Laura Maydón has served as a director of International Money Express, Inc. since 2020. Ms. Maydón is co-founder and partner of Ascendo, a venture capital firm providing inclusive access to equity capital for overlooked scalable companies. Ascendo invests in early-stage companies led by exceptional Black or Latin or female founders nationwide. Ms. Maydón was the founding Managing Director and CEO for Endeavor Miami, an entrepreneurial accelerator for scale-ups, which she co-founded and led from September 2013 to June 2019, when she stepped away from day-to-day activities to serve for a year as a board member. She currently serves as mentor of the organization. From 2003 to 2013, Ms. Maydón held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility at Visa (NYSE: V), ultimately serving from 2010 through 2013 as Senior Business Leader, Commercial Solutions, LATAM & Caribbean after having been Business Development Leader, LATAM & Caribbean from 2004 to 2010. She currently serves on the Board of Advisors for Sustalytics and NovoPayment, and also serves as an independent director on the board of Natural Fiber Welding. She is also a member of the Investment Committee of Salkantay Ventures and serves on the Advisory Boards of Musicasa and Novopayment, two tech companies. She holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a B.S in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.