Patricia Lizarraga, Managing Partner
 Ms. Lizarraga is the managing partner of Hypatia Capital Group. She is responsible for the vision, leadership and execution of the organization's strategy, as well as originating proprietary private equity transactions. She has over 20 years of merchant banking experience, as well as is a founder of several successful companies. She was most recently the Managing Director of Credit Agricole Securities' New York mergers & acquisitions group. She started her merchant banking career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. In addition, Ms. Lizarraga founded the Ursus Restaurant Group in 1997 and Ursus Agroindustrial in 2002, as well as is a founding member of Sigma SAFI, an asset management company. She also served as the President of the Privatization Committee of the Toll Roads of Peru. Ms. Lizarraga is on the board of directors of the Harvard Business School Women’s Association of New York, the Diller-Quaile School of Music, as well as a Trustee for the Museum of Art of Lima, Peru. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of women in private equity at professional forums and top business school conferences.
Ms. Lizarraga received her Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Yale University and her Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Mercedes Tech, Managing Director
 Ms. Tech is responsible for identifying proprietary investment opportunities as well as negotiating and structuring Hypatia Capital investments. Prior to joining the Hypatia Capital Group, Ms. Tech was a managing director of Societe General's Capital Markets Group and a member of its Capital Markets Executive Committee.
Ms. Tech has also previously held senior positions in Citigroup's and Chase Securities' Capital Markets, Restructuring, and Investment Banking Groups.
Ms. Tech received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Keith Weissman, Vice President
Mr. Weissman joined Hypatia Capital Group in 2008. He is involved with all aspects of transaction execution and development as well as sourcing proprietary investment opportunities.
Prior to joining Hypatia, Mr. Weissman was an Associate at AGM Partners, a merchant banking firm based in New York. Previous to that, Mr. Weissman was a Manager of Business Investment at Sumitomo Corporation where he worked on transactions in the consumer/retail sector. Mr. Weissman began his career at Salomon Brothers.
Mr. Weissman received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School. He is also a CFA charterholder, a Certified Public Accountant in Maryland, and an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Berkeley College.
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Susana de la Puente
Ms. De la Puente was Vice Chairman at J.P. Morgan until January 2007, responsible for J.P. Morgan’s senior clients in the Latin American region. Currently, Ms. de la Puente is an advisor of several companies, including The Rohatyn Group, a New York based asset management firm focused on emerging markets.
Ms. De la Puente has received a series of recognitions for her achievements: Euromoney named her “One of the Top Women in Finance”; Global Finance Magazine named her “one of the 20 Most Powerful Women in Global Finance”; and America Economia named her “Top 10 Most Powerful Women in Latin America”.
Margaret Mager
Ms. Mager was a Managing Director and Business Unit Leader – Retail Industry, Global Investment Research for Goldman Sachs until December of 2007. In this role she led a team of 19 research professionals covering more than 90 stocks across all sectors of retail. Ms. Mager has been named an All Star Analyst for eight consecutive years (1999-2007) by Institutional Investor, as well as recognized as a top analyst in surveys by Greenwich Associates, Reuters, Starmine, and The Wall Street Journal. While at Goldman Sachs.
Dawn Riley
Dawn Riley is one of the best-known sailors in the world as well as a much sought after speaker, motivational leader and high-performance coach.
As CEO and Captain of America True, Dawn Riley was the first woman to manage an America's Cup sailing team. She is also the first American, man or woman to have raced on three America's Cup teams and two Whitbread Round-the-World Race (now Volvo Ocean Race) sailing teams. She has also been the general manager of the French Team, Areva Challenge, her fourth America’s Cup challenge. She is the former President of the Woman’s Sports Foundation, founded by Billie Jean King and is active in many public service and political activities. Dawn serves as a board member of US SAILING, the national governing body of sailing, the SCS Democratic Club, and is an advisor to many other organizations.
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