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Deals, disruptions and growth areas in the Americas Conference

6 Dec - 8 Dec 2021

Penthouse at Riverside Wharf, Miami, USA

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Carolina Machado

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Associate General Counsel Latin America UBER Carolina Machado is a licensed lawyer by ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) and obtained an LLM from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. At the beginning of her career, Carolina worked at the law firms Creel García Cuéllar y Müggengburg in the Mexico City and Shearman & Sterling in New York. In 1997, she joined JPMorgan, as part of the Legal and Compliance Department in Mexico, which she led as General Counsel and head of Compliance from 1999 to 2015. In 2015, she transferred to New York to set up for Latam a proper program covering Global Financial Crimes at JPMorgan. She worked at JPMorgan for 19 years. In 2016, Carolina joined Citibanamex, a subsidiary of Citigroup, as General Counsel for the ICG (Institutional and Corporate Clients). In 2019, her role expanded to also cover the Commercial Bank. She worked at Citi for 4 years. In April 2020, during the Covid 19 pandemic, Carolina took an opportunity to move on to the Tech industry and began her new role as Associate General Counsel - Latin America for Uber, managing an expert and dedicated team of lawyers located in various countries of the region and handling a series of interesting and challenging legal issues. Throughout her career, she has developed expertise in regulatory, financial, and commercial matters. Carolina is a founding director and board member of Abogadas MX, a recognized Mexican not-for-profit organization with the mission to promote the inclusion of women in the legal profession into leadership positions. She is a passionate advocate of D&I matters and participates in many activities related thereto. Carolina is an avid biography reader and a karaoke amateur, she has been married for 25+ years and is the mother of 3 young adults.

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