LAURENTINO HUERTAS VALERO
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT& MBA
Calle 127 c # 9 - 73 APTO 201 T5
Tel: 57-1- 6333829 -57-1 7025827
Cell. Phone: 3153969596
Lauronov@hotmail.com
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Certified Public Accountant with MBA. Bilingual, with recognized skills and qualities as
well as professional and human values. Excellent academic achievements, accountability,
flexibility and adaptability to change with a high sense of belonging to the organization.
Great teamwork and leadership abilities. Excellent at problem solving and generating
business support recommendations aimed at reaching goals and obtaining results to meet
management standards with good quality and excellence. Experience in the fields of
accounting, costs, internal control, finances, oversea reports under the U.S. GAAP
approach and taxes. Team management and legal representation of the company before
local and regional entities and headquarters. Achievements and knowledge gained over a
period of experience close to twenty nine (29) years in a globally leading multinational
belonging to the chemical industry field. Managing activities related to water and oil
treatments for the industry in the segments of industrial water, pulp and paper and the oil
industry in the phases of exploration, extraction, refining and decline of production in
processes of secondary and tertiary recovery.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: November 23, 1956
Place of Birth: Fusagasuga, Cundinamarca
Marital Status: Married
Public certified accountant Number : 6.371 T

EDUCATION
Master in Business Administration -MBA
February 1993 –September 1995 Universidad La Salle (Bogota) - Advanced Education
Accounting Degree- Certified Public Accountant
February 1975- June 1980 Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano
High School Diploma
February 1969 –November 1974- La Valvanera High School, Bogota
Elementary School Diploma
February 1964- November 1968- Ricaurte School, Fusagasuga
UPDATE AND TRAINING COURSES
Implementing Activity Based Management
University Of California, Berkeley, October 1994
Strategic Project Management
University Of California, Berkeley, November 2002
Nalco Business Man
NMB-, July 2006
Corporate training at Nalco Chemical Company , a multinational company with
headquarter in USA in the areas of leadership, negotiation, effective presentations, team
work, talented people, positive feedback to staff, safety and defensive driving; handling
corporate image with the media in environmental emergencies, process redesign, problem
solving , business models and the search for saving and expense optimization, among
others.
Permanent updates in issues regarding taxes, accounting and finance including
international legislation, auditing, Sarbanes Oxley 404 Standard, project assessment,
process redesign and understanding of Macroeconomic variables product of the global
environment.
KNOW-HOW CONTRIBUTIONS IN BENEFIT OF THE NALCO CHEMICAL
COMPANY USA CORPORATION

Design and implementation of manufacturing cost model which is applied in Latin
America.
Preparation and Implementation of FPM “Financial planning model”.
Participation as leader in the Latin American Region(Brazil, Mexico,Colombia,Chile,
Venezuela ,Argentina) for the implementation of the Sarbanes Oxley 404 standard,
training received at the head office in Naperville, Illinois -USA
LANGUAGES
Bilingual: Spanish- English ; basic knowledge of Portuguese.
ACTIVITIES/ INTERESTS
Tennis, Golf, Jogging, Reading, Movies
WORK EXPERIENCE
Nalco De Colombia Ltda a subsidiary of a worldwide company leader in water
treatment and energy with headquarter in USA; this company was bought by ECOLAB
USA Company in the year 2012 ; as a consequence of this I left the company by mutual
agreement in October 31st/2012 so as to get new business opportunities
Following a summary of my career :
Accounting Manager 1983 –1989
Comptroller 1990-1996
Financial and Administrative Manager –Substitute Legal Representative-1997-2007
Financial and Administrative Manager for Colombia, Central America and the
Caribbean; Sarbanes Oxley 404 standar leader for Latin America, a regional auditing
project through the Jefferson Wells methodology; specific audit work for the operation in
Brazil and Mexico, mapping and risk analysis methodology.
Main Legal Representative and country coordinator for Colombia since 2007. I left the
company in Oct/2012 so as to get new business opportunities
Work in specific projects:

Support to the Accounting and finance department of Nalco Brazil in Sao Paulo,
subsidiary of Nalco Chemical, Company , for three (3) months in 1996.
Design of manufacturing cost model in 1997, design of cash flow prediction model in
1995, risk assessment map.
Internal Controls code analysis, Jefferson Wells methodology in 1994.
Coordinator for Latin America for the implementation of the Sarbanes Oxley 404
Standard 2005-2006 and leader of Sox Lite audit testing phase for the year 2010 , and
2011, respectively .
Pricewaterhouse& Coopers Bogota –Worldwide Audit Company
Light, Medium and Heavy Auditing Assistant – senior audit- 1979-1983.
Liborio Cuellar Asociados –Colombian audit Company
Light AuditingAssistant- 1978-1979
Consultoría Gerencial Ltda.Colombian audit company
Assistant Auditor- 1977
Banco de Occidente-Colombian Bank
Foreign Trade Assistant- 1976
Banco De Caldas-Colombian Bank
Foreign Department Assistant- 1975
WORK REFERENCES
Nalco CFO&CEO Sergio Sousa- Latin America, headquarters in Sao Paulo Brazil.
Phone: 55(11) 94267751 and locally human resource manager Diva Carrillo , phone 57
1 -6186000
Nalco Colombia ,Diva Carrillo , Gerente Recursos humanos phone 51-1-6186000
Country Coordinator, Francisco Pradilla ,phone 57 -3157264882
Pricewaterhouse & Coopers Bogotá- Auditing Department.
Tel: 57-1-6340555

PERSONAL REFERENCES
Enrique Acevedo Schwabe
General Manager-Correcol S.A., insurance brokers.
Tel: 57-1-5300053 Ext. 2601
Cell: 3102390178
Gilberto Pinzón
Ex president- Nalco Latin America
Tel: 954-660-0278 Florida U.S.A.
Local: 2138763 Bogota
E mail Gilberto@pinzon.net
gpinzonr@yahoo.com
Francisco Pradilla
Nalco Sales Manager for the Colombia,Ecuador,Venezuela,Peru, Central America and
theCaribbeanzone.
Headquarters in Barranquilla
Tel: 53-480029-31-32
Cell: 3157264882