Young Professionals Network

Recruited to Meridiam in 2005 as one of the firm’s founding members, Dionisio has served in leadership roles in both the United States and Europe spanning an array of responsibilities including financial analysis, project execution, business development, government relations, asset management, strategic fundraising, and corporate and finance activities. As an investment professional and project developer, he has played active roles in major P3s, including the Port of Miami Tunnel Project, the Long Beach Courthouse Project, the Purple Line Project in Maryland, and the LaGuardia Airport Central Terminal Redevelopment Project in New York. Dionisio currently serves as a staff member on the United States Investment Advisory Council which was created by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 2016 and tasked with increasing Foreign Direct Investment into the United States. Outside of work, he serves as a board member at the Children’s Museum of the East End on Long Island, New York which focuses its outreach on creating stimulating learning experiences through interactive play. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and is a candidate for a master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of Public and International Affairs.

He has a master’s degree in Latin American studies by the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University and he studied law in the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. In his professional experience, he has been special advisor to the Mexican attorney general, international senior advisor to the Mexican Customs Brokers Association and president of Poldesa, a consultancy firm for political affairs for the Western Hemisphere. He is Substitute Mexican Customs Broker and international and national editorialist for El Mañana de Nuevo Laredo. For two years he was Washington chief correspondent for El Mañana de Nuevo Laredo. He was president of the Young Entrepreneur Commission of Coparmex in Nuevo Laredo and executive vice president of the Nuevo Laredo Customs Brokers Association. In his early years, he was president of Gente Nueva a group of young leaders that organize conferences promoting values and respect in society. The major achievement was to organize the visit of Edson Arantes Do Nascemento Pele to Nuevo Laredo that produce an important positive impact in young generations. His expertise topics are international politics, North American trade, education, and global affairs.

In 2016, Gottsleben was honored at the 10th annual Young Women to Watch Awards in Washington, DC as the national Political Rising Star award recipient. Gottsleben is a 2016 graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University, and a 2014 inductee to the Order of Pegasus, the most prestigious and significant award attainable at the University of Central Florida, from which she holds two bachelor’s degrees with honors in radio and television broadcast journalism and political science, and a leadership studies certificate. She previously served as a UNESCO delegate on climate change, as a multimedia journalist and director, as a fellow on global peace and security, and most recently as a U.S. Congressional fellow on interdisciplinary policy and constitutional law.

Khaled Igue joined OCP Africa as head of Public and Institutional Partnerships after an experience at Eurogroup Consulting, a European leader in strategy and organization, and seven years of experience at AREVA, a leader in the energy industry. Igue is the founder and president of the think tank Club 2030 Afrique which innovates in the field of ideas for a sustainable economic and social development of African countries. He specializes in energy, industrial, and economic issues. Khaled works with African governments and institutions for the development of structural models for social and economic emergence of the continent.