Rolando Gadala-Maria
Rolando is Founder and CEO of Visage Capital Group with more than 35 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur with strong unique set of skills and experience in founding new businesses, investing and restructuring existing businesses, Mergers and Acquisitions, business strategy and business growth models.
His deep convictions that significant incremental value can be always added when the homework is done, he never sells a company where he is invested until its value can be maximize to shareholders and optimized to the buyer.
Rolando and his team have developed a proprietary deep analytical process that identifies the different perceptions of value from different potential buyers and from different strategic sectors helping his invested companies and those of his clients to maximize the exit value through preparing these companies so they can have the right positioning and alignment with market potential buyers.
Rolando sits at the boards of several corporations as well as non-profit organizations.
Rolando is author of “Awakened Leaders”, a leadership mentoring program that has earned credentials from IESE Business School, Spain, transforming corporate leaders to become highly empowered to impact positively their business growth, their families and their communities.
He has been a guest speaker at several national and international organizations including the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Universities, among other.
Rolando is also a pro-bono mentor of startups at Singularity University helping them achieve successful and sustainable business models to achieve exponential growth.
He is also an active member of YPO where he served as Chair for YPO Gold Latin America (Young Presidents Organization) and was a board member in the international board of WPO (World Presidents Organization). Rolando also serves as a Board member of the World Happiness Foundation.