The Team Behind VIVEK
Cross-border infrastructure, capital alignment, and market execution built on trusted leadership.
VIVEK means discernment: the ability to see clearly through complexity and make decisions that hold long-term value.
This principle shapes how we approach infrastructure, engineering design, capital, and partnerships; with clarity, alignment, and a focus on outcomes that endure.
Juan C. Portilla
Co-Founder, Infrastructure Strategy & Capital Architecture
Juan leads VIVEK’s infrastructure strategy across Australia, Colombia, and LATAM, helping businesses and investors turn complex operational challenges into structured, financially viable projects.
He works across energy, cooling systems, water, and waste, identifying inefficiencies and structuring solutions that reduce costs, improve performance, and create clear pathways to execution and funding.
Operating at the intersection of engineering and finance, Juan ensures that technical performance, regulatory requirements, and capital considerations are aligned from the outset, moving projects forward with confidence.
With hands-on experience in HVAC, renewable energy, wastewater treatment, and biomass, he brings both practical insight and commercial discipline, resolving key constraints early and turning complexity into projects that are clear, bankable, and executable.
Jasmyn Kneen
Co-Founder, Strategic Communications & Alignment
Jasmyn supports how VIVEK’s infrastructure opportunities are communicated, aligned, and progressed across stakeholders and project environments.
She has built and managed businesses across manufacturing, hospitality, and supply chains, and worked in environmental and community settings, bringing a practical understanding of how to navigate complexity, build trust, and maintain clarity across multi-stakeholder environments.
Jasmyn’s role is to hold alignment between people, vision, and execution so opportunities move forward with clarity and continuity.
Strategic Sector & Regional Partnerships
VIVEK maintains active partnerships across community stakeholders, government environmental departments, hospitality operators, and manufacturing networks in Australia, India, China, Korea, and Singapore.
This network provides direct access to regional supply chains, regulatory relationships, sector expertise, and local market intelligence, supporting efficient deployment and strengthening confidence across complex cross-border infrastructure projects.
Integrated Global Delivery Network
VIVEK operates through a curated international network of senior engineers, technical specialists, strategic advisors, and local execution partners across key cities and regions.
This model allows each engagement to be built around the exact expertise, jurisdictional knowledge, and delivery capability required, combining founder-level oversight with on-the-ground execution certainty.
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