As a response to the developmental needs of the country, and to the demand for well-prepared professionals, a group of academics and entrepreneurs formed by José Ortega Romero, Ignacio Guerra Pellegaud, Alejandro Pearson, Salvador Camillieri, Jorge Malo and Manuel Olivar, founded the Universidad del Valle de México, as a private alternative for the formation of professionals that Mexico needed.
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The company’s first investment was Spain’s Universidad Europea de Madrid in 1999, quickly followed by investments in post-secondary institutions in Mexico's Universidad del Valle de México, Chile's Universidad de Las Américas and Switzerland's Les Roches International School of Hotel Management and its first investment in online higher education, Walden University in the United States.