GERARD DUELO
Partner - Director Manager
+34 932 523 142 info@excelsiuscluster.com
Responsibles for Excelsiuscluster
66 years old. Master and Industrial Engineer, carried out his Business Studies in Barcelona and London, obtaining several certifications and diplomas in different disciplines by the following Business Schools: IESE (PDG), ESADE, EADA, ESMA (DSM) and EAE. In all of them he has helped as lecturer or academic collaborator. He is a member of Harward Group of IESE
He has been a Senior Manager (CEO) for 30 years in multinational companies (Pyrenees, Pioneer, Booker Plc, etc.) in Spain, Andorra and England, positions that allowed him to travel constantly around the world.
In 1998 he was a founder of GD & A BUSINESS BROKERS, company mainly dedicated to the sale and purchase of SME companies. In 2007 he sold the company, after they successfully intervened in more than 400 operations throughout Spain. He is currently Vice President of GD BROKERS INMOBILIARIOS dedicated to the brokerage operations of high real estate investment. In 2013 he was appointed by the Government, Business Ambassador of Catalonia, at the same time he was the President of the Association of Spaniards in Panama (AEEP) and an active businessman in Peru. He is a Registered Real Estate Agent (API) and Secretary General of the FIABCI (International Real Estate Federation). Additionally he has the American Real Estate Certificate CRS (Certified Residential Specialist) and regularly attends many specialized courses and seminars.
His experience in the sale and purchase of hotels and touristic establishments is remarkable.
58 years old. Originally from Buenos Aires (Argentina). He studied Industrial Engineering at the National Technological University of Buenos Aires and Analysis of Computer Systems at the ORT Institute in the same city.
Resident of Spain for 29 years, has studied financial accounting, cost and management control in EADA (Barcelona). Financial Management in ESINE and various courses and seminars to keep up to date in various other business schools. PDG (General Management Program)of EADA in 1990-1991.
From 1982-1987 he was the CEO of an important textile company in Argentina, with 250 employees. During the period of 1987-1991 he acted as a financial consultant and advisor for restructuring in companies with serious problems of liquidity and with problems in working capital for investment.
He has been a Chief Financial and Business Development Officer for 25 years in one of the most important international hotel chains in Spain, with hundreds of hotels and a turnover exceeding 750 million euros per year business. During these years he has achieved remarkable success in the development and monitoring of investment plans, also getting the necessary and appropriate funding for each purchase transaction, with a volume of more than 600 million euros.
Currently, he is leading his own Hotel Brokerage company, ESESETA, becoming part of the commercial platforma EUROPEAN HOTEL BROKERS CLUSTER.