Mariela Paredes
Board Chairperson & Legal Representative

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)

Robbert van Troojen 

is the founder of Inception Partners LLC in Panama, an advisory in logistics and supply chain management. In a career spanning more than three decades, Robbert has lived and worked throughout Asia Pacific, the Middle East/South Asia, Europe and Latin America in senior executive roles. His last corporate role was that of President of A.P. Moller-Maersk in Latin America until June 2023, with responsibility for the company’s Ocean Transportation and Logistics in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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.

In addition to his ISP Board membership, Robbert is on the board of the Sheltersuit Foundation, a charitable foundation that supports the unsheltered, and Georgia Tech’s Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Centre in Panama. Finally, Robbert is a returning Board member in ISP, having served 2013-2015. Together with his wife Sandy, Robbert is a parent to 4 children, one of which attends ISP and three 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.

(Appointed, 2022-2025)

Jan Petter Eskildsen

Jan Petter is currently a Director for the Financial Sector at IDB Invest, the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank. Prior to joining the IDB Group, he worked in investment banking at UBS and Lazard, in New York and Panama City. He earned a Law and Political Science degree from the Universidad Santa María La Antigua in Panamá, and a MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has three girls at ISP, currently in high school, middle school and elementary school. Jan's main objective as an ISP Board member is to contribute his skills to provide direction and oversight to the School’s management, so ISP maintains its position as the top-level institution that it is. (Elected, 2023-2026)

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 2023-2025)

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)

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)

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.  (Elected, 2022-2025)

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. (Appointed, 2022-2025)

Moritz was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2023. He is the founder and CEO of Greentec Energy, a company developing Solar- and Windfarms as well as Corporate Energy Solutions for large and medium sized companies. The company is active in Latin America, Caribbean and Germany. The mission of Greentec is to contribute to the decarbonization of Energy and allow companies to switch to green, cheaper and more reliable Energy.

He graduated with Diplomas in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He is also a graduate of Toulouse Business School in France.

He is engaged in the Panama Chapter of the international Entrepreneurs Organization EO.

Moritz and his wife Rocío enjoy with their two children family activities such as traveling, nature, skiing in Colorado as well as the Alps, Bicycling and Tennis.

As a board member Moritz provides an international angle to the further development of ISP as a leading international school. Together with the other board members and the school leadership he works on ensuring that ISP has the right strategy and execution plan in place so ISP can strive and ranks among the best Schools in Americas. With his engineering expertise he is also involved in the extension and improvement of the ISP campus.

(Appointed in 2023-2026)