» Our Team

Christian Langaard
Founder and managing director

  • Founder and managing director of Euro-Latin Capital, a PE and corporate finance advisory firm active in Europe and Latin America. Managed PE pledge funds for Argentina (general, opportunistic) and Biofuels (sector fund). Vice Chairman, Patagonia Bioenergy; Board member, Alterra Bioenergy, Marcuard Holding.
  • Participant in Blue Ribbon Panel establishing The Global Methane Fund (www.globalmethanefund.org) Advisory Board Sustainable Bio Brazil (www.sustainablebiobrazil.com).
  • More than 20 years of global investment banking experience: Banque Paribas, Head of South American Region; built Latin American operations. Credit Suisse First Boston, Director, Northern Europe.
  • Co-founder of 2 leading biofuels companies from 1st and 2nd round financings to partial exit
  • Significant transaction experience in oil&gas industry, including IPO of the Argentine CAPEX / CAPSA Norwegian nationality and currently lives in UK / Argentina.

 

 

Sven Engevik
Associate director

  • Prior to Euro-Latin Capital, contracted for one year to establish an investor relation department in the Argentinean oil company Trefoil (Buenos Aires head office) listed at Oslo Stock Exchange, managed all the routines and procedures to secure compliance with the regulations.
  • More than ten years transaction experience:
    • Senior advisor at Oslo Stock Exchange, responsible for new listings, among others SeaDrill, Aker, Aker Yards, Aker Drilling, Deep Sea Supply, Consafe Offshore, Eastern Drilling.
    • In addition, company responsibility for approx. 30 companies, hereunder Statoil, Aker Group, Pan Fish, Fjord Seafood, SeaDrill (+ Smedvig), Eastern Drilling and inspection of prospectuses and offer documents (share issue etc.).
    • Part of the financial due diligence team at PricewaterhouseCoopers Transaction Service and an Analyst at Handelsbanken Securities, Corporate Finance
  • Master of Science (MSc) in Finance and Master of Business and Economics, Norwegian School of Management.

 

 

Bill Wason
Associate director

  • Seven years prior experience in the biodiesel industry as the President of Bio Clean Fuels, which built a 10 million gallon biodiesel plant in Bakersfield, California using its own proprietary continuous flow biodiesel technology
  • Participated in forming a consortium of partners from 5 countries in Europe that are now involved in a Co2 Star biodiesel & efficiency promotion program in conjunction with funding from the EU Commission.
  • President of Sustainable Bio Brazil (www.sustainablebiobrazil.com), started BioPure Fuels (www.biopurefuels.com), in 2005, which is involved in all aspects of vegetable oil feedstock acquisition, biodiesel production, glycerin refining and use and marketing and distribution of biodiesel & efficiency products.

 

 

 

Luis Fernandez
Associate director

  • 20 years of international investment banking experience at Banco Mariva.
  • Managed Mariva's international and local business development.
  • Built a leading and high profitable commercial strategy that included the investment banking operation.
  • Structured and managed, in partnership with international investment banks, numerous large and sophisticated transactions in Argentina, including IPO's, M&A and corporate finance advisory mandates.
  • Developed and managed debt and equity capital market divisions, a Pension Fund Management Company, a Retirement Insurance Company.
  • Partner and former Member of the Board of Directors at Banco Mariva, former President of the Board of Directors at a leading Brockerage House, former Partner of a leading Leveraged Buy Out Fund.

 

 

Viviana Maisterra
Senior associate

  • Worked five years at Euro-Latin Capital, currently working at our portfolio investment Patagonia Bioenergía.
  • Five years of private equity experience as Associate at AIG Capital Partners for the Southern Cone Fund, based in Buenos Aires.
  • Participated in the investment process, identification and proposal of investment opportunities, due-diligence processes and transaction closings. Monitoring of some AIG Capital Partners' transactions in Latin America and report to head office in New York.
  • Key transactions closed include:
    • Disco Supermarkets, where AIG Capital Partners integrated a consortium with Cencosud and other private equity funds to acquire Disco Supermarkets chain from Ahold.
    • Easy-Mail, AIG invested to acquire a telecommunication company operating in Argentina and Uruguay
  • Studied Business Administration at University of Buenos Aires.

 

 

Ignacio Aldegani
Administration manager