Carlos Catraio Managing Director BrD

Carlos H.A.R. Catraio is the Managing Director of BrD, which he co-founded in 2010 . He is a seasoned international banker and entrepreneur with experience in credit, corporate debt renegotiation/recovery and corporate finance. As one of BrD’s founding partners, Catraio  created the original business plan and now implements the commercial, financial and operational strategy. 

Prior to founding BrD he was the founding partner and CEO of Agrosec Securitizadora, and before that he was a senior advisor to Acon Investments, where he originated and structured potential Brazilian private equity investments for Acon’s Latin America PE fund. Before joining Acon Carlos held senior roles at BPN Brasil, Itaú-Unibanco, Bank of America and JPMorgan.

Carlos has a BA in business studies from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and  AMP from Insead. He speaks Portuguese and English and is based inSão Paulo, Brazil.

Ahmad Al-Sati Managing Director Albright Capital

Ahmad Al-Sati is a Managing Director at AlbrightCapital Management. He has more than 15 years of direct experience in private investments where he has originated, negotiated and executed over 40transactions across 20 jurisdictions. His focus is on complex solutions acrossthe capital structure and has completed transactions in private credit, equities, bankruptcy investing, rescue finance and growth capital in the telecom, energy, renewables, and industrials sectors.

Prior to his time at Albright Capital, Mr. Al-Satiwas most recently responsible for energy and international portfolios and led the restructuring efforts at Plainfield Asset Management. His expertise includes identifying and evaluating deep value opportunities and determining the effects of corporate events and macroeconomic dislocation on the value ofsecurities. Mr. Al-Sati has also served as a bankruptcy attorney where he has represented investors, debtors and creditors in restructurings and chapter 11proceedings as well as deal execution of distressed private equity transactions in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Mr. Al-Sati received a BA from WesleyanUniversity, a JD from Columbia Law School, and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Ben Miller Managing Editor- Latin America Debtwire

Ben Miller is Managing Editor for Latin America, supervising a team of eight reporters and two analysts based in New York, Brazil and Uruguay. He joined Debtwire in 2014 after six years at LatinFinance, where he specialized in the Latin American debt and equity capital markets and managed its daily news coverage. Ben has lived in Mexico and Brazil and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. He holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MA from the University of Missouri.

Otávio Guazzelli Managing Director Moelis & Company

Otávio Guazzelli is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Guazzelli has over 23 years of investment banking experience and was previously a Senior Partner and Head of Investment Banking at BR Partners. Prior to BR Partners, he worked in the investment banking division at Citigroup for 10 years, where he was most recently Co-Head of Investment Banking for Citigroup Brazil. Throughout his career, Mr. Guazzelli has advised on a wide variety of transactions in the Brazilian and Latin American markets across the telecom, consumer, agribusiness and industrial sectors.

Mr. Guazzelli holds a B.B.A. from the Fundação Getulio Vargas Institution and an M.B.A. from INSEAD Business School.

Aurelio García-Miró Senior Managing Director Conway MacKenzie

Aurelio García-Miró is a Senior Managing Director leading Conway MacKenzie’s Latin American practice. He brings more than 16 years of experience in advising boards, senior management, creditors and taking board representation in operational and financial restructuring situations in Latin America, Europe and the US. Aurelio has extensive experience in executing restructuring, performance enhancement, and transformation roles across a wide range of industries, including infrastructure, manufacturing, retail, TMT, real estate, automotive, and aviation.

Since January 2015, Mr. Garcia-Miro leads CM’s team advising the Government of Puerto Rico in liquidity planning and financial reporting, including assisting in the development of baseline projections for the General Fund (“GF”), the TSA and key component units of the island.

Mr. Garcia-Miro is a member of the board of directors, appointed by the convertible bond holders, of a distribution and retail group with $1.2bn in revenue operating in South America. In other past engagements. Mr. Garcia-Miro was CRO of a Mexican engineering company with c. 25% of market share of off-shore oil rigs and platform; advised the board of a hospital operator with sales of €250 million and 13 centers in working capital and cash optimization. He was also the interim head of corporate controlling with Visiocorp, an € 800 million auto-parts manufacturer based in Germany. Mr. Garcia-Miro was Board Commissioner for the bond holders of a global printing and business services group with sales of €220m, vetting the restructuring plan, monitoring progress on improved reporting, governance and restructuring implementation milestones, and designing the strategic deleveraging scenarios.

Prior to joining Conway MacKenzie, Aurelio was Senior Managing Director and head of the Corporate Finance Practice in Spain for FTI Consulting. Before that, Aurelio was Senior Director and head of Alvarez & Marsal’s restructuring practice in Spain. Before joining Alvarez & Marsal, Aurelio was a director of the McGraw-Hill Companies International Publishing Group, managing turnaround and integration projects in North America, Spain, and Portugal.

Aurelio has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia Business School in New York, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Finance from Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru. He is fluent in English and Spanish, and has a basic knowledge of Portuguese and Italian.