Alejandro Legorreta is a Mexican businessman, philanthropist and social entrepreneur. He holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Anáhuac and an MBA from the IE Business School of Madrid. He completed his studies on economics and behavioral finance at Harvard Business School and Wharton School of Management. He is a PHD candidate in Strategy and Development from the Universidad Anáhuac.

Alejandro is Chairman & CEO of Sabino Capital and Acacia Capital, a Mexican private research and investment group. In 2009, together with his wife, they founded the Fundación Legorreta- Hernández, a non-for-profit organization that promotes social and economic development in Mexican communities at risk. He is also the Chairman of Gatopardo, one of the most prestigious and relevant publishing platform on literary journalism in Mexico and Latin America.

He is President of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Cancerology (Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, INCan) forefront of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Mexico; member of the Board of the University Museum of Contemporary Art, known as MUAC of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Alejandro founded and chairs the Value Investing Forum “VIF”, a non-for-profit initiative that seeks to promote investment and innovation in México, social conscience in the business sector and Mexican soft power.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of Acciones y Valores Banamex (Accival), one of Mexico’s most important brokerage firms and Afore Banamex one of the most important Retirement Savings Funds in the country; as well as their respective investment committees.

He is founder of the Legorreta-Hernández Scholarship for the Master of Public Policy Journalism of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, CIDE).

He is member of the Board of the IE Business School Fund in Spain.

He has been a professor of International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana.

The Executive Director for the Center for Media Integrity of the Americas (CMIA), John Feeley is a former U.S. ambassador dedicated to promoting greater mutual understanding between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean. The CMIA is an independent entity that fosters and incentivizes high quality journalism and public interest media in the Western Hemisphere.

A skilled negotiator, organizational leader and cross-cultural communicator, Ambassador Feeley collaborates with private sector, media, and not-for-profit partners who seek to understand and solve problems found at the intersection of government, business, and culture. His military and diplomatic experience afford insight into U.S security and rule of law policy implementation, the resolution of commercial disputes, and human rights, media, and democracy issues.

During a 28-year State Department career, he served as Ambassador to Panama, Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in Mexico City, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. As a Deputy Executive Secretary, he worked on the staffs of Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, in addition to serving in other Latin American assignments both in Washington and at embassies throughout the region.

He was formerly a principal at Gotham Lights LLC, and a political consultant for the Spanish-language media, Univision, providing on-air analysis and publishing opinion columns. He has appeared on CNN, BBC, CBC, NPR, PBS, MSNBC and in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, among other Spanish and English-language media, as a forceful advocate for a respectful, alliance-based approach to U.S. relationships with Latin American governments and societies.

John serves on the Board of Directors of EnvoyGlobal (https://www.envoyglobal.com), a technology enabled immigration services company. He also works with ANDE Rapid DNA (https://www.ande.com), an emerging technology firm that seeks to harness the power of expedited DNA testing for law enforcement, forensic, and humanitarian purposes.

Prior to his Foreign Service career, he served as a United States Marine officer and helicopter pilot. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Distinguished Graduate of the National War College.