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Our Team


Bernardo Mariano

Bernardo provides research on exchanges including private deals for the acquisition of mutual exchanges. Prior to joining ERDesk Bernardo worked as a Director for Instinet and later, CEO of Reuters' Bondex.

Bernardo is regularly invited as a speaker at the FIA, FIAB and The WFE to speak on market structure, regulation and emerging markets.

He holds an MS in Economics from University of Illinois and an MIA in Finance from Columbia University.


Benn Steil

Dr. Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a top scholarly economics journal, co-writer of the Council's Geo-Graphics economics blog, co-founder of Efficient Frontiers LLC, a markets consultancy, and affiliated Partner of ERDesk LLC.More


Diego Perfumo

Diego provides research on exchanges and other capital markets firms. Previously he worked for Efficient Frontiers advising exchanges, trading firms, brokers, and data provides in the cash, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, and currency markets.

Diego has received broad recognition for his in-depth coverage, regularly quoted in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Financial Times, etc.

He holds an MBA and a Masters in Financial Engineering from Columbia University.


Martin Perez Enrri

Martin is a senior consultant focused on due diligence, valuation, and benchmarking of exchanges, alternative and multilateral trading facilities, clearinghouses and central securities depositories.

Previously he worked as an equity research analyst at C&T covering Latam Financial Institutions. Martin’s coverage focused on Banks and their interaction with capital markets throughout the Latin American region.

He holds an MSc in Financial Mathematics from Cass Business School, City University London, a Graduate Programme in Investment Management from London Business School, and an MA in Finance from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.


Jorge Vrljicak

Jorge is a Senior Expert with forty years of experience in the design and development of trading platforms and trading analytics in securities, money market, forex and fixed income products.

Previously, he worked for Thompson Reuters and co-founded Bondex, a fixed income analytics for emerging markets.


Guido Valenzuela

Guido is a Senior Analyst covering exchanges. He previously worked at Denario.com as a Financial and Economics Analyst.

He holds an Engineering degree from Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, ITBA.

He has been certified as a CFA Level I, Level II and Level III.


Alejandro Moreno

Alejandro is a Senior Analyst covering asset managers and discount brokers.

Prior to ERDesk, Alex worked at J.P.Morgan in its Investment Banking Division. He also worked at CMA as a research associate covering financials.

Alex holds a BA in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and is a CFA candidate.


Felicia Lim

Felicia is a Senior Analyst covering exchanges.

Previously, she worked at Standard Chartered Bank Singapore and rotated through various Wholesale Banking Finance divisions including the Global Research team covering South East Asia. Prior to that, she was with Bloomberg Singapore where she contributed to the Global Data team as a data analyst.

She holds a double degree in Business Administration and Economics from the Singapore Management University.


Pablo Delieutraz

Pablo is a Senior Analyst supporting ERDesk coverage.

Pablo previously developed chance game models at the University of La Plata and analyzed demographic data for advertising firms.

He holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Buenos Aires, and he is an MSc in Statistical Mathematics candidate

He is also an assistant professor at the University of Buenos Aires.


Bruno Musso

Bruno is an Analyst supporting ERDesk coverage.

He is a Computer Science candidate from the University of Buenos Aires.