SPEAKERS

David Barragán, Commercial Director LATAM, voestalpine Railway Systems

David Barragán, Zaragoza, Spain, 1979, is Commercial Director at LATAM for voestalpine Railway Systems.

Industrial Engineer from the University of Comillas, with a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Control from the University of Humberside & Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom, he has an Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.

After working for several years in companies of the railway sector, he joined the voestalpine group in 2013. Since then he has focused on points and crossings, signaling and monitoring devices for the Latin American and Spanish markets.

Efrain Bastidas, Managing Director, Metro de Quito

Efraín Bastidas Zelaya is the manager director of the Quito Metro Metropolitan Public Company, since October 22, 2021. He has a Master's degree in Transportation Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain; MBA Master in Business Administration from the INCAE Business School of Alajuela, Costa Rica; and, he is about to obtain a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Infrastructure Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. He has 24 years of work experience, where he has stood out as project manager and coordinator for the United Nations Development Program UNDP, Ecuador; consultant for the analysis of determining technical variables for the construction of urban rail projects for the World Bank, Washington, USA. He was a teacher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences; University of the Americas; SEK International University; International University of Ecuador; and, University of the Pacific. He has given lectures at international transport congresses and has written several scientific articles for specialized international journals.

Pedro Bisch Neto, Director-President, Trensurb

Academic education

2009 - 25th PURC/WB International - Training Program on Utility Regulation and Strategy - University of Florida - Gainesville, Florida, USA

1974 - Bachelor of Science: Electrical Engineering, Electrotechnical option - School of Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Professional experience

2020 –21 - Current President of Trensurb

2015/19 - Superintendent Director of Metroplan - Fundação Metropolitana de Regional development.

2011/14 - Secretary of Urban Services of the Municipality of Gravataí.

2006/10 – Counselor and President of AGERGS - Regulatory Agency for Delegated Services of RS.

1999/02 – CEO of Trensurb – Empresa de Trens Urbanos de Porto Alegre.

1996/99 – Chief Executive Officer of CEEE – Companhia Estadual de Energia Elétrica.

1995/96 – CEO of CRM - Companhia Rio-Grandense de Mineração.

1993/94 – Expansion Superintendent of Trensurb

1988/92 – President of the Regional Council of Engineering and Architecture/RGS

1984/87 - Porto Seco Project Manager - Porto Alegre City Hall

1975/84 - Project Engineer at the Porto Alegre City Hall.

GUILLERMO CALDERÓN, MANAGING DIRECTOR, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, MEXICO CITY METRO

Degree in Chemical Engineering with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mr. Guillermo Calderón Aguilera also completed postgraduate studies in Process Engineering at the Karlsruhe University, Federal Republic of Germany, and has International Certification from the Project Management Institute. (PMI) of the United States.

He is a specialist in project management, processes and in the implementation and operation of urban transport systems. For 15 years he has directed public transport projects in the capital. Since December 2018, he has held the position of general director of the Electric Transport Service (STE), where he promoted the resurgence of the company and electromobility in public transport, through the acquisition of 193 new generation trolleybuses and the rehabilitation of the tracks. of the Light Rail; and, for more than thirteen years, he served as general director of Metrobús.

Mr. Guillermo Calderón Aguilera has also held the position of General Director of Regulation, Environmental Verification and Water, Soil and Waste Projects in the Secretariat of the Environment of Mexico City.

At the Mexican Petroleum Institute, he served as Coordinator of the Environmental Diagnosis Project of the Southern Region of Petróleos Mexicanos. Likewise, he has been a consultant for various projects at the national level and for the National Council of Science and Technology in aspects of technology transfer.

Robinson Dueñas, Manager Infrastructure & Capital Projects Spanish Latin America Region, Deloitte

Robinson is the Manager of the Capital Projects Digital Lab for Deloitte Spanish Latin America, responsible for the study, development, and implementation of new technologies in large projects. He has led BIM implementations for large-scale building and infrastructure construction projects in Latin America and the United States.

With an experience of more than 8 years, Mr. Dueñas has led areas of continuous improvement, management, and control in energy projects and infrastructure improvements. He led the BIM implementation of As-built projects in the United States, creating methods for training, developing, processing, and definition of the data structure for LiDAR technology uses as well as the set up for work-sharing platforms and workflows, with teams in Asia, the United States, and Colombia. He is a professional drone pilot, and professor for the department of mechanical engineering and mechatronics of the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Colombia for the international diploma: “DRONES AND DIGITAL MODELS IMPLEMENTATION WITHIN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS“

Tomás Elejalde, CEO, Metro de Medellín

Professional Education

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineer, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Studies in business administration and economic engineering. Mönchengladbach University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Senior Management Specialist with an emphasis on Quality, Universidad de Antioquia.

Work experience

26 years of experience in the Medellin Metro in the following positions:

• Currently General Manager

• Planning Manager

• COO

• Head of the Customer Mobilization Process

• Head of the Engineering Unit

• Head of the Traffic Department

• Operations Supervisor at the Central Control Post

Other experiences

• Nordmann K.G Sales and Service Engineer

• Assistant design engineer for tools, special devices for manufacturing at Jean Walterscheid – Unicardan.

• Plant engineer at Klöckner-Möeller A.G.

• Engineering internship at the Siemens A.G. plant. Gäretewerk.

Fabio Juvenal Ferreira, Vertical Sales Manager infrastructure and transport segment, Genetec

Fabio Juvenal Ferreira is a telecommunications engineer, MBA in project management and International Business. It has more than 25 years of experience in urban mobility, especially developing customized solutions for this market. He is Vertical Sales Manager of the infrastructure and transport segment of Genetec and also Vice President of Associative Affairs of AEAMESP.

Juan Carlos Holguín, Managing Director, Urban Electric Train System (SITEUR) - Mexico

Juan Carlos Holguín Aguirre assumed the position of Director of Rail Transport and recently as General Director of the Urban Electric Train System (Siteur). Until October 2021, he served as Deputy General Director and Dispatch Manager of the General Directorate of the Metrorrey Collective Transport System.

Industrial and Systems Engineer with a Master's degree in Administration specializing in Finance from TEC de Monterrey, Mr. Juan Carlos Holguín Aguirre, in addition to working in the private sector, has held various public positions such as Engineering, Planning and Roads of the Government of the State of Nuevo León, as well as local deputy and alderman in this same state and General Director of the DIF Guadalupe.

María Jara Risco, President, Urban Transport Authority for Lima and Callao (ATU)

María Jara Risco, was Minister of Transport and Communications, General Director of Policies and Regulatory Analysis of the Ministry of Production and Superintendent of the Superintendence of Land Transportation of People, Cargo and Merchandise. She is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), with a master's degree in Competition Law and Intellectual Property from the same university. He is a specialist in administrative law, regulation and management of public services. He has experience in the implementation of public policies on land transport, sustainable mobility, urban development and the environment. She has been a consultant to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and main advisor to Fundación Transitemos. As Minister of Transport and Communications, she implemented the Promovilidad program. She is currently the executive president of the Urban Transport Authority for Lima and Callao (ATU).

Matías Kielak, Operations Director of Operations, Buenos Aires subway

Matías Kielak has been the Operations Director of Operations at the Buenos Aires subway since November 2020. He is in charge of supervising compliance with the operation and maintenance contract, the management of rolling stock and fixed installations, and environmental controls.

Kielak has more than 20 years of experience in the railway sector, in the public and private sectors. Since 1998 he has worked in areas of rolling stock management; in preventive and corrective maintenance tasks, repairs and programming; and in the design and construction of workshops.

The last six he worked in the state-owned company Trenes Argentinos Operacións as manager of the Belgrano Sur and Miter Lines, deputy manager of Rolling Stock and advisor to the Presidency. During his tenure, he developed operational safety improvement plans based on infrastructure works and the incorporation of equipment, which made it possible to exceed the quality and service goals proposed by the company.

Alejandro Maya Martínez, Executive Vice President, Metro Línea 1 S.A.S

Economist from the Autonomous University of Manizales, Specialist in Business and International Marketing from the same University, and Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.

He has held positions such as Vice Minister of Transport, Director of the National Road Safety Agency, Secretary General of the Ministry of Transport, President of GENSA S.A, Vice President of FINDETER; Advisor to the President of the Republic, Consultant to National and International Organizations such as the Global Health Advocacy Incubator. He currently serves as Executive Vice President of ML1, a Chinese concessionaire in charge of the construction of the Metro Línea 1 of Bogotá. He has been commissioned as Minister of Transport, Vice Minister of Infrastructure and Director of INVIAS.

He has belonged to more than 20 Boards and Boards of Directors of public and private entities, among which are the Medellin Metro, Metrocali, Megabus, Transcaribe, Ideam, Civil Defense, Colombia Migration, among others.

Leonidas Narvaez, Managing Director, Metro de Bogotá

Civil engineer and road specialist. In the 39 years of his professional career, he has held positions and developed transport infrastructure projects at the local, regional and national levels.

In its passage through the public sector, entities such as the Ministry of Public Works, the National Institute of Roads (INVÍAS), the National Infrastructure Agency, among others, stand out.

The engineer Narváez assumed the position in the Bogotá Metro Company from January 28, 2021, and his challenges include the execution of the concession contract for the First Line of the Metro, the contracting of Line 2, which will benefit the towns of Chapinero, Barrios Unidos, Engativá and Suba, and the extension of the first line to the 100th street sector.

Carlos Ortega, Lead Partner Capital Projects Spanish Latin America, Deloitte

Carlos Ortega is Lead Partner for the Capital Projects group for Spanish Latin America. Mr. Ortega specializes in Project Management services and policies, and has led PM teams for a diverse number of large-scale infrastructure construction projects in Latin America and Australia. For the past 20 years, Mr. Ortega has provided PM and Claims consulting work for key projects such as the M7 Motorway construction project, the upgrade of the Sydney Metro stations in Revesby, Ashfield, Lidcombe, Macdonaldtown, amongst others, in Sydney, Australia, the new El Dorado Airport in Bogota, Colombia, and the Talara Refinery Expansion in Peru. Mr. Ortega was listed to the Who’s Who Legal: Construction Experts Global Leaders List for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 being the only Construction Latin American based expert to make the list for all these years. Mr. Ortega is a Civil Engineer from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and has a Master of Engineering Management and an MBA with primary focus on Engineering Management & Policy from University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Mr. Ortega also has a Diploma in Negotiation & Influence from MIT and Emeritus, is certified as Six Sigma Executive Champion and is the Founding Past President of the Colombia Section and member of the global Communities Committee for AACEi.

Rodrigo Osorio, Engineering and Project Manager, EFE Trenes de Chile

Civil Engineer from Federico Santa María University and Master in Business Management from Adolfo Ibáñez University.

He has more than 15 years of experience in which his participation in consulting, health services and railway companies stands out. He has held executive positions mainly in the areas of planning, design, construction and operations, which allows him to obtain a comprehensive vision of all the stages of a project, with a great capacity for management, problem solving and team building. In addition, he is a member of the evaluation committee for master's theses at the Federico Santa María University.

Silvani Pereira, president, Sao Paulo Metro

Silvani Pereira, president of the Sao Paulo Metro and also president of the CPTM Board. Business administrator by training with an MBA in Business Management. He assumed the presidency of Metro on January 11, 2019.

He held many prominent positions in the executive branch. He was executive secretary of the Ministry of Cities Chief of Staff of the Presidency of Caixa ➢ Secretary of Public Policies at the Secretary of Public Employment Policies, of the Ministry of Labor and Employment ➢ Secretary of Health of the Municipality of Serra – ES ➢ Secretary of State in Sergipe in the following departments: Health, Strategic Management and Administrative Modernization and Economic and Social Development ➢ Superintendent of Caixa's Businesses in the States of Espírito Santo, Sergipe and Goiás ➢ General Manager of Caixa for eleven years, in several municipalities in Goiás

Rafael Santos, Executive Director , Office for the Reorganization of Transportation (OPRET) - Dominican Republic

Mr. Rafael Antonio Santos Pérez (Rafa Santos), was born in Moca, Dominican Republic. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra; Throughout his life he has successfully held various positions in both the public and private sectors.

Career path:

• 1979-1982 Director of the local assistantship of the Secretary of State for Public Works in the city of Moca, Dominican Republic.

• 1982-1985 Regional Director of the Secretary of State for Public Works, North Zone, Santiago, Dominican Republic.

• 1985-1986 Northeast Regional Director of the Secretary of State for Public Works based in La Vega, Dominican Republic.

• 1989-1994 president of the company CONAPRO, distributor of food products.

• 1990-1994 Managed and supervised the construction of the Cibao Central Aqueduct, Dominican Republic.

• 2000-2004 Advisor to the Supervising Office of State Works.

• Since 1984 president of the Construction Company Engineering and Constructions Viaduct S.A. (INGCOVISA).

• 2020 – 2021 Executive Director of the Office for the Reorganization of Transport (OPRET), Metro - Cable Car of Santo Domingo.

• President for six years of the prestigious Association for the Development of the Espaillat Province (ADEPE).