Jorge Dickens

Jorge Dickens is a Managing Partner at ACON Investments. Prior to joining ACON in 2008, Mr. Dickens was a Vice President at Darby Overseas Investments, where he was responsible for investment and monitoring activities of mezzanine funds in Latin America. In that capacity, he was part of the team that built and exited a portfolio of 12 investments across six different countries and served on the board of Grupo ISA (Media), TEBSA (Power) and Avantel (Telecom). Previously, he was a Senior Associate with Santander Investments in Mexico City, where he advised clients in corporate finance and cross-border M&A assignments. Mr. Dickens serves on the Board of Directors of the following ACON fund portfolio companies: Citla Energy, Grupo GMI and Grupo Vizion. Mr. Dickens previously served on the board of Betterware de Mexico and Hidrotenencias and he served as an observer on the board of InverCap, each prior ACON fund portfolio companies. Outside of ACON, Mr. Dickens served two terms as member of the board of AMEXCAP (Asociación Mexicana de Capital Privado A.C.) or the Mexican Association of Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds.

Mr. Dickens received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering with a Master’s degree in Economics from Universidad Anahuac and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.