Azimut Risk & Governance is an independent advisory practice based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working across the Americas in English and Spanish.
Argenis Contreras Burgoa is the principal of Azimut Risk & Governance. He served more than seventeen years as an officer in the Mexican Navy, in roles spanning vessel command, unit supervision, and institutional leadership.
As Chief of Institutional Cybersecurity Governance, he was responsible for the policy and governance architecture protecting a national security institution — work that sat at the intersection of technical risk, legal authority, and organizational reality, where each constrains the others.
As bilateral liaison with U.S. Northern Command, he worked at the operational seam between two national security establishments. That seam is where doctrine, jurisdiction, and practical cooperation either align or fail, and where most regional security initiatives are decided long before they are announced.
That operational record is paired with graduate training in public policy and maritime affairs. The combination is deliberate. Security problems of this kind are rarely solved by technology alone, and rarely solved by policy alone.
Security problems in Latin America are routinely analyzed by people who have never operated there. The result is advice that is technically correct and practically unusable.
Azimut works from the other direction: operational service in the region, bilateral experience at the U.S.–Mexico security seam, and graduate training in the policy and legal frameworks that govern it — with the institutional literacy that neither language alone confers.
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