Beatriz Franco

As Chief Operating Officer, Beatriz is responsible for operational management of the firm including oversight of Finance, Legal, Operations, Infrastructure, and Technology. Beatriz works closely with the CIOs on strategic execution and serves on the Management, Investment, Risk, Valuation, Expense, and Compliance Committees. Beatriz is fluent is Portuguese and Spanish. She is based in New York.

Beatriz has over 20 years of experience across banking, law, investments, and business strategy & operations, ranging across multiple assets classes and jurisdictions. She has extensive experience across the capital structure and investment lifecycle including complex cross-border transactions, IPOs, private equity and private credit.

Prior to joining Argentem Creek in 2025, Beatriz spent nearly a decade at top-tier law firms across New York, Silicon Valey, and Brazil, as well as nine years at JPMorgan. During her tenure at JPMorgan she focused on emerging markets private credit, special situations, structured products, and debt capital markets. She also served as CEO of an Agtech start-up as well as director of investments at venture capital funds active in climate technologies and frontier tech. She has an MBA in Finance from IBMEC Brazil, a Masters in Corporate Law from New York University School of Law, and she is also a member of the New York State Bar Association, the California State Bar Association and the Brazilian Bar Association.