Ana Ugidos

Ana Victoria Ugidos is CEO of BTSA Biotecnologías Aplicadas and five other companies. In total, she has 80 people working for her. Hers is a story of entrepreneurship, of fighting against stereotypes, and of hard work. 

She didn’t become an entrepreneur as part of any ‘Plan B’, but by vocation. She was working in a Japanese multinational, and left her work to begin a project with them but with a different focus. 

Between that time and her present position, with pharmaceutical plants on several continents, she’s had to fight against some prejudice; in 2016, there are still people who are surprised to find a woman heading a biotechnology company. “And they’re even more surprised if you don’t look like a ‘suffragist’”, she says with good humor.