A Partner in Your Success.

I'm all about growing businesses, building great teams, and driving real results. As CEO of Dion Training, I led the company through expansive revenue growth – a performance that earned prestigious industry awards. From day one, I focused on understanding the business inside and out. I then implemented cutting-edge digital marketing strategies, improved operations, launched new products, and built a high-performing sales team. But the real key to our success was investing in people—we maintained a 100% employee satisfaction score for three quarters in a row, a reflection of our culture.

I began my career at an investment bank, where I helped create the firm’s first-ever regulatory framework. I went on to manage investments for families and individuals, including entrepreneurs, and then spent five years scaling a new business unit that invested on behalf of endowments and foundations. 

Now, I want to continue doing what I enjoy and acquire a business where I can bring that same energy and hands-on leadership needed to take it to the next level.

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Education, both formal and informal, is a core value of mine. I earned my undergraduate degree in International Business from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, where I developed a strong affinity for all things Pittsburgh, as it’s the city that gave me my first shot at something great.

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After a few years of working, I completed a Masters in Business Administration and a masters focused on public policy. These two degrees were part of me fulfilling two life-long dreams of pursuing a career in entrepreneurship and gaining more exposure to economics and foreign policy. 

As I hope to someday be an educator, I used my time in school to serve as a teaching assistant, supporting courses that spanned investing, entrepreneurship, political theory, and global economics. It was through my teaching assistant work supporting Peter Kelly during graduate school that I was first introduced to the search fund model – inspiring my vision to someday launch my own successful fund to acquire a small business. And here we are!

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I’m Dominican-American and raised in Providence, RI. My entrepreneurial drive stems from my grandmother. In the 1970’s in Esperanza, a town of about 50,000 people in the Dominican Republic, she founded the region’s only pharmacy. Over the next 40 years, she successfully ran the business while raising a large family. Growing up, I witnessed her dedication and what it took to keep a business like hers thriving for so many years. I took my first steps in that pharmacy and as a kid, thoroughly enjoyed pretending to use the cash registers and chatting with customers. She inspired my desire to build something great that prioritizes people as well as profitability and growth.

Beyond thinking about businesses all day, I am a serial “Tinkerer,” always trying new hobbies, including sky diving, getting scuba certified, multi-day hikes in places like the Simien mountains in Ethiopia, and most recently, teaming up with my toddler son to learn to play the ukulele together. I love good food but am not a great cook, and am generally happiest when I’m hiking in the mountains or swimming in the ocean. I live in Washington, DC with my husband, son, and adored dog. 

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