About

Since its founding in 1948, Caracol Radio has become one of Colombia’s largest and most popular radio networks with a portfolio of leading stations. Jorge Alberto Diaz Gomez joined the organisation, which is owned by Grupo Pisa, in February 2017 as legal director and secretary general. Arriving with around 15 years of experience working in in-house positions within Colombia’s telecommunications sector, he is in charge of all the legal and regulatory issues of the company and the corporate matters of the Grupo Pisa companies operating in Colombia. Since joining, Diaz has made the legal function at Caracol more efficient by focusing, as he says, ‘on the organisation of the [legal] area and the review of internal processes seeking to optimise activities and response times to internal and external customers’. As a specialist in telecommunications and commercial law, he has significant experience in regulation and competition law in the telecommunications market and in the structuring and development of state and private contracting processes. In addition, he has participated in several public processes of spectrum auctions. Before joining Caracol Radio, he worked at Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia for approximately five years as a legal manager and regulatory lawyer, where he worked on ‘the successful development of the strategy of legal accompaniment during the execution of the installation and operation stages of the National Fiber Optic Project executed by Azteca Comunicaciones Colombia, for the government of Colombia, and through which the inhabitants of more than 780 municipalities benefitted’. Before that he was a lawyer in the legal telecommunications corporate management of Telefónica Móviles (Movistar) for five years. Additionally, between 2003 and 2008 Diaz worked as legal advisor and director of structuring and contracting of the “Compartel Program” of the Ministry of Communications of Colombia, in the development of social telecommunications projects. With such a wide range of past experiences within the sector, he is considered is well placed to provide legal support to one of the best-known domestic media companies in Colombia.