Guilherme Ribeiro do Valle, CFA is a managing member and portfolio manager at ABS Investment Management in Greenwich, CT. Mr. Valle leads the firm’s effort on the allocations to investment managers in emerging markets. Mr. Valle has been active following and allocating resources in emerging markets for over 20 years. Currently ABS manages over USD 5.5 billion, mostly on behalf of pension funds, endowments, foundations and other type of investors, predominantly from the US and Europe. Before co-founding ABS in late 2002, Mr. Valle was a Director at Credit Suisse Asset Management, a firm he joined in 1998 when Credit Suisse Group acquired Banco de Investimentos Garantia, the Brazilian investment bank where Mr. Valle started his financial career in 1993. Mr. Valle has a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo and is a CFA charterholder.