Taram Capital

Christian Onetto has over twenty years of experience across technology, business, and leadership in Latin America. He began his career at Cisco Chile, later directing Cisco operations in Colombia, serving as AWS Country Manager for several regional countries, working as Commercial Director at Microsoft Chile, and holding the role of VP of Digital Transformation at SONDA. He is Co-Founder of Taram Capital and Partner at AXMOS, focusing on artificial intelligence and its impact on business models, and works as an angel investor supporting startups.

Felipe Camposano is Founder and Managing Partner of Taram Capital, a venture fund focused on B2B technology companies in Latin America. He has spent years founding, investing in, and supporting early-stage teams building tech that solves problems for other businesses, and has worked with public entities such as CORFO, MinEcon, ProChile, and InvestChile to connect public and private capabilities. He also builds prototypes using tools like Claude Code and Codex and has a particular interest in biotech.

Gopi Rangan is a Founding Partner at Sure Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed stage investments. His investment areas include insurance, aging, care, neurodiversity, and wealth management. He also teaches entrepreneurship courses.

Juan Pablo Cuevas is a board member at Datamart with executive experience in financial services and fintech. He has held senior positions including VP at Visa and Managing Director at Bank of America, managing P&L exceeding $850 million and achieving 29% year-over-year growth. His background spans corporate banking, payments, foreign exchange, and treasury management, complemented by an executive MBA in business administration from the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.

Juan Vásquez is Managing Partner at Taram Capital with over 25 years of experience across strategy, investment, technology, and infrastructure, including telecommunications mergers and acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has held executive roles in product, marketing, strategy, management control, and regulation at companies including Telefónica, VTR, Liberty Latin America, and America Móvil. He also teaches at the Universidad de Chile and the UAI.

Laura Chicurel is founder and CEO of Innova360 and a partner at Bluebox. With over 20 years of experience building companies across Silicon Valley, Europe, and Latin America, she focuses on connecting Latin American founders and market opportunities with global venture capital ecosystems. Her work aims to position Latin America as a center of innovation within international markets.

Manuel Torres serves as Chief Executive Officer at MICM Ventures. He has previously worked at Google and currently provides mentorship to startup founders while making angel investments. His professional focus includes cloud computing, developer advocacy, and Internet of Things and artificial intelligence applications at the edge.

Martin Salas is founder and CEO of Meraki, a social enterprise with 10,000 users across 14 countries focused on promoting acts of kindness and positive actions. He also founded and leads Chronsult, a consulting firm specializing in organizational transformation, family business governance, and leadership strategy for corporations and enterprises across the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Previously, Salas held senior HR and executive positions at IBM, AIG, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Grupo Breca, where he directed transformation and organizational effectiveness initiatives.

Angélica Opazo is a Principal at Taram Capital and a Commercial Engineer with over a decade of experience in business development, innovation, and venture capital in Chile. Before joining Taram Capital, she spent more than twelve years at Corfo in roles related to productive development, business intelligence, and innovation financing, most recently as a Venture Capital Executive working with investment funds, investors, and startups. She holds a Commercial Engineering degree from the Universidad de Valparaíso and a diploma in Business Intelligence from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Francisco Marín is a Principal at Taram Capital, where he leads Compliance and Investor Relations across the firm's three managed funds. He studied Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile before moving into venture capital, and has been with Taram since its beginnings over six years ago, starting as an Associate. He describes himself as a generalist and is active in the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a mentor at IncubaUdeC and Startup Chile, and is the founder and host of Intravista Podcast.

Alex Harasic is a Senior Investor Manager at Amazon Web Services, focusing on AWS Startups and Venture Capital. With an MBA and background as a Civil Industrial Engineer, he brings over 10 years of business management experience in technology companies. He is bilingual.

Andres Cargill is founder and CEO of Orión, a digital advisory firm serving over 1,000 organizations across Latin America with offices in Santiago, Lima, and Bogotá. With more than 20 years of experience in digital services and technology, he specializes in cybersecurity risk management, cloud platforms, and digital business models. Cargill serves as an investor and committee member for Manutara Ventures and Scale Capital, and is a director of Corporación G100, an organization supporting entrepreneurship in Chile.

Camila Gonzalez is Strategic Growth Senior Director at NotCo. She holds an MBA from Stanford and previously worked at Boston Consulting Group.

Carlos Murillo serves as President of Pfizer Spain, where he oversees the company's operations and innovation initiatives focused on patient health outcomes. His career has included roles emphasizing research and development across the pharmaceutical sector.

Carlos Pedevila serves as Senior Director of Global Strategy and Operations for the Abrasives System Division at 3M, where he leads strategy and operations for multi-billion-dollar industrial and B2B businesses. He has experience in turnaround situations, growth acceleration, and portfolio transformation across industrial, safety, and commercial sectors, with particular expertise in installed-base and channel dynamics. Pedevila has board experience and has led global teams through organizational transformation while integrating data analytics and emerging technologies into strategic decision-making.

Claudio Hidalgo is Regional President LATAM at WeWork, where he serves as Global Chief Operating Officer. With nearly 30 years of C-suite experience, he has held CEO and COO positions across multiple industries and more than 30 countries, with particular expertise in telecom and real estate operations. He is an active angel investor and board member, and serves as a mentor at Endeavor.

Cristian Tala founded Pago Fácil, a fintech that grew from an open-source plugin used by 3,000 companies to a platform serving 6,000 clients before being acquired by Evo Payments. He currently operates as an angel investor in 30+ Latin American startups, founded Nakama Ventures, and serves as a limited partner in multiple investment funds while teaching engineering at the university level. Tala has authored two books on startup investment and entrepreneurship and created Cágala, Aprende, Repite, a community focused on practical lessons from entrepreneurial failures.

David Herranz is President of Southern Europe at ManpowerGroup, where he oversees regional operations. He has managed P&Ls exceeding $2.3 billion and brings experience in corporate strategy, operations, and finance across multiple countries and functional disciplines. His background includes designing international initiatives in process reengineering, organization redesign, and turnaround management, as well as developing commercial and sales strategies.

Diego Bobadilla is an Industrial Civil Engineer with 15 years of work experience serving as IAG Executive Director and Head of Portfolio Solutions at BTG Pactual Chile. His background includes expertise in investment management and general finance, along with experience in consulting and entrepreneurial ventures.

Diego Ibarra is Senior Partner and Head of Americas Sustainability at Roland Berger, where he leads sustainability and energy transition strategy across multiple sectors. Previously, he served as Executive Managing Director at ENGIE Impact overseeing strategy and implementation in the Americas, founded EA Group—a consulting firm focused on sustainability and decarbonization in the built environment—and co-founded ISER, a renewable energy solutions company. His background includes management consulting at Boston Consulting Group in the Energy Practice, with focus on distributed energy resources and utility transformation, along with advanced degrees from Harvard University and recognition as a LEED Fellow and Fulbright alumnus.

Eduardo Abeliuk is the founder and CEO of TeselaGen Biotechnology, where he develops AI-powered solutions in computational biology. His work spans scalable technologies in digital self-learning and intelligent online networks.

Enairo Urdaneta is Head of Business Development for the Corporate Development Division at BCI - Banco de Crédito e Inversiones. With over 20 years of experience across consumer finance, business development, and management consulting in the United States, France, Italy, Spain, Colombia, and Chile, he has worked in retail banking, store cards, and auto financing. His background includes leading cross-functional teams on cost reduction and process improvement initiatives.

Ernesto Doudchitzky is CEO and co-founder of Chattigo, a customer experience platform that uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing. With over 20 years of experience in strategic management and business development, he leads the company's CX 360 suite, which focuses on customer service quality and retention across Latin America.

Ernesto Erdmann is co-founder and CEO of ZeroQ, a queue management software platform that helps businesses reduce customer wait times in physical locations. Over six years, he has worked with companies across various sectors to improve customer experience through the system's queue management capabilities. As of 2020, the platform processed over 32 million interactions monthly, serving approximately 2.5 million people.

Francisco Caceres is a Business Development Manager at CUNSA International, a contract manufacturer specializing in private label products in vitamins, minerals, and sports nutrition. He works with retailers to develop health and wellness brands, offering services that include market analysis, manufacturing, brand design, commercial strategy, and training. Caceres is an Endeavor Entrepreneur.

Giuliano Celle is Managing Director and Head of Institutional Wealth at Certuity. He has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and wealth management, serving ultra-high-net-worth families, founders, and institutions across the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. Previously, he was Managing Director of Global Family & Institutional Wealth for Latin America and International at UBS, where he built a cross-divisional coverage model for family offices and private capital, and held senior roles at JPMorgan leading the Global Investment Opportunities Group for Latin America. Beyond his institutional career, Celle is an active investor and advisor in venture capital and private equity, with investments in approximately 20 early-stage technology businesses and partnerships in fintech, health tech, and emerging markets platforms.

Hugo Desenzani is Executive Vice President of Operations and Luxury at Highgate, where he oversees a diverse portfolio of hotels and resorts. He has more than a decade of experience in luxury hospitality, including a previous role leading Marriott International's luxury business in the Caribbean and Latin America, where he managed 30 operating hotels and supported development of over 20 additional properties across brands such as The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, EDITION Hotels, and W Hotels. His experience encompasses hotel operations, growth strategy, and owner relations across the Americas.

Ignacio Hevia is Head of Advertising Products and Corporate Advertising Senior Director at Mercado Libre, where he focuses on commerce, money, and payments solutions in Latin America. He is an active angel investor and recruiter of talent in the region.

Jose Maria Latorre is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with prior experience at Airbnb and Cornershop by Uber. At Airbnb, he worked on the payments transaction team handling over $100 billion annually, and at Google he led cross-functional projects on distributed systems and initiatives including Android Refurbished and Remote Key Provisioning. He also serves as an angel investor in Chilean startups.

Josh Little serves as Director of Ag & Minerals Logistics at G3 Enterprises and Board Member at Sonoma County Vintners. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and International Business from the University of San Francisco and a BS in Agricultural Business from Cal Poly. His background includes experience in business development, sales, and account management within the wine and spirits sector.

Luciano Velazco is CEO of Dionisio Romero University. He has over 18 years of experience in education and technology, with a focus on digital transformation initiatives across the Americas.

Luis Vera is an industrial engineer and serial entrepreneur with over thirty years of retail industry experience and a member of the first generation of Endeavor entrepreneurs. As Chairman and CEO of Zippedi, he leads a company that uses robotics and artificial intelligence to convert unstructured store data into structured data, creating digital twins of retail environments. Vera's work addresses the retail industry's lack of structured data at the point of sale, with applications to inventory management, assortment planning, and store operations.

Luz Adriana Ramirez is an independent board member at Scotiabank and former CEO of Visa México. She works on digital transformation initiatives and payment technology adoption across the financial services industry in Mexico.

María Victoria Escudero is a partner at MindWay Boutique Consulting with over 20 years of experience in international corporate environments across Finance, Strategic Planning, Controlling, Procurement, and Sales. She has worked extensively in the IT, Telco, and Oil sectors, establishing and consolidating operations throughout Latin America and closing OSS deals with major Tier 1 companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.

Mariano Werner is CEO of Examedi, a digital health company that participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 cohort. He holds a law degree from Buenos Aires University and an MBA from Stanford, and previously worked as a partner at MatrixConsulting, a management consulting firm operating in Chile and Latin America. Werner has transitioned from consulting to operational leadership roles in business.

Mario Miranda is Executive Director at Infracommerce Latam and founder of Ecomsur, a transactional e-commerce management company he established in 2011. Over more than 20 years, he has worked across e-commerce, technology, logistics, and systems implementation across Latin America, including the implementation of banking systems, ERPs, and sales strategies in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Mexico. Under his leadership, Ecomsur grew to over 500 employees and served more than 80 clients across Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Panama before merging with Brazilian e-commerce company Infracommerce in April 2023, forming the largest e-commerce services company in Latin America.

Martin Lewit is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Nisum, where he leads growth initiatives, strategic partnerships, and market expansion efforts. His work includes establishing offices in Peru and Colombia, executing go-to-market strategies, managing M&A transactions, and integrating marketing, sales, and technical pre-sales functions to drive U.S. growth. He has experience structuring channel partner models in Latin America and redesigning service offerings around artificial intelligence applications.

Omar Darwazah is Managing Director and General Partner of AAF Management Ltd., an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016 that manages approximately $250 million in assets and invests in pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A technology companies across North America and emerging markets. Through AAF and his family office, he has deployed over $80 million across 138 venture-backed startups in the United States, 39 emerging managers globally, and more than 30 companies in Africa and the MENA region, with fund performance consistently ranked in the top decile by DPI and TVPI metrics. Prior to founding AAF, Darwazah spent a decade at OCI N.V. focusing on investor relations and corporate finance, and earlier held positions at Deloitte Tax LLP and Deutsche Bank's Leveraged Finance team; he holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Oscar Gomez is CEO and founder of IntiCo.AI, a company focused on digital transformation through OpenCX/HX frameworks and agentic AI systems designed for banking, insurance, retail, and analytics sectors. Previously, he served as Chief Technology Officer at Santander Bank. Gomez also founded iTalkYou, a digital communications platform for SMBs launched in 2015, and has partnered with MyEcobox since 2019 on technology innovation in recycling and environmental sustainability. He holds degrees in civil engineering and systems engineering, along with an MBA.

Patricio Anguita serves as Chief Information Officer and Technology Manager at Fundación Arturo López Pérez. He holds experience in enterprise architecture, business process management, software development, and project management across multisourcing environments, ERP implementations, and legacy system integrations. Anguita teaches digital transformation, process management, and strategy execution in postgraduate programs and serves as a board advisor.

Ricardo Arroyo is Director of Roadfreight at Groupe BBL. His background encompasses project management, procurement, supply chain management, business development, and strategy development.

Francisco Schüler is a Senior Associate at Taram Capital, a venture capital fund focused on B2B technology companies in Latin America. He previously worked as an Associate at Wayra, Telefónica's corporate venture arm, where he evaluated early-stage startups. His current focus is on AI and how emerging models, tools, and product-building approaches are reshaping industries and creating opportunities for founders in Latin America.

Consuelo Monje Pinto is an Impact and Portfolio Specialist at startuplab.01 focused on deeptech, entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainable development, and public policy. She works across economics, philosophy, history, and technology to examine interconnections between these fields. Monje Pinto has spent years in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, viewing it as a mechanism for sustainable growth, economic value creation, and structural problem-solving.