Global Business Advisory Board
The Global Business Initiative has assembled an outstanding team of business professionals from across the world to advise Paul Almeida, dean and William R. Berkley Chair at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, on its global mission. Chaired by alumnus Maximo J. Blandon (MBA’88), the Global Business Advisory Board leverages resources to enhance the school’s ability to position itself as a leader in global business education, as well as promoting the school’s faculty research and thought leadership in the field of global business management.
- Joseph Baratta (B’93), Global Head of Private Equity, Blackstone
- Maximo Blandon (MBA’88) – Chair, Managing Director, Stephens
- Cesar Cernuda, President – NetApp, Former President – Microsoft Latin America
- Joyce Change, Chair of Global Research, J.P. Morgan
- Alifia Doriwala (C’00), Managing Director, The Rock Creek Group
- Quinten Dreesmann, Partner, CommonWealth Investments
- Ricardo Ernst – Director, Baratta Chair in Global Business, Georgetown University
- Eric Fabrikant (B’02), Chief Executive Officer, Seacor Holdings
- Hossein Fateh, Founder and Principal, CloudHQ LLC
- Alvaro Fernandez (MBA’95), President, Alfa
- Fabrizio Freda, President and CEO, The Estée Lauder Companies
- Charles Fribourg, Vice Chairman, Continental Grain Company
- Emanuel Gonzalez-Revilla, Former Ambassador of the Republic of Panama to the United States
- Javier López Madrid, Managing Director, Villar Mir Group
- Steve Marzo (B’80), Director, Altico Capital’s Board of Directors
- Franck Moison, Former Vice Chairman, Colgate-Palmolive
- Haig Nerguizian (B’08), Group Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Structured Transactions, Bank of Sharjah
- Hilda Ochoa, Founder, Strategic Investment Group
- Roxana Pierce, Of Counsel, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
- Manuel Puig, Vice Chairman, Puig
- Satya Rangarajan, Managing Partner, Enlightened Capital Management
- Joyce Utz (N’89, L’92), Director of Global Development, Transfotech
- Monica Vidal, Co-founder and Managing Director, Lattice Capital Partners, Co
- Stephanie von Friedeburg (SFS’87), Senior Vice President, Operations, IFC
- Frederic Wakeman (MBA’90), Managing Director, Blue Endeavor Ventures