Greytown Advisors

Team

Marcello Correa

President and Chief compliance Officer

Wayne Perkins

Managing Director

Luis Antonio Samayoa

Chief Investment Officer

Cy Simms

Associate

Maria Fernanda Serna

Client Services Associate

Karen Denti

Client Services Associate

Marcello Correa

President and Chief Compliance Officer

Marcello is a co-founder of Greytown Advisors and has been involved in financial markets since 1982.   He started his career in Banco Garantia (now Credit Suisse) in Brazil as a floor trader at the Sao Paulo stock exchange and later in the foreign debt trading group.

After business school Marcello became a Vice President in the Emerging Markets Group at Lazard Freres & Co. in New York before transitioning into asset management in 1994.  At Fintech Advisors, a hedge fund focused on distressed emerging markets, Marcello served as portfolio manager responsible for the Latin American southern cone countries.   He moved to Miami in 1995 to become Chief Investment Officer at The Americas Trust Bank and its spin-off, Biscayne Advisors, one of the largest dedicated emerging market fixed income managers of the late 1990’s.   Marcello also served in senior investment roles at DLJ/Credit Suisse.    Prior to co-founding Greytown Advisors, he was President at BAC Florida Investments and BAC Global Advisors from 2002 to 2013.

Marcello earned his BA in Finance from Fundacao Getúlio Vargas in Brazil and his MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Wayne Perkins

Managing Director

Wayne joined the team at Greytown Advisors in 2014 after a 35-year career with JPMorgan. At JPMorgan Mr. Perkins was initially focused on Investment Banking and Asset Management in New York, Brazil and Venezuela. While in Brazil from 1982-1997, Mr. Perkins established and managed the Brazilian Asset Management business. In 1997, at JPMorgan’s Asset Management division in New York, Mr. Perkins was a member of the Global Asset Management Investment Strategy Committee, developed a quantitative screen for Latin American equities, launched and managed the Latin America Equity Fund, co-managed the Global Emerging Markets Fund, and managed SMA’s for Ultra High Net Worth clients of JPMorgan’s Private Bank. From 2000 until 2003, Mr. Perkins left JPMorgan to establish and manage a global equity quantitative behavioral finance hedge fund (RMJ Global Dynamic Value Fund). In 2003, he returned to JPMorgan, was a founding member of JPMorgan’s Latin American Client Investment Committee and opened and managed the Miami discretionary portfolio management business for the Private Bank, building and managing a team of Investment Specialists for the Latin American region, and advising and managing portfolios for Ultra High Net Worth Clients.

Mr. Perkins obtained his BA degree from Harvard University and attended third year law school at La Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca.

Luis Antonio Samayoa

Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer

Luis Antonio is a co-founder and portfolio manager at Greytown Advisors.  He is also responsible for corporate finance, private equity and investment research.   Luis Antonio started his career in investment management at BAC Florida Investments and BAC Global Advisors in 2005 where he was a member of the investment management committee.   His primary focus was in emerging market credit strategies.  Luis Antonio also worked  Deutsche Bank, where he was involved in structuring, underwriting and marketing leveraged buyout transactions as part of the leveraged finance group; he was also part of the real estate, gaming, lodging and leisure industry coverage group.

Luis Antonio holds a BS from Purdue University and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York City.

Cy Simms

Associate

Cy joined Greytown Advisors in November 2015.  Prior to joining Greytown, Cy worked at Cargill as a Professional Accountant.  Prior to working as an Accountant, he worked for several years as a Merchant Assistant in the Agri-Commodity Trading departments of Cargill in Miami, serving primarily Latin America and Europe.

Cy earned his BSBA in International Business and BS in Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, graduating magna cum laude.  He passed the CFA Level III  exam.

Daniel Paganello

Associate

Daniel joined Greytown Advisors in November 2020.  Prior to joining Greytown, Daniel interned at Cetera Investors as part of their financial advising summer internship. Prior to interning at Cetera, he interned at Jurado & Farschian as a law clerk.

 

Daniel earned his BBA in Finance from Florida International University. He passed the CFA Level III exam.

Maria Fernanda Serna

Client Services Associate

Maria Fernanda joined Greytown Advisors as a Client Services and Operational Manager in January 2023. Maria Fernanda began her career in New York City in 2003, at the Investment Advisory Group (IAG) at Lloyds Bank, where she was responsible for the discretionary portfolio. In 2006, Maria Fernanda moved to Lloyds Bank’s Miami office to manage the Personal Banking Group, overseeing Assets Under Management of under $500,000 for all Latin American accounts. In 2009, Maria Fernanda was promoted to the Latin America Southern Team, where she was financial advisor to clients with larger portfolios in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. In 2013, when Lloyds merged with Sabadell Bank, Maria Fernanda took her clientele to the new institution. In 2019, Maria Fernanda took a role at EFG Bank to support Latin American clients. In 2020, she was hired by Banco Santander to support High Net Worth Chile Clientele.

 

Maria Fernanda holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia. In 2001, Maria Fernanda earned her MS in Finance from Boston University. She also holds a Certificate in Portfolio Management from New York University.

Karen Denti

Client Services Associate

Karen joined Greytown Advisors as a Client Services associate in January 2023. Prior to joining Greytown Advisors she was an underwriter for Greenbox Capital.

 

She graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance in 2021.