Finance Ph.D. Candidate, University of Florida

Graduate Student Fellow, NBER Innovation Information Initiative (I3) 

About Me

I am a third-year Finance Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. My primary research interests are private capital markets, entrepreneurship and innovation, and corporate finance. 

Before joining Florida, I worked as a Corporate Strategy Manager at Bimbo Bakeries USA. I hold an MBA from the Texas McCombs School of Business.

What's New

• My paper "Tax Incentives and VC Risk-Taking" (with Murillo Campello) is in the program of:

  • NBER Economic Analysis of Business Taxation, Spring 2025 (Apr 18, 2025)

  • Private Capital Symposium at London Business School 2025 (May 22, 2025)

  • PERC Research Symposium at University of Oxford 2025 (May 23, 2025)

  • Finance Theory Group Summer School Conference 2025 (Jun 26, 2025)

  • Spanish Finance Association's 32nd Finance Forum 2025 (Jul 3, 2025)

  • University of Oregon Summer Finance Conference 2025 (Aug 7, 2025)

  • Finance Seminar at the University of Cambridge (Jun 5, 2025), University of Milan (Jun 17, 2025) 

• Taught Financial Management for UF's undergrad program in Summer 2025 (overall rating: 5.0/5.0)

• Selected for the Finance Theory Group Summer School 2025 (Jun 25--28, 2025)

• Selected as a 2025 Fellow in the NBER Innovation Information Initiative (I3)

• Selected for the Finance and Product Markets Summer School 2024 (Aug 12--16, 2024)

• Selected for the NBER Entrepreneurship Boot Camp 2024 (Jul 15--19, 2024)