Olga Botero
Colombia
Founder and Managing Director, C&S Customers and Strategy; Senior Advisor, BCG the Boston Consulting Group; Independent Director, Evertec, Inc.; Advisory Board, Intralinks HLA and Interbank; WCD Chapter Chair
Panel 4: Is Seeing Believing? How AI-enabled Deepfakes are Challenging Ethics in Technology
Olga Botero is an experienced director in Financial Services & Information Technology with special interest in digital strategy and expertise in technology, security and risk, strategy, market growth and emerging markets from her 20+ years in executive positions of leading corporations in Financial Services, Technology and Telecommunications in the USA and Latin America and serving both in private & publicly traded company boards.
She is the founding & managing partner of C&S Customers and Strategy, a boutique IT management consulting firm in Latin America. She is also a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group in Financial Services & an executive coach for senior IT executives with CIO Executive Council in the US.
She currently serves as independent director and member of the Corporate Governance & Nominating and IT & Cyber security committees of EVERTEC (NYSE: EVTC), a payments company with operations in 19 countries in Latin America. She is a member of the Advisory Group in IT and Operations of Interbank one of the leading banks in Peru; a member of the Latam Advisory Council of Intralinks HLA (NASDAQ: IL) in the US; and Co-Chair of the Colombian Chapter of WCD Women Corporate Directors Foundation.
Olga has served in additional boards during her career and she has been a member of several international advisory groups including SAP’s Banking Advisory Council, Accenture’s Global CIO Council Advisory Board, IBM Center for CIO Leadership Steering Committee, Cisco’s Latin America Executive Council, Infosys Finacle’s Client Advisory Board and SAS Customer Advisory Board & Unisys Global Outsourcing & Infrastructure Services Advisory Council.
Her last corporate role was as Group CIO of Bancolombia, one of the largest financial groups in Latin America.
In addition to her corporate roles, Olga has been an Associate Professor at Eafit University, Javeriana University, Universidad Nacional and La Sabana University, four well-known universities in Colombia.
She has a Bachelor and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University, in the United States with a special emphasis in IT Security. Diplomas in Finance from EAFIT University in Colombia; E-Business from EIA, Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia jointly with the Spaniard University of International Business; Marketing and Sales from Los Andes University in Colombia & Kellogg Executive Scholars Award in General Management from Kellogg School of Management in the US.
She has attended several specialized programs for Women Directors at the Kellogg School; IFC’s (International Finance Corporation - World Bank Group) Nominee Directors Training; Value Creation through effective boards at HBS / IESE; Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance at HBS.
She was named one of the top 25 IT Managers in Colombia during 2008 and 2009. And received a Laureate of Computer World Honors 2009, 2010, 2011 in the US.