Team
Colca Capital is led by three managing partners, Diego Febrero, Julio Ramirez, and Nicolas Lulli, supported by a team of principals, associates, analysts, and interns. We have offices in the Prudential Center in Boston, MA and the Miraflores neighborhood of Lima, Peru. The firm leverages a broad network of dozens of industry experts and local entrepreneurs to support its portfolio companies and CEOs in the execution of the value creation plan.
Managing partners:
Diego is a managing partner of Colca Capital, co-leading the Lima office.
Before co-founding Colca Capital, he was the M&A head at Alicorp, a US$3.0bn public CPG company, where he led 14 transactions for over US$2.7bn across 12 business platforms in Latin America and spearheaded investor relations. Previously, he was as a senior investment analyst at Interseguro, the third largest life insurer in Peru with US$1.5bn in assets under management (AUM), managing over US$200mm in various assets strategies. He began his career as an investment analyst in AC Capitales, a Real Assets Private Equity firm in Peru with US$350bn in AUM.
Diego graduated from Columbia Business School with an MBA in Finance and graduated from the Universidad del Pacifico with a B.S. in Economics. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Julio is a managing partner of Colca Capital, co-leading the Lima office.
Before co-founding Colca Capital, he was Vice President at Advent International, a global private equity firm with over US$40.0bn in assets under management (AUM), where he led two technology transactions in Peru, and was a board member in Canvia. Previously, he was part of Nexus Group, the largest Private Equity firm in Peru, with US$1.0bn in AUM. At Nexus, he executed five investments in sectors such as education, restaurants, and pharmaceuticals, in addition to participate in fundraising, and collaborated in portfolio management as interim CFO.
Julio graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business with an MBA in Finance and graduated from the Universidad del Pacifico with a B.S. in Economics.
Nicolas is a managing partner of Colca Capital, leading the Boston office.
Before co-founding Colca Capital, he joined Relay Investments as Vice President and sitting as a member of the Investment Committee. While at Relay, Nicolas led the firms’ investing activities in Latin America and spearheaded the firm’s fundraising, business development, and investor relations efforts. Prior to Relay, he built and led the sales and business development team at SumZero, a VC-backed fintech start-up based in New York with operations in Europe and Asia. He began his career as an analyst on a Latin American credit and derivatives structuring desk at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York.
Nicolas graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in Politics and a Certificate in Finance and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Principal:
Antonio is a Principal at Colca Capital. Before joining Colca, he served as Country Head for Peru at HCIG, the investment arm of the Hochschild Group—one of Peru's largest economic conglomerates, with holdings in mining, cement, and education.
Prior to HCIG, Antonio was the Corporate Development Head at Pacasmayo, a cement company within the Hochschild Group, where he spearheaded strategic initiatives, including the development of a greenfield project with an estimated capex of US$1bn. He also has corporate finance experience from his time at Interbank, the third-largest commercial bank in Peru. Antonio began his career at LXG Capital, Peru’s leading boutique investment bank.
He holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico.
Our investors:
Our investors primarily consist of successful entrepreneurs, high net worth families, and global institutions. Many of them choose to directly involve themselves in the firm’s investments, participating as CEO advisors, board members, and industry experts throughout the life of the investment.
Our investors include:
Entrepreneurs and C-level executives of large companies and global conglomerates with local and international presence
Partners and directors of private equity funds, management consulting firms, and investment banks with a proven investment track record across the globe
Successful entrepreneurs who have founded and scaled businesses with the same characteristics our firm seeks in target companies
Institutional funds with global presence