Jose Fuente

Chairman, Operation Sail, Inc.

Fuente is currently the chairman of Eastport Strategies LLC, a government consulting, business development, and public affairs firm. Fuentes served as Attorney General of Puerto Rico.  During his tenure he was the chairman of the Puerto Rico-US Virgin Islands High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Executive Committee.

He was president of the Puerto Rico Sailing Federation for six years, Commodore of the Puerto Rico Yacht Club, and principal director of one of the premier Caribbean sailing events for 11 years. Fuentes was president of the Puerto Rico Optimist Dingy Association. He was a Silver Medalist for the J/24 sailing class in the Central-American Games in Mexico and organizer of the Pan-American/Central-American Games sailing events in Puerto Rico.  In addition, Fuentes sailed from Spain to Puerto Rico as Captain of his crew during the 1992 Transatlantic Christopher Columbus Regatta and helped coordinate the regatta events in Puerto Rico. Fuentes served as director of OpSail 2000 in Puerto Rico.  Recently he has served as Fleet Captain for the Annapolis Yacht Club Etchells Fleet 28.

He holds a degree in business from the University of Tampa and a law degree from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law.

Fuentes has been an OpSail board member for 10 years and its chairman for the last five. He is very active in the sailboat racing scene and presently lives in Annapolis, Maryland.