Jose Maria Zertuche

Jose Maria Zertuche, Managing Director, is the Head and Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock's Latin America Infrastructure Investment Group. Mr. Zertuche has over 30 years of experience financing and investing in real assets.

Mr. Zertuche was a founder of Infraestructura Institucional ("I2") in 2010, and served as its Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial and Investment Officer since inception in 2010 until its acquisition by BlackRock in October, 2015, at which time Mr. Zertuche joined BlackRock. I2 was, at the time of its acquisition by BlackRock, the leading private infrastructure investment manager in Mexico.

Mr. Zertuche’s prior experience also includes private Real Estate Investment, as well as Investment Banking (M&A, Debt and Equity capital markets transactions), asset management, strategy and operations. Prior to founding Infraestructura Institucional in 2010, Mr. Zertuche served as Chief Investment and Control Officer of Mexico Retail Properties ("MRP Group"), which he co-founded in October 2002 along with Black Creek Capital, when he was the first officer of MRP Group in Mexico.

Prior to joining MRP, Mr. Zertuche was an Associate at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in its Global Energy Group in New York, where he completed lead managed capital raising transactions totaling $3.6 billion, as well as various M&A transactions. Prior to his work at SSB, Mr. Zertuche was associated with Somoza/Cortina & Asociados, Casa de Bolsa and InverMexico, Casa de Bolsa, both investment banks in Mexico City, where he completed capital raising transactions worth over $2.5 billion, and over 20 M&A transactions.

Mr. Zertuche holds a B.S. in Actuarial Science from Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, and an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, where he received the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence, Darden's highest academic distinction.

Among other non-profit work, Mr. Zertuche serves on the Darden Graduate School of Business Alumni Board and on the Board of Directors of the Mexican Association of Private Capital (“AMEXCAP”).