Beatriz Beltranena serves as Legal Director and General Counsel for Amzak Capital Management, a family-owned investment firm based in Boca Raton, Florida. She has been with the group since 2005 and is based in El Salvador. In her current post, she manages the legal departments, transactions and legal affairs of Amzak’s active investments including Tricom, S.A. and KPAQ Industries, LLC. Beatriz created, developed and structured the legal department of Amnet Telecommunications' operations and subsidiaries in Central America which were previously owned by Amzak and later sold and divested to Millicom-Tigo in 2008.

Violeta Longino is the General Counsel for Desca-Grupo Amper. She represents and advises the Spanish multinational public company in connection with its operations in Latin America and the United States. She is a dual-licensed multicultural attorney with more than 12 years of in-house and top tier law firm experience in the U.S. and Latin America. 

Ms. Longino has extensive experience in the areas of corporate and international law, with an emphasis on complex mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, financing transactions, including private-equity transactions and cross-border debt, and the formation of business entities in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Ms. Longino also has experience in transnational litigation and international arbitration including service of process pursuant to multinational conventions, the taking of discovery abroad, application of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and enforcement of foreign judgments. 

Ms. Longino’s training, experience and understanding of numerous international legal systems provide her with a unique perspective on structuring transactions and with the ability to advise on multiple systems of law and jurisdictions. Before joining Grupo Amper, she was a lawyer in the Miami offices of Holland and Knight and Greenberg Traurig and also served as General Counsel for multinational public and private companies. Ms. Longino was also recently named a distinguished alumna by the University of Miami School of Law.  

As Vice President and Regional Counsel, Gustavo Lopez manages all legal and regulatory matters affecting Discovery Latin America / US Hispanic (DLA). He also serves on DLA’s senior management team and is a key contributor to the overall strategic direction of the business. 

Prior to joining Discovery, Gustavo was Senior Director – Legal Affairs for the HBO Latin America Group, a joint venture between Time Warner, Sony Pictures, The Walt Disney Company and Ole Communications. Gustavo began his career as an attorney in the international corporate department of White & Case LLP, where he represented clients in various cross-border corporate, financing and acquisition transactions. 

Gustavo received his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and a BA in History from the University of Miami. Gustavo has native fluency in both English and Spanish and is proficient in Portuguese. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Miami-Dade and the Television Association of Programmers Latin America (TAP), and serves as Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Latin America Multichannel Advertising Counsel (LAMAC).

Antenor Madruga is a partner at Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão Advogados (BM&A), one of the top Brazilian corporate law firms, and heads the firm’s Corporate Ethics and Criminal Law practice.