IG Expansion: Founding Partner & Managing Director (2003-present)

• Co-Led the Set Up of International operations in Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Romania, and Poland.
• Co-Responsible of identifying new business opportunities, analyzing its viability, coordinating the launch, structuring the management team and financing.
• Raised over 50 Million in capital for IG and its ventures from Angels and investors
• C0-Analyzed, structured, financed and launched a number of projects in Latin America and Spain among others:
• Wind Generation project in Mexico (www.preneal.com): Shares swapped with Eolia (Spanish Clean Energy Fund) at a valuation of over 200 Million Euro making over 35x return on investment over 5 years
• Business in Brazil to provide content to SMS premium segment (www.myalert .com Brazil): Company recently sold making 6x return on investment over 2 years.
• Real Estate investment company for Central Europe raising more than $20 million Euros
• Copycat of Next Tag in Spain and Latin America (www.captalis.com).
• Car washing company in Latin America (www.prontowash.com)
• Senior Care business in Spain (www.homeinstead.es)
• SME Consulting Franchise in Spain (www.action-international.com)
• Business that supplies products to hairdressers through catalog in Mexico (www.postquam.com)
• Actively looking to develop strategic relationships with Angels and VCs to partner on the technology space and take proven business models to IG Markets.

Serendipity Investments: Founder (2004-today) Structured an angel investment vehicle with personal capital that has made over 15 diverse investments among others:

• Angel Investments in the Internet Space:
  • Global Classifieds play: OLX (www.olx.com)
  • Copycat of Paypal in Latin America: Dimeromail.com (www.dineromail.com).
  • Copycat of Facebook in Latin America: Sonico (www.sonico.com)
  • Online Movie streaming: The Auteurs (www.theauteurs.com).
• Micro credits for the Hispanic Market: Progreso Financiero (www.progressfin.com)
• Frozen food manufacturer in Mexico.(www.dysal.com)
• Logistic brokerage operation in Mexico (www.american-logistics.com)
• Prepaid cards in Chec Republic.
• Real Estate investment projects in Spain, Poland, Russia, Argentina, Romania and Mexico.

eVisionPartners Venture Capital: Founding Partner and Managing Director (2000-2003)

• Co-Investor in the investment vehicle with focus on Internet and High Tech projects only
• Co-responsible of screening, executing and monitoring 8 High Tech investments in Emerging Markets (Latin America, Central Europe and India)
• Responsible of supporting the launch of an auction site in Eastern Europe: identified key management, negotiated technological solution and secured financing
• Invested and supported structure the an Indian Auction company, recently sold to eBay for more than $50 Million.
• Invested on the largest online travel company in Spain and Italy sold in dec. 2006 to TA Associates for over 170 million Euro
• Obtained over 100% IRR for investors on a 4 year period

DeRemate.com: Founding Partner and Director (1999-2005)

• Responsible of launching and coordinating the international expansion of DeRemate: 8 countries in Latin America.
• Structured and raised over $70M in Private Equity Capital, including a significant cash out from Terra.
• Company sold to Mercado Libre (merged and then brought Public at value of over 2 billion USD).

The Boston Consulting Group: (1997-1999)

• Worked as senior consultant in projects involving Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Mexico, Asia and Europe. In diverse industry sectors such as industrial goods, ecommerce, telecommunications, consumer goods and financial services
• Advised and supported senior executives of world class enterprises to develop and implement corporate strategies such as global expansion, product strategy, growth management, corporate restructuring, new market entry and acquisitions