Our team

Manuel Lorenzo M. runs the Panama Business Accelerator at FCDS. He is an engineer, graduated from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores in Monterrey, Mexico. He took an MA course in Business Management at INCAE Business School in Alajuela, Costa Rica, and has attended the Building New Ventures seminar at Harvard Business School.

He has ample experience in IT and technology development for business. He has been a businessman, an investment banker, a manager and consultant for several Panamanian and foreign companies. Additionally, he has taught IT, finance and technology at three national universities: Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP), Universidad Santa María la Antigua (USMA) and Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología(ULACIT).

Ariel Jones, a finance expert with seven years of experience in analysis and consulting, is a project evaluation specialist. He advises the companies that participate in the FCDS Panama Business Accelerator. He is also a finance manager and consultant for the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) Technical Cooperation Agreement.

Holder of a master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Panama and another one in Business Management from Southern New Hampshire University, Jones has been a facilitator of finance, statistics and business plan development for various higher education institutions. He teaches at Universidad Abierta y a Distancia de Panamá and at Universidad Latinoamericana de Comercio Exterior. Ariel Jones often attends courses and seminars on project financial and structural evaluation techniques, such as the Internet­Based Export Information System: a technical cooperation program between IDB/MIF and PROEXPORT of Colombia, aimed at developing market studies in various sectors of interest for Colombian exporters.

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