Carlos Danel is Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Compartamos Banco, one of the largest microfinance institutions in Latin America, serving more than 2 million low-income microentrepreneurs (mostly women) with financial services based around working capital loans. Mr. Danel is a frequent speaker in conferences and seminars, and a teacher in specialized courses. He has been featured in the international press as one of the leading forces behind the microfinance movement and social investing. He was nominated a Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2002 and later named a Young Global Leader by the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum. Carlos is also an active thinker and investor in other base of the pyramid business approaches and is a General Partner at Ignia Partners LLC. He also serves on the board of Compartamos Banco, Vista Desarrollos, Grupo CP and non-profit VIFAC A.C. He  is also co-chair of the Mexico Gender Parity Task Force.