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<span style="font-size:largermedium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Witnessing how technology empowers people that have been traditionally marginalized, especially in developing countries such as his native Mexico, made Alfonso believe that research, innovation, and entrepreneurship are the most effective venues for economic development, social change, and a sustainable future.</span> <br/><br/><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-sizefamily: largerHelvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Every innovation ecosystem relies on both the entrepreneurs' creative approach to solving solve challenges and the people's willingness to embrace new technologies. This is why Alfonso decided has been involved with entities that lead initiatives to join TTIMEdevelop local, the entrepreneurial student organization at Techregional, national and global I&E networks that includes an accelerator, an angel investor group, as their VP of Development to foster a culture of technology transfer office, entrepreneurship. He works closely with the university administrators student organizations, and faculty, local economic development organizations and the local angel network to make opportunities available for students to engage in these activities.</span> <br/><br/><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-sizefamily: largerHelvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Alfonso currently works at Kineticis particularly interested on learning about emerging economies that are are laying the foundations to compete in the global market powered by improved educational access, Texas Tech´s technology transfer acceleratorpublic policy reforms, as a Venture Fellow. His responsabilities include supporting teams in the tech transfer and mainstream entrepreneur track technology adoption and helping the Director in the program´s managementdevelopment.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: larger;">He has previously worked as a Supplemental Instruction Leader for the differential equations course and as a Student Consultant at the TTU Small Business Development Center helping entrepreneurs launch their business projects. His future career goals include interning at the Inter-American Development Bank evaluating development projects to be implemented in Latin American nations and working as an analyst at an impact investing venture capital fund.&nbsp;</span>

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