James Prusky '96

James Prusky is a partner and co-founder in Latam Trade Capital (LTC), a specialty finance investment company. He has helped build the firm from inception and is responsible for developing strategy, new business, and capital sources for the firm. LTC is backed by some of the world’s largest global investors and receives funding from institutions in the US, Europe, and Latin America. The firm, and through its predecessor fund, has provided non-correlated risk-adjusted returns to its investors since 2003 while simultaneously providing critical trade finance funding to underserved Latin American agricultural, industrial, and raw materials producers and today includes activities in the US transportation and European middle market sectors as well.

He was previously Vice President of Global Market Development at Citigroup where he developed new corporate banking products and spent several years in Citibank’s corporate bank in the emerging markets, working in Europe (London, Budapest), Asia (Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore) and Latin America (Bogota, Buenos Aires). He spent four years at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, where he worked on U.S. international trade policy, and coordinated U.S. Fortune 100 business involvement in Presidential summit meetings between the U.S., Russia, and Eastern European countries.

Mr. Prusky serves on the Board of the Jerome Chazen Institute for International Business at Columbia Business School. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a BS from the University of Vermont. He lives with his family in New York City.