alpha echo design & development is one of the fastest growing new real estate development companies in the Boston area. alpha echo focuses on creating value with truly innovative design and engineering.As founder and CEO of MagNet Analytics Inc. Eduardo led an experienced team in the development of its next generation technology for automated retail. Euardo established partnerships with prominent brands including Disney, McDonalds, mophie, Marley, Bang & Olufsen, LovePop, Simon Properties, Delaware North, and Airmall.Prior to MagNet Analytics, Eduardo founded VIGIX Inc. a company that created breakthrough software and hardware for automated retail. VIGIX was acquired by Zoom Systems in June 2013, the world leader in the industry. As CEO Eduardo formed critical joint ventures with IDEO and Flextronics, raised $5M of seed and venture capital, and directed the development of the technology and business infrastructure. VIGIX customers include Motorola, Sony, IBM, Coinstar, Richline, Procter & Gamble, Swatch, Rite-Aid, and Estee Lauder. Eduardo was issued US patent 8,235,247 B2 and Japanese patent 5306812 for the VIGIX revolutionary no-moving-parts dispensing system.Eduardo is an MIT Sloan graduate who has conducted product development research with the MIT media lab and IDEO. Eduardo is Co-author of MIT best-seller "Design-Inspired Innovation" published in Dec 2006 by World Scientific (Translated into Japanese and Chinese).At Altura International, Inc. now shop.com (funded by Bill Gates, Yahoo, and Amazon), he was director of business development for Spain and Latin America, and manager in the US. At Connection Engine, Inc. Mr. Alvarez was a co-founder and VP of business development and marketing. Mr. Alvarez was also project director of AT Group where he had P&L responsibility of projects worth $100M+.Eduardo holds a Masters in Management of Technology from MIT's Sloan School of Management where he published his thesis on "Managing Creativity for Effective Innovation". He also holds a BS in both Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Monterrey Tech. He has lectured on customer-focused entrepreneurship at MIT, Babson University, Bentley University, Monterrey Tech, and Mexico State University. He won the first prize at the International Entrepreneurial Expo of Monterrey Tech. Eduardo was the Family Chair of the MIT Club of Boston and is a member of the board of directors of Monterrey Tech.