Our team of professionals has significant experience in microfinance, asset management and emerging markets.

Michael Parker is the Non-Executive Chairman of Minlam Asset Management. Prior to joining Minlam, Mr. Parker served as Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Mirador Funds, LP, a hedge fund affiliated with HM Capital (formerly Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst), in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Parker serves on the board of directors of a number of portfolio companies in the United States and abroad. Previously, Mr. Parker was a Managing Director & Portfolio Manager at Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell and a corporate finance attorney at King & Spalding. Mr. Parker received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, a J.D. from University of Georgia, and a B.A. from the University of Richmond.

Jacob Haar is Managing Director - Microfinance of Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Haar has successfully conducted business in emerging markets and worked with international non-government organizations and for-profit companies on issues of sustainable economic development for over a decade. Since 2004, Mr. Haar has conducted due diligence on microfinance institutions and completed debt transactions with numerous microfinance institutions globally. Prior to joining Minlam, Mr. Haar worked with Azeri Star Microfinance, a microfinance institution in Azerbaijan. Mr. Haar received his M.A. from the University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, is a Fulbright Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with his B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Scott Grimberg is the Macroeconomic Investment Manager for Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Grimberg has over fifteen years of experience in emerging market research, portfolio management, and trading. Prior to joining Minlam, Mr. Grimberg was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for Pareto NY, a BNY Mellon Asset Management Company, where he led research, trading, and portfolio management for $1 billion of emerging market currency and fixed income investments. Prior to joining BNY Mellon Asset Management in 2006, he was a Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for Nuveen Investments in charge of Emerging Market Research and Emerging Market Currency and Global Fixed Income investments. Prior to Nuveen, Mr. Grimberg was a Portfolio Manager and Head of Emerging Market Sovereign Research for Bank of America Capital Management. Following work in the government finance area with a Development Alternatives, Inc project in Central America, Mr. Grimberg began his career in emerging market research in 1996 as a sovereign analyst at Standard & Poor’s. Mr. Grimberg holds a M.A. in Economics from New York University and a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University.

Michael Hokenson is Managing Director - Marketing of Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Hokenson has been involved with emerging market entrepreneurial ventures and the microfinance industry since 1997. He has been published on the profitability of microfinance institutions in The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C.K. Prahalad. Mr. Hokenson graduated from the Erb Institute of Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, earning an M.B.A. at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and a M.S. in Environmental Science at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Marco Santamaria is the Macroeconomic Investment Advisor for Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Santamaria has spent over twenty years conducting fundamental research and managing emerging market investment portfolios. Mr. Santamaria currently serves as Vice President and Portfolio Manager for Emerging Market Fixed Income at AllianceBernstein.  He formerly served as co-Chief Investment Officer of Global Securities Advisors, an investment management firm specializing in emerging markets fixed-income arbitrage and relative value strategies. Prior to Global Securities Advisors, Mr. Santamaria served as the Head of Sovereign Research at Lehman Brothers as well as a Senior Portfolio Manager for AIG Global Investments where he was a member of the AIG Foreign Exchange and Global Asset Allocation committees. Prior to AIG, Mr. Santamaria worked at ING Barings as Global Coordinator of Local Emerging Markets Research and as a Proprietary Trader, as well as a sovereign and quasi-sovereign ratings officer at Standard & Poor’s. Mr. Santamaria began his career in 1989 as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Santamaria received a B.A. from Amherst College and a M.A. in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Miguel Arvelo is a Director at Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Arvelo has six years experience in operations and the structuring and execution of debt transactions for emerging market companies. Prior to joining Minlam, he was a Senior Associate for Women's World Banking where he assisted microfinance institutions in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa with accessing commercial funding. Previously, Mr. Arvelo worked in Morgan Stanley's Microfinance Institutions Group originating and facilitating capital markets debt transactions.  At Morgan Stanley he also served as a Latin America credit analyst for various industries and as an Internal auditor for the firm's Corporate Functions Group.  Mr. Arvelo received a B.S. in Finance from the Binghamton University School of Management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






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