The team

A partner leads and signs every engagement. The work is done by partners and consultants who know the sector from the inside.

The partners

Manuel Enrique Sánchez Trujillo

PartnerEnergy and oilTelecommunicationsTechnology

Call on Manuel when you need to measure how ready local industry is to supply a large project.

Expert in strategic planning, competitiveness analysis and project management. He was a board director and vice president of customer service at Daycohost. For UNIDO, he coordinated the capital goods automation program in nine countries. As a consortium partner, he worked on the national capacity study for the offshore gas projects. That study covered twenty-four industrial sectors and calculated their national value added. He worked on privatization and restructuring processes in electricity, steel and water.

Electronic engineer, Universidad Simón Bolívar (1979). Advanced Management Program, IESA (1996).

Jesús Enrique Del Vecchio Tume

PartnerOver 40 yearsEnergy and oilPharmaceuticalsHealthcare

Call on Jesús Enrique when you must open a regulated domestic market without slowing operations.

He chaired Aggreko in Venezuela and later led its Andean region. He held senior roles at Shell and Pfizer. He was general manager of a national LPG distributor. He started at PDVSA, in the gas and domestic market division. He represented Shell in the opening of the domestic fuels market. He worked on exploration and production projects in Lake Maracaibo and offshore in Paria. He chaired the Venezuelan-British Chamber of Commerce from 2019 to 2021.

Mechanical engineer, Universidad Simón Bolívar (1981).

Jesús Argenis Gómez Sáez

PartnerOver 40 yearsTechnologyTelecommunications

Call on Jesús Argenis when you want to launch or scale a technology or telecom venture from scratch.

He co-founded GENTE, winner of the National Technology Award in 1993. He co-founded Etheron, the first prepaid internet provider in Latin America. He was director of commercial strategy at CANTV Servicios and IT planning manager at CANTV. He founded and led Pragmagenia, a large-scale IT and telecom consultancy. He was CTO of Pabis, in Mexico, until its acquisition by TeamCore. Today he leads Abierto Lab, a promoter of innovation ventures built on artificial intelligence.

Consultants

Rolando Alberto García-Lugo

ConsultantOver 45 yearsEnergy and oil

Call on Rolando when you must design a large-scale oil recovery project.

Reservoir engineer with practice in operations, secondary recovery and simulation. He worked at Shell, Repsol, Rosneft and an Exxon Mobil affiliate. He designed Orinoco Belt projects for more than 120,000 barrels per day. He developed PVT programs and correlations validated during the Magna Reservas project. He taught reservoir engineering and engineering economics at UCV. He has written SPE and WHOC papers on the Orinoco Oil Belt.

Master of engineering management, University of Alberta (1997). Petroleum engineer, UCV (1978).

Litsay Guerrero Albornoz

ConsultantOver 20 yearsCompetition regulation, public policy and foreign trade

Call on Litsay when you must understand the regulatory environment before investing or negotiating in the country.

Specialist in competition regulation, the regulatory environment and foreign investment. She worked on Andean Community, WTO and Mercosur negotiations. She was manager of economic affairs and investor services at CONAPRI. She was a competition specialist at Procompetencia. She contributed to the World Economic Forum competitiveness studies and to Doing Business. She directs and teaches the specialization in economic law at Universidad Monteávila.

Economist, Universidad de Carabobo (2001). Graduate degree in international economic and integration law, UCV (2011).

Miguel Yanes Borges

ConsultantBanking and financeRetailAgribusiness

Call on Miguel when you need financial planning, asset valuation or high-level wealth management.

Expert in financial planning, valuation and wealth management. He was CFO of Beco for a decade. Before that he was CFO of Kárnicos, a McDonald’s supplier in Venezuela and Colombia. He is a founding partner of YanesBorges, an allied firm of C4Accel.

Business administration, Universidad Metropolitana (1995). MBA, Rotterdam School of Management (2005).

Luis Castro Kerdel

ConsultantEnergy and oilBanking and finance

Call on Luis when you must evaluate a new business or a new market abroad.

Expert in finance, asset valuation and market evaluation. He worked in exploration and production finance at BP. He did commercial consulting in the United States. He worked at Coca-Cola Panamco. He evaluated businesses in Shanghai, China. He is a partner at YanesBorges, an allied firm of C4Accel.

Economist, UCV (1996). MBA and master of public policy, University of Michigan (2004).

Marino José González Reyes

ConsultantHealthcarePharmaceuticalsPublic policy and public management

Call on Marino when a decision depends on public policy or health policy.

Specialist in public policy, development policy and health policy. He is a full professor of public policy at Universidad Simón Bolívar. He has been a corresponding member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2016. He has belonged to the Latin American Academy of Sciences since 2020. He is an affiliated researcher at Universidad de La Rioja. He has consulted for WHO, PAHO, the World Bank, IDB, ECLAC, UNFPA and CAF. He has worked as an international consultant in six countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. He has coordinated technical advisory work for energy and pharmaceutical companies, foundations, universities and governments.

Physician, UCV (1983). Master of political science, Universidad Simón Bolívar (1990). PhD in public policy, University of Pittsburgh (1998).

Carlos Eduardo Chacón Duque

ConsultantOver 40 yearsEnergy and oilTelecommunications

Call on Carlos Eduardo when you must restructure a company or evaluate new energy or telecom businesses.

Specialist in restructuring, privatization and new businesses in energy and telecommunications. He began in environmental research at the Ministry of the Environment and at IVIC. He led technology development at the Ministry of Development. At the Venezuelan Investment Fund he managed the restructuring and privatization of state companies. At EDELCA he worked on the reorganization of the power sector and on new business evaluation. At La Electricidad de Caracas he followed its power investments in El Salvador and Colombia. He led teams in its metropolitan connectivity unit. Since 2008 he has consulted for Nexo on strategy, innovation and business models. He co-wrote «Camino al futuro: Venezuela 2035», published by Fedecámaras.

Bachelor of chemistry, technology track, UCV (1976).

Manuel Guevara Baro

ConsultantEnergy and oilStrategic planning and public policy

Call on Manuel when you need to plan scenarios for the power or energy sector.

Consultant in power and energy, strategic planning, scenarios and public policy. He headed the energy foresight division of the Ministry of Energy. He was director of industry and trade at CORDIPLAN. At the Venezuelan Investment Fund he was responsible for the state power companies. He was UNIDO’s chief technical adviser on industrial planning for the Ministry of Development. He coordinated the electricity chapter of Plan País. He was on the technical team for the draft Organic Law of the Electricity Sector. He consulted for the IDB on Venezuela’s national recovery strategy. He studied the state hydrocarbon companies for Transparencia Venezuela. He evaluated the national capital goods supply for a gas development on the Deltana Platform. He advises small and medium industries on planned change processes.

Electrical engineer, UCV. Graduate degree in industrial development and project evaluation, University of Paris. DEA in development policy and programming, University of Paris. Advanced Consulting Program, ILOS.

Margarita Rosendo Barreiro

ConsultantEnergy and oilTelecommunicationsTechnologyStrategic planning

Call on Margarita when you must execute a complex project or enter a new business.

Specialist in strategic planning, project management and new business development. At EDELCA she held management roles in telecommunications, strategic projects and corporate planning. There she planned and managed highly complex projects. She then advised technology, services and energy companies on new businesses and strategy. She has supported business transformation and growth processes. She has worked on process management, quality systems and integrated risk management engagements.

Electronic engineer, Universidad Simón Bolívar (1978). Telecommunications Management Program, Universidad Simón Bolívar (1992). Advanced Management Program, IESA (2001). Advanced negotiation and conflict management, Harvard method (2003).

Carlos Eduardo Corredor López

ConsultantEnergy and oilTechnologyProject management

Call on Carlos Eduardo when you must control a large engineering project or evaluate its contracts.

Specialist in managing and controlling large engineering projects. He advises on preparing, evaluating and managing bids for those projects. He drafts and analyzes terms of reference for contracting works and services. He applies international contract models, including FIDIC and IDB models. He analyzes contracts, commercial terms and risks in engineering bids. At EDELCA he managed project control for transmission and engineering. He was on the team that brought computerized control to hydroelectric plants and high-voltage substations.

Electronic engineer, Universidad Javeriana (1975). Specialization in business engineering, Universidad Simón Bolívar (1982). Specialization in project management, UCAB (2000). Management Development for Managers, IESA (2001). Cisco CCNA (2004) and IBM e-business application development (2007) certifications.

Marisla Margarita Fermín Suárez

ConsultantOver 30 yearsTelecommunicationsTechnologyQuality, processes and strategic planning

Call on Marisla when you need to redesign processes or certify your quality management.

Manager and consultant with experience in logistics, purchasing, maintenance and quality management. She worked at national and multinational companies in transport, finance and telecommunications. Since 2010 she has been an expert consultant in strategic planning, organization and process reengineering. She leads documentation, standardization and quality management certifications. She has worked for manufacturing and services in consumer goods, telecom, retail, finance, security and high technology.

Materials engineer, Universidad Simón Bolívar (1985). Management training at IESA: management for engineers, finance and communications. Manufacturing processes and technologies, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Quality management, SGS and FIM Productividad. Diploma in leadership and management, Universidad Simón Bolívar.

Depending on the sector, we add guest specialists who are not on this list and form an extended team.

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