Origins
Houston made him twice. His parents arrived from Argentina, met there, and never left; Spanish came first at home, and with it an instruction he still repeats in their words: acordate de donde venis. Remember where you come from. His grandfather founded a small business in the city and runs it to this day. His mother and grandmother spent decades teaching Houston's children. His grandmother, Luisa Kopinsky, survived the Holocaust; her testimony, recorded in 2001, is kept by the family.
He went where the city sent him: Herod Elementary, Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School, Bellaire High School, where he played football. He taught children with disabilities how to play soccer with TOPSoccer from sixth grade through twelfth. Then he paid his own way through the University of Texas at Austin, working three jobs, researcher, librarian, lifeguard, while earning a degree in petroleum engineering.
In 2021 he did what people who love a place do: he ran for it. A campaign for the Houston ISD Board of Trustees, District I, endorsed by Run For Something, built on a simple argument, that the district that raised him should make the news for its achievements and not its scandals. He took 23.5 percent in a three-way race against an incumbent. He lost the seat and kept the coalition.
The Record
- B.S. Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2018, with the Business Foundations Certificate
- Fundamentals of Engineering license, United States
- Lifetime member, Lloyd Parkans Scholarship Committee, a $10,000 annual award
- Society of Petroleum Engineers · Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers · American Association of Drilling Engineers · Alpha Epsilon Pi
- Candidate, Houston ISD Board of Trustees, 2021 · 23.5% · endorsed by Run For Something
The family crossed an ocean for a future. He grew up understanding that energy is what you spend to get somewhere.
The Decade
He joined Chevron in Houston in 2018 and stayed a decade, long enough for the work to change shape three times. First as an engineer running enhanced oil recovery pilots across the United States, Canada, and Latin America, lifting recovery by 35 percent, and carrying a first-of-its-kind surfactant technology to Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale.
Then as a Senior Product Line Manager, handed a chemicals line losing $3.5 million a year. He turned it into a multi-million dollar profit center across North America, Latin America, and the Middle East, ran an international portfolio spanning Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Canada, Argentina, and Texas, commercialized a new surfactant technology into more than $25 million of revenue, and built the division's pricing model.
Then the company moved him across the world, and the work got national. From Herzliya he rose to Strategy Lead for the Leviathan and Tamar platforms, roughly nineteen billion dollars of steel and seabed supplying about seventy percent of Israel's energy. He supported the $35 billion gas export framework between Israel and Egypt and the negotiations around it, delivered $30 million a year in savings through an operations overhaul, and helped cut losses by $200 million a year, building working relationships with Israel's Ministry of Energy and Ministry of Environmental Protection along the way.
The whole time he kept a hand in the community that trained him: judging Introduce a Girl to Engineering, teaching at STEM camps, showing up at the Houston Food Bank.
The Crossing
On July 13, 2023, he made aliyah alone. No family came with him. He landed in Israel with Nefesh B'Nefesh, which later told his story in its Live Love Israel campaign, and started over: a new country, a new language, a solo bet on a place his family had left generations behind. For the grandson of Luisa Kopinsky, a Holocaust survivor, that solo arrival carried a particular weight. The route ends where her story nearly did not begin.
Ashore, he built. In 2024 he founded BH Strategy Consulting, a Tel Aviv advisory practice connecting American, European, and Middle Eastern partners with energy and infrastructure opportunities across the East Med: an LNG offtake proposal for a Spanish industrial client, a behind-the-meter power concept that cut a data center's tariffs by about twenty percent, briefings on the Israel, Cyprus, and Egypt corridor, research on the India to Middle East to Europe corridor known as IMEC. Gina Cohen, one of Israel's leading natural gas experts, credits his "genuine local insight and strong professional credibility."
And he wrote it all down. As a Senior Correspondent for LevantIntel he covers Israel's economy and strategic position, from record defense exports as an instrument of diplomacy to the price of diplomatic isolation.
Current
In June 2026 he left Chevron to build what the decade had shown him the grid could not do on its own. Immedia Power, co-founded with Rony Baum, twenty years of global commercial leadership, and Werner Huhn, the engineer behind the Ferrari 458 V8 and the Porsche GT3, fourteen patents to his name, makes modular on-site power generation with motorsport discipline: multi-fuel, variable-RPM machines that synchronize with the grid and ship on a pickup truck.
The thesis fits in a sentence. Grid upgrades are measured in years, his machines are measured in weeks. As Chief Operating Officer he runs the build: more than $60 million in signed letters of intent, a pipeline past $150 million across more than a dozen verticals, patents pending, a working prototype, a production site secured, validation by BTD Belgium.
Off the Record
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WindKitesurfs off the Tel Aviv coast. He grew up on the Gulf and ended up on the Mediterranean.
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Snow & GrassSkis in winter, plays soccer year-round, still coaches a decent through-ball when asked.
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Four LanguagesEnglish and Spanish from Houston, Hebrew from immersion, French from curiosity.
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WaterGrew up on the Gulf coast, and has never strayed far from the sea.
- His Instagram bio, unchanged for years: "swimming with the dolphins."