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Versatile engineer, social entrepreneur and promoter of holistic management and ecosystem restoration with 12 years of professional experience. Project management in sustainable development and regenerative systems, a creative mind-set for innovation in socioeconomic development together with ecological recovery.My passion in life is building, testing and scaling solutions for a much needed transition, from business-as-usual to actively restoring climate and environment with community resilience.Areas of expertise and interest (professional experience since 2011) include: project design, funding and management, strategic planning and organizational finance, social business, community capacity-building, empowerment, community-led conservation, ecosystem-based climate change adaptation and mitigation, groundwater and hydrogeophysics, drylands/arid environments, ecotourism, biodiversity and nature positive solutions, wastewater treatment, clean energy alternatives, CSR, holistic management, complex systems and regenerative livestock grazing agriculture.Current: Co-Founder and Director at EcoSwell since 2013 (non-profit for-impact organization based in Lobitos, rural northern coast Peru, www.ecoswell.org). Co-design, funding, research and project implementation with marginalized communities on-the-ground and international partners: ecosystem restoration, geophysics for groundwater monitoring, ecotourism conservation, wastewater bio-remediation.Past: Founding partner and manager at Presencia consultancy (social business) for 2.5 years. 3.5 years of experience as sustainable business executive at Asesorandes, development of multistakeholder projects and head of sustainable forestry projects in the central Peruvian Amazon Rainforest with indigenous communities and international cooperation funds. Other past working experience (4 years): national and transnational companies (Interbank, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Diageo), telemarketing, sales, income & expenses database administration, real estate, financial representative, sales and financial reports and analysis, business intelligence, corporate relations and transactions with local banks.B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering (2009, ULima, Perú).Bilingual skills (Spanish native and English perfect).Leisure surfer and nature-lover, passion for solving current social, environmental and development issues with a holistic decision-making framework.

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