A highly experienced world-business integrator, with a track record marked by strong international success, profit-enhancing global partnerships, insightful strategy development, and a keen ability to successfully navigate the Japanese corporate world. A business veteran who quickly proved his worth at Apple, his first position, leading in the area of international business development in Latin America, Asia, and Japan. His creative, entrepreneurial spirit has brought him numerous accomplishments, using his shrewd, effective executive management skills to bring about and sustain company formation and venture investing in the technology industry.Recent Experience:*Managing Partner, Inventity Group*Senior Strategy Advisor to companies in Silicon Valley*Senior advisor, The Strategy Group at Flex Inc.,*Served as Vice President of Asia Pacific at Wolfram Alpha LLC. *Founder and CEO of Lignup Corporation, an IP based communications products company, acquired in by a Japanese conglomerate group. *Co-founder and Managing Partner of the Inventity Group, LLC, and Inventity Global Fund, an early stage investment and consulting company located in Mountain View, Ca. *C0-founder of EC-One KK, a public company located in Japan and leading developer of Java applications for large enterprises. *Co-founder of enCommerce an Internet security company developer of the first access control, single sign-on product. Acquired by Entrust Technologies Inc.*At Taligent, managed the Asia Pacific regional strategy, including the sales and licensing strategy and operatons. *Senior Executive positions at Apple for 15 years, as Director and General Manager, Hector spearheaded the growth and presence of Apple in Latin America, Asia and Japan. Education: *Stanford Business School, Strategic Marketing Program*Harvard-Kennedy School of Government, Advance Management Program**Masters in International Relations, University of Madrid **Bachelor's degree in Political Science, San Jose State UniversitySpecialties: Investments, entrepreneurial start-up, international business development, globalization, investments, Internet, enterprise software development