Luis Velez

Background

About Luis Velez

As a long-distance runner, I dare to describe it from my personal perspective, observing the evolution of my professional career with ups and downs but always with a spirit of learning and improvement since I was very young, when the first stages of training began, which with effort have led me to the current and enriching stage. From the age of 16 and attracted by the world of business, I began my first relationship with the world of work, where I learnt about the creation, success and failure of a family business, the difficult balance between professional and personal life that led me to return to the classroom at the end of this first test, my generation left and I entered, but from that stage I have never lost the poison of curiosity to keep up to date and to keep alive my interest in learning. I started again in a small chain of supermarkets, from where I evolved from an administrative position to head of purchasing, the biggest prize was not the cash, but to get the approval of my management of the main shareholder of the company, I call it a triumph because of the difficulty of achieving it in a family business. A new stage in a Japanese multinational in the automotive sector, hard and demanding but enriching both professionally and personally, distributors, the team I was part of and improving professionally and personally. This stage came to an end and after a period of transition, interesting professional offers that did not come to fruition, I decided to leave my comfort zone and take the leap to international markets. From Panama I am the manager of a group of companies in the Solar Energy Sector, turnkey construction services and business development for Latin America for Gesinne, a company that manufactures electrical stability equipment. I feel responsible and excited and I am already in the middle of the hard but tremendously enriching test. Back to Spain to develop as sales manager the expansion in Spain and Portugal. Currently a new experience in a technology company with an interesting proposal for online commerce.