Official profile
David González
David Mauricio González Roa
Founder of merahki.ai · POK Country Manager, Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
Official bio
David González stands behind one simple idea: learning you can't measure is learning you can't defend. He built his career on that conviction.
He is the founder of merahki.ai, a B2B education technology company that, guided by data at every step, designs, virtualizes, produces, and measures learning programs for universities, governments, and enterprises. Since 2018 he has produced more than 20,000 hours of online learning that have trained thousands of professionals across seven Latin American countries. His portfolio spans three worlds that rarely meet: continuing medical education for pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, and Abbott; public programs with Universidad de los Andes' School of Government, the Inter-American Development Bank, and Agencia Atenea; and workforce training with Colombia Productiva, the Danish Refugee Council, and the Colombian-Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
He is also POK's (Proof of Knowledge) Country Manager for Colombia. POK is the global verifiable-credentials infrastructure: more than 1,100 institutions across 20 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia use it to issue blockchain credentials under the Open Badge 3.0 and W3C standards, with 1EdTech privacy certification. In practice, a certificate stops being a PDF with a logo: it becomes a credential any employer can verify in seconds, owned by the person who earned it.
From Bogotá, David leads POK's expansion across Colombia's education ecosystem on three fronts: the country's leading universities, public and private; the cajas de compensación — employer-funded welfare funds that train tens of thousands of workers every year; and the government institutions that need auditable evidence of their training. That work runs through the networks where the sector meets — ACIET, ASCUN, ASCOFADE, RECLA, and REALCUP — carrying one conversation: moving from the certificate you file away to the credential anyone can verify.
Both jobs are really one: designing learning experiences that work, measuring them with learning analytics, iterating on the evidence, and giving learners recognition they can prove.
Quick facts
- Current roles
- Founder of merahki.ai and POK (Proof of Knowledge) Country Manager for Colombia
- Track record
- Designing, virtualizing, producing, and measuring learning programs since 2018
- Approach
- Data-driven decisions: learning analytics and continuous iteration on every program
- Reach
- 20,000+ hours of online learning produced across 7 Latin American countries
- POK
- Verifiable-credentials infrastructure — blockchain, Open Badge 3.0, W3C VC — used by 1,100+ institutions in 20 countries
- POK expansion
- Leads the adoption of verifiable credentials across universities, cajas de compensación, and the public sector in Colombia
- Sectors
- Continuing medical education, government and public policy, corporate and workforce training
- Base
- Bogotá, Colombia — works in Spanish and English
Speaking and panel topics
- Micro-credentials: design, issuance, and institutional adoption
- Education-Led Growth: education as a B2B growth engine
- Verifiable digital credentials (Open Badges 3.0, blockchain)
- Learning analytics: measuring learning impact with data and iterating on evidence
- Virtualizing continuing education programs at scale
Who is David González?
David Mauricio González Roa is a Colombian education technology entrepreneur, founder of merahki.ai and POK's (Proof of Knowledge) Country Manager for Colombia. Since 2018 he has designed and produced more than 20,000 hours of online learning for organizations including Novartis, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, the Inter-American Development Bank, and Universidad de los Andes, across seven Latin American countries.
What is merahki.ai?
merahki.ai is a B2B education technology company founded by David González. Guided by data, it designs, virtualizes, produces, and measures micro-credentials and learning programs for universities, governments, and enterprises, using learning analytics to measure every stage and iterate on each program with evidence.
What does David González do at POK?
As POK's (Proof of Knowledge) Country Manager for Colombia, David González leads the platform's expansion in the country: he works with leading universities, cajas de compensación (employer-funded welfare and training funds), and public-sector institutions moving from traditional certificates to blockchain credentials any third party can verify in seconds. He is active in the education ecosystem's networks: ACIET, ASCUN, ASCOFADE, RECLA, and REALCUP.
What topics does David González speak about?
Micro-credentials, Education-Led Growth, verifiable digital credentials (Open Badges 3.0 and blockchain), measuring learning impact, and virtualizing continuing education at scale. To invite him to an event or panel: david@merahki.ai.
