Carlos de Quesada
I3 Consultant
Carlos R. de Quesada, Managing Member & Founder, VeraCruz Advisory, LLC. Continuing his 25+ years of business, managerial and finance work, in October 2011, Carlos founded VeraCruz Advisory, LLC focused on providing financial advisory and strategic consulting services. VeraCruz is focused on serving non-profit organizations by providing financial and business (enterprise) practice consulting and implementation support. Services include mission-based strategic consulting, special projects, financial transaction structuring and execution support, Board level offsite facilitation, organizational governance assessment, budgeting, financial projection/model development, cash flow scenario analyses and asset-mapping/capital planning.
Clients (current or previous) and prospects are local and national in scope, and include social services providers, schools, human services agencies, advocacy organizations, performing arts enterprises, higher education institutions, community foundations, endowments, community development corporations/CDFIs, and faith-based entities.
Through VeraCruz Advisory, Carlos has been a Trustee level member of the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce. In April 2015, Carlos completed the Gulf Coast Community Foundation-hosted BoardSource® NFP board governance training and is now part of the GCCF’s, Invest in Incredible, consultant cohort serving the greater Sarasota-Venice, FL area. Believing in its mission and impact, Carlos and his family are Goodwill Manasota Ambassadors. Carlos serves or has served on his neighborhood board association (Indian Beach Sapphire Shores), a Sarasota county public school youth mentoring program and on his church finance council. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Carlos graduated from FSU (B.S. Finance, 1987) then served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps (1988-1991) prior to earning an MBA (George Washington University, 1991-1993). He is a first generation American of Cuban parents and is bilingual (English-Spanish). Though traveling nationally for his business, Carlos resides in Sarasota with his wife, Cynthia, and two children ages 12 and 17.
