Before founding Stelac, Mr. Lopez-Oña was an independent private equity and venture capital professional focused on small to medium sized companies. Prior to that, Carlos was the COO and Executive Vice President in charge of operations for eDiets.com, Inc. and the founder and CFO/COO of DietSmart, Inc. He also co-founded and acted as COO/CFO of UdefineU LLC. Carlos worked as a private equity associate at BT Capital Partners (Bankers Trust) and as an analyst in the Latin America Corporate Finance Group at Chase Manhattan Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. from NYU and a B.S.E. in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.