About

Eduardo Rosado Fernández de Castro’s legal career spans over two decades. He started out as an independent lawyer in 1990, joining Cementos del Caribe, now known as Cementos Argos, as an in-house lawyer. After seven years at the company, Fernández de Castro joined his current employer Promigas, and working as general counsel until 2013, when he was promoted to general counsel and corporate affairs vice president. Currently in charge of a team of 30 employees, Fernández de Castro has significantly improved the legal function over the years, implementing performance metrics as a strategy for cost effectiveness, undertaking training of non-legal staff to do routine tasks, reorientation of highly repetitive tasks to a self-serve model and establishing a business-oriented approach within the legal department that takes into account the company strategy. However, one of the highlights of Fernández de Castro’s career has been above average performance of the legal department in internal surveys about client service and work climate conducted by the company. In addition, Fernández de Castro has been integral to the facilitation of the Promigas’ growth plan by working with the Colombian regulators to define a company’s vested right. This approach favoured new investments in strategic assets, and allowed Promigas to continue on its chosen path. Apart from his role at the company, Fernández de Castro is interested in pro bono work and has promoted the first corporate collaboration agreement with Colombia´s Pro Bono Foundation, allowing the company’s lawyers assist those who lack the means to pay for legal representation. Fernández de Castro was also made a “Mentor” by Endeavor, an organisation that creates support systems for high-impact entrepreneurs and has worked as a professor for the past 12 years in postgraduate programs in recognised Colombian universities.