Carlos is passionate about entrepreneurship and social impact. His trajectory involves over six years of experience in entrepreneurial support, project management, marketing, business development, and business education in the non-profit and private sectors. In Canada, he has worked with Spring identifying and nurturing values-aligned partnerships to support its impact-focused business incubator and with Small Business BC developing initiatives to connect the small business community in the province. Back in his home country of El Salvador, he led a social impact initiative aimed at developing soft skills in high school students through an experiential 12-week curriculum in entrepreneurship. He was also involved in politics and civic engagement initiatives. Carlos holds an MBA from SFU Beedie School of Business and a double degree in International Business and Marketing from John Brown University.