Jose has 30+ years of experience as a serial entrepreneur, innovator, and investor across e-commerce and other industries. 

He is the co-founder of a hedge fund that seeks to profit from transformational technologies within the financial services industry.  This fund was the #1 Technology Hedge Fund by Net Returns (BarclayHedge) for 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2023 and the #1 Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund by Net Returns for 2018-2020 (Preqin). BarclayHedge also ranked it as the #1 Technology Hedge Fund for three cumulative years ending 2023 and 2022. 

Jose served during the early days of the Internet adoption as President & COO of a privately-held, innovation laboratory created by prolific inventor and priceline.com’s founder Jay Walker. At Walker’s lab, Jose led the development of hundreds of innovations and intellectual property across diverse fields including e-commerce, cryptography and payment systems. Jose was responsible for bringing these innovations to market as start-ups or through licensing.

Prior to that role, Jose launched and sold several businesses including a payment processing company — starting his career in that space with GE Capital's venture group in private label credit cards. Prior to that he specialized in developing computer simulation systems.

Jose is the former CEO of TEDMED, the health and medicine non-profit edition of the famous TED Talks. He graduated valedictorian from Virginia Tech, holding a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research. He also holds an MBA degree from The Wharton School.

He is an avid runner. In 2007 he completed the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run across the Sierra Nevada in 27 hours. He repeated the feat again in 2010, this time finishing in 23 hours to earn the race’s coveted Silver Buckle.