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Javier is a Europe and Americas-based strategic and M&A advisor, Non-Executive Director and a private equity and venture investor.  Javier has a thirty-year investment banking career in New York City and London where he has worked at JP Morgan, James D Wolfensohn Inc and Goldman Sachs, where he headed Latin American Investment Banking Services.  Javier founded Athelera LLC, a middle-market focused M&A boutique with offices in New York, London and Bogota that he successfully led for over 15 years.  During his career Javier has acted as financial advisor to many leading companies, entrepreneurs and family groups throughout the Americas and Europe across a broad range of industries.

Javier has served as a Director of a number of public and private companies and is currently an independent Director of Venezuela’s leading telecommunications Company Corporacion Digitel S.A.. Javier has also served on the board of the Pan-American financial services group Compass Group Holdings, Zug-based oil and gas and metals trader Arrow Resources, Spain-based logistics group SGEL, and Mexico-based and NYSE-listed affordable income housing developer Corporacion Geo S.A. de C.V..  Javier is a member of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater,Tufts University, where he also serves on advisory boards of Tisch College and the International Advisory Board. Javier earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Quantitative Economics in 1991. Javier currently resides between the UK, Spain and Morocco and is a citizen of Spain. He is married and is the parent and stepparent of seven children.

 

November 10, 2025