He was educated at Hotchkiss School and earned his bachelor of arts in history from Harvard. He is the eldest son of the beer magnate Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo and Beatriz Davila. He currently sits as the chairman of the board at Grupo Empresarial Bavaria S.A.. He is also connected with the New York based Quadrant Capital Advisors Inc. and is currently holding the position of managing director. It was in 2009 that he got elected to the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts.
Other than working for his family’s businesses, he also keeps himself busy with the non-profit charitable institutions that he is an advocate of. He sits as board of director for both DKMS Americas and Colombia’s Endeavor.