Damian Fernandez

Chief Operating Officer

Damián Fernández is a senior executive with more than fifteen years of leadership experience in the global education sector, specializing in operations, finance, strategic development and international expansion. For more than ten years he led the expansion of SEK in the Middle East, overseeing the operations of its schools and the group’s international growth strategy; under his leadership the group launched projects worth more than 200 million US dollars and opened six new schools in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain. More than six years of living and working in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia gave him deep insight into cross-cultural management and education ecosystems. He has evaluated more than 200 education projects in 40 countries, working with investors, regulators, consultants and operators, and has spoken at conferences and seminars on four continents. He has also launched consulting services and B2B commercial channels that achieved a fifteen-fold revenue increase, generating 1.5 million US dollars.