Luis Vasquez
Managing Partner at GV Strategic Services
San Juan Capistrano, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2024 - Current
We provide comprehensive financial and operational leadership for startups, freeing CEOs, founders, and technical teams to focus on what they do best and not incur the full expense of financial and operations leadership before it is absolutely necessary.
Director Of Operations
2021
Consultant
2018 - 2021
Associate Director, Venture Collaboration
2018 - 2021
Provide deal flow to venture investors. The deal flow is all technology sectors and includes UC-based intellectual property, university start-ups, UC Irvine alumni founded start-ups, top start-ups from Orange County ecosystem.
UCI Applied Innovation brings campus-based discoveries together.
Consultant
2018 - 2019
Advisor - Business Development
2018 - 2018
Fundraising, strategy, and investment reporting. Also work within the local and regional technology, startup, and VC ecosystem to optimize deal flow for the firm and provide value-added connections to entrepreneurs and founders.
Miramar Ventures, launched in 2002, is focused on seed and early stage venture capital investing in the mobile sector.
Vice President of Investor Relations
2013 - 2018
Managed relationships with the funds' investors. Also supported the funds' portfolio companies.
VP of Entrepreneurship, LaunchPad SBDC Director
2004 - 2013
I'm proud that I helped build OCTANe into the vibrant organization that it has become. In my primary role as a Vice President at OCTANe and Director of the LaunchPad SBDC, I developed LaunchPad's data-driven evaluation process. Under my direction, LaunchPad helped over 114 companies raise more than $300,000,000.
OCTANe connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth.
Project Consultant
2007 - 2008
I was part of the team from that created the US GAAP Taxonomy on contract with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. • Identified and created hundreds of new taxonomy labels, which included documentation, definitions, references, and properties. • Lead consultant responsible for Extractive Industries (Oil, Gas, Mining) Disclosure taxonomy • Worked on dozens of other disclosures. • Final US GAAP taxonomy contained over 14,000 reporting elements. • Project required ability to understand and interpret entire FASB and SEC financial disclosure requirements.
XBRL US offers business reporting, government reporting, SEC reporting, data quality, taxonomy development, and corporate actions services.
Project Consultant
2005 - 2007
Consultant – ModelWare Business Unit, Institutional Securities • Developed financial analysis content for ModelWare, Morgan Stanley's proprietary system for helping investors and analysts uncover value. • Wrote definitions for over 2,000 metrics to be used in financial services product targeted at equity/credit research analysts and institutional investors. • Project required ability to understand and interpret Morgan Stanley unique valuation models along with extensive knowledge of financial statement items, usage, and meanings. • Reported to Campbell Pryde, who is currently Chief Executive Officer at XBRL US.
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.
Founder
2003 - 2005
Assist in the early development of a nanotechnology sensor start-up.