For the work carried out for advertisers such as Visa, Johnson & Johnson, Mars, Claro, Nestlé, Banco Falabella and GSK, among others, during the last 3 years, Proximity Colombia has received different recognitions:
- Eighth digital agency in the world according to the WARC100- 2015 ranking,
- First digital agency in Latin America in the same ranking for 2017.
- Second most awarded agency in EFFIE Colombia 2016, the festival that recognizes advertising effectiveness
- First agency in strategic planning, innovation, data and analytics in Colombia, according to Scopen Spain 2016.
- Sixth most awarded agency in the ElDorado Festival of Colombian creativity.
Hernán is actively linked with the EFFIE Colombia organization, where he has been a jury from 2006 to today and has recently collaborated with the El Ojo de Iberoamérica festival as a jury in different categories and at Wave Festival as president of the jury in the Mobile and Cyber category.
An active lecturer in the main communication and advertising faculties and schools in Colombia, Hernán is a publicist graduaded from the Politécnico Grancolombiano and the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University and has an MBA from the San Pablo CEU Business School in Madrid, Spain.