John R. Liegey, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Weston Holding Group (Bermuda) Ltd.
John Liegey began his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. in 1977 after graduating from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Economics. In 1979, he was promoted to Vice President, Capital Markets, where he had responsibility for Latin American fixed income sales and trading. He joined William E. Pollack International Ltd. in 1982. While at Pollack, he was a pioneer in the beginnings of the Latin American trading and asset swapping market. In 1984, he was hired by Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. as a Managing Director to head up its global fixed income sales and trading division. At the age of 30, he was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Dean Witter Capital Markets International – Limited and was transferred to London to oversee the firm’s international investment banking, underwriting, and sales and trading activities. He managed a staff of 6000 professionals in nine offices and six countries. In early 1988, Mr. Liegey resigned from Dean Witter to form The Weston Group.

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Enrique Vilatela Riba, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Weston (Latin America) Holdings Ltd.,
Weston Mexico was formed in 2009 under the leadership of Enrique Vilatela to manage all of our Mexican activities. He was a founding partner of Proyectos Estrategicos Integrales, S.A., a company established to support Mexican firms to structure and develop bankable infrastructure projects and to serve as a link between those firms’ projects and the financial community. He has founded Solcrece and Circle C- Confianza, two micro credit institutions and GSEER-SOE a company developing a wind power project in Tamaulipas, Mexico. He is a member of the board of several Mexican companies and has been an invited speaker in several events organized in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Venezuela and the USA. From 1975 to 2000 he pursued his professional career in the financial public sector in Mexico. He started in Nacional Financiera (NAFIN) in the area of International Operations. Six years later he was appointed head of the Department of Finance and International Affairs at the Foreign Trade Bank of Mexico (Bancomext). In 1989, as General Director of External Credit of the Ministry of Finance, and later as General Director of Public Credit, he participated in all the negotiations involving Mexico’s external debt, including the successful restructuring of the Mexican Debt in 1989. He served as a member of the Mexican negotiating team for NAFTA and headed the Mexican team for the creation of the NAD Bank. He served as CEO (“Director General”) of the Foreign Trade Bank of Mexico (Bancomext), from 1993 to 2000.Mr. Vilatela holds an Actuarial Science degree from “Universidad Anahuac” in Mexico City (1976). He obtained his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Miguel Avalos, Senior Managing Director, Weston International Corporate Finance, LLC
Mr. Avalos is responsible for the buildup of Weston’s international capital markets and asset management business. Mr. Avalos joins Weston from UBS where he was a Financial Advisor with over $100 million assets under management. Mr. Avalos brings significant capital markets experience to Weston including his experience as the Corporate Treasurer of Pemex from 1994 to 1998, where he oversaw all the financial functions of Pemex including asset management, investments, leasing, hedging, factoring and Mexican Central Bank relations. Additionally, he held CEO and senior level management positions at both Tarjeta Global S.A. and Sephyros S.A. Mr. Avalos brings to Weston a vast experience in Mexican regulations, and has worked with the current Director of Banco de Mexico as well as several Secretarios of Government and the Associations of Treasurer’s. Mr. Avalos began his career as a money market trader at the Mexican Central Bank (“BANXICO”) in 1979. Mr. Avalos holds a B.S. in Economics from Universidad Anahuac, Mexico D.F.