Gloria Vargas

Gloria Vargas is Founder of Better World Finance.
 
Better World Finance is a boutique bank with an international leadership team drawn from the most experienced professionals in their fields. Their motivation is not personal wealth but fulfilling their mission to be a leading player in a new and better banking era. Their depth of knowledge is drawn from the fields of derivatives, and from structuring and funding of cash flow vehicles for an international clientele of institutional, corporate, and public sector entities. Headquartered in London, they have access to an extensive network of leading investors who are focused on the next wave of accelerating technologies and their positive impact on global development.
 
Gloria spent more than 18 years in the investment banking sector servicing major international banking institutions. She has held executive positions at Smith Barney, Dresdner Bank, JP Morgan, and Merrill Lynch. Most recently, she served as Managing Director of Strategic Debt Solutions at Merrill Lynch, where she was the point person for managing the sovereign wealth funds of Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, she managed and directed a global team of more than 150 investment bankers with a €50 billion long-term debt portfolio annually.
 
After being offered a position at one of the Major Banking houses as Managing Director of European Corporate and Public Sector Division (structured derivatives and long-term interest-rates), Gloria decided to pursue her passion for socially responsible development. She launched Better World Finance LLC (BWF), in which she combined her extensive industry knowledge and her desire to promote economic prosperity in developing countries. Headquartered in London, BWF aims to create new financial vehicles for the funding of socially responsible projects. The firm focuses on constructing financially sound and self-sustainable solutions, with a specific focus on accelerating technologies, environment, energy, and health.
 
Her mission is to introduce a second and parallel financial market (credit, debt, and equity) that offers world investors the choice to participate in the creation of a world economy where values, motivation, and salary schemes support the maximization of human potential.
 
Gloria graduated Singularity University in 2009.
 
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