Alfredo A. Capote

Managing Director & Mexico Country Head, The Abraaj Group

[:en]Alfredo Capote joined The Abraaj Group as Managing Director and Country Head in the Mexico office on March, 2016.  Prior to joining Abraaj, Mr. Capote was Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking in Mexico for Citigroup. Formerly, he headed the Investment Banking efforts for Goldman Sachs in Mexico, where he was responsible for client coverage and execution of M&A and capital market transactions in Mexico and selected countries within Latin America.  Mr. Capote joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 as a Vice-President in Investment Banking and was named Managing Director in 2007. Prior to joining the firm, he spent eight years at Morgan Stanley in the Latin America Group within the Investment Banking Division in the M&A and Corporate Finance Groups. Throughout his career, Mr. Capote has led a significant number of transactions across Latin America and several sectors including telecom, media, real estate, financial institutions, oil, gas, education, automotive, chemical, consumer goods, industrial, IT services and utilities, among others. Mr. Capote earned a BSc, magna cum laude, in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College in 1993; an MA, with honours, from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 1996; and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1998.[:]