The Founding Partners

Eighty years. Three disciplines. One firm.

Andres, Patricio, and Edgar founded CRA on a single premise: the partner who wins the engagement leads the fieldwork. Senior practitioners, bilingual, based in Miami and working across the Americas.

The founding partners

Three careers built one engagement at a time. Eighty years combined across enterprise risk, internal audit, IT controls, and quantitative analytics. Based in Miami, working across the Americas.

Andres J. Castañeda

Andres J. Castañeda

Founding Partner — Risk Advisory & Internal Controls

Twenty-seven years advising boards and C-suites across the Americas. Led Florida Advisory Services at Grant Thornton — 40+ professionals, 14 Latin American markets, Fortune 1000 audit committees. Native EN/ES.

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Patricio Perez

Patricio Perez

Founding Partner — Enterprise Risk & Board Advisory

A career inside financial services building governance models that pass examination and leading regulatory remediation through to closure. Member, The National Executive Roundtable. Bilingual EN/ES.

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Edgar Osuna, Ph.D.

Edgar Osuna, Ph.D.

Founding Partner — Quantitative Risk & Analytics

Twenty-five years in banking, risk, and data analytics across the US, Switzerland, and Latin America. Ph.D. Operations Research, MIT. IEEE Longuet-Higgins Prize. Chairman, Innovation Committee, Florida International Bankers Association.

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