Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg (ca. 1945) is a Venezuelan-born business woman and the current president and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Investment Group (SIG), which designs and implements investment strategies for individual and institutional investors. She serves on the board of directors for numerous corporations and nonprofit organizations and has received praise from her peers as one of the most influential Hispanic businesspeople in the United States.

trategic Investment Group

Mrs. Ochoa has been in the investment management field for over 25 years and founded the Strategic Investment Group in 1987. She leads SIG’s investment management operations and is ultimately responsible for the company's annual and long-term investment, business and financial results. She approves and oversees the execution of all strategic, financial, and operating plans and policies. SIG manages over USD $35 billion for more than 400 investors in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Previous work experience

Mrs. Ochoa served in various capacities within the Pension Investment Division of the World Bank, including as Chief Investment Officer until 1987, and continued as advisor to the World Bank pension assets as CEO of Strategic. She also served as asset and liability advisor to the World Bank. She has provided services to her native country as treasurer of CA Luz Eléctrica de Venezuela, and as an independent financial consultant for the Development Ministry of Venezuela, the Foreign Relations Ministry of Venezuela, and Grupo Cisneros.

Organizations where she serves on the board of directors

Mrs. Ochoa is the managing director of Emerging Markets Management LLC. She is a member of the board of directors of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund Credit Union, General Mills, Harvard Management Company, the McGraw-Hill Companies, National Symphony Orchestra the Washington Opera and is chairman of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. Also, she is a member of the investment committee of the Rockefeller Family Fund and of the advisory committees of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, and Sun Trust-Asset Management Advisors. Mrs. Ochoa-Brillembourg is also a member of the Executive Committee of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds and acting Vice Chairman of the Group of Fifty (G-50) at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has published articles in "Financial Analyst Journal" and "Pensions & Investments". She has been featured in "Fortune", "SmartMoney", "Money Magazine", "Investment News", and has appeared on CNN Español, MSNBC and Wall Street Week.

Awards and honors

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is a Fulbright Fellow and was selected by the Fullbright association to receive its 2005 Lifetime Achievement Medal."Smart Money" magazine included her among the Power 30 in Business. She was also named by "Money" magazine as one of the Top 50 Smartest Women in Business in the United States during 2000 and in 2002, "Hispanic Business" magazine listed her as one of the Top 50 Hispanic Women in Business. [DRCLAS Annual Report 2002-2003]

Education

She is a chartered financial analyst (CFA) and received her M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1971. A Fulbright-Hays Fellow, she is a doctoral candidate in finance at the Harvard Business School. She earned a B.S. in Economics from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.

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