Javier Hernandez is a Director at Avivar Capital and has over 9 years of combined experience in the fields of Investing Banking and Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining Avivar Capital, Javier was a member of the Financial Advisory Services practice at Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank, where he worked closely with private equity funds, pension funds, family offices, and corporations, on a wide range of transactions, ranging from valuations of debt and equity investments to strategic advisory, capital planning, fund analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and spin-offs and divestitures.

Before working in financial advisory, Javier specialized in the planning and execution of public and private water infrastructure projects and management solutions in the United States. He spent more than four years as a design engineer at Pacific Advanced Civil Engineering, a leading Southern California engineering firm, working at the intersection of innovative design and environmental sustainability in the water sector. Javier also worked as an expert consultant to Aquatic Informatics (AI), a Canadian-based and VC-backed technology firm, on the expansion of its proprietary real-time data management tool for water agencies and utilities into Latin America. As part of this role, Javier led numerous training sessions and workshops in Mexico and Panama in partnership with various public agencies, policymakers, and other key stakeholders on the adoption of data-driven technologies in their decision-making processes. Javier holds an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is a native Argentinian and is fluent in Spanish.