Roberto has broad experience in financial management, with a functional and managerial focus. His expertise encompasses not only designing and implementing financial processes to attain a thorough oversight of the business, but he also has the ability to translate strategy into sophisticated financial models and provide operational analysis to support business decisions and steer execution.
He is hands on as a real estate investor himself, thus has a good understanding of market’s dynamics and considerations that need to be reviewed when embarking on that specific venture. His father was a civil engineer, which makes him familiar with construction principles.
Roberto started his career in Latin America, working in multinational enterprises. He has held different roles at global companies in the finance area for different industries such as Airlines, Banking, Consumer Goods, Yellow Pages, Telecomm, Procurement & Logistics, Produce - Perishable products and Digital printing. He and his family moved to the US in 2001, and since 2015 lives in the metro Atlanta area.
His experience includes Managing startups, supporting M&A initiatives, crafting company-wide budgets, negotiating multi-million financial facilities and business agreements, developing relationships and strategic partnerships on a global setting.
Roberto holds two MBA degrees, one with concentration in Finance and the other in Global Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is fluent in Spanish and French.