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Willy Foote
Root Capital

Willy Foote is the founder and CEO of Root Capital. He began his career on Wall Street as a financial analyst in Latin American corporate finance. Later, he worked as a business journalist in Mexico, where he discovered the challenges faced by cooperatives and small producers who lacked access to credit and markets. He founded Root Capital in 1999. Since then, Root Capital has grown to over 100 employees, with clients across Latin America and Africa, and $100 million in assets. Willy was named a Skoll Fellow in 2005, an Ashoka Global Fellow in 2007, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008, a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) in 2009, one of Forbes’ “Impact 30″ in 2011, and currently belongs to the 2012 Henry Crown Fellowship Class of the Aspen Institute. He is on the executive committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. William holds an M.S. in development economics from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University.

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