Ignacio Gaitán

President, Grupo El Colombiano, Colombia

Ignacio is currently President of Grupo El Colombiano.
Lawyer from the Sergio Arboleda University, where I also took postgraduate courses in Public and Economic Law and Commercial and Financial Law. I have an Executive Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Leadership from CEU San Pablo University and a Multinational MBA from Adolfo Ibanez University and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. I also completed the International Management Program at Georgetown University.

Served as Executive Dean of the International School of Management and Marketing, and Prime Business School at Universidad Sergio Arboleda. I have been a professor at the same University in subjects such as History of Political Ideas, Colombian Economy, Economic Environment and Globalisation.

I also currently stand out for my professorship in “Management and Happiness”. I have also been a Lawyer in Human Resources Management, in Legal Management of Concepts and Contracts in the National Bank of Commerce and Lawyer of the legal division of the Tequendama Bank. I am currently lecturing on “Management and Happiness”.

Previously I was president of iNNpulsa Colombia where we worked for three years strengthening entrepreneurship and creative industries in the country.