Luis Fernando Ramirez

President & CEO, Yellowstone Capital Partners

Mr. Ramirez has over +35 years of professional experience in finance, Investment banking, real estate investments and M&A. He has led transactions for top Latin-American companies and senior experience in public sector administration. He was Minister of Defense from 1999 to 2001; Minister of Labor from 1992 to 1994; Vice Minister of Finance and Public Credit and General Director of the Colombian Tax Authority (DIAN). He has served as Chairman of the board of directors of Ecopetrol, Colombia’s largest oil & gas company, board member at Grupo Aval, one of Colombia’s largest financial conglomerates, and board member of the Development Bank of Latin America, CAF, among others.

Luis Fernando Ramirez is a Public Accountant from Tadeo University in Bogota, where he was also awarded as Doctor Honoris Causa in Accounting Sciences and he is a Fellow of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in Boston.