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It will be 5 months since Juan Emilio Posada left the presidency of ISA and there is still no white smoke about who his successor would be. The delay is significant if we also take into account that the election was to be held last April.
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Possibly, the controversies in which the president of Ecopetrol has been involved, Ricardo Roa, have delayed this process. Although it is also true that Gustavo Petro’s government has not been particularly quick when it comes to selecting his team.
What EL COLOMBIANO has been able to establish so far is the following: first, that Last Friday the selection committee met in Bogotá and this Friday, May 24, the ISA board of directors meeting will take place.
Second, that On the short list to elect the President were: Juan Ricardo Ortegatoday president of the Bogotá Energy Group (GEB); Monica Contrerastoday president of TGI, which is also a GEB company; Sandra Fonsecawho was president of the GEB during Gustavo Petro’s mayoralty; Ricardo Rodríguez Yee, former delegate controller for energy issues; and Ana Milena Lopezcurrent corporate vice president of finance and sustainable value at Ecopetrol, and has been director of Public Credit and the National Treasury.
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Although two foreigners, one Argentine and the other Brazilian, were among those recommended by the talent scouting firm, they would have been discarded by the selection committee.
Apparently The one who had a chance of being chosen was Rodríguez Yee, however, as it was known, he resigned to be in the process for reasons of his wife’s health. And with their departure they would have included, or would be trying to include, Jorge Carrillo, former manager of EPM.
EL COLOMBIANO could not corroborate whether Carrillo did manage to sneak onto the list of eligibles. However, Two sources close to the process explained that “the order is that, even if the world falls, Jorge Carrillo must be appointed.”
Why the desire to put Carrillo in? All the scandals that surrounded his management at EPM are a big Achilles heel. What’s more, they would be enough for them not to take it into account. More now, a few weeks after The mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, denounced that the Quintero mayor’s office had sold Afinia for 8 million dollars, and that the deal was finalized when Carrillo removed an official with a long technical career from the presidency of Afinia to put Javier Ballast, a questionable character.
The members of the Board of Directors in charge of electing the president of ISA would be evident if they lean towards a person who, as Carrillo has not only been involved in serious scandals, but he was also not among the first in the headhunting firm’s recommendations.
Ecopetrol already has enough noise to add to ISA as well.
According to some reputable sources, Who Carrillo wants to be is not Ricardo Roa, president of Ecopetrol, but President Gustavo Petro. And behind that interest would be Xavier Vendrell, the Catalan who helped Petro with the controversial operation of electoral witnesses in the campaign, and who would have called some of the candidates on the list. Apparently, Carrillo is one of those who gives “more guarantees” to Vendrell.
It is worth remembering that Vendrell, who is being investigated by Spanish justice for several crimes, received nationality “expressly” from Gustavo Petro along with Manuel Grau, the same one who hand-won a contract with EPM, for lateral loading of garbage, for $250,000 million, the same one who was recently dismissed by the EPM board due to the irregularities that had been reported and because he could bankrupt Various Companies.
Why would they want to put Carrillo, who had been among the last of the 22 evaluated by the talent scouting firm? A man who, in contracting circles, is also accused of having been close to the corrupt contractor Emilio Tapia.
