Ezequiel Vazquez-Ger

Ezequiel Vázquez-Ger is an Argentine entrepreneur, Chief Executive Office of Seven Reasons Group and co-owner and Managing Partner of Seven Reasons, Imperfecto, Joy by Seven Reasons, Quadrant at the Ritz-Carlton, TheSaga at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington D.C., and Surreal, with additional concepts coming in 2024.

Ezequiel gained national acclaim in 2019 when he opened Seven Reasons alongside Chef Enrique Limardo, which garnered national attention in 2019 at Esquire's Best New Restaurant in the Country, The Washington Post's #1 Restaurant in Tom Sietsema's Dining Guide, and one of the 40 Most Influential Restaurants of the Decade by Esquire.

In 2021, Ezequiel opened Imperfecto alongside Chef Enrique Limardo, a fine-dining establishment which also landed on Esquire's list of the best new restaurants in the country. Imperfecto also received its first Michelin star for its Chef's Table experience in 2022. In 2022 and 2023, Ezequiel landed on Washington Business Journal’s competitive Power 100 List. In June 2023 he was named in the 2023 edition of the Washington Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list.

He's also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and a Member of the Board of Directors of The Orchestra of the Americas Group.

Prior to becoming a restaurateur in his opening of Seven Reasons, Ezequiel led his own Public Affairs firm, focusing on Latin America until 2017. He represented a wide range of clients from the U.S. and Latin America, ranging from big media conglomerates to human rights defenders. He was also a Steering Committee member of the Young Professionals of the Americas, an initiative of the Council of the Americas.

In 2016, he was named one of the 40 under 40 Latinos in foreign policy by the Huffington Post. He was a regular contributor to the newspaper El País (Spain), and his opinion columns have been also published by several top media outlets such as Foreign Policy, The Hill, The Huffington Post, Miami Herald, and other news outlets.

Between 2010 and 2013 he was an Associate Director at Otto Reich Associates LLC, a consulting firm headed by former US Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Otto J. Reich; and a Latin American Fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization connecting a global network of more than 400 think tanks in over 80 countries.

Ezequiel graduated as an Economist from the Universidad Católica Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), in 2010. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife Mafe, his son Francisco, and his daughter Alma.