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Juan Capurro
Managing Director

Erik Robert Hartmann
Director / Buenos Aires

Antonio Fernández Hernando
Associate Director

Diego Oraa O'Shea
Associate Director

Bettina Karsch
Director

Marc Kitten
Non-Executive Director / London

Gabriel Atin Videgain
Analyst

 

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Juan Capurro Boltendahl - Managing Director

Juan has over 20 years Investment Banking experience. He specializes in M&A transactions, Private Equity investments and Venture Capital projects. Prior to founding the M&A boutique Boltendahl in 1996, he worked with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, with the ING Group in Montevideo and with Banco Medefín in Buenos Aires. To date Juan is based in Madrid leading Boltendahl’s European operations. He is an advisor of several international companies in its acquisition and divestment strategies. His sector expertise focuses on: pharmaceuticals and healthcare, retail and consumer goods and TMT. He has led more than 25 M&A cases, advising a broad range of companies and funds.

His corporate finance expertise started back in the 80’s while holding and representing major shareholders in Germany’s biggest brandy company. Juan played an important role in the sale process to the Guinness/United Distillers Group. Juan is member of the IESE Alumni Association of Madrid and a founding member of the IESE Junta Territorial (IESE Regional Board) in Argentina and Uruguay. Other memberships include the Argentine-German chamber of commerce (CADICAA) and the Buenos Aires based FUAC – Foreign Universities Alumni Club. He is board member of several family controlled companies. Juan obtained his MBA at IESE in Barcelona and also attended Columbia University of New York. He speaks Spanish, English, German, Portuguese and French.

Contact: capurro@boltendahl.com

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Erik Robert Hartmann - Director / Buenos Aires

Erik is member of the Board of the following companies: Tecnofarma SA of Argentina, Laboratorios Raffo of Chile and from investment company Perutil SA, formerly listed at the Swiss Stock Exchange. In 1984 Erik joined J.P. Morgan where he worked in the Zurich and New York offices, in both commercial banking and investment banking management positions.

Since 1990 Erik R. Hartmann works in the pharmaceutical industry, he is responsible for licensing and business development in Tecnofarma, a major Latin American pharmaceutical company.

Erik Hartmann has negotiated important corporate partnerships with multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies such as Novartis, Switzerland; Purdue Pharma, USA; Biogenidec, USA; and LG Chemical, Korea. He originated and advised in a major acquisition by Novartis (Sandoz) in Argentina.

Erik was born in 1957, obtained his Master of Economics at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, is married and has two children. He has the Swiss and Argentine nationalities and speaks German, English and Spanish.

Contact: hartmann@boltendahl.com

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Antonio Fernández Hernando – Associate Director

Madrid, 1961. Graduated in Economics from the Universidad Complutense and obtained his MBA from the IESE.

Antonio has more than 20 years of experience in the financial sector, eight years among Banif, Safei and Banesto, six years in Merrill Lynch (Vice-President) and five years in UBS (Executive Director).

Over the past 10 years he has advised several business groups in its growth strategies, IPO's, entries of Private Equity funds, and leveraged transactions for their corporate and personal activities. He is a founder member of Exmerubs, and is presently focused on the business side of operations and coordination with investments banks and Private Equity Funds.

Contact: fernandez@boltendahl.com

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Diego Oraa O’Shea – Associate Director

Diego has more than 7 years of experience in the financial sector with focus in the area of Private Banking.

He started his career at Banco Santander in London within the Legal & Compliance department. Later Diego joined UBS also in the Legal & Compliance department. He was the representative speaker with the regulators Stock Markets National Comission (CNMV) and Spanish Stock Echange. In 2004 he was promoted within UBS to lead the Northern Spain branch of UBS as Asset manager and Product Manager.

He is a founder member of Exmerubs, a company dedicated to manage the global wealth of its clients, both in its financial assets as well as in its business assets.

Diego was born in Bilbao, 1977. Graduated in Law and Economics from Deusto University (Bilbao). He speaks Spanish and English.

Contact: oraa@boltendahl.com

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Bettina Karsch - Director

Bettina started working in Boltendahl in 1997, having previously worked in the Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt and Roche Laboratories in Montevideo. She specialises in human resources,  strategy, business plans and market research.

She obtained her Masters in International Business in the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France and graduated from Brown University, USA with Magna Cum Laude. She speaks and writes fluently in English, German, French, and Spanish.

Contact: karsch@boltendahl.com

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Marc Kitten - Non-Executive Director / Londres

Marc is an expert in finance and strategy consulting with over 14 years experience. From 2000 to 2003 he worked as a senior consultant in the London office of McKinsey & Company, serving financial institutions mainly in Europe. Prior to that, he spent 9 years at Deutsche Bank in Germany, France and Belgium, working as vice-president in its global markets division.

He is currently a member of the well-known Candesic consultancy, which is also associated with Boltendahl. He specialises in strategy, market analysis and market due diligence. In addition to his finance and consulting activities, Marc lectures in several European MBA programmes, including Edhec Theseus, Sciences Po and ESCP-EAP.

Marc obtained his MBA from the University of Chicago GSB. He also graduated from the Edhec business school and attended the Young Managers Program at INSEAD. He speaks French, English, German, and conversational Spanish and Russian.

Contact: mkitten@boltendahl.com

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Gabriel Atin Videgain - Senior Analyst

Gabriel has more than six years of experience as a legal advisor to Spanish companies. He has worked in the Mercantile Register and has participated in numerous company transactions, preparing and coordinating corporate restructurings, as well as M&A deals. He has also performed legal consulting projects for various mid-cap companies. Gabriel joined Boltendahl as Senior analyst in 2009.

Born in Bilbao in 1977, Gabriel holds a degree in Law and Economics from the University of Deusto (Bilbao), and an MBA from IE Instituto de Empresa (Madrid). He speaks Spanish, English and French.

Contact: atin@boltendahl.com

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