About

A publisher who treats words like engineering.

Advancing the growth of financial publishing and investment research groups on six continents.

Rocky Vega in a candid photograph.

Seeking new financial research publishing business partners and executives in Bahrain, Japan, Russia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.

Expanding financial research groups in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Previously, publisher of The Daily Reckoning, and a founding publisher of UrbanTurf and RFID Update β€” run from Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico β€” as well as associate publisher of FierceFinance and FierceWiFi.

Honors master of science from the Stockholm School of Economics and honors bachelor of arts from Harvard University, serving on the board of directors for Let's Go Publications travel guides; Harvard Student Agencies; and The Harvard Advocate, North America's oldest continuously-published literary and arts magazine.

Works in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Career

The path, in short paragraphs.

  • 2018 β€” now

    Copywriting Consultant, Empiricus Research

    Copywriter and consultant at the independent research house that became a Brazilian reference.

  • 2018 β€” now

    Strategy Consultant, BoundarylessFrontiers

    Strategy for businesses without borders.

  • 2015 β€” now

    External International Development Consultant, The Agora Companies

    New business and talent for the Agora's offices around the world.

  • 2015 – 2018

    Executive Director, Global Projects β€” 14 West

    The Agora's Baltimore branch, where new markets are born.

  • 2013 – 2016

    Executive Publisher, Agora Economics

    Growing the founding house's economic research line.

  • 2012 – 2013

    International Publisher, Agora Financial

    Spanish-language groups and the natural health operation.

  • 2009 – 2011

    Regular Contributor, Agora Financial

    On the other side of the newsroom, writing for the readers.

  • 2009

    Publisher, The Daily Reckoning

    The contrarian-analysis newsletter reaching over half a million readers, six days a week.

  • 2004 – 2009

    Publisher, ALX Technologies Inc.

    His own company, founded in Salvador, Bahia β€” the state's first digital business.

  • 2003 – 2004

    Associate Publisher, FierceMarkets

    Daily financial technology coverage.

  • 2004

    Industry Mentor/Facilitator, MIT Sloan School of Management

    Business leadership programs with multinational executives.

Education

Where the handwriting was learned.

Harvard University

Honors B.A. β€” Psychology

Harvard College Scholar; The Harvard Advocate (Business Manager); Harvard Investment Association; Volunteer Big Brother.

Stockholm School of Economics

Honors M.S. β€” General Management

Award-winning thesis on market strategy for a US-based international financial publishing firm doing new business on the Mainland of the People's Republic of China.

Kellogg School of Management

Certificate β€” LEAD Program

Workshops with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, McDonald's, and Accenture; alumni coordinator for the Boston region.

Teaching

Teaching is the part that pays the bill.

Facilitator of business leadership programs at MIT Sloan and mentor at the Harvard Business School; direct-marketing professor at the Empiricus MBA, alongside guests such as Dr. Robert Cialdini, author of Influence.

Work published by The Business Insider, The Christian Science Monitor, and other leading media. Featured on TV, radio, and online.