By Nancy Dahlberg, ndahlberg@miamiherald.com
Endeavor Global, a nonprofit that supports high-impact entrepreneurship, announced on Wednesday the team that will lead Endeavor Miami, its first U.S. operation.
Founded in 1997, Endeavor is now in 16 countries around the world, from Brazil and Mexico to Greece and Saudi Arabia. Focused on economic development, Endeavor’s mission is to help selected entrepreneurs grow companies that create hundreds or thousands of jobs.
Endeavor’s Miami office is supported by a $2 million grant from the Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Endeavor Miami’s founding advisory board will be co-chaired by Adriana Cisneros, vice chairman of the board and recently appointed CEO of the Cisneros Group of Companies, and Daniel Echavarria, director of Organizacion Corona. Also serving on the board is Peter Kellner, who co-founded Endeavor Global and is now managing partner at Richmond Global.
The six other board members are serial investor and entrepreneur Alberto Beeck; Alberto Chang Rajii, president of Grupo Arcano; Matt Haggman, Miami program director of the Knight Foundation; Manny Medina, managing partner of Medina Capital Partners; Andres Moreno, founder and CEO of Open English; and Sean Wolfington, co-founder of the Wolfington Companies.
The new managing
director will be Laura Maydón. Maydón has most recently spent a decade at Visa
in Miami, holding both business development and product development management
roles. Before that, she worked in investment banking and at a private equity
firm evaluating investment opportunities in Latin America. She received her MBA
from Harvard Business School.