Mr. Castro is Chief Executive Officer of Lombardia Capital Partners. Previously, Mr. Castro served as CEO, CIO, and founding principal of Los Angeles-based CIC/HCM Asset Management (1990-2003). Prior to starting CIC/HCM, Mr. Castro worked for Goldman Sachs & Co. (1985-1990) and J.P. Morgan (1983-1985) in New York City. In 2007, Latino Leaders magazine named Mr. Castro as "One of the Top 25 Latinos in Finance". In 2008, Hispanic Business magazine named him among the 100 most influential Latinos in the US.

Mr. Castro serves as Vice Chairman and a founding member of the Board of Directors for the New America Alliance, an organization of the nation's most prominent Latino business leaders. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Infinity Property & Casualty Corporation, a publicly traded insurance company with an $800 million market capitalization.

For 12 years ending in 2005, Mr. Castro served as a member of the Board of Trustees at Milton Academy. Previously, Mr. Castro served as a Director and Chairman of the Board of the Ed Fund of the State of California. Ed Fund is a non-profit corporation which oversees a $15 billion student loan guarantee portfolio.

Mr. Castro is a 1975 graduate of Milton Academy in Boston. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University (1979) and was a Ph.D. candidate in government at Harvard University (1979-1983). He completed the Introduction to Business Program for Ph.D.s at Harvard University. Mr. Castro is a CFA charterholder.