Jorge Hernan Castellanos Rueda

Jorge Castellanos has worked in multilateral, commercial and investment banking, private equity, and infrastructure. He led diverse Colombian institutions: ETB (telecoms), Bancafé (bank), FINTRA (private equity), Correval investment banking, Fogafín (deposit insurance/bank restructuring agency), Banking Superintendence (chief financial regulator), Public Credit (national debt office), and worked at JP Morgan in New York, and The World Bank in Washington.

He developed solutions to a banking crisis, created the government bond market (TES), enacted financial regulation, restructured, turned around and sold companies, and managed risks, financing, derivatives, and created private equity, and investment funds. He advised multilaterals, governments, private clients, and served on numerous boards of directors.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Bogotá Telecommunications Enterprise, ETB. CEO, Bogotá, 2016 – 2020

• Praxia Finanzas, Partner, Bogotá, 2013 – 2015

• Darby Private Equity–Fintra, MD-CEO, Bogotá, 2009 – 2013

• Correval, Director of Investment Banking, Bogotá, 2007 – 2008

• Bancafé, CEO, Bogotá, 2003 – 2007

• CapitalCorp, Partner, Bogotá, 2001 – 2003

• Financial Institutions Guarantee Fund – Fogafín, Director-CEO, Bogotá, 1999 – 2000

• J.P. Morgan Securities, Vicepresident, New York, 1997 – 1999

• Banking Superintendence, Banking Superintendent-CEO, Bogotá, 1994 – 1996

• Ministry of Finance, Director General of Public Credit, Bogotá, 1991 – 1994

• The World Bank, Senior Financial Officer, Washington, 1986 – 1991

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Finance, IE University, Spain, 2022

• Lecturer on Finance, University of Los Andes, Colombia, 2015

• Lecturer on Statistics and Operations Research, University of Los Andes, Colombia, 1982

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• PhD, Business Economics and Public Policy, Columbia University, New York, 1986

• MPhil, Business Economics and Public Policy, Columbia University, New York, 1985

• MS, Management Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 1981

• Systems and Computer Science Engineer, University of Los Andes, Bogotá, 1979