Directors

Manfred Kissling
Director

More than twelve years of experience in providing BPO services primarily to the technology, financial, social media industries in Latin America, the United States and Europe. He is also Director of Sustainable Markets Intelligence Center (www.cims-la.com), a not- for-profit business organization, specialized in market information services related to environmentally and socially responsible products and services in Latin America. Manfred started up a restaurant franchise in San Jose in 1994 and since 1999 he has helped to develop this business into a major restaurant chain in Costa Rica (www.rostipolloscr.net). Previously Manfred held the position of General Director at The Foreign Trade Corporation of Costa Rica (www.procomer.com) a public non-governmental trade promotion organization of Costa Rica, and was responsible for export capacity building, trade facilitation and Costa Rica Free Trade zones (FTZ) governance. Most recent he started serving on the Board of Directors of Navsat (www.navsatcr.com), the leading location intelligence company in Costa Rica. He has an MBA from INCAE Business School and is an Industrial Engineer from Purdue University.

Randolf Kissling
Director

Mr. Kissling is Costa Rican; he holds an MBA degree from INCAE Business School and graduated from Purdue University as an Industrial Manager. Nowadays, Mr. Kissling is the CEO of Aura Interactiva, a company devoted to developing technology-based knowledge and learning solutions for multinational corporations and governmental institutions with offices in 10 countries throughout the Americas. Mr. Kissling is the Chairman of Futurekids Costa Rica, part of a global organization focused on creating learning communities constituted by students, teachers, schools and families.  He is also CEO of Educational Technology Consulting, a company that promotes skills-based mass certification in IT and language skills. Moreover, Mr. Kissling is Vice-Chairman of CAMTIC, a non-profit organization that brings together the Information Technology and Communication sector in Costa Rica. Between 1996 and 1998, he worked as Bain & Company consultant. Additionally, Mr. Kissling worked as banking, insurance, airline, and bulk sales consultant. He currently serves as a Chairman of various boards in the restaurant, outsourcing, logistics and software development sectors.

Daniel Robert
Director

Daniel Robert has 25 years of executive experience in the media business. He is currently Corporate VP of GRUPO NACIÓN, the largest media company in Costa Rica, with over $100 million in sales and 1400 employees. GRUPO NACIÓN has a wide portfolio including LA NACIÓN newspaper, an opinion leader and main advertising channel, AL DIA and LA TEJA newspapers, and several broad distribution magazines, including Perfil, the largest readership magazine in Costa Rica, three radio stations, two financial weekly magazines -one in Costa Rica, EL FINANCIERO, and the other one in Panama, CAPITAL FINANCIERO- among others.

Mr. Robert is also CEO of the main roasted chicken franchise in the country, named Rostipollos, in the country, with more than 25 years of operations. During the last ten years, he has also been the Board of Directors Treasurer of one of the main high schools in Costa Rica, Blue Valley. Mr. Robert holds an MBA degree from INCAE Business School.

Reynaldo González Pantaleón
Director

Reynaldo has more than 8 years in Mesoamerica, a leading Central America and Colombian company in the private equity, mergers and acquisition and strategic consulting field. Since 2008 he leads the Mesoamerica operations in the Andean Community, with headquarters in Bogotá, Colombia. He actively participated in all business units of the company, accumulating over US$4.000M in transactions and more than 30 projects to this date. In Mesoamerica Reynaldo is one of the few partners with deep knowledge in all three divisions of the company. Reynaldo is Dominican and has a degree in industrial engineering and an MBA from INCAE.

Roberto Artavia
Director

Roberto has an extensive experience as advisor and consultant of governments, academic and development organizations in all of Central America, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Croatia, and Thailand in topics of competitiveness and sustainability. As of this date he already worked in more than 35 countries. For eight years Roberto was the President and rector of the INCAE Business School a private, not for profit international school of business with operations in 12 countries and consistently ranked among the top 3 business programs in Latin America. He is a board member of several large corporations in Central America, in multiple sectors ranging from airlines to breweries and from education to technology. Roberto holds a PhD from Harvard and an MBA with honours from INCAE.