ABOUT
To serve all stakeholders by fostering an environment of leadership that focus in coaching, leading and creating opportunities while serving with kindness and making an impact in others.
Our Story
VISION:
Becoming the number one company for all stakeholders, contributing to the development and growth of our works, communities, shareholders and everyone that comes in touch with any of our companies.
BUSINESS DESCRIPTION:
Is a group of companies in different sectors with the same objective, culture and vision and mission. Who is highly social responsible and puts its people and community first. We strongly believe that by operating more sustainably, businesses can deliver greater financial value in tandem with positive environmental and societal impact.
Our greatest asset is our people. We make great investments on training and development to ensure we deliver best possible solutions to our clients and communities.
We take pride on everything we do, as simple or as complex a task or project could be we take pride and ownership from planning to execution.
For every action, there is an equal or opposite reaction; therefore, the context and consequences of our actions is very important and must be aligned with our vision, mission and objectives.
We owe respect and loyalty to our team members, to our clients, to our community and to our firm.
We stand, work and live through high ethical values. High business ethical standards are expected at all level and with all people we interact.
Work and life balance is encouraged and expected. It stimulates mental health, physical, spiritual and family stability. We believe that when all these factors are stable, higher performance is achieved.
We strongly value education at work and in our community as education leads to high standard of living as well as a being a major toll to our most important asset, our people.
We are committed to the empowerment and impacting the community we live in whether is through monetary donation. Most importantly impacting by participating in activities and engaging in the community itself.
We value and respect diversity at all levels: age, race, gender, ethnicity and any other differences that add value to our firm in any form or shape. As we are a global firm that focus on people’s knowledge, expertise, development and progress.
Creativity is encouraged at all levels. We are solution creators and creativity is the spark that makes us different and unique. Creativity it’s also a great channel to engage with CPREZ & CO
Last but not least, one of our most important principles: we ought the responsibility to support, safeguard, protect and care for our environment, not only by our actions, but also in our decision making, thinking process and solution building and implementation.
PRINCIPLES:
The Team
Cesar Perez – CEO, Founder and Chairman
Cesar is a humanitarian, entrepreneur and philanthropist with a mission to lead, serve as a personal coach and create opportunities; serving with kindness in all that he does.
César is a very enthusiastic leader committed to high performance and strong ethical values. He graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Business Administration with a minor in Finance and a double major in Economics and Spanish Language and Literature and alumnus of the University of Texas Global Leadership Executive MBA Program. He also studied French Language and Civilization in Paris at the Université Sorbonne and has taken Portuguese classes at the United Nations Institute of the Portuguese Language.
César has more than nineteen years of experience in regulatory compliance and operations with financial institutions, his most recent permanent experience being as an associate director with Scotiabank New York, leading the Client Implementation Team and the Fixed Income Intermediate Offices group.
César has spent the last ten years of consulting experience as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Proactive Compliance Group LLC. As a consultant, he has worked on various projects at different levels involving the following financial institutions: DNB Bank, Citibank, Jefferies & Co, UBS and JPMorgan Chase, Credit Agricole and Bank of Montreal.
Cesar is an entrepreneur at heart, always keeping his roots alive. Beside his consulting business he also has created Super Nova Entertainment LLC, a content creating machine and Mckombo Export & Imports LLC a business dedicated in creating a bridge between the world and agriculture producers from Dominican Republic. Bringing high quality goods at an affordable price to all communities. On the same page he also created his own premium hand made cigars bringing the art of cigar making to the hand of some of the finest and most knowledgeable cigar sommelier with his Brand Tres Amigos Cigar Company. And last but, not least, Windsol Renewable Energy, combining his skills from business school, Masters in Renewable Energy and banking experience to fight climate change as well as integrating his nonprofit work in the communities he works through his foundation, Cprez Foundation for Global Development.
Nadia – Advisor & Team Lead
Nadia is a Independent Banking professional with more than 17 years of experience. Her background incorporates International Business Development and Management, with a solid experience in Corporate and Investment Finance, Private Banking and Portfolio Management.
Her successful experience in finance and marketing is supplemented with two degrees from New York University, MBA in Computer Sciences and International and Corporate Business and Finance.
Nadia had served as a Corporate Business Liaison between Latin American companies seeking access to the U.S. as well as international capital markets and American companies wishing to invest in them. She shares her financial expertise with corporations in her native country, Dominican Republic, helping them to expand their businesses.
Nadia is well known for maintaining good relationships with her clients and oversees the preparation of project reports, helping the high profile clients to grow their businesses by creating strategic alliances. Her priority has always been establishing in short and long term planning sessions with business partners to improve business processes and to prioritise investments in processes, people, applications, services and infrastructures.
She was selected to participate in the Accelerate with Google program and Latinas En New York (LENY) representing Latino Women in the Financial World. Also serve on the executive Board of the “Dominican Women Chamber of Commerce” (DWCC). She is currently active in several charitable organisations locally and internationally, such as “La Casa Rosada” a home for orphaned children in the Dominican Republic, and “Incarnation Children’s Center” in New York City.
Nadia is fluent in English and Spanish and is Intermediate in Arabic and Italian. Nadia is known for being highly motivated and top Performing professional.
Prior to being a real estate investor, he worked at FactSet Research Systems as an Investment Banking Senior Product Manager and was responsible for identifying, analysing and implementing strategic IT solutions for the company’s Investment Banking clients.
Giovanni previously spent four years at Morgan Stanley’s Latin America Corporate Finance Group where he worked on the execution of strategic advisory, M&A and capital raising assignments for clients in multiple sectors.
Giovanni received a BS in Economics and Finance from Bernard Baruch College, where he graduated cum laude in 1995. He is native of the Dominican Republic.
Giovanni is currently a DOWS board member with prior stints as treasurer and secretary.
Giovanni – Advisor
Giovanni is a real estate investor who currently owns and operates various real estate investment companies throughout the United States and the Dominican Republic. Through his various entities, Giovanni runs a rental portfolio, real estate development company as well as a real estate management company, among others.
Prior to being a real estate investor, he worked at FactSet Research Systems as an Investment Banking Senior Product Manager and was responsible for identifying, analysing and implementing strategic IT solutions for the company’s Investment Banking clients.
Giovanni previously spent four years at Morgan Stanley’s Latin America Corporate Finance Group where he worked on the execution of strategic advisory, M&A and capital raising assignments for clients in multiple sectors.
Giovanni received a BS in Economics and Finance from Bernard Baruch College, where he graduated cum laude in 1995. He is native of the Dominican Republic.
Giovanni is currently a DOWS board member with prior stints as treasurer and secretary.
Edward- Advisor
Entrepreneur, University Professor and Seminarian, who has stood out for his high knowledge, eloquence and environmental presentations at national and international level. Graduated from UTESA, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Architect Design and from PUCMM with a master's degree in Environmental and Waste Management. Within his extensive academic preparation, international seminars stand out: Integral Management of Solid Waste II, Japan International Cooperation Agency JICA Yokohama JAPAN and University of Fukuoka (2006), Organic waste management seminar (Takakura Methods) San Salvador El Salvador, 2012. International seminarian: (CODIA-SODOSISMICA). Seminar workshop on Treatment and use of Wastewater (PAHO - WHO). International Latin American Arch. Seminar (IX SAL- POLITÉCNICA UNIVERSITY San Juan P. Rico (2001). Cost accounting and engineering and its application by computer in construction (CODIA). First International Congress of Engineering and Environment (UPADI- CODIA ( 2001) Seminar on Diplomatic Law and International Business (FEV. STO. DGO.) Exposition “Carlos Raúl Villanueva” (School of Graduate and Design of Harvard University Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts 2000. Analysis and design of structures for hurricanes and earthquakes (2001) (CEDESE-UTESA). Edward brings a wide range of technical knowledge acquired through his experience working in public and private institutions. At Carlimev Construction, Edward is the central axis in the sustainability and environment proposal.
Sandeep - Advisor
A Senior Compliance Officer and a Team Lead with experience in Mathematical research, teaching, Law Enforcement, and Anti-Money Laundering analyst. Sandeep also holds various awards from each of his careers, ranging from consecutively being on the Dean’s List in college, to best all-around in Physical Training in the Police Academy, to the Outstanding Peer Award at JP Morgan Chase & Co. While a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Sandeep taught Math recitation classes, tutored and conducted research for the Mathematical department. As a researcher, he taught himself computational programming in Java, C++, and Matlab and was successful reducing the variance of the estimator for Stochastic Differential Equations. Sandeep was also invited to present his research to various professional conferences across the United States where his research was recognized by the academic community. As a Senior Compliance Consultant and Team Lead at Deutsche Bank, Sandeep successfully manages a team of research analyst while assisting in writing procedures for the Cash Letter Project. He also plays a vital role in day-to-day operations providing assistances and guidance to research analyst that is in accordance with the current Federal regulations and policies. Sandeep is also responsible for Quality Assurance for alerts that were completed by the team in the United States and in India.
In addition to Sandeep Singh expecting to obtain his Certified Fraud Examiner credential in the fall of 2015, his Association of Certified Money Laundering Specialist certification by fall of 2016 and he also is currently enrolled in a Master of Science in Computer Science degree with a focus in Cyber Security in at Johns Hopkins University.
Alexander - Advisor
Alexander is a philanthropist and entrepreneur who has been working in the training and development field for over 20 years. His earliest experiences go as far as Pre-Teaching academy at Walton High School, in the Bronx, where he participated in a nationwide pioneering program. Alexander has a Bachelor's Degree in Business and Information Technology from New York Institute of Technology and a Master’s in Business Administration from University of the People. He followed his passion by taking several classes in education and becoming a peer-mentor for freshmen students and tutoring program until graduation as an undergraduate. He was also part of the HEOP (Higher Educational Opportunity Program), and member of several clubs. Most currently, he is a certified real estate agent. His professional career began in banking as a teller and then client relationship after he graduated from NYIT, but after the September 11th terrorist attacks he wanted to work and help enrich his community and was hired at BronxWorks (aka, Citizen Advice Bureau), a Nonprofit organisation in the Bronx, where he has been working for over 20 years. He started as a Program assistant and has risen to be a Training Coordinator. Designing and implement staff and client curricula from computer to HR trainings and facilitation, all based on the needs of the organisation and the community. He is also member of several committees and has served as the president of the NYIT alumni association for several terms. He also initiated the "Young Alumni Club" to help integrate young alumni into the school by creating activities they would participate in and encourage young graduates to maintain their connections to the school. Alexander has taken his passion and knowledge in the private sector using PCG as a platform to align his professional and personal services.
