Before coming to Stanford, Roberto was a member of the investment committee and head of portfolio management at Ashmore Colombia, a leading private equity fund manager in the Andean region. Roberto, who joined Ashmore Colombia in 2009, oversaw a 13-company portfolio. Previously, he was a member of Ashmore Energy International’s business development team, working on power and natural gas transactions across Latin America. Roberto has also been a founding partner at Banicol, a boutique investment bank in Colombia, and a project director at leading Colombian investment bank Inverlink, where he was involved in multiple merger and acquisition transactions across Latin America.