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Javier Lacasa has been appointed as Executive President of UFINET, a wholesale telecommunications carrier.
Javier Lacasa, who has 25 years of experience in different positions in the company, has been a key figure in the exponential growth of UFINET, as well as its geographic expansion in Latin America, with a deployment of more than 110,000 Km of fiber optics in 17 countries.
Javier Lacasa previously served as COO, and will continue to report to the company’s CEO, Iñigo Garcia del Cerro. This appointment aims to strengthen the organizational structure, where Javier Lacasa will have a broader role, adding to his current responsibilities in Business Management, the management of the Technical, Purchasing and Human Resources teams.
“These changes reinforce both our strategic focus and the development of UFINET's long-term vision,” commented Iñigo Garcia del Cerro.
UFINET also announced the promotion of Juan Carlos Naranjo, who previously served as Global CTO, to assume the role of COO. In turn, Robinson Gutierrez, currently CTO of UFINET Panama, will assume the role of Global CTO of the company. Both will now report to Javier Lacasa.
“I am very excited to take on this new challenge within UFINET, leading a world-class team, with the goal of maintaining the growth path of the business.”
UFINET is a wholesale telecommunications operator with presence in 17 countries in Latin America, providing connectivity services through its 110,000+ km of its own fiber optic network with a growing range of infrastructure services, including Data Center, towering, including connected poles, and much more.
With coverage in +2,200 towns, UFINET has a huge metropolitan capillarity, not only in the main cities of the region, but also in more rural towns (Tier 2 and 3), where it has taken advantage of this wide reach to deploy neutral FTTH networks with +800k homes passed. More than 26 years of experience have made UFINET the reference and most reliable connectivity provider in the region.
