Formerly a journalist, he was Houston bureau chief for Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., where he wrote about the global energy business. He was also a business reporter for The Seattle Times, where he worked the Amazon.com beat, reported from Haiti and Cuba thanks to the newspaper's partnership with the Seattle International Foundation, and in 2014 he was part of a Pulitzer-winning effort for breaking news coverage of the murderous Oso mudslide.
A graduate of the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and UC Berkeley, he now works as a research analyst for a New York investment firm from his home base in Seattle. Caracas-born and raised, he has deep family roots in Camaguey, Cuba.