About

Camilo Abello has been the vice president of corporate aff airs at Grupo Argos, an industry leading multinational coal mining company in Colombia since 2012. He is a lawyer from the Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana, with a specialist degree in commercial law from the Universidad de los Andes, and a Master’s degree in international business at the Universidad del Norte. He also attended Tulane University’s ESL program and Harvard, Stanford and IESE (School of business of the University of Navarre). In 1992 he joined Cementos Argos as an intern, then went on to serve as a lawyer in the legal department, subsequently working his way up to the position of international legal director. While there, he led the team on diff erent projects, such as the acquisition of CINA in Haiti in 1997, the sale of a coal mine in La Jagua in Colombia in 2005, the acquisition of Concrete Express and Southern Star in the US in 2005, acquiring a port in Houston and GTPNET in the US in 2006 and the acquisition of Vensur in Suriname in 2008 among others. Until June 2012, he served as vice president of corporate aff airs of Cementos Argos, where he had overall responsibility over the legal, communications and audit functions among others. Abello is a credit to the Colombian legal market, showing how providing truly business-orientated legal support can lead to gaining more responsibility in a multinational company.