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COBISCORP
Richard Moss
President
Site Center, Calle del Establo,
50 Sta. Lucia Alta, Cumbayá, Quito
Tel: +593 2 380 2920
www.cobiscorp.com
Area of activity: Banking Technology
Date of creation: 1953
Employees: 280
Annual turnover: $25 million USD
Cobiscorp one of the leading providers of software
and services for financial institutions of various sizes
and specialties in Latin America and the leading com-
pany in Ecuador, where it was born.
The company has a long and successful history: 56
years as a banking solutions provider. Cobiscorp is
known for its solid reputation and exceptional market
recognition in the region.
The core product of the company is called COBIS.
COBIS is a proven, state-of-the-art, financial trans-
action-processing system that is designed to work
in cooperative, multi-level, client-server computing
environments. It enables financial institutions to take
on the challenges of this millennium with security and
conviction.
Its clients are based in 13 countries across Latin
America and include prominent regional banks, Cen-
tral and South American affiliates of large multination-
al institutions and banks in the United States. In total,
the company employs 600 people, 280 of which are
working in Ecuador.
Cobiscorp has offices in USA, Mexico, El Salvador,
Panama, Colombia and Ecuador, with its corporate
headquarters in Washington, DC metropolitan area.
The intellectual property of the company is also regis-
tered in the United States.
In 2009, Cobiscorp obtained ISO 9001 and was
named the ‘Best Story of 2008’ in the Business cat-
egory by the “Revista Líderes” magazine.
GRUPO GESTOR
Alfonso Falcony
President
República Av. 396 and Almargo,
Edif. Forum 300 Of. 203, Quito
Telephone: +593 2 2508 005/6/7/12/13/14
ventas@gestorinc.com
www.gestorinc.com
Area of activity: IT solutions for Investment Banking
Date of creation: 1997
Annual turnover: $3 million USD
Employees: 64
Grupo Gestor is a company aimed at transforming
innovation into specific strategic actions in order to
improve business processes of its clients, remaining
loyal to its principles and core values.
Since 1997, it has been developing innovative tech-
nological solutions for the International Investment
Banking Industry, being a company specialized in
fiduciary business, investment funds, savings and
pension funds, securitization, portfolio management,
brokerage and Wealth/Asset Management.
Grupo Gestor develops specific solutions that re-
spond to individual needs of each client and guar-
antee minimum levels of risks in their operations,
thereby creating high degrees of customer loyalty
and satisfaction.
The company is proud of having the highest number
of clients across the industry in most of the countries
of Latin America, proving their leadership as the only
global provider of technological solutions in the sec-
tor of investment banking. It is currently present in
Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico,
Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
Due to its professionalism, transparency and com-
promise with its customers, Grupo Gestor have been
recognized and certified by PriceWaterhouseCoop-
ers, under its own fiduciary assessment, with ISO
9001: 2008. Furthermore, the company has adopted
and implemented the Code of the Good Corporate
Governance and is currently in the process of obtain-
ing the CMMi certification.
The solutions offered by Grupo Gestor have proven
to generate positive impact on returns on invest-