If you’ve been following Francis Suarez’s post-City Hall career on social media, you might assume Miami’s former mayor officially pivoted to life as a gym bro or fitness influencer (see: exhibit A, exhibit B, and exhibit C).
But while the 48-year-old might be spending much of his newfound free time tossing around medicine balls and doing handstand push-ups For The Gram, where he has seemingly blocked two out of three New Times staff writers, it seems he’s also recently taken on a more buttoned-up role.
On March 9, several months after leaving his longtime post as mayor of Miami, Suarez announced that he was appointed president of Alpha Wave, a Miami-based asset management company that invests in private equity, private credit, public markets, and venture capital. Alpha Wave’s private equity arm focuses on AI-driven tech companies, such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI…