About Alejandro
Alejandro Wittmann currently heads the Acuity Knowledge Partners Costa Rica Delivery Centre, with over 220 employees. He manages relationships with sell-side and buy-side firms, commercial banks, and consulting firms, to provide high-quality financial services including investment banking, investment research, commercial lending, risk management and business intelligence services. He works closely with the Sales and Delivery teams to develop and execute local strategy needed to achieve the delivery centre’s growth and profitability targets. Alejandro also works with the HR and Delivery teams to develop and execute plans to retain and attract talent.
Alejandro joined Acuity in March 2007 and gained wide exposure from working in various teams in different roles – from working as a financial analyst supporting a sell-side client, covering the pharmaceutical and the broader healthcare sector; supervising an equity research team servicing the research department of a large investment bank; to managing two of Acuity’s enterprise-level accounts.
Alejandro started his career as a junior consultant at KPMG and then joined WMC as a consultant. In these roles, Alejandro was part of the financial advisory services team, engaged in company valuations, analysis for mergers and acquisitions, feasibility studies, restructuring processes and financial modelling. He also prepared company valuations, feasibility studies and market analyses for companies in Costa Rica’s beverage, medical and service sectors.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Commerce (Finance) from the University of Virginia, a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Costa Rica, and Master of Science in Biotechnology from the Johns Hopkins University. Alejandro is certified as a Pharma/Biotech Sector Expert (Acuity) and Python Programming (University of Michigan).
In his free time, Alejandro tracks the capital markets. He is passionate about wildlife conservation and is a sponsor of wildlife conservation organisations.