CAPAFIN

Our Experience

Capital & Finance is a multidisciplinary financial consultant firm focused on attending the diverse needs that may arise in that area of the companies. Our wide spectrum of services allow us to offer a large scale vision service and at the same time highly specialized, always looking for guiding and accompany our clients in the way of their growth, supporting them through the optimal solutions for their specific needs.

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Lic. Ricardo Montero Moreno

Ricardo Montero is a seasoned professional with more than 30 years of experience in Finance, 20 of them in European multinational companies, working in the areas of Corporate Treasury, Finance, Internal Control and Risks and Shared Services.

He founded CAPAFIN in 2013 and, as Managing Partner of the firm, he has participated in
Structured Financing,
Private Equity,
Stock Market Issuances,
Mergers and Acquisitions
As well as in the implementation of Corporate Governance and Institutionalization of family businesses, serving companies of various areas: manufacturing, consumer products, health, biotechnology, energy, agriculture, real estate, etc.

Graduated in Finance, he has stayed updated through various diplomas and specialized courses at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Univ. Anahuac, Harvard Business Review, Mexican Stock Exchange, Institute of Best Corporate Practices, etc.

Specialties:

  • Administration, Planning, and Control.
  • Valuation of profitability and business diagnosis.
  • Mergers and Acquisitions, Investment and Financing for Project Development Management.
  • Issues of Structured Debt to the Stock Exchange.

Experience: Mannesmann-Sachs, Grupo del giro industrial-automotriz
Director of Treasury for the Group in Mexico.

Holding de Servicios Corporativos
General Manager

Bonafont HOD
Director of Treasury

Riesgos para la JV en México.
Director of Internal Control and Risk

His most recent project carried out at Grupo Dalton, was to collaborate with the Management team in the successful issuance of structured stock certificates for their leasing firm. He also implemented the centralization of the Group's Treasury.

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Lic. Mauricio Floresmeyer

Mauricio Floresmeyer is a professional with 25 years of experience in the technology industry and 8 years of experience in banking.

He studied Actuary at Universidad Anáhuac; obtained the green belt level of Digital Six Sigma from Motorola University; has studied multiple courses including Administration, Finance, Taxes, Management, Direction, Innovation, Compliance, and Ethics. He has taught courses at the Anáhuac and La Salle universities, the Centro Universitario México, and the Colegio Ameyalli, as well as courses on Corporate Governance, Compliance, Ethics, and Digital Six Sigma, among others.

He has extensive experience in management positions of leading global companies mainly in the areas of Country Management, Finance, Strategic Planning, Human Resources, Operations, International Trade, Purchasing, and Outsourcing with regional responsibilities for Latin America and global as Lead Compliance, Governance, and Ethics Officer.

The positions he has held range from Comptroller to CFO for Latin America, in Operations as COO, in Administration as Country Manager of several countries, working for Motorola, Lucent Technologies, Nortel and EDS, in banking positions in Strategic Planning Management, Financial Systems, and Human Resources for the financial groups Comermex (Scotiabank) and Serfin (Santander).

In the last 12 years the projects he led generated savings and profits through strategies and innovation for more than US$900 million. Among which are:

  • The redesign and coordination of the implementation of the financial reporting process of inter-company charges worldwide eliminating double taxation effects with annual savings in excess of US$90M.
  • The design and implementation of the system used worldwide for the certification of Corporate Governance used for SOx certification in the United States for the Corporation.
  • The direction of the redesign project of the financial review processes worldwide, leading the processes of reconciliation of accounts, external audits and reporting of savings initiatives, using the tools of Digital Six Sigma.
  • The design, development and implementation of a Manufacturing and Foreign Trade model that generated savings of more than US$275M in three years. This model was replicated in other countries. This allowed to make sales in Mexico for US$1,375M in three years.

His broad vision and experience allow him to quickly understand the environment and the functionality of the clients to provide ad-hoc solutions in the functions of General Management, Finance, and Corporate Governance.

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C.P. Miguel Guzmán Villavicencio

High level executive with wide experience in the areas of Direction, Management, and Finance of important companies. Highly motivated and used to work under pressure, managing teams with excellent results in quality and performance.

Great experience in organizational and structural changes, as in the process of Mergers and Acquisitions of businesses.

He has taught courses to CFOs, Treasurers, and Investment Managers, focused on the management of financial risks and investments, through plain vanilla derivatives, as well as with more sophisticated solutions using binary and digital options, structured notes and futures focused on currencies, interest rates, and commodities.

Extensive exposure focused on investment portfolios structure in stock, both nationally and internationally.

  • Active member of the Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas, A.C., (IMEF), since 1975, having been appointed President of Grupo Guadalajara in 1992 and elected National President of the Instituto in 1999.
  • Permanent member of the National Consultative Council of the IMEF.
  • Chairs the Advisory Board of the Degree in Accounting. Universidad Panamericana – Campus Guadalajara.
  • Member of the Consultative Council of the Business Careers of the Universidad Panamericana – Campus Guadalajara.
  • Certified Counselor in Corporate Governance by the Instituto Mexicano de Mejores Prácticas Corporativas, A. C.
  • Member of the committee in charge of preparing the first edition of the Code of Best Corporate Practices in 1999.

Public Accountant graduated from the Escuela Superior de Comercio y Administración. Instituto Politécnico Nacional.Numerous courses and training programs in areas of Direction, Management, Finance, and Taxes.

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Lic. Walid Hakiri

Professional of banking information systems, with a bachelor’s degree in Finance with a master’s degree in Financial Engineering and a post degree in Banking Business from Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). I have developed a professional career in business consulting in the banking information systems sector in Europe (Santander, Caixabank, Central Bank of France) working on large projects in Spain, France, Romania, Poland, and Morocco.

Languages: Arabic, French, Spanish, English

In the last 4 years I have developed the activity of ONEtoONE Corporate Finance in Mexico, a Spanish multinational of Investment Banking aimed at advising Mexican and foreign mid-market companies in the search for corporate solutions for buying and selling operations and lifting of capital.

Experience:
Country Manager ONEtoONE México
Senior Project Manager Caixabank España
Business Unit Manager Vermeg España
Banco Santander

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Lic. Marco Flores Revilla

Marco Flores is a working professional with over twenty years of experience in the finance sector. He has mainly focused on integral solutions for finance, as well as investment and finance coverage for corporate clients and institutions.

He majored in Finance in the Universidad Tecnológica de México, with two post-graduate studies, one on Financial Administration and the second on Senior Management – the latter offered by the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. He has completed various courses focused on sales, investment, risks and other finance variants. He has also been granted the AMIB Figure III Authorization by the Investment Society Advisers.

He has given courses to CEOs, treasurers and investment directors, focused on financial risk management and investment, through plain vanilla by-products, as well as through more sophisticated solutions using digital and binary options, structured notes and currency-focused FVs, interest rates and commodities.

He has been Sales Director for different global banking institutions such as Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Bank of America, among others. Within his main responsibilities one may find financial risks inherent to each type of industry and solution finding adequate to each client.

During the last twelve years, he has led projects which have generated both savings and utilities through strategic innovation, worth over USD 900 million. These include: in Corporate Financing, he has participated in over 120 public debt and capital offer emissions, for all types of companies in different economic sectors such as the Energy, Consumption, Health, Automobile, Banking and State sectors. These emissions have been done in both local and global markets, with different types of debts: unsecured, structured and of capital development (CKDs). Thus, linking offer and demand while always looking for tailored fittings for both the emitting party as well as different investor profiles: pension funds (Afores, in Spanish), private pensions, insurance companies, investment associations, retail banking and investment clients and niche Banks.

Such vast experience allows him access to many investors looking for attractive assets as far as return on investment and risk.

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Lic. Mauricio Segura

Mauricio Segura is a professional with more than 30 years of experience in the legal and corporate area. He studied a Bachelor’s Degree in Law at the UNAM. He worked as an intern and as an attorney in Mexico City in Nuño y Mitrani, S.C., performing tasks and dealing with matters in the civil, trade, and corporate branches, leading at the time the administration and sponsorship of more than 100 cases simultaneously. In 1988 he entered to Valores Finamex, S.A. de CV, Casa de Bolsa, where he worked as Legal Assistant Director, having in charge the Litigation area and additionally the attention to the Corporate Financing Department, mergers and acquisitions, having advised several issuances and acquisitions in which the Casa de Bolsa participated, as issuer and/or agent.

In 1993, he was invited to work in Guadalajara, Jalisco, as Assistant Director of Legal Audit, having under his supervision more than 100 lawyers, both internal and external, who served in all the regions where the Bank was present.

During the last 20 years he has worked as an Associate of the Law Firm of Abaroa & de la Mora y Asociados, S.C., oriented to assist in the areas of corporate law, trusts, mergers, acquisitions, and financing.

The extensive experience he gained during his time in the financial sector has allowed him to legally advice various companies in the construction, real estate developers, industrial, and hospitality operations, among others. During his professional career, he has promoted foreign investment, successfully attracting foreign investors in the area of real estate developments.

His recent incorporation to Capafin, aims to complementing strengths and joining capacities with the other partners, to give a service of experience and excellence in the areas of Trusts, Financing, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, and Patrimonial Protection.

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Ing. Fernando Mendez Rangel

He is a Biomedical Engineer with a specialization in Clinical Engineering graduating from the Iberoamerican University in 1985. Diploma in hospital administration from IPADE 1996, and a fellow in the Telemedicine-teleradiology program, a fellow in hospital design and planning by the Massachusetts General Hospital endorsed by the University of Harvard, in 1994.

In the professional field, he had the opportunity to participate in projects that have transformed the way in which private health services are perceived in the country.

Invited by Mr. Olegario Vázquez Raña to form the Corporate of Grupo Empresarial Ángeles (GEA) as Director of Engineering, since he worked until 1998.

He arrived in Guadalajara Jalisco as part of the GEA to carry out the acquisition and incorporation efforts of the Del Carmen Hospital to the Angeles Group, first as Executive Director and then as General Director, thereby achieving recognition by the most prestigious medical community in the region.

In 2001 he decided to start his independent business activity, first as a consultant in health services, an activity that he currently maintains with various hospitals and through which he managed to crystallize projects that are now recognized as health icons in the country; The Puerta de Hierro Medical Center and the Real San José Hospital, the first with a distinction from the World Bank granting a financing of 12.5 MDollars and the second with the merit of having received the first place award for interior design international award 2008.

Later he achieved the formation of the Society called Master in Health, a company specialized in the field of Health services, and which has the recognition of technological innovation in Telemedicine, videoconference and distance education solutions that are used by High Specialty Hospitals of the Federal government and institutional hospitals of the Mexican Institute of Social Security, with a strategic alliance with telemedicine.

From 2012 to 2020, he participated as managing partner of the Santa Catalina Hospital, where he managed to implement business acceleration processes, accredit the unit by the federal government through the minister of health in Mexico, and prepare the hospital to take it to the Hospital Certification and recertification process. of the 2014-2022 General Health Council, led the Hospital to become the first private hospital in Jalisco to serve patients of the federal popular insurance within the Catastrophic Expenses Protection Fund for pathologies of breast cancer and uterine cervical cancer. In 2018, he participated in the Business Merger with Medica de la Ciudad Group that proposes a health model, "Quality available to everyone" and that begins to show its strength by having 4 hospitals in operation in the Mexican Republic in 5 years and in 5 more years the vision of having 10 units in the most important cities in the country.

Since 2019, it has ventured into the development of platforms to attract BetterLife medical tourism, and the management of international insurance collection in private hospitals throughout the Mexican Republic.

Since 2004 it has been part of the Assisted living de México society, and in 2010 Founding partner of Prosperiti Group both companies dedicated to the promotion, planning, design and operation of Housing, Health and Well-being centers for the elderly segment and offer services in the country to the Baby Boomers segment, currently being Managing Partner of the Prosperita Hospitality Technology concept under the Prosperita trademark.

s Since 2007, founding member of the Mexican Association for Retirement Assistance AMAR, an organization accredited to the federal government to guide the destinations of this growing industry.

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MSc. Roua Dobre

MSc. Roua Dobre has a Masters of Science in Finance and Investment Nottingham, UK and a Bachelor in Mangement Bucharest, Romania.

She is a Finance professional focused on competence development in the financial and administrative area. Some of the projects she has led have the purpose of promoting the correct detection of needs and their satisfaction with the investment portfolios offered by financial institutions. These improvements have been successfully implemented at the Citi Banamex and Finamex brokerage firms. Additionally, she coordinates educational challenges in collaboration with ITESM training partners, with the aim of promoting numerically based decision making, both in students and in companies.

She has successfully advised entrepreneurs for the implementation of more than 20 startups and the formalization of small businesses in companies in the construction, food, beer, paint and coatings, disposables, confectionery, clothing, renewable energy sectors, among others.

Mentor in the ApoyandoTec system, with a focus on “business first aid” for ITESM parents business owners, also has worked as Financial Director at Grupo Cube Inmobiliario.​

Post graduate courses: Blockchain (Berkley, CINCEL and LumitHub); Fiscal and Legal Update (CEFOR and CANACO); Finance (UP, CEFOR and CANACO); Educational Counseling and Guidance (ITESM). Certifications: Capital IQ, Bloomberg Market Concepts, ASESORE, etc.

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Lic. Ricardo Elías

Graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Ricardo Elías is a financial executive with more than 30 years of experience in Banking and financing, in particular factoring and leasing, both in Mexico and abroad.

In that period he has served as:

  • CEO - Arrendadora Actinver.
  • Managing Director Credit Programs – Banorte.
  • Regional Head Factoring Asia Pacific – HSBC Hong Kong.
  • Factoring Director – HSBC México.
  • National Sales Head – GE Capital.
  • Credit Products and Factoring Head – Banamex.
  • Corporate Bank Head– Bank of America / Nationsbank.
  • VP Corporate Bank – Citibank México.

Also, he participates as a director and partner of various non-bank financial institutions.

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Lic. Elías Fares Valdés

With a successful track record of more than 20 years, he has held management positions in different local and global banks such as Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Bank of America, among others.

He studied Economics at ITAM. Throughout his career he attended seminars focused on Corporate Finance, Capital Markets and Derivatives, among others.

He has extensive experience in both private and public debt markets, as well as derivatives, rates and exchange rates, but particularly in Capital Markets and has participated in more than 100 Public Placements.

Throughout his career, he has acquired deep knowledge and excellent relationships with investors in the institutional sector, developing with them investment strategies, coverage, structuring and design of placements tailored to their needs.

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Lic. Benjamín Villanueva

20+ years as a top management finance executive, developing and implementing financial strategies maximizing profitability and cash flow cycle for local and global corporations (B2B & B2C), within Manufacture, Commercial and Services industries, including Tier one companies. Proven effective leadership, developing high-performance teams, exceeding financial KPI´s, focused on both internal and external client.

Demonstrated Success Includes:

  • Consolidate all LA Finance Region in a single P&L o Mx, Br, Ar, Ch, Col, CR
  • Financial Restructuring Improvement of Trade Working Capital
  • Cost Savings on Tax & Int Compliance Regulations
  • Sarbanes Oxley Certification Process (SOX 404)
  • Direct Cost Accounting implementation by Center Cost