- Extensive experience advising leading companies in Latin America
- Managing Director for Latin America, Garcia Trujillo
- Former Practice Leader: Deloitte Strategy and Organization Practice, Ecuador
- Clients include Amway, CAF,Wyeth, Grupo Romero, Banco Pichincha, Andinatel, Cransa, Portacelular, Banco General
Rumiñahui, ATU, and Hoerbiger
- Recognized business leader, innovator and expert in the energy sector
- Co-founder and COO of Liberty Power, a $500 million electric power contractor, and the only minority-owned retail
energy provider serving more than 50 Fortune 500 companies
- 2010 Most Powerful Hispanic in Energy, Hispanic Engineer magazine
- 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist
- Featured industry expert in various media, such as Fortune, Latino Leaders
- Recognized expert in strategy, management organization and executive leadership
- Founded and managed a financial services company which became the fastest growing U.S. Hispanic company with
60 offices in 7 countries with 20,000 Hispanics clients and $2 billion in assets under management
- Director: Winn-Dixie; Chairman, Aetna’s Latino Advisory Council
- Senior Advisor and Spokesman for Amway
- Named “100 Most Influential Hispanic in the U.S.” by Hispanic Business magazine
- Director: National Society of Hispanic MBA’s
- Former White House Fellow in Reagan Administration
- Chairman, U.S. Air Force Board of Visitors
- Three time Entrepreneur of the Year
- Advisory Board Member: Florida State University Center for Hispanic Marketing Communication
- Authored two best-selling books on leadership and management
- Pioneer in the energy distribution industry, nationally recognized entrepreneur and expert in energy regulatory
matters
- Co-founder and CEO of Liberty Power, a $500 million electric power contractor, and the only minority-owned retail
energy provider serving more than 50 Fortune 500 companies
- Named fastest growing Hispanic company in the U.S. in 2007
- 2010 Most Powerful Hispanic in Energy, Hispanic Engineer magazine
- 2007 Businessman of the Year by Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- 2005 & 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year by Hispanic Business magazine
- 2004 NYU’s Distinguished Alumni Award
- Successful serial entrepreneur, proven manager and expert in software and systems development
- Founder and CEO of Florida-based Health Research Science, LLC, a medical research company that holds numerous patents
in the field of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and other retinal pathologies
- Former CEO of Aloha Technologies limited, the second largest point of sales system in the U.S., which he sold to
Radiant Systems, Inc. for $45 million
- Recognized expert in state regulatory issues; trusted advisor to mid-cap and small-cap clientele with respect to state
regulatory matters
- Founder and CEO of Corporate Creations, the fourth largest national provider of incorporation and registered agent
services to Fortune 1000 companies
- Advises over 100 Fortune 1000 companies and Global 2000 companies with respect to legal and corporate organizational
matters
- Extensive expertise and experience in the food wholesale/retail industry
- Chairman and CEO of Chicago-based Evans Food Group, Ltd., the largest pork-rind producer in the world
- Director: Walgreens, PrivateBankcorp, and Chicago Transit Authority
- Chairman of the Chicago Advisory Board of the Mexican Development Bank (NAFINSA)
- Experienced venture capitalist with operational and management expertise in the U.S. Hispanic market
- Founder: Southwest Harvard Group Venture Capital
- Portfolio companies include 12 Hispanic-focused enterprises
- Former Chairman and CEO: Quepasa.com, the first bilingual internet portal focused solely on the U.S. Hispanic
market
- Directed and managed $55 million IPO of Quepasa.com
- Telecommunications and management visionary described as “the nations first digital telecom CEO”; pioneer and
innovator in broadband, wireless and digital communications
- Served as CEO and director of three large-cap telecommunications companies: Telstra (Australia), Orange (now France
Telecom) and U.S. West (now Quest)
- Chairman, Silk Road Technologies (China); Vice Chairman, Weather Investments (Italy)
- Director: Target Corporation (U.S.), WPP (UK), and Promerica Bank (U.S.)
- Former director: Gannett Co., Inc., PepsiCo, Bank of America, and Electronic Data Systems Corporation
- First Hispanic to serve as CEO of a Fortune 150 Company
- Trade policy advisor to the Clinton and Bush administrations
- Industry leading expert in the IT services industry, proven and experienced entrepreneur and executive manager
- Founder and CEO of Pinnacle Technical Resources, Inc., a $250 million provider of IT solutions to Fortune 500
companies
- Manages the second-fastest growing firm in the $20 billion IT solution industry
- Chair of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- Director: Comerica, Kohl’s
