Fernando Fiksman

Fernando Fiksman is a successful businessman with more than 25 years of experience, with an emphasis in the telecommunications, new technologies, and logistics sectors. A results-driven professional with vast expertise in entrepreneurship and the development of new businesses, Fernando Fiksman serves as Founding Director and Chief Executive Officer of Celistics (www.celistics.com), a cell phone, SIM, and memory card logistics operator and distributor in Latin America. Celistics is present in 15 countries in the region and is the leading Latin American distributor of handsets for Telefonica (www.telefonica.com), the third largest telecommunications company in the world.

Fernando Fiksman also serves as Founding Director and Chief Executive Officer of Movilway (movilway.com), which belongs to Celistics Group, operates in the mobile replenishment market, and provides other electronic services. In addition, Mr. Fiksman acts as Founding Director and Chief Executive Officer of Sure Destiny (www.suredestiny.com), which also belongs to Celistics Group and specializes in the development of national and international integral logistic solutions. Fernando Fiksman started his career when he was only 18 as a software and hardware technical expert, working in Spain with a company named CBR, which distributed IBM products. Two years later in 1984, he founded his first company called ICC, which grew into the largest Apple distributor in Spain with 17 points of sale and almost 200 employees. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Fiksman was responsible for the on-line sales project of a media buying services company called THE MEDIA PARTNERSHIP. At the age of 30, Fernando Fiksman founded Ecuality, the dotcom company of Acciona Group and the bank BBVA, and became the Business Development Director, a position he held for four years.