Chief financial officer and co-founder of Kaaru, an emerging leader in the dairy industry in Ecuador, Nicolas Perez studied finance and history at the University of Notre Dame, graduating with honors (summa cum laude). He worked in investment banking in New York with Morgan Stanley and global markets investing with Millennium Capital in London. ANUNA, his most ambitious project, seeks to radically change waste management in Quito. He fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming certified as a private pilot.