Mario J. Iturrino

Mario J. Iturrino is a Bates Consulting Expert and the President of IT Consulting Group, Inc., a Puerto Rico consulting firm incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico on February 28, 2002. It offers a variety of financial, economic, and accounting services to both private and government institutions, and individuals.

He was formerly a Consultant at the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico, in the design, overseeing, and the interagency coordination of the José M. Berrocal Institute of Finance and Economy. He was also Senior Vice President and Fund Manager of Santander Asset Management, where he managed the portfolio of the First Puerto Rico Mutual Fund Family offered by Santander Securities. Prior to joining Santander Asset Management, he occupied various positions in other financial institutions such as Financial Advisor and Consultant of Doral Bank, Treasurer and Vice President of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya of Puerto Rico; Head Trader and Sales Manager at Dean Witter Reynolds; Vice President and Head Trader of Citicorp Investment Bank of Puerto Rico. At the beginning of his career, he also worked as a Financial Advisor and Consultant to the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, where he oversaw implementing a hedging mechanism for the Bank’s investment portfolio, as well as coordinating the centralization of all payments from the municipalities through the Puerto Rico Treasury Department. Additionally, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico for 20 years.

Among IT Consulting client base, he has advised various corporate and governmental entities such as: Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Oriental Bank, Doral Bank, R&G Financial Corporation, Doral Securities, Citibank Puerto Rico, UBS Financial Services of Puerto Rico, Sol Coop, Bates Financial Group, Inc., McConnell Valdés LLC, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico, and the Asociación de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (AEELA), and the Puerto Rico Treasury Department.

Mr. Iturrino is a graduate of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, where he obtained a Master of Business Administration degree in Investment and Corporate Finance

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