Edgardo Koestinger

Edgardo Koestinger Barrientos is a results-oriented senior executive with over 25 years of international professional experience.

After working for more than 10 years in the coffee business for one of the industry leaders (Ecom Coffee Group), he worked at an European level for the American association of organic certifiers (OCIA International, Inc.). Then he worked for private and public spaces landscape projects, and as associate consultant for communication strategies development projects, mainly with reporting and corporate social responsibility issues.

Edgardo is a business strategy developer, motivated team builder and team management with a solid and diverse experience in managing a multicultural and international team, working in different countries and languages, driving both operational and strategic missions to improve bottom lines and ensure long-term goals.

His work is focused on adding value through organizational alignment, designing efficient results oriented processes and structures.

Edgardo has an acute talent and great empathy to develop strategic partnerships and public relations for developing international projects. His knowledge of Mexico and France has given him a global vision and a deeper understanding to carry out international projects and businesses between the two countries.

Edgardo actively participates in several Mexican associations in France, with a personal commitment to promote world class Mexican creative industries, along with entrepreneurship projects in France. He is professor at the ESCEM (École Supérieure de Commerce et de Management), part of the Excelia Group, and also invited professor at the ESSCA (École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales d'Angers) Campus Angers & Paris, and the ISC Paris (Institut Supérieur du Commerce) Campus Orléans.

He is Co-Founder, first President and Honorary Member of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce in France (Chambre Économique du Mexique en France , CEMF), Co-Founder of the Council of Mexican Chambers of Commerce Abroad (Consejo de Cámaras de Comercio Mexicanas en el Exterior, CONCAMEXT), and he holds an MBA from the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) Tours, France, and a Higher Education Teaching Certificate of The Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and learning.