About me
Mr. Urbizo has been an independent management consultant in the areas of finance, taxation, and general management for the past forty years and Chairman and CEO of Inversiones Krissol, S.A. de C.V. As a Fulbright scholar, Mr. Urbizo earned his B.A. degree in Business Administration at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Penn. He is a Certified Public Accountant of the State of California, and has attended top management programs in marketing (Harvard University), finance (Stanford University), and banking (INCAE and the N.Y. Institute of Finance).
Upon graduating in 1969, Mr. Urbizo joined a big eight CPA firm where he practiced as a public accountant in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Guatemala and Honduras. Subsequently, he became controller of Cervecerìa Hondureña, S.A. (a brewery and soft drink bottler).
In 1999, he relinquished his position as Chairman and CEO of La Constancia, a position he held for 17 years, to devote more time to researching and commenting on political, economic and social issues. He is the author “Fiscal Deficit, Public Debt, and the Bankruptcy of the Government” (2013), “Cultural Transformation… A Way Out of Poverty and a Way to a Better Life” (2021), and is writing a third book titled, “Modernizing and Transforming Honduras.”
In the 1997 general elections, he was the Nationalist (conservative) Party candidate for First Vice-president. Mr. Urbizo has conducted TV and radio programs, and is a frequent radio, newspaper, and TV guest as commentator on political, economic, and social issues.
