Summary
Alberto Gaitán is an HSE&Q Manager and chemist with 12 years of leadership experience driving health, safety, environment and quality programs across industrial operations in Colombia. With an MSc in Environmental Management and executive training from Oxford Saïd, he excels at embedding continuous improvement, ISO/BASC accreditation and sustainability frameworks (SDGs, GRI) into operational culture. He has delivered measurable cost savings and service expansions—leading lab accreditations, LIMS implementations and lean initiatives that unlocked new business lines and reduced costs by six figures. Known for systems thinking and multicultural team building, he combines technical lab roots with strategic governance and budget responsibility. Less obvious: he pairs hands-on chemistry and lab systems expertise with corporate sustainability literacy to make HSEQ a market differentiator rather than just a compliance function.
11 years of coding experience
Chemist, Natural Sciences, Chemist, Natural Sciences at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme, Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
MSc Environmental Management, MSc Environmental Management at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Spanish, English, Portuguese