University professor, researcher and facilitator of innovation processes. He began his professional career in the technology industry, holding positions as strategic account manager and sales manager for more than 14 years. His experience includes both high-tech start-ups and large corporations such as Microsoft. His career has been characterized by breaking new ground with cutting-edge technologies for emerging markets.
During the 1990's when the Internet was still becoming popular in the Central American market, Alvaro helped in the commercial development of a successful start-up pioneer in Internet security services that today is a leader in the region.
Later, in 2001, his exceptional work performance at Microsoft led him to receive an award from Bill Gates for the 300 most valuable employees worldwide that year. His recognition of the importance of human interaction in successful business transactions led him to pursue a Master of Science degree in Organizational and Social Psychology at the London School of Economics in 2006, where he was one of the top-performing students in the class of 2007. His high performance as a researcher led him to win a scholarship from the British government through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ ) in 2008, to do a PhD in Innovation Management at the University of Cambridge.
He worked at the Cambridge Integrated Knowledge Centre (CIKC http://www-cikc.eng.cam.ac.uk/) supporting with commercial strategies to develop the inventions of physicists at the Cavendish Laboratory(http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/ ) and electrical engineers at the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE http://www-cape.eng.cam.ac.uk/). This helped to consolidate Alvaro's career as a specialist in emerging technologies and markets. This is because his work focused on the commercialization of flexible, transparent electronic devices made of advanced materials for industries that are still emerging today such as the Internet of Things.
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