ABOUT
Team of professionals with experience working in the fields of asset management, financial technology, corporate development and investment banking.
Diverse, global expertise is the symbiosis of dynamic insight and decision making.
Mr. Murillo is an experienced investment analyst, asset management and corporate development professional. Mr. Murillo has over 20 years of investment experience in the areas of due diligence, fintech, business development, consultancy and investment analysis, working with institutional, corporate and private clients in developed, emerging and frontier markets.
Prior to EGI, Mr. Murillo was Managing Director and Head of Business Development at Overture Financial Services, a financial technology and investment start-up. Prior, he was the VP and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at ING Investment Management. Additionally, Mr. Murillo has worked as an institutional client specialist with Chancellor LGT Asset Management and as a Research Associate on joint projects and studies with the National Development Research Institutes (NDRI) and the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
Mr. Murillo graduated from the State University of New York at Oswego in May of 1994 with a dual degree in Political Science and Public Justice. He is a licensed Investment Advisor and a licensed Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) and is a member of the Investment & Wealth Management Institute.
Mr. Murillo is active in the community having been involved in promoting arts and education in the Miami community. Including acting as a former Board Member to the Casimiro Global Foundation, and currently volunteering with organizations in support of human rights and sustainable development goals.
Yenvy Truong
Sr. Advisor
Yenvy Truong is a 15+ year veteran of the healthcare and wellness industries—a serial entrepreneur, investor and thought leader. Yenvy began her career as an analytical chemist in a major pharmaceutical company. She ascended the ranks of several corporations and diagnostic startups before embarking on a career as the founder and catalyst of successful companies. She has founded and co-founded start-ups in the arenas of digital health and remote lifestyle monitoring, as well as metabolic, functional, anti-aging, and regenerative medicine. In the process, she has had the privilege of working alongside prominent physicians, Nobel Laureates, and industry-leading healthcare innovators.
Most recently, Yenvy was CEO of Upswing Health. A virtual care technology servicing individuals with acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions. Previous to her current role, she was founder and CEO of a lifestyle remote patient monitoring healthcare company, which shepherded breakthrough research from their origins in a major university. The resulting company boasted three patents, with some of the most prestigious clinical organizations in the world on its client roster.
Yenvy also mentors disruptive startups in various industries, helping them create the perfect roadmap to reach their objectives.
Throughout her career, Yenvy has embodied a passion for systemic reform, supporting the shift from a reactive disease-care system to a proactive healthcare system. She lives this passion by promoting the implementation of cutting-edge technology, physiological, medical, and nutritional science developments into standard patient care.
Yenvy has a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, an MBA, and a certification in Mergers and Acquisitions from Stanford University.
Advisory Board
The Emergent management team receives advice and balanced opinions from experienced professionals with diverse global experience in corporate, non-profit and governmental sectors.
Scarlett Lanzas, MPA
Advisory Board
Accountable Impact, CEO
Expert: Sustainble Development Goals
Miami, FL
Scarlett Lanzas is an impact entrepreneur, impact investor and nonprofit management consultant with a demonstrated history of working with public and private sector agencies, nonprofits and international development and humanitarian assistance organizations. She is passionate about human rights, gender equality, impact investing and sustainable development.
Ms. Lanzas providest Emergent Global Investments, Scarlett focuses on the development of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics that are in sync with the current DOL policy environment, as well as research and development of technology and financial services related to impact investing. Combining her knowledge of government policy and passion for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).
Scarlett is also the founder of Accountable Impact, a social enterprise that prioritizes the need to collect timely data and provide policy solutions to advance the SDGs by working with corporations, cities and regional governments with the goal of creating scorecards and voluntary local reviews. She also co-founded Social Impact Movement, a nonprofit that acts as catalyst for social change in Miami.
During the span of her career, Scarlett worked in diverse areas ranging from humanitarian assistance, through her work with the United Nations World Food Programme, to leading the Puentes New Orleans, a nonprofit organization in Louisiana that focused on the development of economic and community assets for Latinos.
Ms. Lanzas holds an Executive Master of Public Administration degree from Florida International University, a master’s in International Development and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations.
Melanio Lopez, MS
Advisory Board
US Dept of Treasury
Expert: Cybersecurity
New York, NY
Mr. Lopez currently works as an IT Project Manager with the U.S. Department of Treasury and currently advises EGI with respect to Information Technology and cybersecurity. Mr. Lopez has a diverse professional history with various of U.S. Government Agencies. Mr. Lopez is skilled in computer information security & network architecture, he is a Certified Network Defender (CND), and is certified for CEHv10, CISA, CompTIA Security+, A+, CompTIA, Network+, CNNA Voice and CNNA Security.
Mr. Lopez started his career in 1995 with the US Army 11B Reconnaissance Division of the 101st Airborne Division. Subsequently he worked as an Information Specialist with the US Navy, an Information Analyst with the Veterans Administration, a Civil Affairs and Special Operations specialist with the US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command and as an Information Specialist with the US Department of Homeland Security.
Mr. Lopez graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego in 1995, with a Bachelors Degree in Criminology and Forensic Science. Mr. Lopez received a Masters Degree in Information Technology from Webster University in 2005, where he is currently working on his second Masters Degree in Cyber Security.
Dr. Anthony Okonmah
Advisory Board
African Trade & Development Center
Expert: African Affairs & Int'l Trade
Miami, FL
Mr. Okonmah is the Executive Director of The Africa Trade Development Center (ATDC), the first of its kind in the United States designed to expand US--Africa trade and to create demand for African imports to the United States under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA); the Generalized Systems of Preferences (GSP) and to other lucrative markets in the Americas using the strategic location of the ATDC in the Miami Free Zone as a distribution hub to the Americas
Tony has over 15 years, experience working on US Africa Trade and investment policy. He has travelled extensively in Africa promoting US-Africa Trade and investment. Tony Okonmah has published more than thirty peer-review articles and abstracts in scientific journals. Prior to this position he has worked with several drug companies as a research scientist and also taught doctor of pharmacy students – research methodology
Mr. Okonmah also serves on the Board of Directors of the Miami-Dade County Industrial Development Authority and several other private sector organizations in the US and Africa.
He received his Bachelor of Science (Honors), Animal and Poultry Science, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, June 1975, and his Master of Science, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida, April 1978.