About

Before joining investment bank Evercore México, Sylvia Martínez worked at Grupo Iusacell and also served at JPMorgan as vice president of the trust division. Since 2005 she has served as general counsel for Evercore México and currently acts as managing director and compliance officer in addition. Martínez was initially hired to complete Evercore’s IPO placement on the New York Stock Exchange, and as a result she became involved in all things related to the investment banking company and the broker dealer. Following on from the success, her role was subsequently broadened to include finance, accounting, tax, risk, operations, compliance, human resources, public relations and legal. Since gaining this experience, Martínez has been active in several important projects for the company, including creating and heading the stock-broker’s fiduciary division where, at its height, it controlled $2.7bn in managed assets. The process included creating Mexico’s largest ever trust with assets of $2.1bn. Despite implementing the entire legal and compliance framework for Evercore in Mexico, she has had no major issues of non-compliance to date. As president of the compliance committee Martínez deals with all matters related to anti-money laundering, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in addition to internal policies and procedures.