ECIJA opens Advisory line in Mexico
ECIJA Mexico has announced the opening of its Advisory line, which will be led by partners Gerardo Villavicencio (pictured right) and Gustavo Contró (pictured left).
ECIJA Advisory is the service line of ECIJA aimed at solving the financial, tax, accounting, human resources, corporate governance, audit and forensic needs of large business groups as well as medium-sized companies and startups. The Advisory line, which has local teams in the different countries where ECIJA operates, is composed in Mexico by two service units: financial and compliance.
Leading the financial services team, which includes corporate governance and forensics, is Gerardo Villavicencio, who has more than 28 years of experience in advising on business transformation, profit and loss, management and executive leadership, business processes, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, as well as financial planning and analysis. He has held various senior management and CEO positions in multinationals such as The Dow Chemical Company, General Electric and most recently SGS. In addition, he has participated as an independent director in Holcim in Chile, through its subsidiary Polpaico. Given his extensive experience, he has a deep knowledge of the management of companies in various industries. In the last 18 years he has held leadership and management roles in Mexico and Latin America with international assignments, government affairs, related to the chemical, health, oil, gas, power generation and ICT-Industrial, environmental, health and safety (EHS), food and beverage, mining and automotive markets.
In addition, the compliance services line will be headed by Gustavo Contró. Gustavo will lead the accounting, human resources, audit and CFO as a service portfolio. The new partner of ECIJA Advisory will also assume the functions as CFO of the Firm in Mexico. Gustavo has more than 34 years of experience in the areas of finance, treasury, administration, audit and operations. He has served as CFO for the LATAM Region of IPSOS, Cardtronics and other multinational IT and telecommunications companies. He has a deep knowledge of the telecommunications, marketing and financial services industries.
The new additions of Gustavo Contró and Gerardo Villavicencio come after ECIJA Mexico announced last February the opening of the Environment and Sustainability practice, as well as the incorporation of new partner Carlos del Razo to lead it. With these appointments, ECIJA now has a total of 9 partners in Mexico together with a team of more than 35 professionals.
