Contributors

Regius® Magazine is actively seeking unique and relevant content from global business leaders, entrepreneurs, institutional investors, family offices, and industry experts from around the world.

We are grateful and honored to count with the participation of top industry experts. Please find below the profiles of some of our current and past contributors.

Viral Acharya

C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business (NYU-Stern). Viral was a Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in charge of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Financial Stability, and Research.

Xavier Adserà

Founder & CEO, Adequita Capital, a private family office and investment bank.

Edward Altman

Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the Stern School of Business, NYU and Director of Research in Credit and Debt Markets at the NYU Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions. In 2005, was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance” by the Treasury & Risk Management magazine.

Bob Anderson

Founder and Chairman of The Leadership Circle and Co-founder and Chairman of
the Full Circle Group. Bob has dedicated his career to exploring the connections between leadership, mastery, competence, consciousness, spirituality and business.

Twitter: @BobAndersonTLC

Sebastian Barriga

Investor & MIT Sloan Fellows MBA. His experience has allowed him to build knowledge and expertise in identifying superior business models, in which to deploy capital with asymmetric risk/reward profiles and create value alongside talented, industry experts, serving as board members and/or managers.

Lara Brown

Professor and the Director of the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at the George Washington University. Dr. Brown is the author of Amateur Hour: Presidential Character and the Question of Leadership and Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants.

Twitter: @LaraMBrownPhD

Regina Cantú

Trade Analyst for American Chamber Of Commerce of Mexico.

Robert Cantwell

Portfolio manager for the Compound Kings ETF (KNGS) and Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Upholdings®, the first place to bring high quality active management inside an ETF.

Twitter: @UPHOLDINGS

Gabriel Casillas

Chief Economist for LatAm at Barclays and member of the Committee for Dating Cycles of the Mexican Economy. Casillas was CE and Head of Investor Relations and ESG at Grupo Financiero Banorte and official of Banco de México for more than ten years, in Economic Research and Central Bank Operations and Risk Management.

Twitter: @G_Casillas

Omer Cedar

CEO and Co-Founder of Omega Point. He served as SVP, Research at Two Sigma Investments where he founded and built Two Sigma's global equity research analyst survey platform ("TAP"). He also managed Two Sigma's quantitative risk arbitrage system, developed models, and conducted classic fundamental Risk Arb research.

Nur Cristiani

Head of Latin America Investment Strategy, J.P. Morgan Private Bank.

Melissa Daimler

Chief Learning Officer at Udemy. Melissa brings over two decades of experience across Learning and Development, Talent Management, and Organizational Development. Prior to Udemy, Melissa created and built Learning, Organizational, and Talent Development functions for Adobe, Twitter, and WeWork.

Twitter: @MelissaDaimler

Aswath Damodaran

Teacher of corporate finance and valuation at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Roman Edelmann

Co-Founder and principal of Family Transition Group, S.C. (“STG”) a Mexican firm specializing in family business, family wealth and family office advisory. He worked for Credit Suisse and UBS, heading the latter’s Representative Office focusing on Wealth-Management services for UHNW clients.

Mike Felix

Chief Marketing Officer of Omega Point. He served as Chief Marketing Officer at several leading fintech-focused firms including Lime Brokerage and RealTick. Mike received his M.B.A in General Management from Harvard Business School, and B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University.

Pablo Fernández

Founder and CEO of Global Wealth Financial, providing tailored-made solutions to create liquidity through life insurance and premium financed structures. Prior to Global Wealth, Pablo held positions at ING in Mexico, Europe and the U.S.

Eelco Fiole

Co-Founder and the managing partner of Alpha Governance Partners a fiduciary services partnership with partners serving as risk governance specialists in complex investments, blockchain, sustainability and fintech, across Europe, North America and Asia.

Twitter: @Eelco_Fiole

Heidi Gardner

Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, author of more than 80 books, chapters, case studies, and articles and Co-Founder of the research and advisory firm Gardner & Co. Dr. Gardner has lived and worked on four continents, including as a Fulbright Fellow, and for McKinsey & Co. and Procter & Gamble.

Twitter: @HeidiGardnerPhD

Federico Garza

Chairman & CEO for Desarrollos Delta SA de CV, Chairman at Servicios Maple, Chairman of Tres Vidas Acapulco, Chairman of Fibra Mty, S.A.P.I. de CV, Chairman at Numa Inmobiliaria, President & Director at Centro Eugenio Garza Sada Ac and Director & Council Member at Pronatura Noreste Mar de Cortes AC.

Daniel Goldstein

President and CEO at Folience and Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research’s New York City lab. Previously, Dan was a professor at London Business School and taught or researched at Wharton, Yahoo Research, Columbia University, and Germany’s Max Planck Institute.

Twitter: @dggoldst

Juan Grana

General Manager & Founder of Uno Consulting Corporate, a strategic marketing services company and Neurologyca Science & Marketing, one of the most innovative neuromarketing companies in Europe, both by technical means, experience and research.

Twitter: @juangrana_

Rick Grove

Partner and the Chief Executive Officer of Rutter Associates LLC. Rick is a member of the panel of experts of P.R.I.M.E. Finance and was the CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA). Following ISDA and before joining Rutter Associates, Rick was a Managing Director at Bank of America, co-managing the Global Commodity Derivatives Group.

Dunia Guzman

CEO & Senior Partner, Akator Consultores. Family owned consulting firm, specializing in Family Enterprise, Team Collaboration and Communication.

Soren Halladay

Chief Investment Officer, PEG Companies, a leading real estate development group involved in more than $1 billion of projects in the United States and Canada.

Donald Hanna

Macroeconomic analyst with extensive experience advising financial institutions, corporations and investors in advanced and emerging markets, particularly in Asia. Also, Donald is currently lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Patrik Hayoz

Founder & General Manager of Liomsa Advisers, Lima and Senior Consultant of The Strategy Group Inc. Patrik held the position of Executive Director at UBS in Lima, Caracas, and Mexico-City and was also part of the management of Royal Bank of Canada in Geneva.

Alan Heath

Founder, President and Managing Director of The Strategy Group, Inc. Alan is also chairman & CEO of the Investment Committee of the Wind River Trust Company, a regulated private family trust company and the Chairman & CEO of Drumore LLC, a single-family office.

Roberto Izurieta

Director of Latin American Projects for the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Roberto is also political commentator for CNN and as political consultant he has advised presidents such as Alejandro Toledo (Peru), Vicente Fox (Mexico) and Alvaro Colom (Guatemala).

Twitter: @robertoaizuriet

Sam Kim

General Partner at Big Brain Holdings, a crypto exclusive venture fund based in Weston, FL. who has deployed capital to startups in ecosystems including Cosmos, Polygon, Avalanche, ZK, Arweave, and StarkNet.

William Kirst

International Private Wealth Advisor at UBS - Nuval Wealth Partners. Bill brings three decades of experience working with many of Latin America’s premier businesses, families and successful individuals to his current role as a principal in Nuval Partners.

Glenn Kurlander

Managing Director, Head of Family Governance and Wealth Education at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Glenn has written in leading professional journal, has lectured extensively on topics and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, Worth Magazine, and Barron’s, among others.

Josh Lester

M&A Special Advisor at Thrasio, an exit company founded in 2018 that reimagine how the world’s most loved products become accessible to everyone.

Isabel Lustosa

Partner, Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados.

Winston Ma

Global Tech Investor, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Executive Vice Chairman of International Data Center Authority (IDCA). Also, Winston is currently an advisory board member of Capgemini and an Adjunct Professor at NYU Law School on SWF topics.

Twitter: @Winston_W_Ma

Fulvio Maccarone

Senior Investor, Founder at EqNext Advisors and Chief Operating Officer at
Adiant Capital. Fulvio was also Head of Private Equity at Freemont Management S.A., one of the largest family offices in Europe.

Nancy Marino

Senior Director of Sales at North America Intercontinental Resorts Tahiti & Bora Bora & The Brando.

Jorge Mariscal

Chief Investment Officer for emerging markets at UBS Wealth Management Group. Prior to joining UBS, Jorge was a member and Head of Investment Strategies at the Rohatyn Group and Managing Director for Goldman Sachs.

Matthew McClintock

Founder and Executive Managing Director, The Bespoke Group.

Twitter: @mcclintock_m

Aloysio Meirelles

Partner, Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados.

Seth Morton

President at Healthcare Velocity Center. Seth has built resilient direct investment programs alongside entrepreneurs, founders, and family offices. He was also Director of Special Projects at Texas Family Office Association and Director of Research at Vesta VFO.

Matt Mosman

General Partner at Pelion Venture Partners. Matt was also SVP of Corporate Development at Oracle and MEMC.

Natalia Murphy

Managing Director and Wealth Advisor in the New York office of J.P. Morgan Private Bank. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), co-chairing ACTEC’s Wealth Strategists, she is also a member and a former Chair of the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), and a member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP).

Mahmood Noorani

Co-Founder & CEO at Quant Insight. He is an experienced macro investor with a background as a rates derivatives trader, macro proprietary trader and macro hedge fund Portfolio Manager. Mahmood Noorani is also building EyeQ (eyeqinvest.co) - Ai and advanced market intelligence for retail investors.

Twitter: @quant_invest

Alejandro Padilla

Chief Economist and Managing Director of Research at Grupo Financiero Banorte, the second largest bank in Mexico. Previously, he worked for more than 3 years at J.P.Morgan Chase as Emerging Markets Strategist, based primarily in the Mexico City office.

Carolina Queiroz

Wealth Planning and Tax Lawyer, Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados.

Pedro Regueiro

Founder at Family Globex and Member of the Board of a number of Family Offices in Europe & Latin America. Over the last 20 years, Pedro has advised Family Offices around the world with a special focus on conflict resolution, preservation of family assets and corporate governance restructuring of the business family.

Rodrigo Reyes

Digital Business Strategist, American Chamber Of Commerce of Mexico.

Sebastian Ross

Manager, Entrepreneur and President of Conscious Capitalism Spain. Sebastian is also Director at School of Founders Program IESE Business School in Barcelona, Europe’s number one rated school for executive education.

Twitter: @sebastian_ross

Markus Schwingshackl

Private wealth lawyer and the founder of the boutique law firm Centro LAW in Zurich, assisting international wealth owners, entrepreneurs, and their families to navigate the complexities of family offices, wealth planning, estate planning, and wealth management.

Marc Sharpe

Founder of The Family Office Association (TFOA) and CEO at IVY EB5. Marc has held positions in investment banking for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wasserstein Perella & Co. in addition to founding a venture capital incubator in the UK and working on strategic initiatives for Dell Inc.

Twitter: @marcjsharpe

Raj Sisodia

Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc., Raj is FEMSA Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise and Chairman of the Conscious Enterprise Center at Tecnologico de Monterrey.

Twitter: @RajSisodiaCC

Andrew Toporoff

Associate in Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, a full-service law firm with nearly 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. He advises clients on matters of estate planning, administration and litigation.

Kathryn Von Matthiessen

Partner in Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP's Trusts and Estates practice and a member of the Private Client Services group. She was named one of Latin America’s top 100 female lawyers by Latinvex and, in 2017, Legal Week named her to its Private Client Global Elite Lawyer list.

Ingo Walter

Holds the Seymour Milstein Chair in Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics Emeritus at NYU Stern. He has been on the faculty at NYU since 1970. From 1971 to 1979 he was Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and subsequently served a number of terms as Chair of International Business and Chair of Finance.

Brian Weiner

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of InnoVise Family Wealth Advisors and leads the firm's Family Office practice. Brian is an active member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). He is a member of the Circle of Founders of the new Motion Picture Academy Museum and is a co- founder of the Citizens’ Empowerment Center in Israel.

Gauthier Zuppinger

Co-Founder and COO of NonFungible.com. He previously worked as the Manager Conseil-Transformation Digitale at ASI and CEO and Founder at UFeel. Gauthier is recognized in the industry as one of the thought leaders in terms of trend analysis.

Twitter: @Gauthier_Z

Credit Suisse Group

Global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland. With headquartered in Zürich, it maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world and is one of the nine global "Bulge Bracket" banks providing services in investment banking, private banking, asset management, and shared services.

Twitter: @CreditSuisse

Special Thanks

Juan Carlos Miguez, Leobardo Angulo Gallardo, Fernando Massaro, María Belén Cabezas & Karla Albuerne.