Leadership
Santiago Ricci
Founder and CEO
Colombian entrepreneur and investor with a background in technology, automation and business development.
Understanding a business requires having built one.
Santiago Ricci was born in Algeciras, Colombia, in 1986. His career combines technology, automation and business development, and he has built companies across different sectors and markets.
That operating experience is the foundation on which Rive Enterprises is structured: a group that does not limit itself to contributing capital, but intervenes in the model, the technology and the operation of each company.
He is the author of three books on entrepreneurship and productivity, and mentors founders building their own projects.
He leads the group as CEO and works with the teams of each brand on their development.
Publications
El Emprendedor Que Nunca Emprendió
El empleado: sal de las cálidas aguas
Hack Your Success with AI
What he works on today
The founder's
day to day
Leading the group
Sets portfolio strategy and decides which markets and sectors Rive Enterprises enters.
Brand development
Works with each company's team on its business model, its metrics and its growth.
Technology
Takes part directly in the architecture and automation decisions that hold the whole group together.
Mentoring
Works one to one with founders building their own projects.
Why this matters to a client
Most consultancies sell a method. We sell a method tested on our own profit and loss.
When someone who has run an operation tells you where yours is going to break, they are not applying a framework: they are recognising a problem they have already paid for. That difference shows in the first conversation.
The three books he has published come from that same path: they are not theoretical entrepreneurship manuals but what he learned building companies, mistakes included. Mentoring works the same way — you work on your numbers and your decisions, not on a syllabus.
And there is a part that rarely appears on corporate websites: much of a founder's job is deciding what not to do. Closing a line that does not work, walking away from a market you do not understand, or turning down an engagement that would be poorly executed. That discipline is what keeps a group with brands in several sectors healthy.
It also means we say no often. If an engagement does not match what we have executed, we say so instead of improvising along the way.
Frequently asked
About the founder
Is he personally involved in projects?
In consulting and mentoring, yes. In software development he takes part in the architecture and decision phase, and the technical team executes.
Can I hire only the mentoring with him?
Yes. Mentoring is a standalone service, delivered in one-to-one sessions.
Does he speak or teach?
Yes, on entrepreneurship, automation and business development. Write to us with dates and format.
Transforming businesses.
Transforming lives.
We build companies that solve real problems and create jobs in the markets where we operate.