Montreal, Quebec, Canada
I work were strategy, execution, and stakeholder alignment meets helping organizations move complex initiatives from concept to implementation. Over the course of my career, I have operated across sectors including stainless steel, plastics, oil and gas, and multilateral organizations in Washington, DC. My work has consistently involved navigating institutional complexity, aligning diverse stakeholders, and unlocking projects that require both structure and momentum to move forward. I am often brought into situations where there is strong potential but execution is stalled. I play a catalytic role bringing together public and private actors, building consensus, and translating ideas into viable programs, investments, or new business opportunities. My experience includes structuring multi-stakeholder initiatives and infrastructure investments exceeding USD 1 billion, opening new markets, as well as contributing to institutional capacity-building efforts across Latin America. Alongside my professional work, I remain actively engaged in governance and community initiatives. Since 2019, I have served on the board of The Friends of the MUHC Foundation, contributing to financial oversight, regulatory compliance, and the stewardship of its disbursement commitments.
Leading cultural and organizational change within the company in order to scale-it up and exceed production and sales goals.
Committed to contribute to the welfare of patients and staff of the McGill University Hospitals, I am responsible of the financial aspects of the foundation.
- Responsible for developing Business Plan, leading fundraising strategy, identifying potential clients and product registration for an innovative self-construction solution for affordable housing based on construction with woven Polypropylene blocks to be filled with soil.
- Responsible for leading one of the main contracts and sources of income to the newly created company Cenit, the Ecopetrol-Cenit crude-oil transportation contract. - Led the Colombia - Ecuador oil connection pipeline project (joint effort with Petroecuador and private oil companies): organized meetings, identified and secured agreements needed (including a Binational agreement signed on Feb. 2013), assessed risks, revised imports/exports regulation with both governments. -Delegated by the President of the company to spearhead the creation of the Project Division. Led recruitment process and supervised SAP implementation for every project.
- Under a nation-wide pressure to ensure pipeline transportation capacity of the rising oil production and reducing the high volume of trucks used to do so and their environmental impact, I was responsible under the Business Development Manager and Transportation Vice president to lead high impact projects from their conception, financial feasibility, negotiation with partners and clients until follow-up with construction teams (Bicentenario Pipeline: US $1.2 billion, Uploading, downloading, storage tanks and buoys projects for US$ 120 million). - Part of the evaluation and negotiation teams for the acquisition of Enbridge's shares in Ocensa and the acquisition of Hocol to Maurel & Prom. - Interim Transportation Commercial Unit Director. - Board member representing Ecopetrol of Ocensa and ODC pipelines. - Represented Ecopetrol in Rio Oil and Gas, Qatar Oil Congress and as part of Colombia's delegation to enforce business relationships with the Republic of China.