Javier has three decades of experience as an investor, board member, founder,operating executive and public service. His views have been shaped by his broad range of experiences, global perspective, multi-cultural roots and change-makiing disposition.
Javier is Founder & Managing Partner of Impact Master Holdings, Venture Partner at Fenway Summer, a venture capital firm, and Operating Partner at Presidio Investors, a private equity firm. He serves as Chairman of the Board of The Only Agency, Chairman of the Board of GP Funding, Inc., Member of the Board of Directors of VCheck Inc., (all three PE-owned companies), Member of the Board of Directors of Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. (NASDAQ: HVII), and Member of the Board of Directors of Providence Swedish Health, one of largest health systems in the country. He also serves as Member of the Board of Advisors of Harvard University’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Board of Advisors of Hellas Verona FC (a Serie A Italian soccer club), Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, and Lecturer at University of Washington. He is a Contributor on CNBC and is the creator and host of ‘Top Of The Game’, a weekly podcast that explores what makes remarkable leaders tick and how they shape the world.
Until recently, Javier was Audit Committee Chair of the Board of Directors of SoftBank Vision Fund Investment Corp. (NASDAQ: SVFA), Lead Independent Director of the Board of Directors of Porch Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRCH), Member of the Board of Directors of two (NYSE: TWOA) now Logistics Properties of the Americas (NYSE: LPA), Member of the Board of Directors of Global Technology Acquisition Company (NYSE: GTAC), and Member of the Boards of Trustees of Pan American Development Foundation and The Nature Conservancy. He also held seats on the Global Advisory Board of Docusign, Inc. (NASDAQ: DOCU) and Board of Advisors of Univision Communications, Inc., Member of the White House's Advisory Committee on Trade & Policy Negotations, and is a current Member Candidate of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Board Advisory Council and NASDAQ's Center for Board Excellence.
Previously, Javier was appointed by President Obama to serve as Associate Administrator, Chief of Investment & Innovation of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). He was chief executive of programs that since inception have invested over $120 billion in ~300,000 companies. He also served on a number of White House working groups and councils and concurrently served on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Committee on Small & Emerging Companies. Before public service, he spent 20+ years in various investing, operating and advisory roles at organizations that include McKinsey & Company, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Bridgewater Associates, Abbott Laboratories and Air America. In his transition back to private life he was Executive in Residence at Columbia University’s Columbia Technology Ventures, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Beeck Center and Mentor at Stanford University’s Latino Leadership Initiative.
Over his career Javier has been a director of several PE/VC backed companies and nonprofits and served as Mentor at Kauffman Foundation and Techstars and was a Member of Aspen Institute’s Latinos & Society. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, MS in Operations & Technology from Illinois Institute of Technology and BS in Industrial Management from Purdue University.
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