Alejandro Martín Velasco

Born in Madrid in 1964, Professor Alejandro Martín Velasco serves as Chief Investment Mentor at Aetheris Technologies Ltd, bringing 40+ years of experience spanning Wall Street, European family offices, and international institutional asset management.

From a traditional Madrid upper-middle-class family, Professor Velasco demonstrated early fascination with macroeconomic systems and market structural inequalities. He earned his Economics degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1982-1987), where his thesis examined structural unfairness in Spanish capital markets, before pursuing a Finance Master's at Columbia University (1988), studying under Wall Street's elite while researching derivatives risk management.

His professional career began in the 1990s across U.S. and European investment institutions. In 1998, he advised a European family manufacturing conglomerate on capital restructuring and currency hedging, reducing their foreign debt exposure by 40% and saving €18 million over three years—his first entry into traditional European family capital circles.

From 2003-2007, Professor Velasco managed a €450 million Spanish family fund, achieving 11.8% annualized returns while significantly reducing volatility. His prescient recommendation to reduce financial sector exposure in late 2007 helped clients avoid the 2008 crisis, even achieving positive returns during the global meltdown—establishing his reputation for stability, rationality, and risk-first investing across European financial circles.

After achieving personal financial freedom, he transitioned from high-intensity advisory work to focus on long-term investment research. An early Bitcoin researcher since 2013, Professor Velasco studied cryptocurrency as a decentralized financial experiment and store-of-value, implementing strict risk controls while making strategic long-term allocations.

By 2017, as institutional capital entered crypto markets, he recognized that crypto was replicating traditional finance's "institutional harvesting" model. Observing Spanish retail investors repeatedly losing to large institutions due to information asymmetry, inadequate tools, and lack of systematic education, he concluded that individual effort alone cannot change market structure.

This realization led to his 2020 partnership with Aetheris Technologies Ltd, creating an investment community to provide Spanish investors with fairer participation environments. His teaching explicitly rejects short-term speculation and emotional trading, emphasizing long-term perspective, risk management, and cognitive upgrade— helping Spanish investors escape systematic institutional harvesting and build sustainable investing capabilities.