Dr Rodrigo Azcueta
Founder & MD, Cape Horn Engineering
Dr Rodrigo Azcueta is the founder and Managing Director of Cape Horn Engineering, an independent CFD consultancy based in Portsmouth, UK. Originally from Argentina, he has lived in four countries, speaks three languages and holds a doctorate in ship hydrodynamics from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. Since founding the company in 2007, he has led the numerical analysis for four America’s Cup campaigns and for the Volvo Ocean Race, where yachts designed with Cape Horn Engineering’s technology won three consecutive editions. Today he and his team apply the same expertise to the design and optimisation of superyachts, high-speed and foiling craft, wind-assisted commercial ships and renewable energy systems.