Claudia Hardy has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from IPADE (Mexico). She began her career in equity research in Credit Suisse in New York. She joined Merrill Lynch in Los Angeles, specializing in equity research for Latin American companies. Later, she worked at Compass Group, occupying positions of increasing responsibility in asset management, from equity portfolio manager to Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Compass Group Mexico and CIO of Compass Group in New York. Afterwards, she worked at GE Capital as Senior Risk Officer in Risk Management. In 2011, she joined Ezentia Group as Partner. Claudia is a founder of the Consejo de Empresarias y Ejecutivas A.C., Co-Chair of Women on Boards 2020 Mexico and has been an Invited Professor at IPADE. She is a Fellow of the IWF Leadership Foundation Program, a leading international executive program at Harvard Business School and INSEAD. She is fluent in Spanish and English.