Senior Team
Luis Romero
Founder | Managing Partner | Investment Principal
Mr. Romero has over a decade of professional experience in corporate finance, investing, and entrepreneurship. He specializes in financial modeling, equity valuation, and strategic consideration analysis to support investment decisions. He launched Romero Capital, a private equity search fund with focus in the education and healthcare sectors. Mr. Romero began his career in Investment Banking in the M&A group at Credit Suisse with $2 billion of deal experience. He later worked as an equity analyst and junior trader for Seven Points Capital. He later served as a corporate development analyst and senior instructor at the New York School of Finance and conducted financial modeling training programs for corporate and individual clients across the U.S., Canada, and Germany. Mr. Romero has trained, mentored, and helped hundreds of college students start their careers in finance through Romero Mentoring, an EdTech platform he bootstrapped offering investment banking training and internship programs.
He earned a B.B.A. in finance and investments with a minor in philosophy from the City University of New York, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business.
Deivi Romero
Partner | Investor
Mr. Romero has over a decade of military and professional experience in law enforcement and security. He currently supports Cape Canaveral Space Force Station assisting Blue Origin $205 million space project with security administration while also supporting space programs for Space X and ULA.
Mr. Romero began his career in 2009 when he joined the United States Air Force and proudly served for four years as a Security Force Member. While serving in the Air Force, Mr. Romero was promoted to Team Leader where he supervised and administered the development and operation of ongoing criminal investigation program for a large military installation. In addition, he led security response team in protecting restricted areas with United Estates assets valued over $1 billion. While in the Air Force, Mr. Romero served two tours in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia and UAE) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom where he successfully led his team to multiple convoys with 0 incidents.
Mr. Romero is fluent in English and Spanish and graduated from the Federal Police Academy VALETC and was recognized as one of the top performers in his class.
Carlos Montesinos
Senior Advisor
Mr. Montesinos is the CEO & Managing Partner of Amitz Capital. Mr. Montesinos began his career working in Mergers & Acquisitions at Credit Suisse in New York City in 2006. After completing his analyst program at Credit Suisse, Carlos became an associate at Merrill Lynch, where he was responsible for multi-asset class investments in Latin America. Through Merrill Lynch, Carlos relocated from NYC to Rio de Janeiro, to execute an operational turn-around plan and assume the controller role at one of Merrill’s portfolio companies. After successfully executing that project and helping Merrill sell its stake in the company, Carlos joined TPG Capital, as part of the private equity platform in Latin America. At TPG, Carlos played a key role in opening TPG’s office in Sao Paulo, as well as developing the fund’s private equity platform in the region.
Carlos is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish and holds a B.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master's Degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.