insurance industry for more than four decades, including serving as senior executive vice president and chief distribution officer of AXA Financial. He also opened “The Suquet Agency” which was among the sales and marketing leaders of The Equitable and awarded Equitable’s President's Trophy for eight consecutive years.  José is currently serving on the Boards of Directors of  Regions Financial Corporation; and the Ochsner Health System. He previously served as a board member for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Retail Payments Oversight Committee; and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, New Orleans Branch.  José graduated from Fordham University in New York with a Bachelor of Science and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Miami. He is also a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance Fellow.

• Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  9:35 am - 10:35 am: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Desiree Wagner

Desiree is a Senior Partner Success Manager at Plug and Play, the world’s largest global innovation platform. Here she operates with some of the largest insurers, reinsurers and brokers in the world including: Munich Re, Unum, Aon, Swiss Re, Sanlam, Zurich Insurance, WTW and many more. In her role, Desiree is responsible for the execution of innovation strategies within Europe, South Africa and North America, and also supports program operation as well as the further development of the Insurtech platform.

• Tuesday, October 4, 2022

  11:30 am - 12:25 pm: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

César Rivera Wilson

César has more than 25 years of experience in the Insurance and Pensions sector, and has held management positions in insurance companies like Santander Vida Compañía de Seguros in Peru, American Life Insurance Company in Argentina and also Pacífico Vida Compañía de Seguros. He has worked as a professor at the University of Piura, in the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, has a Diploma in Corporate Finance from the Universidad del Pacífico and has completed various programs in managerial and technical areas such as the Management Development Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, the Life Insurance Program at the Swiss Insurance Training Center in Zurich , and the Management and Leadership Program at the Gen-Re Business School with The Chartered Insurance Institute, in Germany, among others.