Founding partner and executive director. He is a former Undersecretary of Trade and Foreign Investment and Undersecretary of Finance of Mexico. He represented Mexico in various trade negotiations, including NAFTA and OECD accession. He co-founded SAI, a Mexican consulting firm specialized in trade, antitrust and financial and operational restructuring. He obtained his BS in civil engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, MA in economics and PhD in engineering and operations research at Stanford University.

Chief Executive Officer. He has supervised and executed more than 500 procurement auctions for Mexican government agencies, including IMSS, CFE and Pemex. He designed and executed the first partial lot electronic auction for the allocation of loan guarantees by NAFIN. He earned his BA in economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

Chief Operations Officer. He has participated in the development of procurement strategies for public tenders and has developed assignation mechanisms through optimization models. He participated in the workgroup in charge of CENACE’s first long-term auction. He has wide experience in data analysis. He received his BA in mathematical engineering at Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

VP Sales. He has identified projects for automation of purchase process and implemented supply strategies through reverse auctions. He earned his BA in economics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, specialty in markets research at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and specialty in Financial Crisis Analysis at Colegio de México.

Chief Technology Officer. He is an expert in the areas of system architecture, IT infrastructure and database administration. He has led the design and development of most of the products that integrate the company's technological platform. He has implemented mechanisms to ensure the solutions comply with the highest standards of security, high availability and fault tolerance. He has a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.

VP Technology. She has experience in project management and has been responsible for the construction and support of the company’s software solutions for several years. She participates in the design and development of all custom-made solutions for customers. She supports all programming and monitoring of auctions. She has a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

Project Manager. He has experience in the generation and implementation of different tools for software quality assurance. He participates in the definition and development of solutions in aklara applications. He has a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Xalapa.

Project Manager. She has experience in the management of development teams using different information technologies and agile methodologies. She participates in the design and implementation of customized solutions offered by aklara. She has a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

QA Analyst. She has experience in the quality assurance processes for aklara’s solutions. She provides technical support, training and continuous monitoring of the users. She has a BA Computer Science from Instituto Tecnológico de Tlaneplantla.

Technical Support. She provides technical support and training for aklara’s users. She has a BA Computer Science from Instituto Tecnológico de Pachuca.