“If there’s a will there’s definitely a way.”
—Victor Montalvo
here’s a photo of me 2 years ago doing a pop up breaking session in Chicago. Lots of tourists around andI actually hurt my wrist but I kept going. Probably not the best idea but this is also where I met the National scout for U.S. Breaking team for the Olympics and I got on the team to rep the country and came home with 3rd place at the Paris Olympic Games.
Although I don’t get to Break’ as much as I would like to these days, I engage in Muay Thai kickboxing for my workouts.
University photo graduated from Business School at the University of Chicago Illinois.
My time at University I got hooked on eating meditteranian food. Its what inspired me to start cooking my own healthy dishes. I will never forget the long days in the library trying to complete my projects while all my friends were out partying. Most of them are married now.. to people they were partying with while we were all in school LOL.
When my business degree didn’t work out in the corporate world. I quit and travelled to a far away place in Central America. This was my view everyday. The locals didn’t have the cleanest water to drink and bathe in so I sourced a small filter that was used by first world mountaineers to drink water from fresh mountain run off. I researched how I could create similar products on a bigger scale and made a prototype to use in the river basin. I was able to get government funding and created a start- up for “Clean- Tech” by operating this water filtration system using Solar Panels. The company has been valuated at $276 million dollars and most important thing.. its improved the livelihood of the populations in developing countries.
My business degree ended up being put to good use.. just in another country.