Joaquin Avila is Managing Director of the global private equity firm, Carlyle Group

Carlyle Group

The Carlyle Group is an American-based global asset management firm, specializing in private equity, based in Washington, D.C. The Carlyle Group operates in four business areas: corporate private equity, real assets, market strategies and fund-of-funds, through its AlpInvest subsidiary...

, where he is responsible for researching and discovering opportunities in the field of buyout investments.

He holds a B.S. from Universidad IberoAmericana

Universidad Iberoamericana

The Ibero-American University is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus...

, a M.S. from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, and an MBA from Yale School of Management

Yale School of Management

The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...

.

He was formerly a Managing Director and Head of Latin America for the now defunct Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker...

, where he concentrated on the development and implementation of regional strategic plans. He has also worked for Banco Santander and Bankers Trust

Bankers Trust

Bankers Trust was an historic American banking organization. The bank merged with Alex. Brown & Sons before being acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1998.-History:A consortium of banks created Bankers Trust to perform trust company services for their clients....

 and was a board member of Unica, a Mexican venture capital firm. As Managing Director of Banco Santander, he was responsible for strategy development in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 and the acquisition of Banco Mexicano, the fourth largest bank in Mexico.

Avila also formed VAInvestments, a private equity firm based in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 which was financed by Banco Santander. In addition, he was a Managing Director of VA Investments/Compass Group, where he created strategic plans to develop private equity

Private equity

Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....

 and asset management businesses in Mexico.

He is also a member of EMX capital, for investment in Mexico.

He was on a panel: "Exits in emerging markets" at the 2008 Emerging Markets Private Equity Forum.

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