JORGE PARRA ARAVENA

• Labor Psychologist, Postgraduate in Management and Banking Management;
• Master in Marketing and Advertising. With specializations and experience in Organization and Administration, Leadership, Business and Banking Services;
• Organizational Development, Strategic Planning,
• Project Development and Implementation.

Professional Development:

• Human Resources and Social Responsibility Manager for 25 years in important Financial entities.
• Member of the Management Committee of a Prepaid Medicine company.
• Independent consultant / advisor for development of leadership programs, management development, strategic planning, organization, sales, customer service, among others.
• Created commercial and credit companies and participated in its development as President, Director and Partner.
• At present and since its creation, he holds the position of President of the Paraguay Possible Foundation, besides consulting  independently.
• President of PARAGUAY POSSIBLE FOUNDATION.

ROSARIO ARAUJO ACHA

• Public Accountant, Bussines Administration. Got a Master in Audit.
• Specializations in forensic audit, tax system, public reform, internal audit, internal control, management control, government audit, taxes.
• General Director of Internal Audit of the Ministry of Education and Culture
• Audit & Compliance in Private Organization.
• Consultancy and Advice: Assisting companies in accounting, administrative and tax matters, integral audit.
• Director at Paraguay Posible Foundatión

JOSÉ BÜTTNER

•  Master of Science in Economics, Major:
• Applied Macroeconomics. Certificate of Graduate Studies in Applied Macroeconomics.
• Non-degree Professional Education: Simulation of Options to Restructure the Government Pensions Fund System, World Bank.
• Management of Risk by Governments in Private Infrastructure projects, World Bank.
• Crisis Management, a Seminar for High Government Officials, Embassy of the U.S.A.

Risk Management Specialist in the Financial Sector. Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Employment Information:.

• Independent Advisor and Consultant. Director of Planning and Risk and Director of Economic Studies at FONPLATA.
• Country Director of the UNOPS Office in Argentina, and Paraguay.
• Director of the Secretariat of MERCOSUR.
• Vice Minister for Economy and Integration, Ministry of Finance.
• President of Banco Nacional de Fomento. Director of the “Programa Sectorial de Inversiones” Implemented with de UNDP.
• Alternate Governor for Paraguay at the Inter-American Development Bank, at the World Bank, at the “Corporación Andina de Fomento” and at the “Fondo de Desarrollo del Plata”.
• Member of the negotiating team of Paraguay for MERCOSUR.
• Director of the Program to Restructure the Ministry of Finance. Representative for Ministry of Finance to negotiate Itaipu and Yasyreta finance.
• President of the Micro Enterprise Guarantee Fund. Director of the “Programa de Reforma de la Banca Pública” Implemented with de UNDP. Secretary of the National Economic Council.
• Representative of Ministry of Finance at the Industrial Development Fund.
• Director of Economic Studies, Ministry of Finance. Senior Economist of the Central Bank of Paraguay.
• Director at Buttner Ozuna Consulting.
• Director at Paraguay Posible Foundatión

DOMINGO RAMON ESQUIVEL

• Lawyer with more than 30 years of experience in the Financial System, in administrative, legal and commercial areas.
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Retirement and Banking Employees’ Fund. -Business and Institutions consultantin legal, administrative aspects. -He works independently in criminal and civil matters.
• Director at Paraguay Posible Foundatión.

MARIZZA FERREIRA SILVERA

• Training Lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in the criminal court. With specializations and practices in the criminal, civil, juvenile and childhood. -Exponent: seminars on criminal aspects.-Coordinated and led different. departmental committees for social projects, women, production and gender.
• Has led and developed social projects to be implemented at the departmental level.-Director of the women’s secretariat at the governance level. -Performing independently in the criminal area
• Director at Paraguay Posible Foundatión.

JOSE HERIBERTO AYALA BRUN

• Training Forestry Engineer-National University of Asunción, Specialized Agrarian Economy agribusiness emphasis.
• Having completed a Masters in Agribusiness and Rural Development. He has also made improvements in: Environmental Audit, Ecology and Environmental Impact Assessment, Cluster, Forest Extension Administration (Japan), Agroforestry Systems in Land Use Planning, among others.
• Has worked within his professional development as: Director of the National Forest Service, Head of the Regional Office of the National Forest Service, Technical Advisor of the Forest Service, Coordination of Rural Development Projects, Forestry Extensionist.
• Consultant in the Environmental and Forestry sector. Environmental Impact Studies, Environmental Audit, Economic Studies and Market, Forest Management Plan, Plantations and Forest Survey. Director at Paraguay Posible Foundatión

COUNCIL MEMBERS

JOSE PEDRO URROZ DOMATO–URUGUAY

• Director of Belosol Sociedad Anónima-Montevideo Uruguay
• Director of Private Banking in institutions of first line Uruguay-Paraguay
• Institutional Representative of PARAGUAY POSSIBLE FOUNDATION for Uruguay and areas of influence.

PABLO MOYA SILVA – URUGUAY

• Training in Economic Sciences of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the University of the Republic (Uruguay). He carried out postgraduate studies in economics in this house of studies.
• Professional Development: Partner of Oikos Economic-Financial Consultant dedicated to the macroeconomic analysis and business advice. -For more than 15 years he worked in important banking institutions in the region.
• Analyst of Markets and Financial Instruments at IBK Welth Management Associated Consulting (Uruguay).
• Independent consultant / advisor on financial and investment issues.
• Has worked in consultancies in economic issues for the Uruguayan public and private sector, as well as for international organizations. -It is a reference point of opinion in Uruguay on macroeconomic issues, with a permanent presence in the media.
• Economic and Financial Adviser in international affairs of PARAGUAY FOUNDATION POSSIBLE, based in Uruguay

TOMAS ASTUDILLO

• Commercial and Marketing training, with postgraduate degrees in: SMEs, Japan JICA.
• Business Management, England. International Trade, Brazil. In Business Consulting, in the Marketing area, Mexico. Master in Marketing, Chile.
• Professional Development: Director in major universities in these careers: Eng. In Marketing and Advertising.
• Management in Tourism and Hospitality. Public Relations and Protocol. School of Economics and
• Administration. -Quality and Accreditation School of Economic and Administrative Sciences.
• Dean in School of Public Relations and Marketing. Director of the Marketing Department. MBA lecturer, of
• Masters in Marketing and Diplomates.
• Lecturer in International Marketing, International Market Research, Marketing, Sales Techniques, Export Management, Advertising, Export Projects Design, Trade Negotiations and International Negotiations.-Within his professional career he has assumed the following positions:
• President: Ibero-American Confederation of Public Relations. Latin American Relations Association Public ALARP chapter Paraguay. Member of the Commission for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)FEPRINCO, UIP. Vice-president of the College of Graduates in Public Relations of Paraguay.
• Exponent / Lecturer at local and international level in specialties of Marketing, International Trade, International Negotiations, Public Relations, Globalization of Markets, Tourist Marketing, Corporate Image, SMEs, Entrepreneurial Capacity, Strategic Planning.
• Marketing Director of CC Publicity, Marketing Manager of Estrategia S.A -Director of the Department of Business Development, (SNPP).