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Alvaro has 20 years of expertise in Innovation, Organizational development, Change management, Talent diversity and Human centered design. He has been a consultant to medium and large forward-thinking organizations across Latin America including SAB Miller, Hewlett Packard, Toyota, among others.

In 2014, Alvaro was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship of Innovation, chaired by Collin Powell, to research new ways of developing innovation capabilities through non-traditional platforms where participants give themselves permission to fail, fail faster and fail better by learning from parallel worlds, gaining creative confidence in order to have the courage to leap forward and solve complex challenges.

In 2016, Alvaro joined the BRECA Group as the co-founder and CEO of BREIN; the Group´s Innovation Hub, which he currently leads. BRECA is the largest private investor conglomerate based in Peru and present across Latin America. Founded 130 years ago, it has a diversified portfolio of operating companies in sectors including Mining, Fishing, Painting, Cement, Hotels, Real estate, insurance, healthcare and banking. The main purpose of BREIN is to untap and develop creative and innovative potential within BRECA´s ecosystem to break paradigms and transform opportunities into impact through five main labs: Human Centered design Lab, Tech & Digital Lab, Centre for Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Open Innovation Lab and BREIN Academy.

Alvaro holds a BSc in Economics and Management Studies at the University of London and an MSc in Organizational Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He also has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Sloan Fellowship in Innovation and Global Leadership at the same university.

In his personal life, from a young age, Alvaro has formerly represented Peru internationally as a professional tennis player. His main hobby is writing and directing short films. His short film "The Companion" premiered at the Sundance film festival and became a Grand Jury prize finalist and selected in more than 80 film festivals around the world. In 2015, Alvaro took a "Gap year" to live in the Andes of Peru to write, direct and produce RETABLO, his First Feature Film which was developed at the Sundance Lab, chaired by Robert Redford. In 2018, Retablo had its world premiere at the Berlinale, winning the Teddy Award. Since then, Retablo has gone to win over 50 awards in the International Film Festival Circuit and was Peru´s official entry for Best International Film at the 2020 Oscar Academy Awards. In the same year, was nominated for a BAFTA-British Academy Awards and for Best International Film at the Independent Spirit Awards. Furthermore, it was nominated for Best Foreign Director and Best Foreign Actor at the Chinese Academy Awards, winning in both categories. In July 2020, Retablo was acquired by Netflix.