Andrés Ortega

“Andrés is a broaded mind, experienced and high-performance professional. I had the opportunity to work with him supervising his job and he always provided a high level performance and an innovative vision. He is really skilled when implementing processes, dealing with people at all levels, and able to get any expected goals.”

“I met Andres several years ago during our Masters in Human Resources. I had the opportunity to work with him in many projects, were his abilities soon became very evident to me: first, his passion for everything he undetakes; second, his commitment to doing things well; finally, his strong leadership and teamworking skills. I have continued to collaborate with Andres all these years and I have seen him grow into an HR professional that can manage both challenges and multicultural teams for the success of the company.”

“I had the opportunity to work with Andres on EnRHed, a non-profit project focused on spreading different HR values and methodologies. He became one of the cornerstones of the project, achieving results in a short period of time. He's full of ideas and has as an eye for effective communication. He always has a creative outlook and he’s outstanding at organizing and bringing people together. His energy is always encouraging and positive.”

“Andres is a highly motivated and enthusiastic member of any senior leadership group. He is a strong HR professional with a great ability to understand and coach line managers within an organization. I have had the pleasure of working with Andres for a number of years and I have found him to be inspirational and challenging. In many ways he helped me in a capacity of sounding or advisory board.”

“Andres was our HHRR Senior Director at SanDisk and we managed very professional and efficiently all the issues we had in company during these hard times. He got a great merging process between SanDisk and M-Systems based in several countries (America/EMEA/Asia) and he managed and interacted very well with all the people across these three the regions (managers and management). I fully recommend Andres for those companies with big challenges.”

“Andres is a very inspiring HR professional who is 110% dedicated to his profession. He is extremely enthusiastic and passsionate about his work which translates into a genuine caring for people at work and their personal and professional development.”

“Andres came into my picture right after we managed to acquire a company in Madrid, with worldwide operation. At that time the acquiring company was based in Tel Aviv and we were facing a strong 'integration' issue. No doubts we were needing somebody that would be able to bridge the Israeli culture with the Spanish one. I found all this in Andres when I first met him. He rapidly understood the perimeter of action and became operational really in no time. When we were right in the middle of all this, we have been able enough to complicate even more the global HR picture, by merging the Spanish-Israeli entity with a major US one. Consider that both companies where NASDAQ listed. Even in that case I found an excellent HR manager, very supportive in his field of action, but also very proactive within the STAFF. He has always showed perfect professionalism, extremely flexible and adaptive to the different scenarios, never missing the challenge, and very eager to explore innovative managing procedures. Miss him a lot as a manager and as a friend-colleague.”

“I have had the opportunity to know Andrés and it´s very difficult to concentrate briefly in this reference his professionalism and global control of the HR function. He´s is a great professional who agglutinates all the ingredients for a modern and effective HR management: leadership, wide-ranging experience (local and international) and deep knowledge of HR function, clear visión and an underlined sensibility for aspects directly linked to the Talent Management and Development.”

“I was working with Andrés when he took over and built the HR function of SanDisk Spain. Andrés is enthusiastic, result-oriented, with great coaching skills. Andrés needed a great amount of flexibility to manage multiple organizational changes. In a complex and changing environment he was able to align business targets with HR processes adding value to his business partners. Andrés is particularly great at networking and has the ability to establish strong and reliable relationships at all organizational levels. Overall an HR professional”

“During the years Andres and I worked together, he acted both, as a Manager and as an excellent Coach. Looking back, I realize that most of my knowledge of International HR Mgmt. and HR Good Practices comes straight from his broad and deep experience. Andres is able to identify the strenghts of every member of his team and get the best of each individual. In a very challenging environment Andres was able to build up a department from the its very roots and make it competitive into a high tech multinational company. Ruben Ponte Sr. HR Business Partner SanDisk Corp.”