Manuel Enrique Mejía-Aoun

Mr. Manuel E.
Mejia-Aoun is Chief Investment Officer at Bladex Asset Management, Inc. Mr. Mejía-Aoun joined Bladex in October 2005.
Prior to Bladex, he had his own consulting firm, MMA Associates.
Mr. Mejía-Aoun created and was CEO of Maxblue by Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bank's first personal financial consultancy business, targeted at the affluent investors in Latin America from January 2000 to December 2002.
He sold 49.9% of Maxblue, on behalf of Deutsche Bank, at a valuation of $180.0 million in 2002.
From 1996 to creating Maxblue in 2000, he headed the Latin American Foreign Exchange and Local Money Markets Sales and Trading Group at Deutsche Bank.
In 1995, Mr. Mejía-Aoun was the Chief Emerging Markets Strategist at Merrill Lynch covering fixed income securities in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.
From 1987 to 1995, he created and ran the Emerging Markets Trading Group at Merrill Lynch.
He is a Founding Member and former Vice Chairman of the Emerging Markets Traders Association.
Mr. Mejía-Aoun received an MBA in Finance from Thunderbird (American Graduate School of International Management) and a BS in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University (summa cum laude) with a double major in Marketing and Finance.