Horst Ferrero Gainesville
Gainesville, Florida
I am a third generation lawyer, was born into a family dedicated to its community and exercising leadership roles. My grandfathers were both lawyers and involved in government – one was the president of the Venezuelan Congress and governor of a Venezuelan state and the other was an appellate court judge. I spent most of my childhood in Caracas, Venezuela, although I also spent part of my time in London, England with my mother while she served as a diplomat. I studied law at the Andres Bello Catholic University of Caracas, received a master’s in International Business Law at American University in Washington D.C. and later earned my M.B.A. from the University of Florida in Gainesville. At a very young age I was General Counsel of a 3000-employee joint venture formed in Venezuela between a US Fortune 500 company and the Venezuelan oil industry.