• Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Harvard University, Graduate School of Business, 1992
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), INCAE, 1982
• B.S. Naval Engineering, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, 1980
• President, INCAE, 1999-present
• Dean, INCAE, 1996-1999
• Director and founder, Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS), 1995-1999
• INCAE is the premier school of business in Latin America and CLACDS is one of the most important think-tanks in topics of social, economic, and competitive development in the region, serving 12 countries in Latin America
• Trust Protector, ViVa Trust, one of the largest philanthropic organizations working in Latin America
• President of MARVIVA de Costa Rica, a private, non-profit organization created to protect selected insular and coastal areas of Latin America
• Director, Central American Leadership Initiative, a joint program of INCAE, the Aspen Institute, Fundem's, and Technoserve
• Director of several private corporations including COPA Airlines (a public company listed in NYSE), COCECA (Central American Brewery), Rostipollos (the largest local food franchise in Costa Rica), CM Datatex (a technology and communications company), W2W Costa Rica (a sports promotion corporation)
• Advisor to AED, the largest local philanthropic group in Costa Rica; FUNDESA, a social equity foundation in Guatemala; and several other philanthropic and development organizations in the region
• Private consulting, has provided strategic planning services and advice to corporations such as Bunge (Brazil), Purdy Motor (Toyota of Costa Rica), Cemento Panam (Panam), INTEL (Costa Rica) and many others in more than 12 countries of Latin America
• Public sector, has been advisor in competitiveness to more than 20 government teams in 8 countries, including those of Central America, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Croatia in topics of national competitiveness and socioeconomic development. Has also served as advisor in topics of development and competition to the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), and many public-private interphase organizations in topics of competitive and sustainable development.
• The Competitiveness of, has written five monographs, one per country, for each of the national economies of the five Central American Nations, 1998
• Cambiar para prosperar, Centro America ante el nuevo siglo (Prosperity Through Change, Central America before the New Century), 1999
• Between 1994 and 2004 he has authored or coauthored more than 50 monographs and working papers in topics of the impact of logistics, telecommunications, customs, etc. of national competitiveness, as well as competitiveness analysis of productive sectors such as tourism, agribusiness, textiles, transportation, etc. in at least seven countries.
• The recent focus of his work is on social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility and their impact on the process of sustainable development.

He has been keynote speaker in more than 40 national or international conferences, on topics of competitiveness, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and social entrepreneurship in 16 countries including all the nations in Central America, U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Thailand and Croatia. He has been guest speaker for the Council of the Americas, the Interamerican Development Bank, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, Caribbean Latin American Action, and other international organizations in Japan and Taiwan.

Born in Costa Rica, 46 years of age, proficient in Spanish and English at native level, has worked in more than 30 countries around the world and traveled extensively in five continents. Married to Marcella, 3 children of 21, 19, and 13.