Alvaro Espitia Email & Phone Number

Bogotá, Bogota, Co

Guatemala

. Supply and Services Manager: Lead the Supply Chain Strategy, direction, planning and organization of supplies, logistics, foreign trade, warehouses, transportation system, security and control of the Supply Chain management system, delivering and ensuring the hight level of services with efficiency, quality and right price to the EPM-EEGSA Guatemala electric utility company.. AMESA General Manager: Lead the long-term strategic AMESA plan for the business growth and profitability, ensuring efficient workflows, compliance with policies, guidelines, and EPM-EEGSA Guatemala corporate social responsibility standards, with adequate stock levels that satisfy demand, minimizing storage costs, guaranteeing long term profitability and financial viability.. IDEAMSA General Manager: Lead and coordinate the business strategy, operation, administration, profitability, purchase, sale, and optimization of the real estate assets of EPM-EEGSA Group, ensuring efficiency and profitability to guarantee the financial viability of the real estate assets of the business group.. Establish management indicators and service levels by evaluating the performance of the Supply Chain processes, AMESA and IDEAMSA Management, to ensure their profitability, effectiveness, efficiency, continuous improvement aligned with the objectives, goals and corporate strategic guidelines.. Increase the value of the AMESA and IDEAMSA companies, ensuring 15% annual growth, increasing market share by 20%, with profitability and EBITDA profit margins.

Guatemala

• Define and implement security strategies, plans and policies, according to EPM Guatemala's strategic intervention model. • Structure the strategic security plan in order to responds to the group's business architecture and its strategic direction.• Develop the strategy of the investigative work related to theft and fraud or any other crime that affects the companies of the group and monitor its execution.• To create and drive proactive security programme, with stakeholders, to ensure the continued safe and effective operations of the EPM Guatemala Enterprises• Ensuring the effective management of the physical security of facilities and personnel across the EPM Guatemala Enterprises including conducting security vulnerability assessments and site security audits.

Colombia

• Design and implementation of strategies, policies, programs, procedures, standards, trainings, and apply corporate tools related to risk assessment and protection of personnel, assets, avoid fraud, assure the food defence, intellectual property assurance and processes of whole Supply Chain in line with corporate policies.• Advice to the crisis management team, lead the committee's coordination during the crisis, emergency response and recovery plans with a focus on business continuity.• Build a network on the local ground to ensure an effective intelligence gathering system.• Identify “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats” within the country, that allow the improvement of safety programs that contribute to mitigate risks.• Investigation, innovation and application of new methods, technologies and techniques to assure all security services are provided in an efficient manner.• Keep PepsiCo’s Crisis Management and Business Continuity Team trained and updated• Maintain an adequate evaluation and selection process for on-call services that allow the company to count with the best security providers, through indicators that monitor management efficiency • Keep a proper evaluation and selection process for security services that allow the company to have the best providers, through a continued Kip’s monitoring of their services.• Implement the Supply Chain Risk Management System in PepsiCo’s operations in Colombia• Conduct the risk assessment of the entire supply chain process and implement the correct controls, avoiding damages to PepsiCo’s products and ensure that the security standards are implemented in every site.• Conduct safety investigations identifying the root cause and share its lesson learned with the teams of the organization for continuous improvement. • Lead the certification auditing processes related to ISO 31000, 28000, 22301, 27001 and 22000.

Bogota

. Health, Hygiene and Communities for the mining operation of Anglo American, and led in full its implementation in the country; integrated the corporate security strategy into the integral process applied to environments of high risk and social conflict. . Plan and execute the development of the Supply Chain system (demand planning, purchasing, supply, negotiations, supplies, warehouse, deliveries, transportation, and reverse logistics) for mining exploration operations involving air, sea and land transportation, maintaining standard just-in-time deliveries with high levels of effectiveness in remote areas, guaranteeing the success and continuity of mining operation. • Provided strategic and operational leadership support to the corporate crisis management committee in SHEC’s crisis events, and social conflicts, with excellent results that allowed business continuity • Consolidated in 100% the implementation of the Integrated Risk Management System SHEC in all the exploration projects. Approximately 124 projects in regions of high social sensitivity under the international standards of Anglo American Plc.• Designed the strategic organizational culture model focusing on "Zero Damage".• Implemented autonomous and continuous improvement in the SHEC Management System supported in the lessons learned from the incidents and the application of the integrated system tools’ model along the organization's value chain.• Got the ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18000 certification by Bureau Veritas.• Promoted and encouraged safe behaviours through toolbox meetings, job safety analysis, and safety conversations during breaks, as well as open reporting of unsafe conditions and unsafe acts • Achieved in the integrated system of Risk Management "SHEC" from 2010 to 2015 the "Zero Damage" in 800,000 man-hours worked without fatalities, injuries, accidents, occupational diseases, environmental impacts, extortions, community complaints and business interruption.

. Implemented and led the integrated supply chain management system from the cocoa producer, logistics to FOB delivery in La Guaira Port, with risk assessment to ensure supply chain flows for the cocoa business clients in Venezuela.. Designed and controlled contingency plans to maintain the business continuity plan for the cocoa supply chain. . Ensured compliance with the Business plan of the Cocoa Supply Chain operation for clients abroad.

Colombia

• Lead the Supply Chain logistics operation in the processes of demand planning, acquisition, purchasing, negotiations, production, health, warehouse storage, transportation, supplies and reverse logistics, guaranteeing just-in-time and continuity of military operations.. Kept the security and tranquillity of the citizens in different regions of the country• Built team work abilities and achieved defence sector objectives • Designed strategies and implemented security diagrams for the oil industry in Putumayo, improving the crude transportation in 42,783 barrels per month. • Designed, implemented and started-up simulation scene models for case analysis under the VR-FORCES system • Modelled virtual scenes for crisis analysis, risk evaluation and the effective application in order to make decisions in hostile and conflict environments. • Achieved the reduction of the affectation to the oil facilities of Caño Limón and pumping stations in the department of Arauca with the support of the communities in the region.• Implemented the Security Protection Scheme for the Cerrejón railroad, from the mine to the port; keeping a safe operation

Master'S Degree, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management, Magister, Supply Chain Management And Logistics

Magister, Industrial Engineering, Integral Logistics, Magister In Integral Logistics 4,48/5.0

Logistics, Operations Research, Process, Supply Chain Network (SCN) and Supply Chain Risk Management System (SCRM).

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Engineering, 4.29/5.00

Specialization, Specialist In Safety Management And Occupational Health, 4,34/50

Desing and implementation of the Integrate Risk Management Systems, Incident investigations, Training programs, Crisis Management.

Specialization, Specialist In University Teaching, 4,6/5,0

Specialization, Specialist In Command And Staff, 9,69/10

Top Student of the Colombia Class, Superior War College, Graduated with Honours.

Specialization, Specialist In Finance And Public Administration, 41.3/5.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, 4.02/5.0