Ricardo Jiménez
Mangaging Director
Ricardo Jiménez is a Managing Director at West Enclave Merger Corp. (NYSE: WENC), where he partners with the co-CEOs to source, evaluate and structure the SPAC's initial business combination. He brings twenty years of experience as a long-term investor and strategic advisor, combining the rigor of private equity with the product breadth of investment banking across M&A, ECM, DCM and Leveraged Finance.
Prior to joining WENC in 2026, Mr. Jiménez served as Head of Investment Banking Mexico at Santander, building and leading a franchise that closed 15 transactions worth over US$5.0 billion.
Prior to joining Santander in 2022, Mr. Jiménez served as Managing Director at ACON Investments, where he deployed more than US$500 million across control buyouts, structured minority positions and quasi-equity structures. During his time at ACON Investments, he served on the boards of four portfolio companies. Prior to joining ACON Investments in 2012, Mr. Jiménez was an Associate at Credit Suisse’s Mexico City office in the Investment Banking department, where he closed more than 20 transactions for an aggregate of US$45.0 billion across all investment banking products in a wide range of industries. Mr. Jiménez holds a B.S. in Actuarial Science from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
