Claudia Hardy is a Senior Partner in Kingsley Gate’s Mexico City office.

She began her career in equity research at Credit Suisse in New York and later joined Merrill Lynch in Los Angeles, specializing in Latin American companies. She subsequently worked at Compass Group, where she held positions of increasing responsibility in asset management, from equity portfolio manager to Chief Investment Officer of Compass Group Mexico and Chief Investment Officer of Compass Group in New York. She later joined GE Capital as Senior Risk Officer.

In 2011, she co-founded Ezentia Group, a leading boutique executive search and leadership consulting firm in Mexico, where she led the Financial and Professional Services practice.

Claudia is a non-executive board member of Barclays Mexico and HR Ratings. In addition, she serves on the board of CIMAD, the Centro de Investigación de la Mujer en la Alta Dirección, a non-profit research center at one of Latin America’s top business schools. She is also the founder of the Consejo de Empresarias y Ejecutivas A.C., has served as an invited professor at IPADE, and is a frequent public speaker on management, leadership, and gender diversity in the boardroom.

Claudia holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from IPADE. She is a Fellow of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation Program, an executive leadership program held at Harvard Business School and INSEAD; a member of the International Women’s Forum chapter in Mexico; and a member of the Santander Women Global 50 program, held at the London School of Economics. She also co-founded 50/50 Women on Boards in Mexico, part of a leading global advocacy campaign for gender balance in corporate boardrooms.