Emelec, a professional football sports club based in Guayaquil.
[1] Quintana owned the Ecuadorian franchises of Gold's Gym and built soccer fields in Guayaquil.
[2] Quintana was an active member of the former Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (PRE) and Institutional Renewal Party of National Action (PRIAN), which was headed by his brother-in-law, Álvaro Noboa.
[1] Omar Quintana died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador on April 3, 2020, at the age of 76.
[1][2] He was one of three major soccer managers and executives to die from COVID-19 in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador, including Silvio Devoto [es] and Franklin Mazón, both from Barcelona S.C.[2]