Maria Zaghi - Observatorio de Tecnología de Guatemala

MARIA ZAGHI, of Guatemala, has had over a 40-year experience in the implementation of projects and  entrepreneur efforts related to ICTs in Latin America.  She has been the leader for serveral ICT and innovation  agendas  in Guatemala including the e-Guatemala strategy as an resaercher of the Information Committee in  the National Science Council, he National E-commerce and  collaborates with the current Innovation National  Agenda.
She has been a senior consultant for local projects in Guatemala related to financial systems, energy sector  financial systems,  Internet, e-commerce, e-education, e-inclusion, e-government,  among others, but she  has also been  an international consultant for projects related to ICTs for the Inter-American Development  Bank,  World Bank, the European Community, ICDF (Taiwan), World Summit Award, US AID programs,  Gateway Development Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, Non-Aligned Movement Centre for South-South  Technical Cooperation (Singapore), GAIA (Spain), Pan-American Health Organization, Exxon, HLB and Price  Waterhouse Coopers. 
She is currently involved in several projects related to e-commerce, commercialization and incubation of  Infrormation Techncology companies based on Guatemala`s first technology park in the Central American  region, via a spinoff that works with technology commercialization services.
Specialties: System Analysis, Operations Research, Computer Science, Administration of Projects, Strategic  Administration, High Tech Seminars, Leadership/Entrepreneurship courses and Computer Science applied to  education.

Experience
Business Development for different companies
January 2009  -  Present
Commercialization for IT services  with outstanding software technologies and expertise, with services  ranging from software products to professional services, for financial organizations, governmental  institutions and enterprises in  Latin America based on Guatemala`s first technology park and other hubs.

Professor
January 1987  -  present
Professor in ICT and entrepreneurship programs for Universidad Del Valle, Francisco Marroquin University,  Landívar University, Panamericana and Galileo in Guatemala and  in Unitec in Honduras.
ICT expert and entrepreneur
January 1987  -  December 2008 (21 years 11 months)
MARIA ZAGHI,has been a senior consultant for local projects in Guatemala related to financial systems,  energy sector financial systems,  Internet, e-commerce, e-education, e-inclusion,  among others, but she  has also been  an international consultant for projects related to ICTs for the Inter-American Development  Bank,  World Bank, the European Community, ICDF (Taiwan), World Summit Award, US AID programs,
  Gateway Development Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, Non-Aligned Movement Centre for SouthSouth Technical Cooperation (Singapore), GAIA (Spain), Pan-American Health Organization, Exxon and  Price Waterhouse Coopers. 
She is currently involved in several projects related to e-commerce, commercialization of Infrormation  Techncology, technology parks and electronic fundraising for sustainable development projects for the  environment in Guatemala and in Latin America.

Education
University of Maryland College Park
MBA, MIS, 1985 - 1986
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
BS, Computer Science, 1981 - 1985