Juan Sartori

Juan (Jose) Sartori (born 6 February 1981) is a Uruguayan-born financial entrepreneur.

He is the President of Union Group (UG), a group of companies he founded which operate in Latin America across the agriculture, minerals, finance, property, energy and infrastructure sectors.

Early life
Juan Sartori was born in Montevideo (Uruguay). He moved to Paris with his mother and sister and spent his late adolescence in Switzerland, where he studied at HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) in Lausanne, spending his senior year at Harvard University and graduating from HEC in 2002 with a degree in Business and Economics.

Career
Having left Harvard, Sartori returned to Switzerland and started his career by founding and successfully managing Union Capital Group – a Geneva based multi-strategy asset manager - from 2002-2008. In 2005, Sartori began investing in his home country of Uruguay in real-estate and agriculture, founding Union Agriculture Group. Today UAG, a company within the Union Group, is one of the largest land owners in Uruguay, holding over 100,000 hectares, having created substantial tangible value for its investors. UEG, Union’s energy division, is currently developing projects which will provide 700 MW to isolated communities in Peru. Other divisions in the Union Group – operating across Uruguay, Peru and Colombia - include infrastructure (UIG), mining (UMG) and real estate (UPG). The Union Group has offices in Geneva, Montevideo, Paris  and London.

Charity
Juan Sartori created Fundacion Union (Union Foundation) in 2008, a charity which helps local communities and artists in Uruguay, tailoring the donations according to their individual needs. The offices of Union Foundation have a permanent exhibition space promoting the works of rising Uruguayan artists, as well as established ones such as Hermenegildo Sabat.