Humberto Toro - Director, Advisory Board Member

Humberto Toro has over twenty-years experience in international business in the sectors of energy, technology, real estate and finance. Mr. Toro’s experience varies from founding and managing startups to advising and participating in active investments in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. During his career, Mr. Toro has advised and been involved in negotiations for deals for both private individuals as well as government institutions in a variety of industries including food and beverage, oil exploration, agriculture and financial institutions, among others.

While living in Colombia during the 1990s, Mr. Toro partnered with and advised such Spanish companies as Empresarios Agrupados, Esmena, Duro Felguera, Cepsa and various others in developing business in the Latin American markets, including the awarding of seven exploration and incremental production deals from Ecopetrol, the Colombian state-owned oil company. In Panama, Mr. Toro advised the Panamanian government in achieving its first privatization through the sale of the state-owned Citricos de Chiriqui to private investors. Most recently, in Asia Mr. Toro has developed a technology project for Softbank in Japan and brokered a deal between the Shanghai Stock Exchange and a leading European Telecom leader.

Mr. Toro is a current resident of Madrid, Spain, where he has lived for the past nine years. Mr. Toro spent the prior seven years in Colombia and the eleven years prior to that in the US. Mr. Toro travels extensively and has had the opportunity to develop long lasting relationships in the business world at the highest levels. He currently serves as advisor to New York M&A Investment Bank, Violy and Company and some of his past and present involvements include: CEO and Founder of Eurolink Network Inc. and Eurolink Securities, US; Director of Century Pacific Limited, Hong Kong; VP and Board member of Texas Oil and Gas Ltd., Panama. Mr. Toro holds a B.S. in Economics from Northeastern University.

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