Jorge Roberts

Jorge is the CEO of Avports (formerly Pan Am World Services), which is America’s most experienced and trusted airport operator and manager. Avports is owned by WSIP III, an infrastructure investment fund managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

His global airport management and public-private partnership (P3) development and investment career spans over 15 years, where he has founded and worked for companies owned by the leading global airport operators and institutional investors. These past companies have included Carlyle Airport Group, CCR Group and Airports Worldwide (formerly ADC & HAS, an airport investment platform owned by OMERS and Houston Airports’ affiliate HAS Development Corporation). He led the $100 million P3 in Tweed New Haven Airport and co-led the proposal for the new $9.5 billion Terminal One at JFK Airport.

Jorge is an active thought leader in the aviation industry, including developing the next generation of industry leaders and is currently a Board Member (Advisor) of Airports Council International’s Latin American and Caribbean region (ACI-LAC), a member of the President’s Advisory Board for NY’s Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, a volunteer for the Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC) and member of A.A.A.E.’s National Leadership Development Committee.

Jorge is an active community leader committed to the advancement of youth and empowerment of underrepresented groups, including minorities and women. He is a Trustee for the Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program at the University of Washington in Seattle and a community ambassador for Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). He is a founder of the Washington State Model United Nations, an organization that has positively impacted over 6,000 high school and college students and which he founded over 20 years ago in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Affairs Council and University of Washington in Seattle.

He holds an International Airport Professional accreditation from Airports Council International (ACI) and ICAO’s airport management program (AMPAP), two degrees in Business and Economics from the University of Washington in Seattle and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.