Richard is an accomplished emerging market private equity and venture capital investor with 15+ years of experience. He has played an active role in raising new investment funds, as well as originating, structuring, monitoring and exiting direct investments. Richard is Founder and Managing Partner of Pomona Impact, an impact investment firm that invests in for-profit businesses with a social mission across Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador. He also founded the Pomona Impact Foundation that runs the leading AgTech accelerator in Central America. He co-founded two dynamic co-working spaces in Guatemala, Chamba and the Impact Hub Antigua, and remains active in building the local entrepreneurial ecosystems. He is on the board of directors of Enactus Guatemala and several portfolio companies. Richard has also worked 10 years with Latin American Partners and EMP Global developing investment funds and making direct investments across Latin America and Middle East & North Africa in infrastructure, agriculture and heavy industry. Richard brings an entrepreneurial mindset to everything he does. He has a BA from Furman University and MBA from Georgetown U. Specialties: Private equity, mezzanine structuring, impact investing, entrepreneurship, macro-economics, infrastructure, hospitality, business strategy and community building.