Cristia Calle

Chief Financial Officer at SICE ANZ

Cristià is a Chief Financial Officer with over nine years industry experience and he has successfully managed firms in various regions. He specialises in company analysis and financial strategies, driving growth and profitability.

Expertise:

  • Value Investing (from asset value to growth and quality)
  • Company analysis to calculate the intrinsic value of companies
  • Margin of Safety
  • Economic Moat
  • Long-term Investing
  • Circle of Competence.
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More about Cristia


  • Cristià has worked in financial roles in five different countries, and four different continents. 
  • He has managed firms with over 60 million euros in revenue. 
  • During his time as an investor, he’s managed to achieve over 19% annual return on his investment portfolio (between February 2020 to September 2024).
  • Cristià has wide expertise in analysing companies, their financial statements, and the strategies they are following. This seeds the path to obtain greater than the average results in the stock market.

Experience


  • Cristià has over nine years experience in financial roles, five of them in a CFO position. 
  • He currently works as the CFO of a growing software engineering company in Australia and New Zealand (SICE). 
  • Previously, he had worked in Mexico and Central America as CFO of the region for almost five years. He contributed to the turnaround of a company that was losing money and transformed them into a growing and profitable business where revenues grew 5x.
  • Before that, he managed the company’s branches of Algeria and Morocco, along with the main projects of the region. 
  • He started his career in Spain, providing his services to the corporate headquarters, with a special focus in tax and accounting departments.

Education and Certifications


 

  • Master’s degree in Financial and Accounting Direction (specialisation in Corporate Finance), at University Pompeu Fabra
  • Dual Degree in Law and Business, at University Carlos III
  • Value Investing certificate, at Columbia Business School
  • International Certificate in Wealth and Investment Management, at CISI. Pass with merit (93/100).

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