Roberto Teixeira da Costa

Banco Itau Holding Financeira S.A. offers banking services to individuals and corporations in Brazil and internationally. It provides a range of retail banking services, such as checking and savings accounts, and certificates of deposit; overdraft accounts, and consumer and personal loans; credit cards; property and casualty, and life insurance; automobile financing; private retirement plans; and asset management and capitalization plans for individuals and very small businesses, as well as provides personalized services to high-income individuals. The bank offers financial advisory services, financial consulting services, and a range of traditional banking and insurance products. Banco Itau also provides various financial products and services, such as deposit accounts, investment options, insurance, and private retirement plans, as well as credit products, such as investment capital loans, working capital loans, inventory financing, trade financing, foreign currency services, equipment leasing services, letters of credit, and guarantees to middle market customers. In addition, it offers portfolio management services for pension funds, corporations, private bank customers, and foreign investors; securities services for third parties in the Brazilian capital markets, as well as provides automobile, life, property, casualty, and health insurance.

Bunge Alimentos SA provides agribusiness services. It produces soya bran, crude soy oil, degummed soybean oil, lecithins, tocoferol, fatty acids, vegetable fats, sugar, vegetable oils, refined oils, margarines, vegetable fats and mayonnaise. The company markets grains such as soya, wheat and also operates in the corn, sorghum, sunflower, cottonseed and sugar sectors. Bunge Alimentos was founded in 1905 and is located in Gaspar, Brazil.

The International Accounting Standards Board develops and approves International Financial Reporting Standards. The private company is based in London, UK.

Sul América SA is an investment holding company which engages in the provision of insurance and other financial services. It operates through following segment: Health, Damage, Individuals, Capitalization, and Asset Management. The Health segment includes dental care and insurance for individual and group. The Damage segment is composed of automobile and other property and casualty insurance. The Individuals segment includes life insurance, and private pension. The Capitalization segment is composed of fund raising products, which includes traditional, incentive and popular. The Asset Management segment includes management of third-party resources. The company was founded by Dom Joaquim Sanchez de Larragoiti on December 5, 1895 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

BM&FBovespa SA organizes, develops and provides systems for the trading of equities, derivates, fixed income securities, federal government securities, financial derivates, spot foreign exchange and agricultural commodities. It operates its business through the following segments: Bovespa, BM&F, and Institutional & Corporate Products. The Bovespa segment offers various mechanisms and tools for trading of fixed and variable income securities on stock and over the counter markets. The BM&F segment covers the main steps of the cycles of trading and settlement of securities and contracts. The segment also includes the trading of commodities, foreign exchange, public debt, and services provided by Banco BM&F and the Brazilian Commodities Exchange. The Institutional & Corporate Products segment provides services such as depository of securities, as well as lending and listing of securities, data services and classification of commodities, and technological products. The company was founded on May 8, 2008 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

The Brazilian Securities & Exchange Commission organizes, functions, and operates stock exchange. The private company is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. and has subsidiaries in Brazil.

Consejo Empresarial de América Latina (CEAL) is a business council founded by Carlos Ricardo Esteves and based in Panama City, Panama. CEAL brings together private entrepreneurs from 19 countries in Latin America, Spain, and the Iberian Peninsula, committed to an America without borders, through the exchange of experiences, the stimulus of investment, and integration between entrepreneurs. CEAL hosts events that gather business leaders, government authorities, and international organizations around current issues and the regional agenda. The council also publishes articles of opinion and press releases on social development and economic issues.