Arturo has been a Serial Entrepreneur, a sought-after Consultant/Coach, two-time Bestselling Author and Public Speaker for over 25 years. He has been involved in well over 130 business acquisitions, transactions, valuations, and business deals. He has successfully started, bought, sold, and operated over 60 companies across 20 industries, personally from his own portfolio, where he buys them, makes them more efficient and/or scales them, and eventually sells them for a higher multiple or profit. He has successfully raised over 100 million dollars in debt and equity from banks, venture capitalists, and investors for his own businesses while managing over 2,000 employees combined. He has bought restaurants, started a tequila company, a consumer goods export company, a technology company, bars and night clubs, a pest control company, fast food restaurants, real estate brokerages, a steel fabrication company, franchises, a wholesale distributor, a data center, a loan servicing company, a logistics company, an importer and distributor of electrical appliances, an oil and gas company, a theater production, a professional soccer game, a senior living management company, among others. These have all been done for his own portfolio and in some cases without using his own capital. He raised 10 million dollars for his company from venture capital funds like Merrill Lynch Venture Capital, CVC Latin America, Citibank’s venture capital arm, as well as the Explorador fund in Silicon Valley. He has also taken one of his companies public on the stock market in the United States. He has worked at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, and KPMG as managing director of their mergers and acquisitions division, where he was involved in over 60 deals. He holds 3 master's degrees: a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a double master's degree (Double MA) in International Relations and Communications from Boston University. Arturo is the bestselling author of Buy Yourself Into Entrepreneurship and Leading High Performing Teams. He is in the process of publishing his new book, Synergistic Leadership: Back to Basics. Arturo has also taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels on varied topics from Corporate Finance, Strategic Negotiations, and Evaluations of Investment Projects to Geopolitics. Arturo has travelled extensively throughout the US, Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia and speaks three languages fluently (English, Spanish, and French). Texas Real Estate License #604285