Luis is an executive and influencer in the banking and financial services industry. Luis started his career in financial services as a government regulator with the State of North Carolina Commissioner of Banks. Throughout his career, Luis has worked with and partnered with some of the biggest and most innovative payments companies in the world in varying capacities and has co-founded 2 companies himself. Currently, Luis is the Founder and Managing Partner of PAARC LLC dba. PAARC Consulting, a company that Luis founded in2017. PAARC is a boutique advisory and consulting firm for financial institutions, including banks, licensed money transmitters, lenders, and financial technology companies. For Luis, building lifelong partnerships and personal relationships is the key to success. Additional details about Luis’ background and PAARC can be found here.
Meylen is the heart and soul of our household. A former interior designer for Royal Caribbean International, Meylen paused her admirable and growing career 17 years ago to focus on the children and household due to the extensive travel that Luis had to endure in his capacities during the early days of his career. With our oldest son now preparing for college soon and our youngest daughter preparing to enter elementary school full-time, Meylen is ready to get back into action!
Luis and Meyla (husband and wife) are high school sweethearts and have now been married for 17 years. We have 3 children: Julian (16), Adalyn (13) and Vivien (5). We also have 2 fur babies – Guinness, a 10 year hold StandardPoodle and Stella, a 7-month-old Doodle. Our family pictures include Guinness,Stella and Lucy, a brown standard poodle who is the most recent pet that we had to put down due to health issues :c.
We’re a Christian family and our family hobby is traveling. We love traveling adventures and exposing our kids to new cultures and the beauty the world has to offer. Our favorite country is Italy, where we often find ourselves for a couple of weeks during the kids summer break. Last year we spent 2 weeks in Tuscany and this year we will be spending 2 weeks in Puglia –and we can’t wait!
Our why is family and opportunity. We have been wanting to make an investment on starting a family business that we can all participate in together as a family.As we have been praying and searching for the right opportunity, we ran intoResting Rainbow through one of our next-door neighbors (Hassane Alaoui). WhenLuis (unexpectedly) presented the opportunity to Meyla and the kids, everyone was so excited. We absolutely love animals, and we will be getting a chance to help people going through some of the most difficult times in their lifetime, we see an enormous market opportunity in our area. Having lost 2 pets in recent years ,there is nothing around here like Resting Rainbow. We recall having to put our deceased fur baby in the trunk and driving over an hour to a questionable facility in a not very good neighborhood. It was one of the hardest things we’ve ever done in our lifetime.
Just around the corner from where we live in Winter Garden, there are at least a dozen veterinary clinics, 2 24-hour emergency pet hospitals and 4 boarding facilities, all within a few miles radius and that are always at capacity. These are partners that we will be working with closely as we prepare for the hopeful launch of Resting Rainbow Winter Garden. Meylen’s mom and stepdad are retiring soon and will help us run the business once doors are open, so Luis and Meyla can focus on partnerships and growth as we have expansion / multi-territory aspirations.