Principals
- Nancy Jo Kuenstner is former President, CEO and Board Member of Law Debenture Trust Company of New York, a NY State chartered specialty bank. She has more than 30 years experience in international banking.
- She formerly headed emerging markets fixed income sales for CITICORP where she also established and managed that firm’s Miami broker dealer.
- Ms. Kuenstner is on the boards of a NYSE-listed commercial mortgage REIT, and of a wholly-owned subsidiary of a London-stock exchange listed company. She is Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Lafayette College and a member of its Investment Committee.
- Ms Kuenstner has an MBA from the University of North Carolina and a BA from Lafayette College. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is fluent in Spanish.
- Hugo Verdegaal joined Citicorp in 1975 after completing business school. During his career with the company he worked in all aspects of the company’s investment banking business in Latin America. He was based in Sao Paulo for over five yearsand has broad experience in all other principal markets in the region.
- Mr. Verdegaal twice managed the Latin American Investment Banking business for Citigroup. And as a senior client banker, he developed extensive experience advising CEO’s on strategic M&A transactions and was involved in many leading debt and equity transactions. He retired from the company in 2009.
- Born and raised in the Netherlands he earned an MA in economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam as well as an MBA from the University of Michigan.