Alejandro Betancourt López

Alejandro Betancourt López
Alejandro Betancourt
Born	1980 Caracas, Venezuela
Alma mater	Suffolk University of Massachusetts
Occupation	Chairman and CEO of Derwick Associates President of Hawkers
Spouse(s)	Andreína Rojas (m. 2012)
Website	Personal website

Alejandro Betancourt López (born 1980) is a Venezuelan businessman. He is the leader of the international investment group O'Hara Administration and serves as Chairman and CEO of Derwick Associates, an engineering, procurement and construction company. Betancourt is also a director of Pacific Exploration & Production Corporation, a publicly held Canadian company and a leading explorer and producer of natural gas and crude oil which operates in various Latin American countries. Betancourt controls 19.95% of Pacific Exploration & Production. He is also president of Hawkers, a Spanish sunglasses company.

He belongs to a wealthy and well-known family of Caracas, linked to the local oligarchy that dates back to his great grandfather, Hermógenes López, as 22nd president of the Republic of Venezuela. President López was one of the persons responsible for bringing electricity to Valencia, at the time the most important state of Venezuela.

Betancourt has a double major in Economics and Business Administration from the Suffolk University of Massachusetts, United States. He started his career in a company specializing in the energy sector and in the exploration, production and trade oil and its derivatives, with presence in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, South America and Africa. He has served as business manager for Latin America. He later worked in Guruceaga Group, a company dedicated to international trade in goods, finance, real estate and farm, of which he was manager of new business; and BGB Energy, a company that was responsible for representing, in joint venture with the old GESCA GAS in Venezuela, international corporation Kawasaki Heavy Industries. As chief executive of BGB Energy, he participated in the Proyecto de interconexión Centro Occidente (ICO) of Venezuela. And also in a workshop planning for packaging related to power generation equipment.