Jack Roepers

Jack Roepers has 40+ years experience in International Business Development, Foreign Investment & Joint Ventures, as Director, Vice-President, SVP, CEO and as Board Member. In recent years, he has been involved in the creation of, and investment in, new ventures in the Americas and Europe. In addition, he remains actively involved with his European & US alma maters, providing pro bono support on fundraising, strategy development and on the mentoring of top students.

From 2006 until 2011, he was the Managing Director and Board Member at an Abu Dhabi investment advisory firm focused on growth-stage technology-transfer-driven Information Technology, CleanTech, and Communications ventures seeking to access, or expand in, the Persian Gulf Region. Prior (2004-06), as interim CEO of Bolivia’s second-largest (privately-held) nationwide telecommunications company, his management team restructured and re-launched this full-service network & Internet services provider; from 2008 until 2010, he served on its Board of Directors. In 2000, he was appointed SVP for Corporate Development at UBS Capital’s portfolio company IFX Networks, a Florida-based 10-nation Latin American Internet Services Provider. In 1998, Lockheed Martin Corporation recruited him as VP, Strategy & New Ventures, for its telecom business. There, he was responsible for the Strategic Plan development surrounding Lockheed’s USD2B acquisition of Comsat, a satellite communications firm.

During the 1990s, Roepers was Director for Offshore Telecom Operations & New Business Development for Latin America at Sprint International and at its successor Global One Communications. In parallel, he was Sprint’s Project Coordinator for the actual creation of Global One, the merger of all international network operations of Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom & Sprint. For most of the 1980s, he was Young Professional & Investment Officer in the Investments and Financial Markets Group of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.

Roepers holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Nyenrode Business University in The Netherlands (1980), and a Master’s from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service (1982). In addition, he also was awarded Georgetown University’s Graduate Honors Certificate in International Business Diplomacy. In 2017 he received an Honorary Doctorate in International Relations from the Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations, in Switzerland. He is either fluent or comfortably proficient in French, German, Spanish & Dutch, and has a basic understanding of Farsi.