maria Salamanca Delgado

CEO and Founder of Aceleradora Connexia, a company with presence in more than five countries in the region. With an outstanding academic career whose achievements include: graduated with honors from the undergraduate career of Financial Engineering at the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga, graduated with honors from the Master in Finance at ESAN University (Top 5 in the Ranking of the Best Business Schools in Latin America) and Top of the Class in the Certaficate Program How to Accelerate a start up idea and Funding Enterprises at Stanford University (Top 5 in the World Ranking). Mentor, Consultant and Director of Business and Innovation, with more than 10 years of professional experience in Direction, planning, management and control of investments in national and foreign companies, holding positions as Regional Director, VP Finance, Director of Investment Planning and Control and CEO of companies with business development throughout the Region. In the last three years as founder and senior partner of Connexia Business Consulting Accelerator I have obtained important achievements developing and promoting the Latin American entrepreneurial ecosystem, through capital connection, implementation of ICT's in triple-impact scale-ups and international placement of regional companies in emerging markets. I consider myself an outstanding Colombian for my academic achievements in prestigious national and international institutions (Stanford University, FIorida International University, ESAN, UNAB), my trajectory and results obtained from the corporate level with multinational companies with presence in the region (Amtrust Reinsurance, Active Capital Reinsurance, Corporación Carolina, Energing gas and oil); and mainly for my work with the Latin American entrepreneurial ecosystem in recent years, contributing through mentoring, acceleration programs and connection of investors to the growth and strengthening of the entrepreneurial community in Latin America.