Juan Carlos is an Economist by the University of Costa Rica, and MBA in Finance and Investments by the George Washington University, with more than 25 years of experience in corporate and project financing, development finance, and impact investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, including impact investment fund design, structuring, fund raising, and management.
Since 2017, he is Managing Partner at Add-Value Management, an impact fund management and financial consulting firm. Responsible for leading the design, structuring and fundraising for the Small Farmers Climate Adaptation Fund (SMAF), an impact fund aiming at providing climate adaptation solutions to smallholder farmers in Latin America through a group of rural microfinance institutions.