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Our Team

SAGA Capital has accumulated significant expertise in financial modeling, as well as in the evaluation of sound legal, accounting, and tax structures required to guarantee a successful operation.

Luis M Sánchez

Mr. Sánchez has over 16 years of experience in the Capital markets, where he has been responsible for structuring investments in cumulative notional in excess of $7 bn. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President with Lehman Brothers Emerging Markets Group in New York, where he was in charge of structuring and marketing alternative financial products, and arranging new debt issuance (Global Bonds, Credit Link Notes, Commodity Linked Notes, Credit Default Swap hybrid structures etc.), for selected governments and corporations. Additionally, he worked with Lehman Brothers’ M&A group identifying potential tax arbitrage structures, and acquisitions in the energy sector of some emerging markets. His career has included executive positions in SAGA Capital, a hedge fund advisory firm; in the Asset Backed Securities, Debt Capital Markets, and the European Structured groups of Deutsche Bank in New York and London, and in the Risk Finance division of AIG, where he was in charge of structuring, pricing, and estimating credit ratings for many ABS. He started his financial career in 1993, as a Director of Parallax Partners LP, a macro hedge fund based in New York. He was a Harvard LASPAU scholar and obtained his MBA in 1992 from the American University in Washington, DC.  He received a BSc in Civil Engineering in
1987 from the University of the Armed Forces of Venezuela. He holds a Series
7 & Series 63 certifications from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) candidate (Level I approved).
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Jorge Barreda

Mr. Barreda is a New York based investment banker with over 10 years of international deal making experience.  Over this period of time, Jorge has originated and managed over US$20 billion in international capital markets and corporate finance transactions with corporate and Sovereign clients in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Transactions originated and managed by Jorge include a highly successful capital markets transaction for the Republic of Colombia (awarded IFR Deal of the Year in 2006), the also successful re-profiling of the Republic of Uruguay’s external debt (awarded Liability Management Deal of the Year), the restructuring of the Dominican Republic’s external debt, the unprecedented re-profiling of the Republic of Peru Paris Club obligations, the structuring of leveraged acquisition finance for a group of Colombian investors in the energy sector, and strategic advisory to the shareholders of the Port of Cartagena in Colombia.
Mr. Barreda recently headed the Andean Region effort at UBS Investment Bank, where he was an Executive Director.  Prior to UBS, Jorge was a Vice President at Deutsche Bank where he originated capital markets, structured notes and derivatives transactions.  Mr. Barreda holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Masters Degree in Economics from Catholic University of Chile.
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Ralf Voellmer

Mr. Voellmer has worked on all major aspects of offshore investment companies for more than twelve years.  Eight of those years were at Deutsche Bank in New York, where he worked in the Asset Management Products group and the domestic and offshore mutual funds groups; in charge of launching Deutsche Bank’s first hedge fund. He gained experience in Emerging Markets, working with large multilateral financial institutions and sovereigns, where he helped develop investment vehicles across a variety of asset classes.
Together with the institutional and private banking groups of Deutsche Bank, he tailored structures to meet customers’ needs, introduced nontraditional investment products to new groups of clients and developed novel structures and solutions in on- and off-shore regulatory environments around the world.
He has acted as consultant and advisor to clients ranging from large international financial institutions (both public and private), to small, innovative hedge funds. Most recently, he worked with media industry insiders to help develop SAGA Capital’s intellectual property financing model for securitization of film & music royalties; a comprehensive methodology for analyzing and generating profit at all stages of these two types of intellectual property.  Mr. Voellmer has been a frequent speaker at specialized film financing & media forums in Los Angeles and New York, most recently at the New York Society of Securities Analysts, in their forums on alternative investments. Mr. Voellmer was a Fellow at The American University in Washington, DC, where he received his MBA in Finance in 1993, and a BA in International Affairs from in 1987.
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Santosh Raikar

Mr. Raikar is SAGA’s advisor on Energy & Commodity markets and also the founder of Jubilee Capital Advisors; a management company catering Private Equity Capital investments in oil & gas in North America.  Mr. Raikar has more than seven years of experience in energy and infrastructure finance and started his career in finance at Deutsche Bank.  He also held executive positions at Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible for starting Lehman’s Commodities Principal Finance business, leading a team of several analysts and associates; where Mr. Raikar originated and underwrote investments with a cumulative notional exceeding $4 bn in the US energy sector. Mr. Raikar earned a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, and a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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