Board of Directors

Emilio Ocampo, Chairman
Emilio is an independent financial consultant. He has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and capital markets in London and New York, most recently as Managing Director of Salomon Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley. Until June 2005 he served as Senior Advisor to the London office of Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners, a $2.7 billion global private equity fund affiliated with Citigroup.

Emilio has an MBA degree from the University of Chicago (1990) and a degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires (1985). He is a Professor of Investment Banking in the M.Sc. in Finance program at Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires.

Agustina Blanco, Director
Agustina is an educational consultant with a degree in business administration from UCA, an MA in education from Manhattanville College, and an MS in International Relations from NYU.  Her professional experience includes; Education Consultant with the Sophia Group Foundation, High School Teacher (Social Studies) in the US, Director of Institutional Reform at Nuestra Señora de la Paz School in Las Lomitas, Formosa, Program Coordinator for the school program of Save the  Children in Greenwich, CT, and independent consultant for projects focused on educational reform and academic improvement to promote social development.  Agustina is also a board member of the Bicentennial Schools Program, IIPE/UNESCO (2009 and she co-authored the book La Escuela Protagonista (The Leading School).  Augustina's extensive work in promoting improved education in Argentina was recognized with a HelpArgentina Social Ambassador Award in 2007.

Jerónimo Bosch, Director
Jerónimo Bosch is a partner of Pegasus, a principal investment firm based in Buenos Aires.   He has 15 years of experience in the financial sector in Latin America and the US, with a focus on corporate finance and private equity, venture capital and real estate investing.
Before returning to Argentina and joining Pegasus in 2003, he lived for eight years in New York (USA), São Paulo (Brazil) and San Francisco (USA), working throughout this period at Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers.
He holds a B.S. in Economics from the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires.

Ignacio Marseillan, Director

Diego Ferrari, Director
Diego is a lawyer who contributes his expertise and knowledge in law to HelpArgentina and is dedicated toward working for a more just country.

Sofía Gancedo, Director

Sofia is a graduate of the Universidad de San Andrés with a masters in Economics from ESDEADE. She studied data bases at New York University (NY, New York) and questionnaire design in San Diego, USA.  Sofia has worked in retail (Grimoldi Brasil), venture capital (Shaw Capital) and in the NGO sector (CIPPEC). In 2004 she founded Alfalogica, a consulting firm dedicated to market research in Argentina, Latin America, and the United States.  The firm has conducted market research projects for the government of Peru (Promperu), Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), Banco Galicia, Falabella, Correo Argentina, Telefónica de Argentina, APSA, Bodegas de Argentina, Grimoldi, Nordelta and Bumeran.com, among others. Sofia also belongs to the Board of the Friends of MALBA/Fundación Costantini (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires).

Bob Hannan

He has been involved with HelpArgentina since 2005 when he started working with the organization as a volunteer consultant. During 2009 he assumed the role of interim executive director of the organization, a position he held until May of 2011.

Bob has extensive private sector experience in strategy, finance and new product development and has worked with a range of companies including Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch, Exxon, and DuPont. In 2003 he decided to redirect his business skills to support economic development initiatives, which led to consulting projects in Africa and Central America with a variety of international organizations including TechnoServe, the IFC and ForesTrade. A project with a Buenos Aires based microcredit advocacy organization led to his introduction to HelpArgentina. Bob holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University.

Andreas Keller Sarmiento, Director

Director of Emgasud and Celulosa Argentina. Director of  arteBA and AAMNBA (Friends of the Fine Arts Museum). Between 1994 and 2007 he was Managing Director for Credit Suisse's investment banking activities in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay) in Credit Suisse.

Lloyd Nimetz, Co-founder. Emeritus Chairman

Lloyd sees his dedication to HelpArgentina as a challenge and a personal necessity to get involved in the social sector, to look for ways to innovate, and to minimize suffering while increasing the quality of life for the Argentine community.

"I've gained much more than what has been invested in this work. Social work is the most challenging that can be imagined."

Staff

Executive Director

Federico Centeno Lappas

Federico studied Political Sciences at Saint Andrews University. He also graduated from the National School of Government and from FLACSO (Latin-American Scholl of Social Sciences) where he carried out his postgraduate studies on Social Policies.

He has worked for more than ten years with social issues, in non profits and private companies. During his first years he collaborated with the realization of research studies on social development affairs.

Afterwards he joined CIPPEC, where, for more than two years, he worked for the political institutions’ office and where he became strongly involved with election reforms in a provincial level.

He continued his professional career in the private sector, working in the Institutional Relationship areas for Toyota’s and American Express´ local subsidiaries. At Toyota he was responsible of the firm’s relationship with the provincial and local media, working fundamentally on communication and press issues. Instead, for American Express he worked as the community relationship coordinator, being in charge of the social investments of the American Express Foundation in Argentina.

In 2008 he joined HelpArgentina as Coordinator with the Social Organization´s network, and he became Executive Director in May 2011.

Social Organizations Department

Mercedes Alvarez - mercedes.alvarez@helpargentina.org

Administration

Elisa Gassman - elisa.gassman@helpargentina.org

Elisa graduated with a degree in Business Administration. She processes the donations from our donors and social ambassadors to our member organizations. Elisa handles all administration, accounting, legal, and human resource responsibilities.

Advisory Board

• Gabriel Berger, Director of the Non profit Specialization at San Andres University, Director of the Social Innovation Center at San Andres University.
• Emilio Bunge, Development Finance International, Inc.
• Juan Carr, Founder of Red Solidaria.
• Mercedes Campos de Oris de Roa, Aedros
• Eduardo Constantini, Businessman.
• Daniel Dickens, Daniel Dickens MD, Co-founder Southwark Circle (ex-Director, Comunidad Sin Fronteras)
• Martín Etchevers, Grupo Clarín
• Carolina Biquard, Founder Compromiso Foundation
• Fernando Frydman, Centro de Management Social
• Martín Giménez Rébora, UNICEF, Oficina de Argentina
• Fabian Andrés Koss, Inter-American Development Bank
• Carlos March, Director of Avina Foundation in Argentina.
• Mike Matera, Global Outcomes' Managing Partner.
  
• Alicia Peirano de Barbieri, Boyden Global Executive Search. Senior consultant
• Nancy Sherwood Truitt, The Tinker Foundation
• Angelique Xanthopoulos, Associate, Sustainable Economic Strategies, the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resource.

Founders

Lloyd Nimetz, Co-founder and President
He sees his dedication to HelpArgentina as a challenge and a personal necessity to get involved in the social sector, to look for ways to innovate, and to minimize suffering while increasing the quality of life for the Argentine community.

"I've gained much more than what has been invested in this work. Social work is the most challenging that can be imagined."

Julián Bedel, Co-founder
Julian contributes to the institutional strategies at HelpArgentina.

"HelpArgentina is the vehicle Lloyd and I dreamed of in order to generate a change in the social sector world-wide."