Engineers, operators and investors.

Nikola Kedzo

Nikola is an international business executive and entrepreneur with close to twenty years in industrial supply, procurement, logistics and cross-border trade across Venezuela, Panama and the United States. He has built his career negotiating with multinational corporations, industrial companies and state-owned enterprises, and managing cross-border commercial operations.

From Miami he manages operations and business development at an industrial supply company and leads his own international trade and procurement firm, serving clients in the industrial, energy, logistics and infrastructure sectors. From 2014 to 2023 he was chief executive of a procurement and logistics company operating in Venezuela, Panama and the United States, and from 2007 to 2013 he was vice president and director of an industrial supply company with operations in Caracas and Puerto Ordaz, the center of Venezuela's basic industries. He began his career as a financial and market analyst at a brokerage house in Caracas.

Isaac Murciano

Isaac has held senior management roles in heavy steel manufacturing in Venezuela and the top finance and operating roles at a US steel fabricator, and has developed and invested in South Florida real estate for more than twenty years.

From 2008 to 2014 he was a key manager at one of the largest structural steel fabricators and erectors in South America, a Venezuelan business with annual revenues above US$150 million. He oversaw its most important project: the fabrication, transport, installation and commissioning of the first offshore platform built in Venezuela. Before that he joined Owen Steel Company in South Carolina as chief financial officer in 2004 and became chief operating officer in 2007, responsible for all financial and production operations. Projects during his tenure include the Bank of America Tower in Midtown Manhattan and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.

In 2014 he founded a real estate investment company and has led its investment in the development of high-end single-family homes in the Miami area, with sales in excess of US$150 million. Earlier in his career he was chief financial officer of a Miami-based internet company and an investment banking associate in Venezuela, working on M&A, project finance and private equity across Latin America.

Tania Murciano

Tania combines engineering training with experience in industrial logistics, real estate development and family office management.

As a partner in a real estate investment company in Miami, she has co-led its investment in the development of high-end single-family homes, with sales in excess of US$150 million. She serves as treasurer of a Miami-based family office, where she manages liquidity, tax compliance, real estate holdings and international entities. Earlier she was logistics manager at Owen Steel Company in South Carolina, improving material flow, shipping costs and workplace safety.

Mauricio Van Dam

Mauricio is a structural engineer and operator with more than twenty-five years across heavy steel fabrication, industrial logistics and large-scale construction in Venezuela, the United States and Guyana.

In Venezuela he managed operations in heavy steel manufacturing for industrial and commercial applications, including the infrastructure of the basic industries, where he led an operational overhaul and sold and managed more than US$600 million in bridges, industrial structures, pressure vessels and offshore structures. He also built a company into a leading distributor of steel raw materials in Venezuela, with its own processing and heavy transport lines, and manages ocean-going tug and barge operations out of Puerto Ordaz.

In Guyana he is the principal behind a 172-room Four Points by Sheraton hotel financed with IDB Invest, a government office complex for 6,000 employees and a 7,350-seat cricket stadium. In the United States he joined the turnaround team at Owen Steel Company in 2004 and has served as board advisor since 2005. He began his career as a project engineer at Leslie E. Robertson Associates in New York.