Phone: (212) 752-1018
e-mail:joe_borgatti@msn.com

Affiliations

Director since 1996, and currently Chairman of the Bulgarian-American Enterprise Fund, a venture investment company; and Chairman of its Audit Committee. Since 1984, Secretary & Treasurer, The Friends of the Ixchel Museum, Inc., a U.S. foundation that supports the efforts of the Ixchel Museum in Guatemala to document, preserve and propagate the weavings of the Maya.

Past Affiliations

-Consultant with J J Borgatti Associates, providing advice on the design, execution and evaluation of privatization programs in 16 countries for governments including Russia, Tanzania, Egypt, Mexico, Nicaragua and Argentina. Also contracted for financial and management consulting by a variety of businesses & governments, mainly in Latin America, and for the World Bank, United Nations, USAID, and Inter-American Development Bank

-President & CEO of the Atlantic Group for the Development of Latin America (ADELA), which was formed in the1960s by 230 of the largest enterprises in Europe, Asia, North and South America, to stimulate private enterprise in Latin America through injections of development services, technology and finance (including minority equity positions). As CEO he guided the company through financial reorganization and rehabilitation of its investment portfolio, which involved restructuring of dozens of industrial enterprises

-President and CEO of EXMIBAL S.A. a subsidiary of INCO Ltd). Negotiated an operating agreement with the Government of Guatemala, saw to the construction and bringing into production of a $250+ million nickel mining and processing complex which included urban infrastructure, a road system as well as maritime transport facilities

-Executive CITIBANK, in Latin America, going from management trainee to branch manager, regional vice president and finally responsibility for operations, including computers at the New York head office

Lectures and Writings

-As a member of the American Participant Program of the U.S. State Department, Mr. Borgatti lectures and provides privatization seminars to foreign government officials, students, and journalists both in the U.S. and abroad

-Has lectured at conferences and courses on privatization at Columbia University and Baruch College in the U.S.

-Has just written “Doing Good Badly”, a book on development based on the experience of the Adela Investment Company, an initiative by some 240 international corporations to spur private sector development in Latin America