Jorge Intriago, 46 #12 Most Influential
Jorge Intriago, a partner in Ukraine at Big Four international auditing and accounting giant Ernst & Young, first partnered up with Ukraine in 1995, when he launched the country representative office of another Big Four auditor – PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Fifteen years later, the Ecuadorian citizen can look back at his many accomplishments in what has turned out to be his adopted country. Intriago, who grew up in the United States and has spent his adult life working for Big Four firms, has taken part in many of the big business deals that have come to Ukraine under his watch.
But the tax and legal consultant had intended to stay in Western Europe, in particular Spain, the land of his ancestors.
“A friend suggested either Moscow or Kyiv, so I decided to take the bigger challenge.”
– Jorge Intriago.
“A friend suggested either Moscow or Kyiv, so I decided to take the bigger challenge,” he told the Kyiv Post.
Since doing so, however, he has had the pleasure of advising former Economy and European Integration Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky, who now heads the nation’s intelligence services.
He has also taken a leading role in developing Kyiv’s European Business Association, serving seven years as vice president, one year as president and always on the board. “I have put a lot of time into the EBA,” Intriago recalls.
The multilingual Latin American recalls that the motivation behind the creation of the EBA was Ukraine’s European Union integration plans and the lack of an organized lobby of specifically European issues.
Although Intriago acknowledges that it’s unusual to stay in a single country so long while working for the same multinational, “things worked out well,” he said. The quote rings true for both him and Ukraine.
