Suad Fakih-Name

Chair Venture Success Committee

2024

Founder & Consultant

2017

Advisory firm working with diverse growth companies to create new business and growth strategies, and fundraising.

Scout - Venture Partner

2022 - 2024

Venture Capital Fellow

2020 - 2021

Investment & Transformation Executive Director

2016 - 2017

Entrepreneurial development and Ex-Im bank, providing financing and specialized financial products. Strengthen Colombia’s investment and innovation ecosystem, by attracting global and regional PE and VC funds to Colombia.

Co-Founder

2011 - 2015

Women owned and operated gourmet bakery and later ghost kitchen. I took pride in training, developing, and cultivating local female heads of households in to provide financial inclusion. Turned around business model from B2C to B2B and smart logistics. Focused on institutional partners e.g: Avianca and LATAM Airlines, Juan Valdez, Emporio Armani and Longchamp. Led operations and fostered growth, by maximizing returns to stakeholders and exiting the company within four years.

Strategic & Commercial Coordinator

2013 - 2014

Largest independent oil and gas E&P company in Colombia, headquartered in Canada. Led strategic planning of the company's trading operations to maximize sales through price assessment and arbitrage opportunities in spot and futures markets. Carried out fundamental, geopolitical, and financial market analysis, consistently exceeding sales targets.

Strategic & Commercial Planning Coordinator

2010 - 2013

Supported strategic planning of trading operations. Tracked supply and demand developments in the worldwide spot market. Prepared oil price forecasts and trading strategies via geopolitical analysis, market intelligence, business analysis, modeling, arbitrage opportunities, and financial markets analysis. Awarded and sponsored to attend Global Competitive Leadership Program at Georgetown University

Investor Relations Associate

2008 - 2009

Colombia’s national hydrocarbons agency “ANH” is the entity in charge of administering the country's hydrocarbon resources and promoting their optimal and sustainable use. •Executed the business development strategy worldwide, US, Canada, and Europe throughout the Oil & Gas road shows, data rooms and bidding processes •Provided market analysis for the CEO to identify target Oil & Gas companies to invest in Colombia •Performed rigorous market intelligence about worldwide exploration and production fiscal terms for the design of competitive terms of reference for Colombia’s tender processes •Assisted one-on-one meetings with senior managers of companies interested in attaining ANH’s E&P contracts

Intern

2005 - 2005