Gabriel is the IDB Group Private Sector Coordinator for the Central America, Haiti, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic (CID) Region since 2022. In this role, Gabriel provides strategic support to IDB, IDB Invest and IDB Lab teams to generate and take advantage of operational synergies within the IDB Group and achieve better impact in the Region. Gabriel joined IDB Invest in 2018 as an Investment Officer for the Manufacture Unit where he originated, structured, and implemented financial solutions for clients in Ecuador, Chile, Panama and Uruguay, and prior to that worked in international development, corporate banking and auditing firms in the Americas. Gabriel is a Business Administration Engineer specialized in Finance from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, holds an MBA from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and has a Diploma in International Commerce from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Colombia.