The Latin American Student Association at Darden

Invites You to Attend the

10^th LASA CONFERENCE

“Managing and Creating World-Class Organizations in Latin America”,

[Lessons for Navigating in Emerging Markets]

February 11th-12th

Sunday, February 11th

Presentation by:

 Sergio Waisser (MBA ’98)

Partner at McKinsey & Co. Mexico City Office

 L. J. Bourgeois III

Associate Dean for International Affairs Paul M. Hammaker Research Professor of Business Administration Director, Tayloe Murphy Center for International Affairs

 Reception and Dinner at Abbott Center Lounge and Dinning Room

6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

*By invitation only (sign up at P:\LASA CONFERENCE before Thursday Feb. 8^th, opened for 10 additional guests)

 

Monday, February 12th

Presentation By:

Pedro Aspe Armella

Chairman and CEO of Protego (a leading investment banking advisory firm), and former Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico (‘88–‘94)

Abbott Center Auditorium

10:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.

 Pedro Aspe

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Protego Asesores Financieros Pedro Aspe, age 53, has been since April 2001 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Protego Asesores Financieros, a leading investment banking advisory firm in Mexico. From 1996 to March 2001, Dr. Aspe was Chairman of the Board of Vector Casa de Bolsa, S.A. de C.V., an investment banking firm in Mexico. Dr. Aspe has been since 1995 a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México located in Mexico City. Dr. Aspe has held a number of positions with the Mexican government and was most recently the Secretary of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico from 1988 through 1994. Dr. Aspe is a director of Televisa located in Mexico City. Dr. Aspe is a member of the Advisory Board of Stanford University ’ s Institute of International Studies, the Visiting Committee of the Department of Economics of MIT, and the Center for Politics and Economics at Claremont University. Dr. Aspe also sits on the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer in Wilmington, Delaware and American International Group, Inc. Dr. Aspe has served as a Board Director of McGraw-Hill since 1996 and is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Executive and Financial Policy Committees. 

 L.J. Bourgeois III

Associate Dean and Professor L.J. Bourgeois III is an expert on strategy, and faculty leader of The Darden School’s initiative on post merger integration. He has consulted for a variety of North and Latin American, European, Asian, and Australian corporations on strategic management, corporate mission, and top management team building, and has designed and conducted various seminars in strategic thinking.
Prior to joining the Darden faculty in 1986, Bourgeois taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the Stanford Business School. He previously was employed as a financial analyst in the corporate planning department of Castle & Cooke Foods and held several assignments in the firm's Latin American operations.

 Sergio Waisser (Darden MBA ’98)

Partner at McKinsey & Company and organizer of the first LASA CONFERENCE (1998); Sergio has more than ten years of consulting experience in financial and energy practice at McKinsey & Co. Sergio currently is Darden’s Mexico Chapter President.

 

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