30 years of professional experience, and for the past 8 years, Founder and Executive Director of Visso. Business Administrator, Specialist in Finance, and Executive Development Program (EDP) graduate.
He has held prominent executive positions, including roles as CEO, CFO, and CPO at Pizano S.A., a reforestation and manufacturing company. His experience in the financial sector has also allowed him to serve as CFO and VP of Investments at IFI, and he worked as Manager of the Voluntary Pension Fund at Colfondos and Advisor to the Director for Colombia at CABEI. He is currently a founding partner of Visso Consultores.
His career includes participation on the boards of directors of companies in the financial and industrial sectors, among others. Furthermore, he is an expert in the structuring, implementation, and management of investments in various financial assets and has led development and fundraising projects. He is a specialist in impact investing, participating in more than 10 carbon credit-generating projects with active representation in the Colombian carbon market as Manager of the FORE Private Equity Fund.
Currently, he focuses on the structuring of environmental projects such as Biocredits and Habitat Banks , Carbon Credits, Biocredits, and other environmental assets in Latin America.
He currently focuses on structuring environmental assets such as biocredits and habitat banking projects across Latin America.
Business Administrator with postgraduate studies in Finance and Marketing Management, and training in Strategic Environmental Assessment.
She brings over 25 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance, with expertise in financial structuring, capital markets, and financial planning across public and private sector institutions.
She is a Founding Partner of Visso Consultores S.A.S. Throughout her career, she has led transaction structuring and the development of financial solutions for strategic projects, including syndicated lending and capital market transactions exceeding USD 900 million. She focuses on innovative financial vehicles, including sustainability-linked and carbon market instruments, and contributes to investment decision-making at the governance level.
Mechanical Engineer with master’s degrees in Senior Management and in Traffic, Mobility and Road Safety.
She currently serves as a project impact specialist, with a solid track record in structuring, managing, and leading initiatives across sectors such as transport, infrastructure, road safety, and environmental projects.
She has experience leading complex projects from design through execution, integrating risk analysis, budget control, and coordination of multidisciplinary teams. Her focus is on optimizing processes, ensuring compliance with technical and regulatory standards, and delivering sustainable results, particularly in carbon and biodiversity projects, where she aligns technical, financial, and operational components to maximize impact.
Diego Gómez Llinás is a Financial and Commercial Structuring Specialist at Visso Consultores. He holds a degree in Economics and is an MBA candidate at Universidad de los Andes.
He has over nine years of experience in project financial structuring and in developing commercial strategies for the monetization of environmental assets, particularly in carbon markets.
In his role, he integrates financial modeling, project budget tracking, and commercial channel management, contributing to the structuring and commercialization of carbon credit portfolios in both domestic and international markets.
Andres is a Anthropologist with a Master’s in Environmental Management from Universidad de los Andes. He is trained in risk management and sustainable business models.
With over a decade of experience, he leads socio-environmental innovation programs that integrate ESG criteria and Nature-based Solutions to generate measurable impacts.
His career includes strategic roles at South Pole, IDEAM, and USAID, where he managed cooperation portfolios and stakeholder engagement under international carbon standards. He specializes in designing territorial governance strategies and safeguards that ensure social legitimacy and climate resilience. His core value lies in bridging technical project structuring with community realities to promote transparent and long-term socioeconomic development.
Business Administrator with a specialization in Financial Management.
She currently serves as Operations Coordinator, a role through which she provides direct support to the Executive Director and articulates the organization’s administrative and operational processes, ensuring the orderly functioning of internal operations and the proper management of corporate information.
Her professional experience focuses on administrative and financial management, including budget control, execution of payments, consolidation of information for decision-making, and operational coordination across internal teams and external advisors. Her work is oriented toward strengthening internal processes, document management, and supporting the executive leadership in the preparation and organization of strategic information.
Forest Engineer from Universidad Nacional and Master's in Agricultural Sciences from Universidad de Córdoba, with 46 years of experience in forestry.
Initially worked as a contractor for Empresas Públicas de Medellín and Industrias Forestales Doña María from 1978 to 1981, followed by a 33-year tenure at Monterrey Forestal, serving 14 years as Head of Forest Operations and 19 years as General Manager of a 20,000-hectare forestry program. Currently serving as a Forestry Consultant since 2014. Professional experience focuses on the management of commercial forest plantations of tropical species, encompassing establishment, silvicultural management, and timber harvesting for the particleboard, plywood, and pallet industries.
Consultant and Senior Advisor in the forestry and agroindustrial sectors, with a managerial career that includes serving as the General Manager of Monterey Forestal GWR SAS.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors at Camcore at North Carolina State University, served as president of the Board of Directors of Fedemaderas, and functioned as an advisor to the agricultural sciences program at Colciencias. Among its advised companies are Forestal Monterrey Colombia, Reforestadora de la Costa, Col La Gloria, El Semillero, Ashmore Investment, Preserva, Visso, and Carbo Sostenible.
As a biologist with a master’s degree, he possesses 46 years of experience in designing and operating forest and animal production systems, along with conducting applied physiological research. His work has included directing population studies, forest biometrics, environmental impact assessments, and designing projects focused on climate change mitigation for both the Clean Development Mechanism and the voluntary market. He also worked as a university professor.
Agrologist, GIS specialist, MBA, and PhD candidate in Geography, with studies in watershed management, regional planning, and land-use planning.
Director of Geoestudios Territoriales SAS. Thirty years of professional experience in both the private and public sectors in executive positions related to development planning and rural agricultural land-use planning; planning for productive and social land tenure and rural land markets; the direction and generation of technical studies, guidelines, criteria, parameters, and instruments; and the direction and coordination of monitoring and evaluation processes for policies related to productive planning, rural land ownership, and the land market.
She currently serves as Director of Geoestudios Territoriales at VISSO Consultores S.A.S. as an external consultant.
Expertise in the formulation and development of public policy; management of R&D projects and training programs in remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), and the management of geographic, cartographic, agrological, and cadastral information. Institutional strategic planning; management of Integrated Public Management Systems and Quality Management Systems; ICT management; and the direction and management of international technical cooperation projects.
Ph.D., Full Professor of Biology at Universidad del Rosario and President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (2024-2026).
He possesses over 20 years of experience in research, teaching, communication, and leadership. His research focuses on forest ecology (biodiversity, carbon cycle, resilience), photosynthesis, and reflectance spectroscopy, as well as carbon and biodiversity credit markets. He has authored 47 international scientific publications (including journals such as Science, Nature, and Ecology Letters) and has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator for projects totaling over USD 1.6 million in grants. He has supervised 20 theses and taught more than 15 undergraduate and graduate courses. He has extensive management and leadership experience as the founder and Director of the Biology Department (2013-2019) and Director of the Doctoral Program in Biomedical and Biological Sciences (2011-2015) at Universidad del Rosario. Additionally, he chaired the global conference of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (Cartagena, 2022) and is the founder and Scientific Director of TerraSpectrum, a Swiss startup focused on the development of Nature-based Solutions (NbS).
Currently serves as an external advisor for VISSO Consultores S.A.S.
Independent consultant in climate, carbon, and sustainability, with doctoral training in Environmental and Sanitary Engineering.
He has over eight years of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of GHG reduction and removal projects across regulated and voluntary carbon markets. His career focuses on the development and evaluation of methodologies, project integrity and risk analysis, and strategic advisory for market participants. He has led technical teams, contributed to sectoral methodological frameworks, and supported decision-making for carbon portfolios, with an emphasis on climate technologies, energy transition, and science-based solutions.
Currently serves as an external advisor for VISSO Consultores S.A.S.
Architect with a Master’s degree in Design for Sustainable Development from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and a specialization in Business Management from the University of Münster (WWU) in Germany.
With more than 15 years of professional experience, her international perspective has been shaped across Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Sweden, Kenya, Colombia, and Germany, spanning both the private and academic sectors. She is recognized for her contributions to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies and projects aligned with the university’s ""third mission.""
She served as a Research Associate at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, a department of the Münster School of Business at Münster University of Applied Sciences (MUAS). She was the Project Manager for two EU-funded projects: WISE and RIESAL, focused on female entrepreneurs in STEM and the internationalization of higher education throughout Latin America.
Her focus and ability to bridge theory with practical application position her as a comprehensive professional and academic.
An architect with a Master's degree in Design for Sustainable Development from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and a specialization in business management from WWU Münster in Germany.
With over 15 years of professional experience.
Her international perspective has been shaped by experience in Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Sweden, Kenya, Colombia, and Germany, encompassing both the private and academic sectors. She is recognized for her contributions to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies and projects aligned with the university's third mission.
She was a research associate at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center, a department of the Münster University of Applied Sciences (MUAS) Business School. She managed two EU-funded projects: WISE and RIESAL, related to women entrepreneurs in STEM and the internationalization of higher education throughout Latin America.
Her approach and ability to connect theory with practical application position her as a well-rounded professional and academic.
