Les Baquiran started Alpine in 2014 and prior he was a Principal at Park Hill, a division of Blackstone where he covered North and South American investors and Funds in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has worked on over 50 fundraisings during his career.  Prior to Blackstone, he was a Managing Director at ISI Group (now Evercore), covering investors in the Americas, Asia and Australia, opening the firms’ first relationships in Korea, Brazil, New Zealand and Malaysia.  He began his career at Brown Brothers Harriman as an equity research analyst.

He is a senior advisor to Good Judgment Inc., a Term Member at the Council of Foreign Relations, Co-Director of the Latin American Board of the Hedge Fund Association, and Leadership Council Member of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).  Les has spoken at or advised on curriculum at schools including Harvard, Stanford, Yale and NYU.  He graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in International Political Economy with study abroad and exchanges at Georgetown University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, US Coast Guard Academy and University of Cape Town.  He is also a member at Empire Angels, Toigo Foundation, Asia Society, The Chinese Finance Association and China Institute.  He is an Alternative Rock fan and records with the music project called See for Days.  He lives in New York with his wife and four children.

Daniel Mueller, prior to co-founding the Latin American business of Alpine in 2015, worked for Moneda Asset Management, one of the largest independent Latin American investment managers based in Santiago, Chile, currently managing over USD $7.5bn for global institutional investors. He led Moneda’s fundraising efforts in Latin America to both institutional and private investors, successfully multiplying Moneda’s AUM in the region by over 4x in 4 years and opening several key markets for the firm. Additionally while at Moneda he was responsible for the placement of investment funds for several third party asset managers to Latin American investors.
He began his career at Thomson Reuters in New York City, working in various sales & service roles mainly covering buy-side investment management and wealth management clients. He moved to Santiago, Chile in 2009 to lead Thomson Reuters’ commercial efforts there. Daniel graduated from Indiana University Kelley School of Business with a degree in Business Administration, is a CAIA charterholder and the Chilean Director of the Hedge Fund Association. He is Colombian-American and resides in Santiago with his wife and young child.

Diego Naveiro, supports all of the functions of the Latin American business out of Alpine’s Santiago office. Prior joining Alpine he worked for nearly 5 years as Senior Investment Analyst of Alternative Investments at AFP Planvital, one of the oldest Pension funds in Chile. He led Planvital’s investment activities and team responsible for Alternative assets, during his tenure identifying and analyzing investment opportunities across the Alternatives asset class spectrum. Responsibilities included performing due diligence on foreign asset managers and funds, as well as preparing and advising investment recommendations to Planvital’s investment committee. Diego has experience dealing with the Chilean AFP regulatory processes and the structuring of local feeder funds. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Universidad Andres Bello and an MS in Financial Markets from Rouen Business School in France.

Eric Sternberg joined Alpine in 2018 in the Santiago office principally to manage the private wealth management clients of Alpine Latin America as well as support the general business. Prior to Alpine he worked for 7 years at BlackRock, 5 years in Chile as a Sales Associate covering Chilean asset management, wealth and broker-dealer investors as well as supporting BlackRock’s general growth agenda and activities throughout the Southern Cone. In 2015 he moved to New York with BlackRock to manage relationships with US institutional & private investors where he worked for 2+ years until his return to Chile with Alpine. Eric holds a degree in Political Science and Hispanic Studies from University of Pennsylvania.

Imtiaz Uddin, focuses on project management and operations out of Alpine’s New York office. He coordinates and manages all research, diligence, and tech teams from idea generation to delivery. Outside of Alpine, he is involved with B-deshi, a mentorship program that connects successful Bangladeshi professionals with talented and motivated Bangladeshi-Americans. He is also involved with BangladeshTomorrow, a news publication focused on highlighting the achievements of Bangladeshis around the world. Imtiaz is a native New Yorker having attended New York University and Stuyvesant High School. Imtiaz also holds both the Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Punita Kumar-Sinha has a career spanning over 25 years focused on investment management and corporate governance. She maintains broad relationships in Asia, particularly in India where she led some of the first foreign investments into the local market. She is the founder of Pacific Paradigm Advisors (PPA), an independent investment advisory and management firm focused on Asia. She is also a Senior Advisor and serves as an independent director on boards of public and private companies in India. Prior to PPA, she was a Senior Managing Director at the Blackstone Group, leading Blackstone Asia Advisors and serving as the CIO for The India Fund (NYSE:IFN), the largest India Fund in the US for almost 15 years, The Asia Tigers Fund (NYSE:GRR), and The Asia Opportunities Fund.

Prior to Blackstone she was a managing director and senior portfolio manager at Oppenheimer Asset Management and CIBC World Markets, where she helped open one of the first India advisory offices for a foreign firm. She also worked at Batterymarch (Legg Mason), Standish Ayer & Wood (BNY Mellon), J.P. Morgan and IFC/World Bank.  

She has been featured in the media, including: Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg and The Economic Times. She has anchored the Indian TV series on ET NOW on various global markets and key Indian policy issues. She has a Ph.D. and a Masters in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and was awarded the prestigious “Distinguished Alumni Award” from IIT. She has an MBA from Drexel University and is a CFA Charterholder. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an enthusiast of Indian dance and culture as well as women in business issues. 

Joe DeLuca is a 24 year veteran of the investment industry with deep expertise in business development, market strategy, risk management and quantitative investing.  He currently works at Prospect Investment Group, a company which he founded to provide advisory services to asset managers and financial institutions.  Prior to that he was co-founder and chief strategist at Kepos Capital, a multi-billion dollar quantitative asset manager.  The bulk of his career was spent at two firms: Highbridge Capital Management/JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.  At Highbridge, he was a managing director responsible for business development and product development which included conceiving, launching and locating seed capital for new hedge funds and alternative mutual funds.  At Goldman Sachs he worked in its risk department as well as its quantitative asset management department which managed the Global Alpha Fund.  

Joe graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University and served on the Hedge Fund committee for Cornell’s endowment.  He is a published author, and helped to write and edit the book, The Practice of Risk Management.  Joe is an active comedy writer and comedian.