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"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

African Proverb

THE DRAKE TEAM

Attracting and Developing Talent

The staff and board of the Firm encompass a complementary mix of proven entrepreneurs and qualified professionals whose collective aspiration is to create a world class investment company.

The Firm also counts on first-rate service providers in investment advisory, banking, investment banking, tax, legal and accounting.

Team Members

Olivier Weber
DEAG Board Chairman
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Nicolas Ibañez Scott
DEAG Board Member
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Raphael Cica
DEAG Board Member
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Edmundo Gonzalez
DEAG Board Member and CIO
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Alfredo Achondo
DEAG Board Member and COO
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Olivier Weber

Olivier is the Chairman of Drake Enterprises AG.

He is also Partner, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors & Head Tax for Kendris in Switzerland. Prior to joining Kendris, he was at Prager Dreifuss Ltd, BNP Paribas (Suisse) Ltd, VISCHER Ltd, and KPMG Ltd. Olivier is a Swiss Certified Tax Expert and is a member of the Zurich and Swiss Bar Association.

Olivier is President of the Federal Examination Board of Swiss Certified Tax Experts and President of the Swiss Certified Tax Experts Association.

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Nicolas Ibañez Scott

Nicolas is a Director of Drake Enterprises AG.

He led the development of the main supermarket in Chile, which became a public corporation quoted on the NYSE and which was sold to Walmart. As Chairman of The Drake Foundation he leads various philanthropic activities in the fields of education, promotion of ideas underlying a free and responsible society, culture, sports, care of the elderly and sustainability.

He was educated at The Grange School in Santiago, Chile and Repton School in England, and later graduated with honors from the Adolfo Ibañez Business School. He is alumnus of Harvard Business School. Grocer, dairy farmer and investor, he is father of three children and a lover of the outdoors. He practices mountaineering, skiing, sailing, cycling and horseback riding.

Raphael Cica

Raphael is a Director of Drake Enterprises AG.

He is a Partner, General Counsel, Member of the Board of Directors & Head Legal of Kendris AG in Switzerland. Raphael has more than 15 years of legal experience, including five years as an attorney-at-law in one of the leading law firms in Switzerland. Before joining Kendris in 2015, he worked at Bär & Karrer AG, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Raphael has a degree in Law and Economics from University of St. Gallen and a LL.M Business Law Specialization degree from the School of Law of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

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Edmundo Gonzalez

Edmundo is a Board Member and CIO of Drake Enterprises AG

He joined Drake Capital in 2013 and served until May 2015 as Treasurer and the Fixed Income and Hedge Fund Portfolio Manager. Between 2004 and 2007, Edmundo worked at J.P. Morgan Chile and J.P. Morgan NY as FX, Fixed Income & Derivatives trader for the Colombian and Peruvian books. From 2007 to 2013, he worked at Celfin Capital on the Fixed Income and Currencies desk, mainly as a proprietary trader and market maker. After the Celfin Capital – BTG Pactual merger, he worked as Fixed Income and Derivatives trader for the Chile operation, as well as overseeing BTG’s local balance sheet.

Edmundo graduated with a degree in Business Administration (2002) and a Master’s in Finance (2004) from Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile.

Alfredo Achondo

Alfredo Achondo is a Board Member and Chief Operating Officer of Drake Enterprises.

Before joining Drake Enterprises in 2021, Alfredo served as Chief Financial Officer at ComparaOnline, an insurtech with a regional presence in Latin America, leading the company’s financial operations and investor relations. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Inversiones Odisea overseeing financial operationas and also managing real estate, agricultural, private debt and conservation investments in Chile. Previously, he worked at Credicorp (formerly IM Trust), first as an Asset Management product analyst (2011-2012) and then leading the product development team in Chile (2013-2015).

Alfredo Achondo holds a degree in Business Administration (2010) and a Master’s in Finance (2011) from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MBA (2017) from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Jaime de La Barra

Jaime is the President of Drake´s Capital Allocation and Risk Management Committee.

He is a founding partner and Chairman of Compass Group Chile and Executive Director of Compass Group Holdings. Between 1985 and 1996, he worked for Citicorp investment banking and created Santander Group’s investment research unit in Chile. Jaime is a member of the Advisory Council for Capital Markets of the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Chile and Founding Partner and Director of Inbest, a non-profit organization that encourages the internationalization of the Chilean capital markets. He is a member of the Board of Icare and chairman of its Finance and Business Chapter.

Jaime holds a Business Administration degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile as well as an MBA (Palmer Scholar) from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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