Edgardo Cayón Fallon specialises in financial markets, risk management, and valuation models. He has held roles as Public Telecommunications Administrator at Siemens Colombia and Business Unit Manager at Industrias Philips Colombia. In academia, he has been a finance professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and an adjunct professor in International Finance at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. At the Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración (CESA), he served as Director of the MBA and graduate finance programs and was a professor in the finance department. He has extensive experience in business valuation and financial consulting. His research focuses on models for measuring financial contagion and its impact on systemic risk.

Dr. Osmar Zavaleta Vázquez is Associate Dean of Research of the Undergraduate Business School and EGADE Business School at Tecnologico de Monterrey. He also serves as Leader of the Research Group on Organizational Strategy and Industry Transformation. He has held diverse leadership roles throughout his career at Tecnológico de Monterrey. At Campus Monterrey, he was program director, area director, associate division director, and division director, at the undergraduate level, and, at EGADE Business School, interim dean, program director, department director, and site director.

He has participated as visiting professor at diverse universities in Latin America, such as Universidad Americana, in Managua (Nicaragua), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and Escuela Militar de Ingeniería, in La Paz (Bolivia). He served as National Director of Graduate Programs of the Mexican National Association of Accounting and Administration Faculties and Schools (ANFECA), and board member of the A. B. Freeman School of Business of Tulane University (USA).

Dr. Zavaleta Vázquez specializes in the fields of Mathematics for Finance, Statistics for Finance, Finance for Energy, Valuation of Derivative Instruments, and Investment Management. He has published academic research papers on a variety of finance-related topics in highly prestigious national and international journals, and has participated as a speaker at diverse academic and research conferences.

He holds a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics, a Master in Industrial Engineering and Master in Applied Statistics from Tecnológico de Monterrey, and a Master in Finance and Ph.D. in Finance from Tulane University.