Miguel GaluccioChairman & Chief Executive Officer, Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V. (VIST)
Founded Vista in 2017 and has chaired and run it since. Was Chairman and CEO of YPF, Argentina's state-controlled oil company, from May 2012 to April 2016, where he took it to the largest shale hydrocarbon production outside North America; before that he spent his career at SLB, ending as President of SLB Production Management, and he still sits on SLB's board. Petroleum engineer by training (Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires). Held 7,021,078 series A shares, 6.67% of the class, per the April 2026 20-F.
3 recorded appearances
A long first-person account of the route from Paraná to YPF to founding Vista, told as a series of decisions taken under an energy crisis rather than as a strategy laid out in advance. Useful for how he frames the blank-cheque vehicle of 2017 as a deliberate bet on Vaca Muerta, not an opportunistic listing.
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Days after Milei's midterm win, Galuccio names the two things he wants from the next round of reform: "less tax" and "more flexibility" in labour law. He treats deregulation, not geology, as the binding constraint on how competitive Argentine shale can be against US barrels.
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Gives the compounding arithmetic in his own numbers: more than $6 billion invested in Argentina, from an opening position of 24,000 barrels a day and $190 million of EBITDA to 125,000 barrels a day and about $1.6 billion of EBITDA seven years later.
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