ORCA TEAM
We are a team that brings together diverse business expertise, exact sciences, and social sciences.
Our experience spans a wide range of industries, including Retail, Real Estate, Construction, Logistics, Technology, Financial Services, Mining, Oil & Gas, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), Animal Production, Services, Media, Agribusiness, and Industrial Manufacturing.
We apply our methodology with a versatile and cross-functional approach, enabling us to understand the business as a whole through the lenses of Innovation, Applied Research, and Entrepreneurial Thinking.
We unlock the value drivers within organizations, enabling sustainable and meaningful improvements in productivity and performance that are driven from within and sustained over time.
Francisco Ortúzar
Civil Engineer, MBA, and M.A. in Social Anthropology. Over 25 years of executive leadership and board experience across Finance, M&A, Human Resources, and Real Estate Development, combined with entrepreneurial ventures in technology startups
social foundations.
This unique combination of engineering, business strategy, and social sciences led to the development of the ORCA Methodology: an integrated approach that views organizations as living systems and enables sustainable improvements by ensuring that change is adopted and driven by the organization itself.
Through this approach, ORCA has partnered with more than 35 transformation projects, generating over US$360 million in EBITDA improvements.
"Traditional consulting often fails at implementation because it collides with the organization itself. I studied anthropology after engineering for precisely that reason: numbers reveal where the potential lies, but it is people who ultimately capture it."— Francisco Ortúzar
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Daniela
Gaete
Psychologist (UDP), Master's Degree in Organizational Development and Business Strategy (PUC), with advanced training in Change Management, Systemic Coaching,
and Agile Methodologies. More than 15 years of experience leading organizational transformation, continuous improvement, and business growth initiatives across Chile and Latin America in the retail, logistics, technology, and manufacturing sectors.
At ORCA, she leads the social sciences dimension of the methodology, ensuring that improvements are not imposed but embraced by the organization itself. That is the difference between value capture that lasts for a few months and transformation that endures over time.
"My education and professional experience have given me a systemic view of business. My role is to mobilize organizations and their teams to turn their potential into tangible results."
— Daniela Gaete.
Andrés
Corona
Industrial Engineer (PUC) and Master of Engineering Science (PUC). More than 25 years of senior executive experience across manufacturing and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industries, holding leadership positions in several Latin American countries.
Expert in demand planning, supply chain management, innovation management, and industrial engineering.
At ORCA, he leads the exact sciences dimension of the methodology, modeling operational flows, capacity, and planning to uncover hidden potential within existing assets—achieving results such as increasing production by 28% without additional investment or deferring CAPEX for years.
"Very few plants operate at their true capacity limit. My job is to identify that gap through data and turn it into EBITDA—without asking for a single dollar of investment."
— Andrés Corona
Agility. Experience. Innovation. Dedication