Daniel Spechar, Ex - CAF Principal Investment Officer/Tech specialist /Angel Investor

Daniel served as the Principal Investment Officer at the Private Equity and Venture Capita Division at CAF Development Bank of Latin America. In this position at the multilateral institution, Daniel was in charge of originating, analyzing and investing in select direct equity investments and venture capital funds across the region, as well as administering part of the institution ́s existing alternative investments portfolio. As part of his responsibilities, he served in various investment and advisory fund committees, as well as board member in order to oversee the genera partnership performance an compliance with industry best practices. Some of his other complementary functions include providing technical cooperation grants in order to promote the expanding regional entrepreneurial ecosystem, playing an integral part in promoting and developing the institution’s strategy regarding the FinTech and AgroFoodTech verticals. Born and raised in Santa Cruz-Bolivia, Daniel Spechar is a graduate from Indiana University in Bloomington-U.S.A. with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2005. After a stint in the commercial aviation industry, he obtaine a Masters in Marketing Management from IE Business School in Madrid-Spain in 2009 and joined CAF later that year as part of the institution’s Young Professionals Program, a highly selective two-year intensive rotational program designed for future leaders inside the organization.

Branislav Trajkovski, CEO of Payink.com

Branislav Trajkovskiis CEO ofPayink.com, a fintech and legaltech company that helps lawfirms and other professional services firms get paid faster and achieve productivity gains within their practice. He was investor, Board Director and Global Head of Corporate Development of Dlocal, where he helped scale the company from a small Latam start up, to a NASDAQ-listed company with $20bn market cap. Branislav is a Chairman of the investment committee of Expand Venture, a fund which invests in and scales fintech and legaltech businesses. He was a host of podcast on legaltech, and serves as Advisory Board Member to Iconekta.

Gail Armstrong, COO of Payink.com

Gail Armstrong is COO of Payink.com, where she has been designing and implementing legaltech and fintech solutions for lawfirms and other professional services firms in Latam, the US and Europe. Gail is a former Accenture Managing Director and People and Diversity Lead for their UK & Ireland Banking practice. As a Forward Ladies 2021 finalist, Gail is a strong proponent of inclusion and diversity and female entrepreneurship, and has implemented ‘family-first’ culture.

Jaret Davis, Co-Managing Shareholder and Blockchain & Digital Assets expert at Greenberg Traurig LLP

Jaret L. Davis is the Co-Managing Shareholder of the Miami office of Greenberg Traurig, P.A. and a member of the firm’s global Executive Committee. He oversees approximately 170 attorneys and 200 business staff based in the firm’s founding office in Miami, Florida USA and focuses his corporate and securities practice on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, and complex secured financings. For over a decade, Jaret has led the efforts of the Miami office and played a key role in the firm’s global efforts to be a dominant player in the technology industry. The vast majority of Jaret’s clients are technology players, ranging from information technology companies, to life sciences/biotech companies, to companies focusing on renewable energy sources. Under Jaret’s leadership, the Miami office has been a thought leader in representing angel investors, venture capital firms, growth equity funds, as well as various technology companies along all intervals of the life cycle, from startup to multi-billion dollar publicly-traded companies. He routinely provides representation to publicly traded clients having an aggregate market capitalization of over US$ 20 Billion.

Mariano Werner, CEO at Lemontech SA

Mariano Werner is CEO of Lemontech, a leading SaaS company that enhances productivity of law firms throughout Latam, with its products Time Billing and Case Tracking. Formerly a Board Member at Lemontech and a partner at MatrixConsulting, Mariano is passionately working towards the digital transformation of the Latin American law practice. He dreams of making more lawyers and less law technicians, and of having a more efficient and higher quality justice system. Mariano holds a Law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and an MBA from Stanford University.

Alonso Indacochea, Managing Partner at Indacochea & Asociados, Founder and CEO at Iconekta

Alonso has worked at IA for over 20 years and is currently the Managing Partner and co-head of the Corporate Department (M&A); his forever passion. His corporate experience, strategic vision and business oriented mindset has made him one of the leading attorneys in corporate counseling in Bolivia and known as an ideal corporate closer for local and international clients. Alonso holds a Corporate L.L.M at NYU Law School (New York), MBA at Adolfo Ibañez/Wharton Business School, and has completed Legal Tech programs at Instituto Empresa (Madrid).In 2021, he successfully completed the Leadership Program for Law Firms at Harvard Law School Executive Education. At IA, he has shifted the firm’s mindset towards all becoming liquid lawyers; combining law, finance, management skills and introduced Legal Tech with the sole purpose of granting IA clients the “extra mile advice”. Due to the disruptive and digital transformation at IA, Iconetka was born and he now serves as Founder and CEO. Iconekta is proudly one of the first Legal Tech solutions born and built inside a Law Firm with the purpose of building a trustworthy legal ecosystem, connecting all dots for a real win –win for all players in the legal industry.

Brenda Rek, Co- Founder & Iconekta COO

With more than 10 years of experience in the technology industry, Brenda has worked in various sectors including: healthcare, telecommunications and legal. Brenda holds an Industrial and Systems Engineering degree at The University of Florida (UF) with a specialization in Business and Sales Engineering. She has vast experience in process automation, optimization, efficiency,and business transformation. Her work in the technical field and business development provides her the insights to fully understand the client’s needs and deliver a successful business strategy. Brenda is Six Sigma Green Belt Certified (SSGBC), and passionate in process improvement through strategic planning. Brenda stands out on Leadership, teamwork and negotiation.