Team

Ricardo Khayatte

President and Founder

Mr. Ricardo Khayatte is the Founder and President of South American Business Development Corporation. Ricardo has had more than 25 years of success in developing business between North and South America. He specializes in opening Latin American markets for U.S. and Canadian companies. Born and raised in Chile and Argentina, Ricardo has an extensive network of high-level contacts throughout Latin America, particularly in the IT and telecom industries. He has served as President and CEO of large organizations; Viplastic Chile (1600 employees) and Teheran Carpet S.A. (1500 employees) Westrade Enterprises in Vancouver, Canada as well as technology companies; Qdata Software Inc., and ITS Impact Technology Solutions. Mr. Khayatte has a strong combination of entrepreneurial and managerial skills with considerable deal-making experience. Ricardo is a member of the Canadian Council of the Americas and serves on the board of several companies in South America. He lives with his family in Vancouver, British Columbia from where he has his offices and direction of the company.

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Kendrick Lanyi-Grunfeldt

Kendrick Lanyi-Grunfeldt, has a vast experience in management ( 40 years) at Argentine, Chilean and multinational companies (manufacturing and services companies) holding positions as CEO and General Manager, South American Regional Director, Strategic and Marketing Manager, Finance Manager, Supply chain and Exports Manager.In companies such as Nestle, Carter Holt Harvey(NZ), Bonafide Group (Buenos Aires,Argentina) WIICORP at different industries as retail, food, forestry, steel, toiletries and cosmetics, office furniture and architectural finishing for large buildings, Financial services and Strategic & Marketing Management and Balanced Scorecard & Control Consultancy. Kendrick was co-founder and CEO & Chairman of Intexsys SA that became the leader in Chile in Office furniture and that was sold to a large economic group. Today Kendrick is involved with forestry exports to USA and Strategic & Marketing Management Consulting as well as lecturing at Business schools of Universidad de Chile, Universidad Andres Bello and Universidad del Desarrollo.(MBA& Bachelors).Currently he is member of the Commission of Customs and Trade of the Chilean chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris Kendrick has represented a couple of US companies in the field of Forestry , IT and Bio organic catalysts. Kendrick is a Commercial engineer of Universidad de Chile and has post-graduate degree in Strategic Management at NYU. He is currently Director and founder of the Chilean offices of South American Business Development Corp. for the last 10 years.

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Sherwin Lim

Sherwin Lim’s business experience covers a wide spectrum ranging from start-ups to Financial Post 500 public company oversight. Sherwin has founded a number of successful wholesale distribution businesses in both Canada and the Philippines and shuttles between Vancouver and Manila to manage his enterprises.He also served as an independent Board Director for six years on one of the Top 10 publicly listed companies in the province of British Columbia, Canada between 2004 and 2010.His business acumen served him well as Director on the Board of Taiga – Canada’s largest wholesale distributor of Lumber and Building Products. Taiga is both a Financial Post 500 and Top 10 BC Business magazine company with revenues in the $Billion range. He was on the Compensation Committee and also served as Chairman of the Audit Committee for three years.

Sherwin was a registered Bay Street stockbroker in the Toronto TSX and was also a Citibanker and Investment Banker in Manila. He graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines, has an MBA from Laurentian University Canada and also pursued further executive education on Corporate Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions from the Harvard Business School. His cross-cultural business experience plus his considerable influence on an extensive international business network are formidable assets for the SABD team.

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Patricio Lopez-Huici

Director and Partner of SABD Corp Chile.

Industrial Civil Engineer from University of Chile and University of Navarra, Spain

His resume is quite impressive having being Director of the Commercial office of ProChile in Brazil, Chilean official Agency promoting Exports and Investments of Chile throughout the world. Director of Bilateral Economics of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, in charge of the free trade agreements between countries, The second highest post in Foreign Affairs, Economics Area.
Advisor of the Board of CMPC S.A one of the three largest economic groups in Chile with companies like Pulp and Paper CMPC, Banco BICE and INFORSA, just to name a few.
He is CEO of Sociedad de Inversiones Portoseguro S.A.
Vice President of the Board of INFORSA, President of Forestal Crecex S.A. Counsellor of the Fundacion Chilena del Pacifico (entity representing APEC in Chile)APEC includes all the countries of the Pacific basin including United States, Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand etc.
Director of the Chamber of Commerce Chile-Peru. He has been named Member of the Committee for the project Chile in Expo Shanghai 2010.
He was awarded the “Orden do Rio Branco” in his capacity of Commander of the Federal Republic of Brazil.
He is a proud reserve officer of the Chilean Navy.
Lives in Santiago in the company of his wife and 2 children.

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Jorge A. Calderon

Director of South American Business Development Peru/Bolivia.

Jorge has been involved in the Energy sector for a big part of his accomplished life. He has design projects of implementation, tariffs, maintenance and operation of 7 stations of GNC in Bolivia, Manager of Development of Projects for Emdigas SA, Bolivian gas company, financing, design and supervision of different gas plants in Bolivia and now Direction and Coordination of Gas & Electricidad SA in Peru.
He has negotiated the purchase and merger of ASSA the second largest provider of GNC in Peru.
His experience and contacts in the business world in Bolivia and Peru makes him a great asset for SABD Corp.
Production Engineer and has a Master on Integration and International Commerce. He has several other studies and titles upon request.

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Joao Carlos Keunecke

Director of South American Business Development Brazil

Joao Carlos Keunecke has an MBA and his experience is in Finance and Economics. He is as well the ultimate salesman with lots of experience and knowledge. He does business in several countries of Latin America specially in BRazil where is a local. He has been in the Board of several companies like CIS, Bematech, Everest Etc. Joao Carlos is versatile in Spanish, English, French and of course Portuguese. He lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil where he looks after the interests of SABD Corp.

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Ricardo Pereira

IT and Translation Manager for South American Business Development Corp. Uruguay.

Ricardo Pereira is a graduated architect from the National University faculty of Architecture at Montevideo, Uruguay. Whilst still pursuing his degree in architecture, he developed a career in Information Technology, having managed software development teams and technical commercial support for business all around the globe. He worked for SABD in diverse countries such as South Africa, India, USA, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. He is now in charge of our office branch in Montevideo, Uruguay.