Building economic opportunity in Puerto Rico through strategic investment and community partnership.
PSI operates at the intersection of a nonprofit and a capital platform, transforming local insight into structural solutions to enable economic mobility. We work hand-in-hand with communities to dismantle barriers — from fragmented services to underinvestment — and craft strategies that expand opportunity. Through disciplined governance, investment-minded strategy, and on-the-ground proximity, we create the conditions where people can prosper. We are committed to rigor, collaboration, and solutions that are measurable, scalable, and transformative.
A Puerto Rico without poverty, where children, families, and all communities have access to opportunities for economic mobility and the resources to capitalize on them.
We do not deliver isolated services. We structure the conditions that allow effective services, enterprises, and institutions to scale. By designing and deploying blended finance with mission-aligned partners, we secure capital aligned with community need and translate local insight into investable strategy. PSI therefore operates as both a nonprofit platform and an impact investment facilitator.
Too often, public capital, philanthropy, and private investment operate in silos — each with good intentions, but limited coordination. Government programs lack private leverage. Investors lack local intelligence. Community organizations lack access to scalable capital.
PSI was created to align these forces. We structure comprehensive solutions that connect public, private, and philanthropic capital with community-rooted execution, turning fragmented efforts into coordinated, intentional investment strategies that produce measurable economic mobility, one community at a time.
PSI works alongside mission-aligned operators to deliver integrated programs that address the structural barriers to economic mobility. Through coordinated services within defined geographies, we support residents in building skills, accessing opportunity, and increasing long-term financial stability.
Services:
PSI operates as a capital platform that designs and deploys blended finance solutions into underinvested communities. We translate local intelligence into disciplined investment strategies, aligning public, private, and philanthropic capital to generate measurable social impact alongside sustainable financial performance.
Services:
PSI was founded in 2022 by Eduardo Carrera after more than two decades serving children and families at Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico. Rising from club member to CEO, Carrera saw that meaningful progress requires more than strong programs—it requires coordinated investments that address the broader conditions shaping poverty. He recognized that philanthropic, public, and private capital alone cannot produce impact at the scale or pace Puerto Rico needs. Guided by this firsthand experience, PSI was created to provide informed, enduring solutions that catalyze financial opportunities and dismantle the obstacles facing low-income communities.
“ The one thing that we need to reestablish in communities is their ability to dream. When you allow people to see themselves as the drivers of those dreams, magic happens. ”
Driven by his own journey from an underserved community, Eduardo's leadership was forged over two decades at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico, where he rose to CEO and earned international recognition. An expert in mobilizing cross-sector funding, he founded PSI with the conviction that investing directly in a community's potential can generate systemic change, but this is only possible with comprehensive solutions and large-scale investment. Eduardo embodies PSI's mission and is a powerful example that social investment works and creates a ripple effect of opportunity.
Chief Financial Officer
A global finance professional with results-driven leadership experience in Fortune 500 companies, including Walmart, Procter & Gamble, and Motorola.
Chief Operating Officer
An international program management expert with over 15 years of experience, including leadership roles with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Brazil and Timor-Leste.
Chief of Staff
A cross-functional leader with expertise in governance and strategic planning, bringing valuable experience from her previous leadership roles at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico.
ESG & Integrity Director
A veteran with over 18 years in the non-profit sector, leading the organization's vital environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.
PSI's strategic direction is guided by a highly accomplished Board of Directors. Diverse in its areas of expertise and robust in its experience, this group brings together leaders from the finance, impact investing, and community development sectors, whose national and international networks and deep commitment to Puerto Rico ensure strong governance and a strategic vision for our organization's future.
Chair of the Board
Bertil is a Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, where for 27 years he guided key transformations in the high-tech industry. He brings crucial financial expertise, having advised the Puerto Rico Fiscal Oversight Board, and a deep local commitment as the co-founder of Xtillion, a San Juan-based AI firm dedicated to developing local tech talent. He holds engineering degrees from MIT and an MBA from Stanford.
Co-founder and President, Fundación Colibrí
Mónica is a public interest attorney and philanthropist who brings over 20 years of legal advocacy to her role as Co-founder and President of Fundación Colibrí. Having grown up in Puerto Rico, she leads Colibrí's strategic investments in the island's long-term recovery and transformation. She brings deep governance experience, serving on the boards of the New York Botanical Garden, TechnoServe, and Espacios Abiertos. She holds degrees from Yale and NYU School of Law.
Co-founder and CEO, QMC Telecom International
Rafael is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of QMC Telecom International. Previously, he co-founded and led VIU Media until it became the largest private outdoor advertising company in Puerto Rico before its successful sale. He brings a proven track record in investment and business development, graduated magna cum laude from Yale, and holds an MBA from Stanford.
President and Founder, Atabey Capital
Rafael is the president and founder of Atabey Capital, an investment firm focused on sustainable economic development in Puerto Rico. As the current president of the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association, he is a leading voice in the island's business sector. He also serves on the board of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Puerto Rico and holds degrees from Babson College and Georgetown.
Six guiding principles shape how PSI deploys capital, builds partnerships, and measures success.
Every investment, partnership, and intervention begins with the people we serve — their barriers, their assets, and their long-term aspirations. Capital follows community, not the other way around.
Economic mobility is built over decades, not funding cycles. We structure initiatives with the patience, governance, and staying power required for generational change.
We treat capital not as charity, but as infrastructure. We structure, stack, leverage, and recycle public, private, and philanthropic capital to unlock opportunity in underinvested markets.
Poverty is systemic. So are our solutions. We align capital, services, and institutions across education, health, workforce, entrepreneurship, and policy to shift entire local ecosystems.
We build with partners — operators, lenders, government, and philanthropy — aligning incentives and connecting the right capital to the right opportunities at the right time.
Strategy, underwriting, deployment, and learning are grounded in data. We measure outcomes rigorously and adjust capital allocation accordingly.
PSI uses a comprehensive impact measurement framework that tracks outcomes across economic, health, education, and community dimensions.
Join us in building a Puerto Rico where every community has the resources to thrive.
