Leadership – Pesorama

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Management Team

Erica Fattore

President & Chief Executive Officer

Erica was part of PesoRama’s founding management team and has over two decades of savvy dollar store retail experience, beginning her career in 1998 with The Silver Dollar Stores, focused on the $1 price-point.
She has held senior merchandising and management positions at Dollar Giant, Dollar Tree, and several manufacturers and importers.
The hallmark of Erica’s retail vision is creating the value proposition; through developing assortment, private label, and branding.
With experience in North America, Asia, Latin America, and other markets, her emphasis is developing a solid base in Mexico and driving future expansion throughout Latin America.

Abdulmajeed Bawazeer

Chief Strategy Officer

Abdul was part of PesoRama’s founding management team and was responsible for creating the company’s supply chain which encompassed logistics, warehousing, distribution, and foreign trade compliance.
He has several years of experience in cross-border investment banking.
Abdul oversees the Company’s value creation plan and all of its key initiatives.
Through continuous process and procedure enhancement, he is responsible for identifying opportunities in processes to optimize performance, drive results, and deliver shareholder value.

Sebastian Avila

Chief Operating Officer

Sebastian has several years in retail, starting his career in Jerónimo Martins, and Dollar City, and most recently Tostao Café & Pan in various operations-centric roles.
His operational experience spans several countries, including Colombia, El Salvador, Poland, and Portugal.
Sebastian oversees the Company’s operational excellence, new store construction, and the general profitability of stores.
Focused on driving and fostering an environment of performance, results, and continuous improvement.

Rahim Bhaloo

Founder & Executive Chairman

Mr. Bhaloo is a life-long entrepreneur who started his business career in the specialty coffee space with brands known as Second Cup and Lettieri Espresso Bar and Cafe’s (single largest franchisee by 23 years old).
Developed a portfolio of retirement and nursing homes in Canada, partnering with CDPQ and then selling to a publicly traded company.
Mr. Bhaloo oversees PesoRama’s capital requirements, shareholder communications, and strategic partnerships while he works with management to accelerate the growth of the company.

Antonio Heredia

Director

Mr. Heredia is a founder and partner of Fundamental Private Markets and leads the efforts in Mexico. He has almost two decades of experience in investing and financial advisory.
Prior to founding Fundamental he worked at Capital Group Private Markets, the private equity arm of the Capital Group, based out of London and covering Emerging Markets. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in its investment banking group based in Mexico City and prior to that he worked for J.P. Morgan Securities in its Asset Management Division based in Houston.
He participates in diverse capacities at the board of directors of different companies in the consumer space in Latin America.
Mr. Heredia received his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and his B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with compulsory honours classes from ITESM (Tec de Monterrey).

Paul Pathak

Director

Mr. Pathak is and has served as a partner of Chitiz Pathak LLP since 1996, a Toronto law firm serving clients in the securities and investment industries, including issuers and dealers on a full range of securities transactions.
Mr. Pathak practices principally in the areas of corporate, securities, mergers, acquisitions and commercial law. Mr. Pathak has acted for issuers in a broad range of securities transactions, including initial public offerings, reverse take-overs, establishments of Capital Pool Companies, going-private transactions and numerous financing structures.
Mr. Pathak has served as a member of the board of directors of several private and public corporations listed on both Canadian and American stock exchanges.
Mr. Pathak was called to the Ontario Bar in 1994, having completed his LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School in 1992.

Andrew Parks

Director

Mr. Parks is the CEO and director of Fountain Asset Corp.
He was most recently a portfolio manager at a Toronto-based asset management firm and has years of experience as a research analyst and trader.
Mr. Parks is a CFA and holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.

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