Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Alejandro Betancourt Lopez is currently the largest shareholder and director of the international investment group, O’Hara Administration. He is also the majority owner and President of Hawkers Sunglasses and directs a publicly held producer and energy explorer. One of his most recent business ventures was adding the largest oil company in Latin America to his resume of companies he owns, manages, or sits on the board of directors.

Alejandro Betancourt Lopez decided to earn both his bachelor and business administration degrees at Suffolk University. His first position in the business sector before launching the O’Hara Administration was at an international trade, agriculture, real estate, and finance company known as Guruceaga Group.

Although he has achieved success in nearly every endeavor he has attempted, his goal in business is not to achieve personal success. He would rather that people thought of him regarding how well his companies support the communities where they set up shop, rather than how much of a personal fortune he amassed. Here are just a few examples of projects that Alejandro Betancourt Lopez and his employees have contributed time or money to help support:

- Developed better personal banking services in Africa for a chain of banks known as Bank of Dakar.
- Built and added a new wing to the Carmen Salles School located in Ciudad Bolivar.
- Support post-graduate programs and power plant maintenance at Universidad Simon Bolivar.
- Worked to clean the environment as part of World Beach Day.

Alejandro Betancourt Lopez looks forward to continuing to divert his personal resources towards a life filled with better educational and financial resources for as many people as possible. He is thrilled to see new technologies develop every day that allow for such rapid changes in people’s lives.

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Alejandro Betancourt López actualmente es director, parte controladora y accionista mayoritario de O’Hara Administration Co. S.A., un grupo de inversión internacional. Además, es el presidente de Hawkers, una empresa española de lentes de sol, así como el director de Pacific Exploration & Production Corp., un explorador y productor de energía canadiense que cotiza en la bolsa.

Betancourt obtuvo su licenciatura en Economía y Administración de Empresas de la Universidad de Suffolk. Inició su carrera en Guruceaga Group, una empresa de comercio, finanzas, bienes raíces y agricultura. Tiene amplia experiencia en el sector de energía, ya que trabajó como gerente comercial y operador de América Latina en una empresa ubicada en Londres llamada ICC-OEOC, una empresa tecnología de exploración y perforación de petróleo, y como el director de BGB Energy, un afiliado de Kawasaki Heavy Industries.

Fundó O’Hara Administration, una compañía líder en gestión de activos que cuenta con inversiones en líderes de la industria en varios sectores. En Pacific Exploration & Production (anteriormente llamada Pacific Rubiales Energy), supervisó la expansión de la empresa hacia México, Perú y Venezuela. En Hawkers, una de las compañías de lentes de sol más grandes del mundo, se enfocó en la expansión de la marca, recaudación de fondos y relaciones estratégicas. Betancourt es también el mayor accionista de Banque de Dakar en Senegal, trabajando para expandir los servicios de la banca hacia África. Los esfuerzos filantrópicos de Betancourt se centran en el compromiso con la comunidad, con un enfoque en la educación, incluyendo la Escuela Carmen Salles en Ciudad Bolívar y la Universidad Simón Bolívar.