Carlos Borromeo

The provided stub identifies Carlos Borromeo as a Chief Investment Officer with an Arkansas.gov email address, but I could not verify that title, email, phone number, LinkedIn profile, headshot, or any current staff listing for him from public sources. The current Arkansas Treasurer of State executive-staff page lists Bill Huffman, Kenneth Burleson, Ben Ellis, Michael Harry, Amanda O’Neal, and Sandra Blount; it does not list Carlos Borromeo.

The relevant verified organization appears to be the Arkansas Treasurer of State, which describes the Treasurer as the state’s banker and the office responsible for an investment portfolio of about $11 billion. Its Investments and Banking page says one responsibility assigned to the Treasurer is investment of funds in the State Treasury and the State Treasury Money Management Trust, under policies and procedures established by the State Board of Finance.

The current Investment Division staff publicly listed by the Treasurer’s office includes Robert Romanik and Steve Pulley as Senior Investment Managers, and Damon Dortch and Celeste Gladden as Treasury Investment Managers. I found no public evidence that Borromeo is an angel investor, seed investor, venture capitalist, or startup backer.

• The Arkansas Treasurer’s investment policy prioritizes “safety, liquidity and return on investments,” in that order.
• The office seeks preservation of capital by following legal and policy restrictions on state-fund investments.
• The office seeks liquidity by matching portfolio maturities to reasonably anticipated cash needs and keeping an adequate portion in readily marketable securities.
• The office seeks market-rate return within the constraints of safety and liquidity and works toward the target rate of return set by the State Board of Finance.
• This is not a venture or angel-investing mandate; I found no verified seed-stage check size, founder-selection criteria, or private-company investment thesis for Carlos Borromeo.