Personal Profile

Sailing Career

• Olympics: Soling Class helmsman 1984 Games at Los Angeles
  
• Regional and Continental: Soling - (PAN AM GAMES 1979) and World level 1976 - 1984 (1978 + 1980 World Championships); J-24 - Regional and Continental (PAN AM 1983); (Silver Medal - Central American and Caribbean Games - Mexico 1991); Central American and Caribbean Games 1994); (PAN AM Games 1995); (Qualified Central American and Caribbean Games 1998); Hobie Cat 14 + 16 - Regional 1973 - 1976: Puerto Rico Champ 1975-1976; Caribbean Champion 1976; Commodore, P.R. Multihull Association - 1975-76; Sunfish - National Champion 1978 - 1980; Puerto Rico Sailor of the Year: 1982 & 1991.
  
• Ocean Racing PHRF and CSA - 1983 - Present (Antigua Racing Week, 7 time Rolex Cup Class Champion; Heineken International Cup Class and Overall Champion 1984; BVI Overall and Class Champion) sailing on sailboats ranging from J-24 to a converted IOR Class 50 footer - ESMERALDA ex RETALIATION, to a Swan 65 Ketch, GACELA (Class winner at 2001 Puerto Rico Heineken Regatta) & J-120 and Henderson 30 at present; Caribbean Ocean Racing Triangle (C.O.R.T.); Champion 1982 (Campechano), 1998 (Son of Syndicate); 2nd. 1996, 1997.
  Gorla Race - Lago di Garda, Italy - September 2007 (4th in UFO 22 Class), Centomiglia Race - Lago di Garda, Italy - September 2007 (1st in UFO 22 Class)
  
• Intercollegiate Sailing - Yale University - Varsity 1966 - 1970; Commodore, Yale Corinthian Yacht Club 1969 - 1970; Varsity Letter - 1969.
  
• Cruised and sailed extensively in the Caribbean, from Puerto Rico to Venezuela and through all the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean each year for the last 13 years as owner-skipper, aboard 50' ESMERALDA and most recently aboard Swan 65 GACELA.
  
• Member: The Storm Trysail Club, New York Yacht Club, Ponce Yacht and Fishing Club, Club Naútico de Fajardo.
  

Sailing Administration

National Authority (Federación de Vela de Puerto Rico)

• January 2006 to May 31, 2007 - President
• 1973 - 1980 - Secretary
• 1992 - 2006 - Director
• 2007 to present - Director Emeritus
• 1994 - 1997 - President
• 1974 - 1980 & 1992 to present - Appeals Committee
• 1994 to present - Judges Committee Chair
• 1994 - 1997 - Delegate & Board Member - Puerto Rico Olympic Committee
• January 2006 - 2007 - Alternate delegate to Puerto Rico Olympic Committee

2006 - 2010 - President - Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe de Vela

Roles within ISAF

• 1998 to present - ISAF Council member (representing Group O)
• 2000 to present - Member Constitution Committee
• International Judge (IJ)
  Prior periods of IYRU IJ qualification: 1986 - 2006
  Present ISAF IJ qualification: 2006 - 2010
  
  

Other significant experiences

• Education:
  B.A., Yale University 1970
  J.D., Columbia University School of Law 1973
• Occupation:
  Attorney at Law - Admitted to the Bar of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.; U.S.D.C. for the District Court of Puerto Rico, First Circuit Court of Appeals; United States Supreme Court.
  Fellow: International Academy of Trial Lawyers & American College of Trial Lawyers
  Law Partner - Rivera Tulla & Ferrer
  #50 Quisqueya Street
  Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00917
• Hobbies:
  Sailing, piloting (helicopter rated), SCUBA diving, snow skiing, occasional tennis, reading, music.
  

Goals

If elected, I would focus on:

Administration:

• Doing the job you would have elected me for: Working effectively and collaboratively in the Executive Committee to implement the goals of Council and the ISAF Strategic Plan in an efficient and businesslike manner.
• Develop the Strategic Plan in the areas necessary to secure sources of income from our core assets and new initiatives and reduce dependency on Olympic funds for the future of ISAF.
• Assist the President and the Executive Committee in providing leadership and guidance where needed for the benefit of Sailing and its Sailors

Communication:

• As a former Olympic sailor, MNA executive and active sailor and IJ, serve as a conduit for communication from MNA's and their Sailors to the Executive for effective decision making.

Sailors:

• Facilitate sailing at the elite level of the Olympics accessible for sailors worldwide within the reality of disparity of funding.
• Ensure that the rest of our competitive sailors also have an outlet for their love of the sport through accessible competition such as Regional Games and class championships.
• Preserve and enhance the quality of our core assets - RRS, Race Officers and the attendant programs, ISAF Committees - and strive to make these assets accessible to the MNA's throughout the world.