The plane traveling from Managua to Miami was scheduled to stop in Tegucigalpa, but shortly before landing there, it crashed into Cerro de Hule mountain.
He is the President of Centro Empresarial Pellas (CEP) Archived 2013-04-11 at the Wayback Machine, which promotes entrepreneurship through the strengthening of small and medium-sized enterprises.
He was distinguished in April 2008 by the President of Italy with the Order of the Stella Della Solidarietá Italiana in Grande Ufficiale.
In October 2013 he and his wife received the “Integral Entrepreneurs” award by the Business Council of Latin America (CEAL).
In May 2014, the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy conferred him and his wife the "Henri Dunant Award for Social Corporate Responsibility".