Fernando Aparicio leads Spencer Stuart’s Bogota office and conducts searches within the firm’s Financial Services, Professional & IT Services and Industrial practices. In particular, he has extensive experience in corporate and investment banking and in the mining sector. Fernando brings more than 21 years of professional experience to his client work, including a role as vice president and senior relationship banker at ABN AMRO in Bogota, responsible for a portfolio of clients in Colombia and North America. He focused on origination and execution of share-of-mind products, such as cross-border structured financing, mergers and acquisitions, debt capital markets and project advisory. Fernando also was head of commercial banking at Banco Santander (Colombia), where he led a team of 17 relationship bankers responsible for middle-market clients. In addition, he served as a product manager at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the capital markets division, with a focus on M&A transactions. Fernando earned an M.B.A. from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid and a B.S. in economics from Universidad Javeriana in Bogota.