Jorge Granada
Founder & Chief Architect
Jorge Granada is Founder and Chief Architect at Knar Global LLC — a firm that engineers industrial value resilience through causal modeling, optimization, and integrated decision systems. With over two decades of experience in asset management, reliability engineering, and digital transformation, he has led advanced performance modeling initiatives for major energy, utility, and defense organizations across Latin America and the U.S. A former engineer with a global energy services company and developer of proprietary methodologies like PDEL® and KVB-C2M®, Jorge is currently pursuing a Master's in Applied Computational Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University to further advance the formal foundations of industrial decision-making.
Background
Global Energy Services Engineer
Former engineer with a global energy services company, involved in major projects including large-scale refinery expansions. Led asset integrity and risk-based inspection programs for refining and petrochemical facilities across multiple continents.
Advanced Reliability & Value Assurance Programs
Led advanced reliability programs for national utilities, energy producers, and defense organizations across Latin America and North America.
Instrumental in creating Colombia's first SMRP-certified professionals and establishing asset management maturity frameworks for major industrial operators.
Developer of Proprietary Frameworks
Created multiple computational frameworks for causal modeling and integrated decision support:
- PDEL® — Performance Dependency Elucidation Language
- DECA® — Dynamic Equipment Criticality Analysis
- KVB-C2M® — Knar Value Bridge: Cause-to-Margin
- RAMGEN — Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Generator
Current Focus
Master in Applied Computational Mathematics
Pursuing advanced research to deepen expertise in optimization, constraint programming, and reinforcement learning for industrial decision systems.
Research focus areas include:
- Markov decision processes for maintenance optimization under uncertainty
- Probabilistic graphical models for root cause analysis in complex systems
- Symbolic computation for reliability physics and degradation modeling
- Multi-objective optimization with conflicting stakeholder constraints
Mission:
"To make industrial value resilient — by design."
Philosophy
"We don't deliver reports. We install cognitive infrastructure."
Jorge's approach is grounded in the belief that most organizations don't need more data — they need systems that preserve causal understanding across organizational boundaries. Systems that executives can trust and engineers can modify as reality evolves.
This philosophy drives every engagement: build decision systems that integrate technical truth with financial outcomes, then transfer the capability so it becomes institutional knowledge rather than consultant dependency.
Why Knar Global?
Knar Global was founded to solve a problem Jorge encountered repeatedly: organizations investing millions in digital transformation, only to end up with dashboards that couldn't answer the questions executives actually needed to ask. The company exists to architect systems that link operational reality to business value — systems that evolve with your organization rather than becoming legacy software that no one understands.