Who we are

Co-Founder / U.S. Marine Corps Veteran

Andrew Carrabus

Andrew is a financial and management professional with a strong track record of turning around struggling businesses. After graduating from Villanova University, he served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps before a career spanning operations, finance, and turnaround leadership across travel, retail, distribution, food manufacturing, construction, real estate, and software.

For economic development partners, that history matters in a specific way: Andrew has sat on the operator's side of the table at businesses in exactly the condition BRE programs exist to catch. His planning discipline, learned as an officer of Marines, drives the underwriting logic inside our readiness diagnostics.

Co-Founder / U.S. Army Veteran

Joaquin Amador

Joaquin is a United States Army veteran raised in Puerto Rico and Northern New Mexico. He holds a BA in Psychology, an MBA with dual concentrations in Marketing and Management of Technology from the University of New Mexico, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Chicago.

His career runs through Accenture, where he managed online marketing for a division, and community development lending, where he worked inside the CDFI programs that fund small businesses. The common thread is solving business and organizational problems with the same pairing every time: Kaizen discipline and the right technology. As a consultant to GM Mexico, he led a quantitative quality initiative that produced the billion-dollar plant's first defect-free surprise audit.

Today he builds the AI-powered tools behind our platform: readiness assessments, advisory assistants, and generative engine optimization for economic development and small business clients. He completed Qubit by Qubit's two-semester Introduction to Quantum Computing with IBM Quantum, speaks three languages, and off the clock fly-fishes Northern New Mexico's waters.