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People

Shufﬂing the decks
Dennis Holtzap el has joined Espirito Santo as head of LatAm DCM. He left Je eries in March, where he had been head of EM debt capital markets and syndicate for two years. Helio Lima Magalhaes has been appointed Citi’s chief country o cer for Brazil He returns to Brazil and to Citi after 13 years with American Express. He will report to LatAm chief executive Francisco Aristeguieta. Magalhaes replaces Gustavo Marin, who had been in the job since 2005. Crédit Agricole has appointed Danielle Baron as head of its Latin American project ﬁnance group. She will be a managing director based in New York. She previously held an executive director position working in project ﬁnance in London. Baron replaces Georges Romano. Bernardo Gattass is joining Barclays as head of LatAm options trading, where he will be based in New York and later São Paulo. He was previously at Goldman Sachs in London, where he was responsible for EMEA FX options. Barclays has also appointed Marco Oviedo as chief economist for Mexico. Based in Mexico City, he will lead the ﬁrm’s macroeconomic research coverage for Mexico. He joins from the public sector. He was previously chief economic adviser to the sta of Felipe Calderón, the Mexican president. Michael Cummings has left Credit Suisse, where he was a director in DCM, to join UBS in a similar position. Cummings had been at CS for about eight years. Matias Santa Cruz has joined HSBC as managing director in LatAm ECM. He left UBS earlier this year. He will report to Americas ECM head David Noble, and eventually relocate to São Paulo. JPMorgan has hired Pedro Martins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to lead its Latin America equity research team, as chief Latin America equity strategist. Martins, who worked at JP Morgan for nine years until 2005, will be São Paulo-based. Gustavo Ferraro has joined Gramercy as head of Latin American markets. The veteran DCM banker, who left Barclays Capital in April, will be responsible for implementing debt restructurings in Latin America and sourcing, originating and

executing transactions in the region. Constantino de Oliveira, the founder of Gol airlines has stepped down as its chief executive. Paulo Kakino , the head of Audi in Brazil who has been on Gol’s board since 2010 takes over. Oliveira will stay on at the company, becoming chairman. Kakino had been with Volkswagen Group in Brazil for 19 years. Mexico’s government has appointed Jaime González Aguadé chief executive of the CFE. He replaces Antonio Vivanco, who steps down for medical reasons. Vivanco had held the job since March last year, when he replaced Alfredo Ayub. González Aguadé was previously an undersecretary of energy. Brazil’s OGX, the oil company, has made Luiz Carneiro chief executive, replacing Paulo Mendonça, who moves to become a special adviser to the chairman of EBX Group. Carneiro moves from fellow EBX unit OSX, where he was the chief executive. OSX, meanwhile, has hired Carlos Eduardo Bellot to replace Carneiro. Bellot is director of operations, engineering and development, and will keep that title in the interim. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, the former Peruvian prime minister and ex-minister of the economy has joined the board of Pure Biofuels. Pure Biofuels was recently acquired by a Pegasus Capital Advisorsa liated investment fund. Mexican lender Financiera Independencia has appointed Noel González as its executive vice president and group chief executive as part of a corporate restructuring. He previously was the chief executive of the Financiera Independencia unit. Mauricio Galán takes over as chief executive of Financiera Independencia, he was previously chief executive of Apoyo Económico Familiar. Arturo Casillas moves from operations director to ﬁll Galán’s spot. Brazilian medical services provider DASA has made Dickson Tangerino as chief executive and Cynthia Hobbs as chief ﬁnancial o cer. In April, Romeu Domingues took over as interim chief executive following the resignation of Marcelo Barboza, who had also been chief ﬁnancial o cer. LF

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