Began his career in 1993 as a floor broker in the Caracas Stock Exchange for the broker dealer of Grupo Confinanzas while studying Business Administration in the Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas. He later transfered to the Local Fixed Income area and thereafter to the International Fixed Income area. In 1998 was Foreign Associate in Peru for North American Institutional Brokers covering US Equity institutional clientes. In 2000 he joined FTC Securities as Foreign Associate for Latin America, in charge of developing US Equity and Fixed Income for institutional clientes. In 2003 he joined forces with Convencao, a brazilian broker dealer, to develop their international division offering Futures, Commodities, US Equities and International Fixed Income to institutional clientes. In 2007 he founded an Emerging Markets international fixed income boutique, Galloway Capital Management, where he served as managing diretor and portfolio manager until late 2014. He has lived in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, United States and Canada and is fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.