Founder and Principal
Claudia Udaquiola is the founder and principal of Pangea Capital Partners. She is a strategy and cross border investment advisor with over a decade of experience across the globe. She founded Pangea to address a gap she observed firsthand: the shortage of U.S. based advisors who combine investor grade discipline with real operating experience in complex international markets.
Professional background
Before founding Pangea, Claudia spent seven years at EY in the Caribbean, where she led cross border M&A advisory projects ranging from $5 million to over $1 billion, managed market entry strategies for multinationals entering the Caribbean markets, and directed due diligence for complex, multi stakeholder transactions across industries including biotech, aviation, manufacturing, consumer products, and hospitality.
Prior to EY, she worked at Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) in Spain and Latin America, and at Wit Consulting in Madrid, advising on digital transformation, growth strategy, and commercial due diligence.
Most recently, she served as Global Investments Director for Sid Sijbrandij's Family Office, leading diligence on $5M to $100M+ opportunities in The Bahamas and select emerging markets, and as International Projects Lead for the Sijbrandij Foundation, where she developed and supported programs spanning education, art, and economic mobility across multiple countries.
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
MSx Program (Sloan Fellow MBA), STEM designation in M.S. in Management.
Pontifical Comillas University (ICADE), Madrid
Bachelor's and Master's in Business Administration and Management.
One year at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing.
Languages
Spanish (native) · English (full professional proficiency)
Why I Founded Pangea
"I spent years watching smart capital fail in markets I knew well; not because the investment thesis was wrong, but because there was no one on the ground who could translate investor intent into local execution. The gap between a U.S. investor's expectations and the realities of doing business in complex emerging markets is not something you can bridge with a strategy deck. It requires trust, presence, cultural understanding, and the willingness to own execution. That is what Pangea is built to do."
Claudia Udaquiola