Growing the Impact Economy in Latin America

Cecilia Foxworthy is the CEO of Agora Partnerships, a nonprofit that moves small and growing businesses across Latin America towards sustainability — economic, social, and environmental. She has spent over a decade leading impact organizations for strategic growth and innovation across the globe, with a targeted focus on adult education, economic development, and women’s empowerment in the Americas. Cecilia founded two organizations to address education and economic opportunity gaps in disadvantaged communities in the US. She holds an MBA, an MS in Global Education, and a BS in design.

Bio as of June 2021.

Shaun Paul has 30 years of professional and entrepreneurial experience in private finance, philanthropy, and international rural development, leading and supporting the creation and growth of dozens of innovative for-profit and non-profit companies, catalyzing well-being for people and planet. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Ejido Verde, named Fast Company’s #2 Most Innovative Company in Latin America. Ejido Verde is a Mexican forestry company formed through a partnership of the Mexican pine chemicals industry and indigenous communities in Michoacán to reforest 26,000 acres for pine resin extraction, an area the size of two Manhattans. His duties include growing a 1,000-person workforce to create 12,000 high-paying jobs restoring and protecting forests, along with structuring and securing $50 million of investments in crowdfunding, equity and debt from individuals, private companies, U.S. foundations, and multilateral agencies. In 2012, he partnered with Good Capital to establish an impact venture fund, Reinventure Capital, where he serves as a General Partner. Reinventure Capital matches capital with technology innovations to invest in growth companies led by women and people of color.

Bio as of June 2021.

Luis Santiago is the CEO and co-founder of PEGASI. By training, he is a social communicator and professor of marketing and public relations. By profession, he is a self-taught programmer, technology project manager and Product Owner, with more than 13 years of experience in the area. He has ventured into the areas of banking, information technology and digital health. He was recognized in 2020 as one of the 35 Innovators under 35 in Latin America by the MIT Technology Review magazine, and has participated in dozens of international forums and events exposing the need for the digitization of Health in Latin America.

Bio as of June 2021.

Justin Schwartz is Managing Director of IMPAQTO Capital, an impact investing fund providing flexible capital to early-stage social enterprises in the Andean Region. He has 8 years of experience working in investment and entrepreneurship on 3 continents, including as an Analyst for Fidelity Investments in the US, working with microfinance institutions and social lenders in West Africa through Kiva, and leading a Google-supported accelerator program for South American impact startups. He has a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Bio as of June 2021.