Director of Shared Services, Grupo Financiero Uno (GFU), San Salvador, El Salvador. GFU is a financial services conglomerate focused on consumer banking and is the leading credit card issuer in Central America. Ernesto is currently responsible for sales and marketing, customer service and the merchant acquiring business for the six countries in which GFU is active. During his six years with GFU he has been involved in multiple areas of the business such as new product development, remittances and COO of the Group's activities in El Salvador before taking on his recent position over a year ago. He began his career in London in the investment banking training program with Barclays Capital. After 3 years he joined an Internet startup in California that developed an online consumer-lending platform. He is also a Director of Fundacion Uno, a foundation focused on promoting educational excellence in the public school systems of Central America. Ernesto earned a BA in Economics with a Minor in Math from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School and the London School of Business.