The BRAVO C-SUITE: Private Roundtables

For more than 15 years, the BRAVO Leadership Forums have established regional communities for CEOs and CFOs excelling in their space.

Given the increasingly important role sustainability and people management play in the corporate agenda, in 2022 we launched two new BRAVO C-Suite communities:

• Circle of LatAm Chief People Officers (CPO)

• Circle of LatAm Chief Sustainability Officers (CSO)

Each circle convened over 20 Founding Members during the inaugural sessions, further consolidating the BRAVO C-Suite community.

The forums provided a space for leaders to discuss the most pressing issues in business and leadership, network with peers, and find opportunities to collaborate among industries and countries.

Leading With Purpose

During its annual CEO Roundtable, COA gathered a select community of more than 50 Latin American CEOs and corporate presidents of multinationals and multilatinas to discuss how today’s leaders are navigating an evolving business environment.

Your mission is what keeps you up at night, your purpose is what gets you up in the morning.

Ashley Grice

CEO & Managing Director

BCG BrightHouse

Keynote speaker Ashley Grice, CEO & Managing Director of BCG BrightHouse, delivered an impactful presentation: “Leading with a Purpose-driven Lens”.

The roundtable, led by Susan Segal, President & CEO, Americas Society/Council of the Americas, concluded with an engaging dialogue where participating CEOs discussed how corporate purpose has become a transversal topic for companies - from people management and digital transformation to sustainable operations.

EXPANDING THE BRAVO LATAM C-SUITE COMMUNITY

Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) Inaugural Roundtable

The CSO Roundtable gathered leaders across various industries and sectors to discuss the intersection of corporate policies and sustainable actions. The honest, value-added discussion aimed to address the way corporate leaders think about implementing sustainability within their corporate structures.

Participants

Pedro Pereira, Chief Sustainability Officer, SAP Latin America and Caribbean, chaired the inaugural session, and also featured a data-driven presentation on climate action by BloombergNEF’s Nathaniel Bullard.

Chief People Officer (CPO) Inaugural Roundtable

The CPO Roundtable convened corporate leaders and peoplemanagement experts to discuss Latin America’s talent imperative. The dialogue ignited an enriching debate on how companies are addressing the talent shortage, up/re-skilling their workforce, and meeting the evolving employee expectations.

Pablo Claver, BCG and Jorge Becerra, BCG chaired the inaugural session and provided a forward-looking presentation on the war for talent and changing employee trends and demands.

Pablo

Managing Director & Partner BCG

SNAPSHOT OF PARTICIPATING COMPANIES

Multinational Corporations

Multilatinas

Latin American Tech Unicorns & Venture Capitalists

Media, NGOs & Academia

27th BRAVO Business Awards

On October 28th, 2022, the Council of the Americas hosted the 27th annual BRAVO Business Awards at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The 2022 honorees individually represented vision, excellence, and commitment to Latin America. Collectively, they demonstrated that business leaders are playing a critical role in the region’s development and in creating opportunities for new generations.

CEO of the Year Digital Transformation of the Year

Recognized for his leadership in establishing a complete financial ecosystem with Ualá, which has propelled a more open, inclusive, and competitive financial ecosystem in Latin America. Since founding Ualá in 2017, Barbieri has led the company’s impressive growth: reaching a $2.45 billion valuation in less than five years, after raising a $350 million series D round, the largest private raise ever by an Argentinian company.

Falabella was recognized for its continued growth and evolution while operating for more than 120 years as a leader in the Latin American business landscape. In the wake of regional and global economic disruptions due to the pandemic, Falabella proved resilient and came out stronger thanks to its strategic vision. The company successfully adapted its business model, which now leverages both its physical and digital advantages to create an ecosystem that serves its purpose: to simplify and make life more enjoyable.

The most important thing that we can do for our region is to make sure that everyone has access to the possibility of creating their own path in life, so that we can have social mobility in a continent not known for it. And the ties between the United States and Latin America are essential for that.

Falabella is the first company to receive this recognition. The award was accepted by its CEO, Gaston Bottazzini.

We are committed to simplifying and improving people’s lives in Latin America [...] We used to call ourselves a tailor shop and now we call ourselves an ecosystem, but our real focus is to provide commerce and banking, be it physical or be it digital, to as many people as possible.

Co-Founder & Managing Partner KASZEK

Co-Founder & Managing Partner KASZEK Vice President, Spanish Speaking Latin America Google

Recognized for their leadership as founders of Kaszek, the largest Latin American early-stage venture capital firm. Raising more than $2 billion since 2011, Kaszek’s initial investments in more than 100 companies in diverse sectors have been instrumental to building Latin America’s tech ecosystem. Their leadership trajectory in “building unicorns” is a testament to their vision and ability to select and nurture the best entrepreneurial talent in the region, specifically supporting companies that were created to address challenges and opportunities like promoting financial inclusion, advancing digitalization, and fostering e-commerce.

When you take the long-term perspective, we continue to be extremely bullish on the outlook for the region and it is amazing to see the degree to which the tech ecosystem has evolved and developed and that is driven by entrepreneurs that are changing the culture in the continent and by patient capital.

We hope to find many of those extraordinary entrepreneurs in the next decade to build an amazing generation of transformational companies in Latin America, which is what will level-up the region.

Recognized for her leadership in promoting equality and empowerment by leveraging the transformational power of technology. In the 16 years since she has joined Google, she has played an instrumental role implementing global initiatives in the region, aimed at promoting the empowerment of women both within the company and in the societies where it operates. In a region full of potential for innovation and transformation, Noreña’s leadership has and will continue to shape a fertile technological ecosystem.

My why in life is, why not? [...] Why not apply to work in one of the most exciting companies in the world? Why not take advantage of the privilege I have to be in one of these companies to do good for all of Latin America?

The BRAVO Business Awards allow us to celebrate the dedication, the vision, and innovation of true leaders from around the region.

Tonight’s honorees are drivers of change, social impact, and business success and continue to demonstrate resilience within their industries, even as the world faces unprecedented economic, political, and social change.

Susan Segal

CEO & President AS/COA

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For over 26 years, the BRAVO Business Awards have sought to shine a light on the stories of extraordinary leadership in business, policy, and social development.

María Lourdes Teran

Vice President & Head of Miami Office AS/COA

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