Leadership

Keith has twenty years of experience in banking and business environments around the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and the USA. He joined FINCA International in 2007. He served as Operations Director and General Manager of FINCA Zambia for four and a half years, where he directed the transformation of FINCA from a non-governmental organization to a regulated commercial microfinance institution.

In June 2008, FINCA Zambia received its microfinance license to collect deposits from the Bank of Zambia. During Keith’s tenure, FINCA Zambia became the leader of the Microfinance Institutions in the country in terms of customer reach and portfolio quality and achieved three consecutive years of sustainable profitability. In February 2012, Keith was appointed General Manager of FINCA Kosovo.

Keith led the organization during a difficult period of regulatory uncertainty and operational restructuring. In August 2013, Keith accepted the position of Deputy Regional Director of the LAC; Two years later, he was appointed Regional Director for Latin America.

Prior to joining FINCA, Keith specialized in serving clients of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and nonprofit institutions while working for Citibank in multiple international functions and at SunTrust Bank in Washington, DC. Sandbloom has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University in Washington DC and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the State University of California.

Miguel, a graduate of Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Miami, is a Honduran businessman with extensive experience in the commercial, industrial, quality control, auditing, production, human resources, and technological areas. He obtained a CEO Management Program course in July 2010, from the Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management.

In the union-business sphere, he stood out as President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tegucigalpa (CCIT) for two consecutive periods (2012-2016), he was President of the Committee of the Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (CCA) of the CCIT, and also President of the Commercial Registry Committee of Francisco Morazán. He served as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Honduran Council of Private Enterprise (COHEP) for two consecutive periods, and was Representative of the MIPYME sector in the National Investment Council (CNI), and member of the Economic and Social Council (CES) in representation of the private sector. He served as Director of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the Central American Isthmus (FECAMCO), Latin American Chambers of Commerce of the United States (CAMACOL) and the Ibero-American Association of Chambers of Commerce (AICO).