Juan D. Vengoechea
Business Development
vengoetxea@gmail.com

Juan Vengoechea was born in Medellin, Colombia, in a family in which the restaurant business was the “our daily bread”. His first job was in the catering of a 1,700 workers factory for five years while he started Hotel Administration studies in Bogota at the Colombian School of Hotel and Tourism, then he decided to open his own bar “La Lumbre” in where he worked as a bartender and bassist in his rock band at the same time.

Music was his passion before he moved to the Caribbean to start in the hotel industry working in the Santamar Travelodge Hotel as a Banquets and Conference Manager in a 1,500 people convention center capacity. The music was then left to open the road to his real passion: customer service, and the arts of wines and food and beverages. He then became a General Manager in two 4 stars hotels, and one 5 star during his career; the passion for Food & Beverages was the successful operations in each of those, in where the customer service was the priority and the reason to exist.

After that, Drummond Company gave him the experience to work in a 6,500 workers coal mine as Camp Director, managing the Life Support department in a remote site. A 600 room hotel and 28 Food & Beverages outlets was inside the “Pribbenow Mine”.

Since two years ago he arrived to the USA to explore the American culture, but the surprise is to see the huge expansion of the Latin - American culture in this country in where Spanish is the “official second language”. So let’s help the USA become the biggest Spanish country of the earth before 2020.