Pablo Hernandez Schmidt-Tophoff

Managing Director

Business

Financial Advisory

Location

Houston, United States

Pablo Hernandez Schmidt-Tophoff joined Lazard's North American Energy Group in 2012 and currently works in the Houston office.

Since joining Lazard, Pablo has worked on numerous domestic and cross-border advisory and restructuring assignments across the Energy and Energy Transition spectrum.

Prior to joining Lazard as an Associate, Pablo interned at Citadel Securities and focused on investment banking advisory services. Prior to business school, Pablo worked as an associate at UBS AG in Panama City, Panama as part of the LatAm Group. During his three years at UBS AG, he managed a book of private clients with $80-$100mm in AUM covering Colombia, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.

Pablo currently serves on the Board of Directors at Inprint, the Steering Committee for the Contemporaries at The Menil Collection, and as a member of the Steering Committee at the Lazard Foundation.

University of Texas, B.B.A. in Finance and B.A. in Economics, University of Virginia, The Darden School, MBA.

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