Mariela Paredes

is a proud mother of 2 boys and ISP Alumna Class of 2002. Having spent a great part of her life at ISP’s La Cresta and Cerro Viento Campus, Mariela grew together with the school. Recognizing that growth and how important it has been in her personal and professional life, she now feels that it is her duty to give something back to the school that gave her so much. A Georgetown University graduate, Mariela holds a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Leadership and Change, as well as a MBA from the University of Louisville. She believes that her education and experience in business, banking and marketing, as well as various community boards, will allow her to positively contribute to building a strategy together with other board members and school administrators that will ensure ISP maintains its position as leader in education in Panama. Mariela hopes to follow her family’s tradition at ISP, so that one day her grandchildren may also enjoy the ISP experience. (Elected, 2021-2024)

Gretel Ciniglio de Pérez

is a Senior Partner at FABREGA MOLINO with more than 20 years of experience focusing on Wealth Management, Wills, Estate and Succession Planning, and Family Business and Family Governance cases. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and Political Science from Universidad de Panamá and subsequently obtained an LLM-DESS in Business Law from the University of Geneva and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She leads FABREGA MOLINO FOUNDATION and her firm's corporate social responsibility program, community service, and pro bono programs. In addition, she is a Founding Member and Member of the Board of Directors of FUNDACION WIP PANAMA. Gretel's main objective as an ISP Board member is to contribute her skills and expertise, both as a lawyer and as a mother, in implementing the school's corporate governance strategy, ensuring that it is consistent with its diversity and inclusion principles. (Elected, 2021-2024)

Eduardo Caruso

is an HR executive with more than 15 years of experience working in global organizations. Eduardo holds a Master's degree in Business Administration which accredited him to lead HR-related disciplines in highly reputed MBA programs in Brazil, prior to moving to Panama. He is also author or co-author of papers and articles published by Latin American journals and magazines. Eduardo hopes to support the Board’s strategic view by bringing the team together to achieve common goals that will keep our school and community as a reference. (Elected, 2020-2023)

Rafael Quinn

Is a Panamanian businessman and Co-Founder of Alternative Holdings.  Aside from his private business interests, Rafael has also served on the board of the Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (ANCON) since 2010. Rafael looks forward to using his finance background in assisting the Board to achieve its mission of guaranteeing the long-term viability of ISP as the leading education environment in Panama. He has no doubt that working together, the Board, faculty, and parent community can maintain this amazing tradition. (Appointed, 2021-2024)

Juan Carlos Camargo

is an appointed Board member representing Procter & Gamble. Juan Carlos is a Corporate Lawyer for Procter & Gamble with more than 32 years of experience and is currently P&G's Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs and Information Security and a member of P&G Latin America’s Leadership Team. He earned his law degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia and a Masters of Law from Cornell University. He has two children at ISP and has been closely associated with ISP since 2009 when P&G moved its headquarters to Panama as well as advising previous P&G members on the ISP Board. He hopes to continue to contribute as P&G's representative on the ISP Board in the areas of good governance, operational discipline and strategic planning, areas which remain key to ISP’s sustained excellence in education and in the development of future leaders for the region, which is also a strong passion in his long standing career with P&G.

(Appointed in 2023)

Patrick Kelly

is a business leader with various interests including acting as Chairman & CEO for a renewable energy company in Panama which he co-founded. Prior to moving to Panama, he was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking department of Morgan Stanley based in London and New York. He has worked in five countries across a range of sectors. He graduated from Otago University in his native New Zealand with a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honors. He is a volunteer teacher at a private foundation for teenage students and participates in a wide range of sports. Patrick has three children in ISP and is committed to ensuring that the school delivers a world-class education to all its students. (Elected, 2020-2023)

Marta Ferrer 
has been part of the ISP family for more than 35 years, first as a student, then as an alumni and now as a parent. Her son Luca and daughter Camila joined ISP in Pre-k and are now in Middle School and High School, and Marta has always been actively involved with the school, volunteering to help with the PTA and continuously participating in community events. Joining the Board of Trustees felt like a natural step for her, as she wished to formalize her contribution to the school and share her professional expertise as well as her strong connection to the ISP spirit. After graduating ISP in 1995, Marta earned her BA from Tufts University in Boston and then worked in the magazine and newspaper industry, later pursuing an MA in Journalism from Columbia University in New York in 2002. Almost a decade later Marta left her career in journalism to work full time in her family business, a health and pharmaceutical distribution company, through which she launched and continues to run the Vitamin Shoppe franchise of retail stores. Looking back, Marta deeply values her ISP education for providing her not only with a strong academic skill set, but also with an open-mind, a global mentality and a strong set of core values. She is certain Luca and Camila will one day say the same thing.

Shelly Dittmar
is the Consul General at the U.S. Embassy Panama City.  A Foreign Service Officer for the last 18 years, her previous postings include as the Immigrant Visas unit chief in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Consular Section Chief in Kolkata, India as well as tours in Lima, Peru; Mexico City, Mexico; and Cotonou, Benin.  She also served in the office of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor focusing on international religious freedom issues.  She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the University of Houston, a Juris Doctor and Master’s in International Affairs from George Washington University and most recently a Master’s in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College.  She is married to Alan Julson and they have two children. 

Robbert van Troojen 
is a Senior Vice President with A.P. Moller-Maersk, Robbert has led the Latin America Region since 2020, with responsibility for the Ocean Transportation and Logistics in Latin America and the Caribbean. In a career spanning more than three decades, he has lived and worked throughout Asia Pacific, the Middle East/South Asia, Europe and Latin America in senior executive roles. Robbert holds a degree in Business Administration from his native country the Netherlands, supplemented with executive education at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Next to his professional career, Robbert has been active on the Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and on the Governor of Hubei Province’s Advisory Board (China). Additionally he currently serves on the board of Georgia Tech’s Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center. Last but not least, Robbert is a returning Board member at ISP, having served from 2013-2015. Together with his wife Sandy, Robbert is a parent to 4 children, two of which attend ISP and two who are ISP Alumni.

Robbert sees the role of the ISP Trustee Board as one to support the Head of School in ensuring ISP remains a top level institution, creating a healthy and inclusive learning environment for present and future generations of students. In his new role as Chair of the Governance Committee, he takes pride in working together with the rest of the Board to implement the school’s governance strategy.