Gilberto has over 30 years of experience in financial advisory for owners of Mexican family businesses and multinational companies. Additionally, he has extensive knowledge of the business environment and financial markets in Mexico, as well as their interrelations with the United States and Europe.

In the early 1990s, he worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton, where he gained experience in the valuation and privatization of 9 out of the 18 Mexican banks.

He has a broad background in the financial and business sectors, with a specific focus on corporate finance. He has participated in buy-and-sell mandates for over 40 companies, project financing in the areas of energy, highways, and petrochemicals, private equity placements, and debt restructurings. He has advised multinational companies such as Prudential, Henkel, WWGrainger, Andrade Gutiérrez, General Electric, Groupe Up, and Mapei, among others, on their expansion plans into Mexico.

Gilberto holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago with a specialization in Finance and Business Economics. He has taught several undergraduate and graduate courses at the Universidad Anáhuac, where he continues to teach. He is the President of the University of Chicago Alumni Club of Mexico and was the president of IMAP from 2012 to 2014. He has served on various boards of directors and advisory boards for companies and institutions such as GERSA, Tecnología Intercontinental, Universidad Anáhuac MBA, Global Advisory Board of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, Endeavor, among others.