Giancarlo was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and attended primary and secondary school at the American School of Guayaquil. He studied industrial engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Guayaquil (ESPOL) and worked four years for a CAT dealership before the Charles Darwin Research Station hired him to head the marine lab’s operations and logistics division. Since then, Giancarlo has become involved in several projects in the Galapagos Marine Reserve, spending hundreds of hours diving in its waters. Giancarlo was later accepted into a naturalist guide training program offered by Galapagos National Park, which led to his position as an Expedition Leader with Nat Hab.