): Researcher of the history of pisco and Peruvian wine. During the last seven years he applied his studies of Spanish Paleography of the 16th century (carried out at the Riva Agüero Institute, Lima) in the transcription of hundreds of unpublished manuscripts and in the investigation of documentation related to the introduction of viticulture in South America, with emphasis in the period immediately after the conquest of the Inca Empire. He has a degree in Electronic Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Lima), with postgraduate studies at Stanford University, California, where he resides since 1981. He is the author and co-author of more than thirteen high technology patents published in the US, Japan and Europe. Towards the end of 1998 he devoted himself to the study of Peruvian relations in the history of California. He is the author of the books: Alas de los Querubines (2006), Wings of Cherubs (2007), History of Pisco in San Francisco (2010) y Las viñas de Lima: Inicios de la vitivinicultura sudamericana 1539-1551, his most recent publication.