Silvio Velasquez

Date of Birth: 19th of August, 1950

Home Country: Colombia

AIESEC RECORDS
:: Founded AIESEC UNIVALLE, Colombia, 1970
:: Local Committee President, AIESEC Cali, Colombia, 1972
:: National Committee Vice President, AIESEC in Colombia, 1975
:: Organizing Committee President, LDSSTP (Leadership Development Seminar & Seminar Traineeship Program) Agro Industry and Development - Cali, Colombia, 1976.
:: Undertook an AIESEC traineeship to Ten Doesschate B.V., AIESEC Groningen, The Netherlands, 1974.

ACHIEVEMENTS
As the founder and current president of the AIESEC Alumni Colombia organization, Silvio has, for many years, managed its accounting and its legal representation, paid its taxes, and kept it active, even in periods of total inactivity.

He was the chair of AIESEC Colombia National Conference in 1982 and is now an honorary member of AIESEC in Colombia and AIESEC Cali, Colombia.

During Silvio’s term as LCP of AIESEC in Cali Colombia, the LC realized 22 exchanges, and while he was NCVP, AIESEC in Colombia realized 50 exchanges.

Silvio was an outstanding member of AIESEC in Colombia during the Seventies. He was known for his strong leadership initiative that was mainly focused on AIESEC in Colombia's organizational development and marketing strategy.

Since he left AIESEC in 1978, he has been in touch with all the members of the national executive boards and with some members of the local boards.

He was a member of several boards of advisors. His good memory and an outstanding ability to become good friends of all the members, irrespective of age differences, endeared him to many.

The people who worked with him, remember him as a great motivator; hard worker, strict, frank and very informal. In many instances, he has had to ask people who were not performing to leave the organization.

Although he has not supported the organization directly, he has facilitated various contacts with people and companies that have sponsored local and national events, and trips of several of the members of AIESEC Colombia to international congresses.

Silvio has also assisted the MC to revive comatose partnerships and relationships, facilitated and shares personal contacts and experiences as well is also involved in the mentoring and personal development of MC members.

“It is a pleasure to be able to nominate this person, who has made an outstanding contribution to the organization for so many years.
He is a ‘living book of contacts’ and the amount of people that he knows and the way as he inspires them, have helped AIESEC in Colombia to keep active, and thanks to his great efforts the organization will never die in Colombia.”
Henao Giraldo, Alumni Director of AIESEC in Colombia