Ecopetrol S.A. announced that civil engineer Alberto Consuegra Granger has been appointed Vice-President of Supply and Services and that accountant Ricardo Montes Gómez has been appointed Corporate Manager for Ecopetrol´s Internal Audit Office. Mr. Consuegra is a civil engineer who graduated from Cartagena University and has a master's degree in Pavements and Construction Management from Texas A&M University. His latest post was Vice-President of Exploration and Production at Equión Energía Limited, where he also served as Vice-President for Projects and Production. Mr. Montes, with more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, is a public accountant who graduated from the Externado University of Colombia and holds a specialty in Financial Planning and Control of Oil and Gas Companies from Southern Methodist University at Dallas, Texas and a master's in Business Management from Inalde (Sabana University).Recently, he served as financial vice-president at Marsa Energy Inc. and executive director at Marsa Turkey BV, an oil and gas company, where he, as a founding partner, was involved in the development and execution of corporate strategy. He also listed the company at the Toronto Stock exchange (TSX-V).