Capital Compass Fellowship

Luis Romero

Luis Romero has over fifteen years of professional experience in corporate finance, investing, and entrepreneurship. He specializes in financial analysis, equity valuation, stock investments, and strategic analysis. Luis began his career as an investment banker in the M&A group at Credit Suisse New York, where he worked on the $9 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile and the $400 million sale of Sabre Industries. After investment banking, Luis moved to the buy-side to Seven Points Capital, a long/short trading firm where he was a proprietary trader and analyst. He later served as a 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. After this he founded Romero Capital, a private equity fund investing in public and private companies in the education, healthcare and technology sectors. 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.

Jonathan Cummings

Advisor, Insights International and Member of Board, UN South-South Cooperation
 

Mr. Jonathon Cummings serves as an Alliance Manager for Deloitte’s Government and Public Service practice. He is also a Member of the Steering Committee for the Alliance of NGOs and CSOs for South- South Cooperation, an Adviser for Global Policy Insights, and Indian based Think.

He is originally from Kingston, Jamaica and moved to New York City at the age of 16 to complete high school. He holds a B.A in Culture and Communication Studies and a minor in International Politics from Ithaca College. During his time at Ithaca College, he served as the Co - President of the Class of 2015. He also worked as an International Humanitarian Law Chapter Liaison for the American Red Cross. After graduation, Jonathon worked as a Legal Assistant at Friedlander Law Firm, which was in Ithaca, NY.

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Arpit Chaturvedi

Founder Insights International

 

Arpit (MPA Cornell University) is a policy entrepreneur. He is the Founder of the political risk management and policy advocacy firm Insights International. He is also the Co-founder of Global Policy Insights (GPI) – a centrist thinktank focused on Governance, International Political Economy, International Security Studies and Sustainability.

He Co-Chairs various international affairs and public diplomacy forums such as the QUAD Security Forum and the Indian Women in International Affairs Forums to bring diverse voices in the fields of public affairs. He also serves as an Advisor at the Kyiv School of Diplomatic Arts.

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A Comparativist in his approach, he served as a Lecturer at the San Francisco State University where he taught a graduate level course on Comparative Perspectives in Public Administration. He was also part of the founding academic team of the Indian School of Public Policy where he served as an Instructor of Public Policy and the founding Academic Coordinator.