CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

ALMUDENA ALCARAZ CASQUILLO, Senior Commercial and Business Development, EXOLUM

ALMUDENA ALCARAZ CASQUILLO is a Mining Technical Engineer and a Technical Industrial Engineer. She holds a master’s degree in Energy Engineering specialising in Fluid Thermal Energy from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She joined Exolum in 2015 as an Operations Technician and subsequently joined the Commercial and Business Development Department, participating in the company's international expansion process, which is where she is currently based as well as managing client portfolios and relations. Such clients can range from airlines and suppliers all the way to airports.

Juan Francisco Arboleda Osorio, Vice President of Contractual Management, ANI National Infrastructure Agency - Colombia

Economist and Master in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes, with a Master's degree with Merit in Public Management and Government from the London School of Economics and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the JFKennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The economist Juan Francisco Arboleda has professional experience in fiscal policy, macroeconomics, allocation of resources from the General Budget of the Nation and monitoring of sectoral policies. He currently serves as Vice President of Contractual Management of the National Infrastructure Agency, a position from which he leads the formulation, execution and evaluation of policies and plans related to the contractual management of concessioned transport infrastructure projects and other forms of public-private partnership. especially for railway, port and airport modes.

Eliardo Cairo Benoit, Technical Sub Director, General Directorate of Public-Private Partnerships - Dominican republic

More than 25 years of experience in the development and execution of infrastructure projects. Within this period, for more than 20 years, he has managed projects and operations related to the area of aviation fuels throughout the region with the Chevron – Texaco companies.

In his current position as Technical Deputy Director of the DGAPP, he has the responsibility and mission of coordinating the processes and activities of evaluation and structuring of public-private partnership projects.

Claudio Dutary, Airport Operations Manager, Tocumen International Airport

Degree in Law and Political Sciences from the University of Panama. Specialization in Aeronautical Law, Brazil. Diplomat in Management of Aviation Facilitation and Airport Operations, Madrid, Spain.

Air Traffic Controller Specialist (Aerodrome, Approach Control and Area Control Center) from 1981 to 1996.

From 2000 to 2004, he served as Air Navigation Director of the Civil Aviation Authority.

In 2003, he was Panama’s representative to the XI World Conference on Air Navigation in Montreal, Canada.

He was a member of the Aeronautical Commission which elaborated the Civil Aeronautical Law, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Law that regulates the administration of airports in Panama.

From 2007 to 2009, he was consultant and international auditor in Operations and Airport Management.

Since 2004, he is the Airport Operations Manager at Tocumen International Airport.

FABIÁN FOLGAR, VP REGIONAL EXECUTIVE, SALES LATIN AMERICA, BENTLEY

Fabián is a professional with more than 20 years in the software industry. For the past eleven years he has been working to bring digitalization and Bentley Digital Twin technologies to companies in Europe, North America and Latin America. Its objective is to help organizations and engineering professionals to design, build and operate their infrastructure assets taking advantage of digital technologies and strategies.

Education

• MBA, International Executive Program · (2002 - 2004) · University College Dublin, Ireland

• Degree in Environmental Biology · (1993 - 1998) University of Vigo, Spain

• Environmental Biology · (1997 – 1998) · ERASMUS Scholarship · University of Sunderland, United Kingdom

Juan Carlos García Pérez de Arce, Minister, Ministry of Works - Chile

Architect from the Catholic University of Valparaíso, with a master's degree in Urban Management from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France. His experience in the public sector is developed in the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism; in the MOP, as Regional Director of Architecture of Valparaíso; in Corfo and the Country Service in the Aysén Region.

As an architect, he has promoted important projects in the Valparaíso region, where he studied and lives, such as the construction of the Valparaíso Cultural Park, the Quillota Municipal Stadium, the Pompeya Theater in Villa Alemana and the house of Pedro Aguirre Cerda on Calle Larga, among others.

Since 2011, he has served as Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Center of the University of Valparaíso (CINV), where he developed the institutional management, the relationship with the community and the dissemination projects of the research center.

As of June 2014, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Port Company of Valparaíso (EPV), where he was in charge of defining policies for the development of the port and strengthening its relationship with the city.

He is married to Xochitl Poblete and they have two children.

Javier Martín HERVIAS, General Directorate of Transport Programs and Projects Director, Ministry of Transport - Peru

Ejecutivo senior con sólida formación académica de postgrado en negocios actualizada y 35 años de experiencia profesional en aspectos como dirección de empresas, planificación, formulación, evaluación y gestión de proyectos, concesiones en infraestructura pública de transportes y energético eléctrico, orientado hacia el cumplimiento de resultados.  Lideró, conceptualizó, supervisó y controló diversos proyectos dedicados a elaborar planes estratégicos de corto y largo plazo, diseño, gestión e implementación de contratos de concesión, reforma de procesos administrativos y productivos, reingenierías, organización y administración de personal, presupuestos y evaluaciones económicas y financieras de proyectos de inversión, para empresas multinacionales y las más importantes empresas nacionales en sectores de construcción, minería, pesquería, electricidad, etc.

Es Ingeniero Mecánico Colegiado, Magister en Administración y doctorando en Políticas Públicas y Gestión del Estado. Fue director y gerente de servicios de consultoría empresarial, Presidente del Directorio de una reconocida empresa de distribución de electricidad, estuvo a cargo de la Dirección General de Concesiones en Transportes y actualmente de la Dirección General de Programas y Proyectos de Transportes.

Luis Miranda Muñoz, deputy general manager, General Directorate of Civil Aviation - Costa Rica

He has worked for the General Directorate of Civil Aviation as Air Traffic Controller since 1992, has provided his services at the main airports in Costa Rica in Aerodrome and Approach, as well as serving as Supervisor of the Juan Santamaría Airport Control Center.

In 2012, he developed the Operational Safety System for Air Navigation Services, and in 2016 he assumed the Head of that Department, promoting, together with the Industry, among other projects, the PBN departure and arrival procedures at the Juan Santamaría Airport.

Since November 2019, he has been appointed deputy director general and, together with his work team, participates in the activities aimed at recovering category 1 for Costa Rica by the FAA.

He is currently the Deputy General Manager of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation.

Fernando Naranjo Elizondo, General Director, General Directorate of Civil Aviation - Costa Rica

Fernando Naranjo Elizondo currently serves as General Director of Civil Aviation in Costa Rica. He has more than 20 years of experience in the aviation industry. It has aeronautical licenses in aircraft maintenance, flight dispatch and air traffic control. His academic studies are in Business Administration, he has a Master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a Master's degree in Air Navigation Services Management.

SEBASTIÁN PINCHINATTI, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, AMADEUS AMERICAS, INC.

Sebastián Pinchinatti began his professional career at SITA occupying various executive positions, managing different business units always related to commercial aviation.

He is currently responsible for the development of the commercial strategy and tactical planning for the growth of the Airports and Governments business unit for Amadeus in Latin America, developing opportunities and creating value for commercial aviation, in order to achieve sustainable objectives. long-term.

In his professional career, Sebastián has contributed to various transformation processes in commercial aviation, contributing from the beginning with e-tickets, e-AWBs, centralized aircraft dispatch, development of business models for the commercialization of airport solutions and services. , generate business with air navigation providers to provide and improve the aeronautical infrastructure in the region, as well as the modernization of passenger terminals for aviation.

Alexcy Poveda, Product and Industry Manager for Latin America, Genetec

Alexcy Poveda is currently Genetec's Product and Industry Manager for Latin America. With more than 15 years of experience at Genetec, he has held different positions, including roles in the Pre-Sales Engineering department in North America and Latin America. He has worked on the design of Genetec solutions for video, access control and LPR in security, operations and intelligence environments, which has allowed him to interact with different types of technological challenges. Under his current responsibility is the strategic planning of new products, their introduction in the market, positioning in different industries and their promotion within the select group of potential clients, available to adopt new technologies early.

Juan José Salmón, CEO, Lima Airport Partners

Juan José Salmón is a qualified lawyer of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, with a Master in Law from Southampton University, England. He has more than 20 years of experience in the shipping and airport sector, having performed in recent years as general manager of different companies in the shipping, logistics and airport sector, as well as president of the Peruvian shipping businessmen's association.

Assumed the general management of Lima Airport Partners in April 2011.