About Us
Commodities trading, logistics, transportation, and distribution.
Commodities trading, logistics, transportation, and distribution.
Founded in 2016, Pure Aviation, LLC set out to provide the highest quality custom tailored service with simple, efficient, and fiscally responsible private air travel solutions. During the course of operations in the aviation field, opportunities arose to provide Jet Fuels in areas affected by foreign embargoes that lost supply. What started as Jet Fuel quickly expanded into other fuel-based commodities. Applying the same customer driven mentality Pure Aviation officially planted its Flag in the oil and gas space by procuring a tank position in Brownsville Texas where we loaded trucks and rail cars. From 2019 to present date we have operated in various terminals and held multiple tank positions across the Gulf Coast. Currently Pure Aviation owns two oil reclamation facilities in Lufkin and Andrews Texas where we can take in a wide range of oils and blend-stocks. At these facilities we can process and blend oils to meet our client’s specifications. Key testing is done in house with our lab equipment on site and we can deliver an approved spec product via rail directly to our clients. In Aransas Pass, Texas right outside of Corpus Christi. Pure Aviation has a dedicated inland barge dock with greater than 2 million gallons of storage capacity and access to over 2,000 rail car slots where our clean products can be imported, blended, and exported to our clients via barge, rail, or truck. We have various rail spurs in Harlingen, TX, Rio Grande City, TX, and Santa Teresa, NM which are set up to optimize transloading capabilities. Our full-time crew of mobile transloaders service these facilities in accordance with FRA guidelines.
Carlo is the founder, sole member, and manager of Pure Aviation. Founding Pure Aviation in 2016 as a customer service oriented private Jet all in solution Carlo quickly connected the supply chain dots and begin exploring opportunities in the kerosene and jet fuel spaces. This eventually led to a desire to build a seasoned oil and gas supply and trading team to capture the market gap in Mexican imported clean products. Applying his customer driven mentality to that space he has quickly neem able to grow a significant market share while establishing high profitability.
Prior to founding Pure aviation Carlo established himself as an highly success entrepreneur with a unique ability to position himself and his companies into niche markets to optimize maximum returns on capital for himself and his shareholders. Carlo blends his strong business acumen with his fundamental understanding of markets, finance, and derivatives. Carlo got his start in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange from 1998-2003 where he worked for Delaware Securities & Wolverine Trading and worked his way to becoming an index equity derivative market maker. Getting bit by the entrepreneur bug Carlo moved to Austin, Texas in 2003 and founded Hog Island Deli with his brother Stephen DiMarco. In 2004 Carlo founded Pinnacle Capital Markets. He saw the need for a local company that could provide secondary financial solutions to business owners and investors in the Austin area. In 2007, he slowly began to turn his attention to working with Alex Shorb that he had worked with in Philadelphia to create a neutral long volatility derivative strategy; which would perform in the ever-changing global capital markets primarily in the large volatile events. The investment approach was refined and through capital raising efforts in 2007 & 2008 Pure Capital Global Funds was born in Feb 2009. The fund grew to in excess of 150+m in AUM. After this 6 sigma event we chose to return capital. We shut down the fund at the end of 2010. In 2011 Carlo felt there was immense opportunity around new Government imposed regulations in niche financial services. Carlo decided to take a more entrepreneurial approach and in 2010 after the economic recession Carlo secured over $30m in capital to identify unique mis-pricings
in mortgage servicing rights. Pure Capital Markets was created to participate in private transactions inside of financial services in which valuation distress has taken place due to regulatory uncertainty. Upon due diligence and engagement with multiple investments banks in 2011 we found an acquisition target. After 19 months of due diligence and agency consideration we were working on approval from government agencies for this acquisition of this mortgage bank. Our IB and Carlo decided to sell our purported interests in the mortgage bank during regulatory approval. Later that year Carlo wanting to work with his father founded Vascular Solutions after determining the need for ancillary services for the primary care & internal medicine disciplines in transitional care facilities. After identifying patients’ needs for ancillary specialty E&M services he went on to find Cardiac Home Solutions in which Cardiological specialty care in transitional care facilities and specialty care to medically homebound patients. Currently Vascular & Cardiac Home Solutions is operating in multiple locations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sadly in 2014 Carlo’s father Carlo Sr. passed away unexpectedly and Carlo decided to close and sell his interests in the healthcare businesses. In 2011 Carlo felt there was immense opportunity around new Government imposed regulations in niche financial services. Pure Capital Markets was created to participate in private transactions inside of financial services in which valuation distress has taken place due to regulatory uncertainty. In 2014 PCM purchased an auto lending business and grew the business and exited the loan portfolio to an investment fund.
Brandon joined Pure Aviation in November of 2019 as a lead role in operations, scheduling, and cargo quality director but quickly excelled his responsibilities as the company grew into Carlo’s vision. Brandon has an extensive background in product quality and specification that ranges across all U.S domestic and international clean specifications with a focus on Mexican diesel and gasoline specs.
Prior to Pure Aviation Brandon was the operations manager and coordinator for international inspection company Intertek Caleb Brett. There he was project manager that focused on client projections and growth as well as all managed internal desk revenue and the internal Deer Park site desk revenues and management forecast. Prior to Caleb Brett Brandon’s expertise was built by a wide range of both laboratory and field operations serving oil majors as an independent quality and quantity inspector (Intertek,Camin Cargo, AmSpec & SGS) with a deep focus in clean oil products. Through his extensive on-site experience Brandon is intimately familiar with every part of the Houston oil and gas terminal, refinery, and infrastructure systems.