Hector Cateriano

SEAF Colombia

(Colombia)

Hector Cateriano has 10 years of Venture Capital/Private Equity investment experience in emerging markets (ASIA, CEE, LATAM) with SEAF. Mr. Cateriano is SEAF’s General Director for its Colombian Fund, a private equity funds investing in Colombian medium size business. Mr. Cateriano also served as the Director for SEAF’s India Growth Fund and SEAF’s India International Growth Fund. He represented SEAF’s team in its relationship with Kotak Mahindra´s Bank (Kotak) Private Equity Area, a leading private bank in India, where he served a role in structuring and closing the partnership with the Bank in order to launch a common private equity fund. After successfully establishing the partnership, he teamed with the Private Equity Head of Investment for Kotak together raising a US$ 160 million Investment Fund. He was part of the team that closed the fund’s first transactions, committing in the process approximately 30% of the total amount raised. Such investments encompassed industries such as Agro-biotech, Software (PIPE deal), Computational Biotechnology, Machining Centers, Textile Manufacturers, amongst others.

Mr. Cateriano also served as the Estonian Director of SEAF’s Baltics Small Equity Fund (BSEF). BSEF specializes in growth-oriented investments in the three Baltic Countries. Before joining BSEF, Mr. Cateriano served as Fund Director to FAPE, a SEAF managed fund in Peru and helped set up SEAF’s Bolivian Fund. He has hands-on experience in hiring and training new investment officers, generating an attractive pipeline of projects, and analyzing market trends, while developing creative investment structures to make equity investments. Mr. Cateriano has invested in a wide variety of industries such as agro-industry, textile, wood processing, software, telecommunications, life sciences, metal mechanics, wholesale and retail, food processing industries and fast food franchise chains.

In addition to being associated with venture capital investing at SEAF, Mr. Cateriano has worked at SEAF’s Business Development Unit in Washington D.C., promoting the export of portfolio company products into the US market. In this context, Mr. Cateriano brings deep international and post-investment experience.

Mr. Cateriano holds an MBA from ESAN and a B.S. in Business from Catholic University of Arequipa in Peru. He is also a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute, Atlanta. He has been an active participant in the Small Medium Enterprise Institute, an organization specializing in knowledge sharing among SME finance practitioners. He speaks fluent English and his mother tongue is Spanish.

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