He was formerly IR manager for Correo Argentino, the Argentinian post office.
AES administers electricity distributors EDELAP, EDEN and EDES as well as a handful of electricity generator companies. The search was undertaken by a head hunting consultancy based in Arlington, Virginia in the US, where the group has its headquarters.
The whole electricity sector is currently committed to the task of obtaining approval from the general public to the government obtaining an emergency increase in tariffs, which were frozen following the devaluation of the peso in January 2002.