Isabela Herrera
Isabela Herrera
Isabela Herrera
Isabela Herrera is an eighth-generation member of the Herrera Velutini family and graduated cum laude from NYU Stern School of Business with a degree in Finance and Data Science before beginning her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York, where she advised senior executives on complex transactions across the financial services sector. Her work included diligence, integration strategy, and financial modeling for large-scale M&A transactions involving Fortune 100 financial and insurance institutions. She was later positioned for early promotion to Senior Associate before transitioning into her family’s businesses.
Today, she plays a central operational and strategic role at Banvelca, where she focuses on institutional development, cross-border initiatives, and long-term business expansion across the group’s interests. Operationally driven by nature, her work centers on execution, organizational scaling, and identifying opportunities across emerging markets, with a particular interest in the convergence of traditional finance and digital assets.
As CEO of Emirates Financial Group, she leads one of the first institutions in the Middle East authorized to operate across both traditional financial services and digital assets within a unified regulatory framework. Her leadership reflects a broader commitment to building institutions that are technologically adaptive while remaining grounded in long-term institutional continuity.
She approaches leadership through the lens of stewardship — balancing modernization with continuity, and long-term institutional resilience with disciplined operational execution.
Isabela Herrera is an eighth-generation member of the Herrera Velutini family and graduated cum laude from NYU Stern School of Business with a degree in Finance and Data Science before beginning her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York, where she advised senior executives on complex transactions across the financial services sector. Her work included diligence, integration strategy, and financial modeling for large-scale M&A transactions involving Fortune 100 financial and insurance institutions. She was later positioned for early promotion to Senior Associate before transitioning into her family’s businesses.
Today, she plays a central operational and strategic role at Banvelca, where she focuses on institutional development, cross-border initiatives, and long-term business expansion across the group’s interests. Operationally driven by nature, her work centers on execution, organizational scaling, and identifying opportunities across emerging markets, with a particular interest in the convergence of traditional finance and digital assets.
As CEO of Emirates Financial Group, she leads one of the first institutions in the Middle East authorized to operate across both traditional financial services and digital assets within a unified regulatory framework. Her leadership reflects a broader commitment to building institutions that are technologically adaptive while remaining grounded in long-term institutional continuity.
She approaches leadership through the lens of stewardship — balancing modernization with continuity, and long-term institutional resilience with disciplined operational execution.
Julio Cesar Herrera
Julio Cesar Herrera
Julio Cesar Herrera
Julio Cesar Herrera is an eighth-generation member of the Herrera Velutini family and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Britannia Financial Group, where he has overseen the group’s expansion across London and the Bahamas while leading its broader international growth strategy. He previously served as Head of Group Business Strategy and Head of Group M&A — roles that provided broad exposure to strategic growth initiatives, transaction execution, and institutional expansion across jurisdictions.
His earlier experience in investment banking, where he worked across credit policy, secured lending, and institutional risk frameworks, provided the technical foundation for his broader leadership responsibilities and long-term strategic approach to financial services growth.
Across Banvelca and affiliated holding companies with subsidiaries regulated in London, the UAE, and the Bahamas, Julio Herrera focuses principally on business growth, strategic expansion, and the long-term positioning of the group across international markets. His leadership reflects a conviction the Herrera family has maintained for generations: that enduring institutions are built through disciplined expansion, strategic patience, and continuity of vision across generations.
Julio Cesar Herrera is an eighth-generation member of the Herrera Velutini family and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Britannia Financial Group, where he has overseen the group’s expansion across London and the Bahamas while leading its broader international growth strategy. He previously served as Head of Group Business Strategy and Head of Group M&A — roles that provided broad exposure to strategic growth initiatives, transaction execution, and institutional expansion across jurisdictions.
His earlier experience in investment banking, where he worked across credit policy, secured lending, and institutional risk frameworks, provided the technical foundation for his broader leadership responsibilities and long-term strategic approach to financial services growth.
Across Banvelca and affiliated holding companies with subsidiaries regulated in London, the UAE, and the Bahamas, Julio Herrera focuses principally on business growth, strategic expansion, and the long-term positioning of the group across international markets. His leadership reflects a conviction the Herrera family has maintained for generations: that enduring institutions are built through disciplined expansion, strategic patience, and continuity of vision across generations.