Hometown: Guatemala City, Guatemala (Currently in Illinois)
Undergraduate Institution and Major: Universidad Internacional de Las Américas, Costa Rica (1994). BSc. Systems Engineering.
Graduate Institution and Major: Universidad de Costa Rica (1997). Master of Business Administration.
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands / Skema Business School formerly CERAM école supérieur de commerce France (2000). M.Sc. International Business.
Certifications:
- Program for Leadership Development (PLD) (2018). Harvard Business School.
- Design for digital disruption (2020). MIT Sloan School of Management.
- Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, Harvard Business School.
- Platform Strategy for Business, Questrom School of Business. 2020 Organizational Alignment Specialist, Predixxa, Inc. 2022
Bio: Romeo is an experienced executive in the IT and Telecommunications industries. In the private sector, he has served as Managing Director, Country Manager, or Regional Commercial Director for leading global Hi-Tech vendors: ZTE Corporation, MetaSwitch Networks, UTStarcom Corp, among others. In the public sector, he served as Technical Director during the administration of President Hipólito Mejía of the Dominican Republic at the Institute of Vocational Education, INFOTEP, where he also served as a liaison between this Institute and the National Competitiveness Council of the Dominican Republic. He contributed to developing the INFOTEP’s 2001- 2004 strategic plan, organizational alignment, and digital transformation. Romeo also collaborated with the Distance Learning Center for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, IICA, in 1998. More recently, he has been consulting on matters related to organizational alignment and organizational design for digital transformation. .
Research Interests: Organizational design and alignment, leadership development, continuous improvement, and digital transformation of public and private organizations.
Awards and Honors:
- Outstanding individual achievement, UTStarcom USA, 2007.
- Individual Performance Achievement, ZTE Corporation 2016.
- Tuition Award Harvard Business School / Harvard Kennedy School for the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management.
- Acknowledgement for contributions to the book Back from The Brink by Professor George Labovitz, Ph.D. Boston University Questrom Business School and Dr. Stanley Labovitz.
Volunteer Activities: Strategy development for the Tourism Advisor of the Municipality of Antigua Guatemala.