Our Team
Advisors with Deep Experience & Broad Diversity BackgroundsSurinvest is led by a multi-disciplinary team, with broad-gauged development experience. It is supported by specialized firms that provide investment banking, engineering, design, and associated expertise for tailor-made strategic and investment decision.
M. Schloss
President, Surinvest Ltda
Chairman, VirtusAtlas SpA
Investment and real estate development companies
With over 35 years of experience in economic development issues, he held leadership positions in multilateral agencies, the private sector, and non governmental organizations
M. Schloss was Director of Corporate and Budget Planning at the World Bank, where he led the development of a three-year $4.5 billion strategic reform program redirecting the Bank's human and financial resources, policies, and programs to address emerging development issues. He also ran technical divisions in telecommunications and mining (worldwide) and industry and energy (in Africa), as well as country programs (in Latin America).
He was Executive Director of Transparency International during its formative (1998-2002) years and pearheaded its creation, expansion and positioning of governance and anti-corruption issues to over 40 countries worldwide. Since then, he became Managing Partner of DamConsult Ltd, an investment and management consulting firm providing support to private enterprises in strategic and business planning; Expert Advisory Board member of Dalberg Global Development Advisors, an international strategic advisory firm for development; and Steering Committee Member of Caspian Sea Revenue oil revenue industry monitoring initiative.
He is concurrently Trustee of Global Legal International Network (GLIN); Executive Committee and Advisory Board member of Transparency International in Spain and Chile, respectively; and member of the Bretton Woods (World Bank - IMF) Committee, where he is advisory council board member of the Multilateral Reform and Climate Financing Working Groups.
He holds an EDP from Harvard University, an MBA from Columbia University, and degrees in commercial engineering and economics from Catholic University in Chile
Silvia Schloss, has had a long career in social development programs.
A Certified Registered Nurse (University of Chile) by training, has been involved in execution of Public Health programs in Santiago, Valparaiso, and Iquique (Chile) as well as in the Columbia Hospital for Women (Washington DC).
She was an Assistant to the Executive Director in Transparency International (Berlin, Germany) during its formative years, and is currently in charge of tracking and following up the investment portfolio of Surinvest Ltda. as well as the planning and budgeting of the company’s activities.
Jessie Schloss received her BFA and MBA from Suffolk University and has had 13+ years of progressive experience across a broad range of functions and diverse industries, including 8+ years in the Berlin start-up scene.
She has had experience in designing marketing campaigns for international startup companies, as well as optimizing operational efficiency for startups and small businesses.
She has worked in an adminstrative level for Suffolk University's Facilities Planning and Management department as the Assistant Director for Administration, and has managed technical project developments in the media and artificial intelligence sector in Germany as a Coordinator of Special Projects.