Ricardo Vargas

Over the past 20 years, Ricardo has been responsible for more than 80 major transformation projects in several countries within the oil and gas, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, information technology and finance industries; covering an investment portfolio of over 20 billion USD. He is currently the Executive Director of the Brightline Initiative™. The movement is a coalition of leading global organizations from business, government and not for profit sectors, including the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Agile Alliance with a mission to provide a knowledge and networking platform that delivers insights and solutions to successfully bridge the gap between strategy development and strategy implementation. He has written fifteen books on the subject of project management, published in Portuguese and English with translations in French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Danish which have sold over 300,000 copies globally.