About

I am an engineer by training and an operator by trade, and the two have never been separate for me. I started in systems engineering at Universidad de Lima, and my early career was spent implementing enterprise systems for the largest institutions in Latin America, banks, customs authorities, and industrial companies, at a time when that meant building the digital foundations from the ground up.

My first real exposure to complexity came around fault-tolerant, fully redundant computing, the kind of mission-critical systems banks run so they never go down. I learned networks, switches, routing, and systems architecture, and around the same time I began hand-coding entire websites at the dawn of the web and building early intranets on the first internet servers. I was drawn immediately to the place where infrastructure meets information.

I then spent years inside a global technology leader, first in a hybrid role that combined technical work, education, and marketing, delivering training to the reseller channel and executing global product launches, then moving into an engineering, consulting, and delivery role implementing large-scale systems for top banks, retailers, and industrial clients. I also spent time in the engineering department of a large construction multinational, around dams, refineries, and highways, where I learned to see buildings as systems of forces rather than objects. That way of seeing never switched off. It is the same instinct I bring to a balance sheet, a business process, or a piece of real estate.

For the next two decades I worked at the intersection of systems and finance. I led complex integrations: consolidating systems and analytics for a multi-entity bank acquisition, integrating leasing and asset-finance portfolios, and engineering credit, origination, and compliance frameworks for major lenders. I did business-intelligence and data work inside Tier-1 pharmaceutical, consumer-goods, and manufacturing environments. The projects were often multi-year, with teams executing beneath me, and the through-line was always the same: abstract the tangle to its core, isolate what actually matters, and design the architecture from the result the business needs, not from the tool that happens to be fashionable.

Today that work has two homes. Through Thalos Capital, I run a boutique commercial finance origination and advisory practice that works on the borrower's side, helping business owners across the United States and Canada secure the financing they need to operate, grow, and move on opportunities. Through CXO Corporation, a firm I have led since 2006, I work on agentic AI workflow automation, building the systems that compress manual work and lower operating cost for financial-services and growing companies. One is about capital. The other is about how work gets done. Both come from the same engineering habit.

I have also spent years as an investor and, at times, in the room where capital-intensive ventures are governed. I held a significant personal stake in a frontier-transportation startup and sat close enough to watch it navigate the parts of a business most people never see: the regulatory and political terrain of infrastructure, from state legislatures to congressional discussion, cross-cultural dealmaking with international operators, and the full arc of a deep-tech venture from ambition to wind-down. That is a different education than any enterprise project, and it shapes how I think and write about technology, regulation, and risk.

Real estate has run alongside all of it for twenty-five years, mostly value-add and design-led repositioning across North America, Europe, and Latin America. I was a licensed real estate professional in Peru, where I used the license less for brokerage than for access to off-market commercial and industrial deals sold to foreign corporations. In Marbella I ran a brokerage and held mandates with leading developers and global branded-residence projects, selling my own luxury villa renovations alongside those exclusive branded homes. Even running a brokerage and carrying those mandates, I never worked the way a broker or a decorator works. I read a property the way an engineer does, always paired with rigorous financial analysis, which is the subject of some of my writing here.

The rest is wiring. I have been a competitive athlete and an ocean person my whole life: a judo champion as a child, a certified scuba instructor since my teens, and someone most at home in and around the water. I founded the IEEE student branch at my university and presented at technology conferences early in my career. None of this is a résumé. It is simply how I am built: disciplined, systems-minded, and more interested in what a thing could become than in how it currently looks.