Company presidents, business families, investors and families meet
The Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America (CEAPI) celebrates in Madrid the Madrid Forum, capital of Ibero-American internationalization: How to invest in Madrid.
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On this day, company presidents, business families, investors and family offices from Spain and Latin America will focus on the investment opportunities offered by the Spanish capital, as a bridge between Latin America and Europe. The objective is to promote relationships of trust, reinforce strategic links between Ibero-American businessmen and investors, favor co-investment between Spain and America, and promote the multibero-american companies, with Madrid as the best setting to strengthen ties. The capital of Spain received 21.850 million euros of foreign investment last year, a figure similar to that of Mexico, or to that of Chile y Colombia together.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has inaugurated the meeting and has ratified the
commitment of the Community with Ibero-America. Javier Fernandez-Lasquetty, Minister of Economy,
Treasury and Employment of the Community of Madrid will close the event.
In his opening speech, Núria Vilanova, president of CEAPI, has pointed out that “Madrid meets all the requirements to become the global capital of Ibero-American investment. It is a city that creates opportunities to enter the capital market and the real estate sector; to find partners and family offices; funds with which to co-invest”, has added. He also recalled that it is time to take advantage of the next Spanish presidency of the European Union: “Europe cannot afford to forget about Latin America. Despite all the uncertainties, the region has a great future.”
“We are living a key moment for the Ibero-American business community,” he noted. Manuel Muñiz, international rector of IE University. “We face major challenges, including the fracture of global value chains, the increase in geopolitical tensions and the increase in political volatility within our countries. This scenario, however, offers enormous opportunities to deepen transatlantic economic cooperation and to consolidate the Ibero-American community as a pillar of growth and competitiveness," said Rector Muñiz during the opening of the Madrid capital of Ibero-American internationalization forum on the campus of IE University.
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, opened the day and stressed: “Liberal democracies have to wake up and realize that they have to protect themselves, weave those alliances like the one that brings us here today and defend everything that has been built with so much work.” The president
Díaz Ayuso has pointed out the moment of Madrid, with “economic and employment figures” that accompany the region to turn it “into a place of opportunities, the reference of the fight for freedom and life, the center
of positive policies” and that “dismantle the entire story that belittles and ruins.”
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, inaugurates the Forum and emphasizes that Madrid is “a place of opportunities, the reference for the fight for freedom and life, and the center of positive policies that dismantle this whole story. that diminishes and ruins
The forum, which will take place throughout the day at IE Tower, the new headquarters of IE University, reference in
innovation and technology at a global level, has had the in-person attendance of 150 Ibero-American investors, who will reflect on the great opportunities that Madrid offers to their activity
commercial and investment and will analyze new business opportunities in the region
In the panels, major current issues will be debated, such as the keys to creating holding companies in Spain; the
mechanisms to enter the stock market; how to make investments in Madrid optimally (family
office, funds and M&A); the importance of social investment; the growth of the real estate market, and the
role of the new Ibero-American diplomacy and the training of future leaders.
Presence of great business and institutional leaders
Among the speakers at the Forum are important personalities from the Latin American business world such as Luis Amodio, president of OHLA; Dionisio Gutierrez, president of the Freedom and Development Foundation; Javier Cardenas, President of Rhino Equipment, and Borja Climbing, CEO of RLH Properties.
Spanish businessmen also participate, such as Noelle Cajigas, Partner in charge of Deal Advisory KPMG
in Spain; Juan Cierco, Corporate Director of Iberia; Pablo Diez, partner and Member of the Management Committee
GBS Finance; Alberto Duran, vice president of the ONCE Foundation; Antonio Fernández, president of ArmanexT; Socorro Fernandez, president of OFG Telecommunications; Francisco Gil Durán, partner of
board of directors of Gómez Acebo & Pombo Abogados; Jesus Gil, CEO of Gilmar; Mar Gómez Casuso,
vice president of Grupo Hergom; Manuel Muniz, International Rector of IE University in Madrid and professor
of international relations, Jesús González Nieto-Márquez, vice president and managing director of BME;
Oskar Shell, founding partner of Azora and president of the Board of Directors of Azora Gestión y
Azora Capital; Asuncion Soriano, vice president of ATREVIA; Javier Sánchez-Prieto, CEO of
Iberia, and Francisco Velázquez de Cuellar, president of Axon Partners Group, among others.
Within the institutional and political sphere, many figures will share space with business leaders,
among them, the former mayor of Madrid Ana Botella; the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz
Ayuso; Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment of the Community of Madrid,
and David Pérez García, Minister of Transport of Madrid, among others.
CEAPI has organized this event with the support of Armanext, Atrevia, Axon Partner Group, Bolsa y Mercados
Españoles (BME), Grupo Eulen, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo (GAP), KPMG, GBS Finance, Iberia, IE University, and Las Rozas Village.
Exclusive activities for attendees
Within the framework of the Madrid Forum, capital of Ibero-American internationalization, CEAPI offers attendees
exclusive activities to discover and enjoy the city. On October 16, the guests came to the last
musical by Nacho Cano, Malinche. On October 18, there will be an exclusive guided tour of the Royal Palace of Madrid, in which some of the best kept secrets of this jewel of Madrid will be revealed.
the Austrians.