Consultiva
Management Team<<
Myrna
M. Rivera
President
and Chief Executive Officer
Myrna
M. Rivera, Founder,
CEO and President is a Certified Investment Management Analyst
("CIMA"), member of the Investment Management
Consultants Association (IMCA) and a Certified Investment
Management Consultant. She is a former Director and Senior Vice
President of the Consulting Group at Salomon Smith Barney. There
she devoted the focus of the past sixteen years to institutional
and high net worth investment management consulting in New York
and San Juan, and as a result of which is nationally recognized
as a pioneer in this field. In Puerto Rico, she has assisted in
developing the standard practices used today in endowments and
foundations, pension funds, insurance companies, credit unions
and government for the management of large investment portfolios.
In 1996 she was appointed to the "Top 100 Honorary Council" by
the Business Women's Network in Washington, D.C. In 1999,
she became the first Hispanic woman in the United States and Puerto
Rico to be elected to the "Who's Who of Investment Management
Consulting", a very prestigious group of professionals dedicated
to investment management consulting. Ms. Rivera began her career
in financial services in 1976 with the Service Bureau Corporation,
a division of Control Data Corporation, as a marketing specialist
and training coordinator for the brokerage, banking and insurance
industries in New York. After six years, she joined Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith in Puerto Rico as a retail account executive,
and E.F. Hutton & Co., predecessor to Salomon Smith Barney
in 1983. In 1995 Salomon Smith Barney awarded her the John Ellis,
Jr. Excellence Award for outstanding dedication and service in
the field of institutional investment management consulting. Ms.
Rivera is Chair of the National Board of ASPIRA Association
in Washington, D.C., IMCA Certification Program faculty member
and member of its curriculum subcommittee, a director of New York's
Musica de Cámara, and founding chairperson of Comisión
de Ciudadanos al Rescate de Caimito, a community organization.
She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Puerto Rico,
Cayey Campus, and of the Herbert H. Lehman College of the City
University of New York, where she obtained Bachelor and Masters
degrees in Mathematics in 1973 and 1975, and where she subsequently
taught mathematics. She is registered with NASD as a General Securities
Representative (Series 7) and a General Securities Principal (Series
24).