Gabriel Velasquez

Venezuelan-born but a Memphis-native at heart. Originally arriving in the US with his family at the age of eight, Mr. Velasquez lived in Memphis until graduating from Christian Brothers High School. While earning his bachelor’s degree in finance, he founded a medical recruitment company and pharmaceutical importer to Latin America. After completing his degree, he relocated to Venezuela where he served as Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer to a firm of over six hundred employees and managed an investment fund geared towards the mitigation of the economic hyperinflation through currency arbitrage and importation. Since returning to Memphis in 2015, Mr. Velasquez, as head of investments, has helped steer DarSalud Care, a multi-specialty healthcare organization committed to providing Memphis underserved minority population with preventive care and treatment solutions. In this role, he also founded DarSalud Pharmacy to ameliorate pervasive healthcare barriers including polypharmacy, fragmentation of care and accessibility to treatment. In 2017, Mr. Velasquez founded November 6 Investments, a real estate development firm committed to Memphis’ continued growth and prosperity. Mr. Velasquez works, owns, and consults on projects across several industries including, medical, pharmaceutical, health and fitness, but predominantly focusing on commercial and residential real estate development opportunities in the Memphis market.