Partner, Senior Investment Strategist, and Regional Head of Business Development, Compass Group

Mr. de la Barra is a founding partner of Compass Group in Chile, and he is currently head of Business Development and Senior Investment Strategist. Between 1992 and 1996, he created and was the Head of Investment Research for Grupo Santander in Chile.

Previously, he was a Vice President in Investment Banking at Citicorp Chile. Mr. de La Barra has been a member of the Capital Markets Advisory Council of the Chilean Ministry of Finance between 2006 and 2013 and is currently a member of the Advisory Board of Endeavor-Chile. He teaches Capital Markets and Financial Institutions at Universidad de Los Andes and is a founding partner and director of InBest. He was one of the founders and Chairman of the Chilean Investment Fund Managers Association. Mr. de La Barra has more than 27 years of experience in the investment industry in Latin America.

Mr. de la Barra has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MBA (Palmer Scholar) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.