The people behind Vega Associates have the same goal, to create perfection and make our clients visions a reality. Each associate brings their unique professional skills, giving us decades of experience to create your perfect living environment. From concept to final result, we combine our experience to provide all the different crafts to build your home without complications or stress, it’s all in house no matter what location in Mallorca, be it a noble country estate, a waterfront villa or a chic city centre apartment.
Charles Guthrie
CEO & Developer – Born in Newcastle, in the North-East of England, Charles grew up on family construction sites. His father was a local builder with a reputation for design and innovation, but his true passion was the restauration of old buildings. From his fathers influence he inherited a mindset for detail and the passion for excellence, which today is sometimes difficult to find as true craftmanship is a dying art in our modern society.
His concept behind Vega Associates is to achieve a standard of craftsmanship with an eye to detail, incorporating modern technology and inspirational design. The group of people that he has assembled at Vega are people that he has been working with closely for many years. Taking his experience, he wants to be able to offer clients a comprehensive in-house service that covers everything from the initial dream of sitting together with an architect to a finished construction which is all achieved by one company.
Jason Moyer
Technology, Security & Audio – Jason Moyer is a communications engineer, which received his degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through a coveted position in the Bell Labs University Engineering program. Jason then started his career in technology by working for Lucent Technologies as a Field Communications Engineer. During Jason’s tenure with Lucent he designed and managed the installation of systems in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs, the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and the Spiegel Catalog Global Call Center. Jason then struck out on his own and, started his own company in the Southern California market. He worked with a multitude of small businesses, as well as a few large companies such as NASA, the ABC studios and State of California Employment Department.
After several years of successfully running his company in California, Jason relocated to Oregon, which was home to him. It was in Oregon that Jason discovered the Integrated Systems industry. Jason continued building his new company in Oregon and maintained his focus on commercial work and providing state of the art Voice and Data networks, and then later fully embraced the home technologies
world, and opened a new division in his company expressly for residential projects. Jason built his Oregon based company to be synonymous with the Elite Level home in the Pacific Northwest Area he served. During this time Jason’s thirst for knowledge had him in schools, and seminars across the entire United States resulting in an accumulation of more than 40 certificates in the home automation, lighting control, audio / video, home cinema, and security solutions.
Jason sold his company in Oregon in 2008 and in the Summer of 2009 relocated to Europe, with his office located in Milan Italy. Jason held the position as the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Sales and Training Manager for Leviton’s Security and Automation division. In this role Jason trained and consulted with systems integrators in over 35 countries, and help design and manage hundreds of projects in almost every major city in Europe, and from Dubi, to Johannesburg, and participated on exceptionally large projects in Bucharest, and Mallorca.
Jason is now the Director and CEO of Elite Security Solutions which was established in 2017.
Moisés Royo
PhD Architect – Moisés Royo Márquez (1981) is an Architect with Honors from the Madrid Technical School of Architecture in 2007. He completed his training during this period at Aalto University (Helsinki, 2003). He was awarded a scholarship from La Caixa for postgraduate studies in the United States, where he continued his studies at Columbia University (New York) and obtained his Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design (2006). International PhD. with a mention of academic excellence in 2014 and Honors Cum Laude. Additionally he has been working as Associate Professor of Design Studio at E.T.S.A.M. since 2015. He has previously worked as a Teacher Assistant at Barnard College (NY, 2005), as guest professor at the University of Carleton, (Ottawa, 2013) and contributed teaching at the School of Madrid (2008-2010). He has been a conference guest speaker both nationally and internationally (USA, Portugal, Canada, Italy). Alongside his teaching activity, in 2008 Moisés founded mukaarquitectura. Since then has been awarded both competitions and finished projects. His work has been published in severals magazines and books as at the Young Architects of Spain exhibition, promoted by the Ministry of Housing. He has achieved relevant distinctions such as runner-up in Europan
Suiza (2011), Finalist FAD Awards (2014) City and Landscape, 21st cycle WA Awards (2015), Second Prize in the international ideas competition Vertical cemetery in Tokyo (2016), Finalist Proyectissimo, Third Prize in the International Competition KIP Island Auditorium (Riga, 2017), Finalist at the Brick Awards by the Brick Development Association in London, Finalist at The Wienerberger Brick Award (Vienna, 2018), and additional recognition at the Hispalyt Casa Piedrabuena Awards. In 2019, First Prize in the adaptation of the Plaza de la Constitución in Espirdo (Segovia), Second Prize in the International Swimming Pools Competition in Estepona (Malaga), and First Prize for a Skate Park in Torres de la Alameda.
In terms of publications and in addition to the magazines and books that include his own texts and works, he is the author of two books edited by the Castilla-La Mancha Architects´Association and the Ibero-American Institute of Finland together with the Finnish Architecture Museum for his special knowledge of Finnish architecture. His headquarter is in Madrid but he travels to other work areas such as Malaga (Marbella), Valencia, Castellón, Castilla-La Mancha and the Balearic Islands.
Clare Morton
Interior Designer – Clare is an award-winning British interior designer who divides her time between Mallorca and London, where she founded her design practice, Studio Morton in 2012.
A born artist, Clare studied Visual Communication (BA HONS) at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and then attained a further degree in Interior Design from the Sir John Cass School of Art in London. She has since returned to the school as a guest lecturer.
Throughout her extensive career, she has designed private residences both heritage and new build, and luxury show homes for the UKs leading property developers. Her commercial projects have included the interior design of advertising agencies, oil and gas companies, tech companies, film production facilities, recording studios and pop-up branded spaces.
Clare’s work appears regularly in the international press, recently featuring in Homes and Gardens (UK), 25 Beautiful Homes (UK), Inspired Living (UAE), Century 21 Magazine (US), HGTV Magazine (US) and The Epoch Times (China).
Her extensive world-wide travels are a major source of inspiration, these also enable Clare to maintain an awareness of international design trends. She has a keen eye for detail and delights in turning her clients’ thoughts and ideas into spaces beyond their dreams.
Steve Neenan
Real Estate Agent – Stephen Neenan was born in Rome in 1983 and graduated from La Sapienza University in Political Science. He then moved to Mallorca in 2008 and in 2014 he began his carreer in Real Estate. Since then he collaborated with several agencies, worked independently and recently created the real estate department for an architcture firm. He also sold and bought properties for himself and has covered all the positions in real estate, such as agent, owner, seller and landlord to fully understand the different perspectives and points of view.
His work style is based on fluid and clear communication, good listening and calm negotiation, which are three necessary pilars to understand the requests and the desires of the buyers in order to select the correct properties to show. Another fundamental element for him is trust, necessary to build an empathic rapport with his clients, and this is why many of them stay in good contact with him even after the deal.
He will assist you from the first enquiry until the signing at the Notary.