Jaime de la Barra is a Partner, Director and Global Head of IP&S at Vinci Compass and one of the founding partners of Compass. Between 2010 and 2024 he served as executive vice chairman of Compass Group Holdings and chief investment strategist for the firm. Prior to founding the company, from 1992 to 1996 he created and was the head of investment research for Grupo Santander in Chile and previously from 1985 to 1989 he was part of the investment banking team at Citicorp in Chile.
Jaime was a member of the Capital Markets Advisory Council of the Chilean Ministry of Finance between 2006 and 2021. He was board member of Icare and chairman of its Economics and Finance Circle from 2015 to 2023. Additionally, he is a member of the advisory board of Endeavor-Chile. He was a lecturer in capital markets and financial institutions at Universidad de Los Andes and is currently a member of the executive board for Latin America of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a founding partner and former chairman of InBest, and one of the founders and former chairman of the Chilean Investment Fund Managers Association.
Jaime holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an MBA (Palmer Scholar) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.