Experience

AutogenAI

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Account Executive & Partnerships Manager

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  New York City Metropolitan Area AutogenAI is an enterprise Generative AI SaaS company that specializes in helping organizations create winning tenders and proposals. We leverage the latest advances in artificial intelligence, specifically natural language processing, to enable organizations to generate professional-quality, fine tuned for their organization, tenders and proposals quickly.



Amadeo Global

• United States
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture Partner

  • 2021 - Present

  New York City Metropolitan Area ▪Scouting and meeting interesting consumer focused startups somewhere on their journey between Seed and Series A

• Venture Builder & Portfolio Operations

  • 2019 - 2021

  Greater New York City Area From Business Design + Strategy for Startups => Consulting + Growth + Investing. Alternative Investment Fund (with consulting arm) investing in consumer-facing companies and consumer tech. Part of the start-up team and later joined as a consultant to accelerate portfolio company development and growth: ▪ Led innovation team for a proposed pivot for a B2B AdTech company and invalidated the model saving the company $$$ ▪ Crafted and implemented go-to-market strategy for B2B SAAS… Show more From Business Design + Strategy for Startups => Consulting + Growth + Investing. Alternative Investment Fund (with consulting arm) investing in consumer-facing companies and consumer tech. Part of the start-up team and later joined as a consultant to accelerate portfolio company development and growth: ▪ Led innovation team for a proposed pivot for a B2B AdTech company and invalidated the model saving the company $$$ ▪ Crafted and implemented go-to-market strategy for B2B SAAS product designed to improve retail operations efficiency



Board of Innovation

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal Business Designer

  • Feb 2022 - Jun 2023

  New York City Metropolitan Area Board of Innovation is a business design and innovation strategy firm. Our consultants help the world’s largest organizations navigate fundamental shifts. We do this by developing growth strategies, innovation capabilities, and new businesses using our clients’ assets and core strengths. Thanks to our years in the field, we know that innovation doesn’t need to be sexy to work. You won’t get innovation theatre from us. Our strategists and business designers are fully committed to… Show more Board of Innovation is a business design and innovation strategy firm. Our consultants help the world’s largest organizations navigate fundamental shifts. We do this by developing growth strategies, innovation capabilities, and new businesses using our clients’ assets and core strengths. Thanks to our years in the field, we know that innovation doesn’t need to be sexy to work. You won’t get innovation theatre from us. Our strategists and business designers are fully committed to delivering return on innovation. We focus on programs that produce results. Expanding HCD capabilities + developing relationships and people: ▪Teaming with corporate leaders to address, frame and solve their innovation challenges ▪Designing world class solutions - products, services, and businesses - to meet those needs ▪Learning from team members, as well as helping them grow

• Senior Business Designer

  • 2021 - Mar 2022

  New York City Metropolitan Area From Startup Business Designer + Strategist => Business Designer + Strategist with Corporate Innovators: ▪Working with teams to identify, define and solve their customers' most pressing problems ▪Designing world class solutions - products, services, and businesses - to meet those needs ▪Collaborating with interesting, intelligent and talented people on our team, and from industries all over



Starta VC

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Entrepreneur In Residence, Starta Accelerator

  • Aug 2018 - Mar 2020

  Greater New York City Area Business Design + Strategy for startups, and empowering founders. Serves as a strategic advisor to early stage funded startups as part of Starta Ventures' accelerator program helping European companies establish and land their presence in the US: ▪ Identifying key assumptions and designing experiments to validate or invalidate them ▪ Establishing core target market segment(s) and crafting personas ▪ Competitive industry strategic analysis



Business Models Inc.

• Netherlands
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategy Designer

  • Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

  Greater New York City Area Applying entrepreneurial + startup consulting skills in a corporate environment. International business design firm, focusing on strategy and business model innovation. My role as a Strategy Designer was to support clients in identifying + mapping white space strategic opportunities as well as the generation of new business models to address customer needs. A few highlights: ▪ Designed, organized and co-facilitated event + client workshops, taking teams from problem definition through… Show more Applying entrepreneurial + startup consulting skills in a corporate environment. International business design firm, focusing on strategy and business model innovation. My role as a Strategy Designer was to support clients in identifying + mapping white space strategic opportunities as well as the generation of new business models to address customer needs. A few highlights: ▪ Designed, organized and co-facilitated event + client workshops, taking teams from problem definition through validation ▪ Rapid prototyping and business model design for 3 Fortune 500 companies resulting in 2 prototype solutions and 1 MVP Show less



MP: Consulting

• Consultant, Business Designer and Strategist

  • Mar 2015 - Aug 2018

  Learning + sharpening advisory and business skills. Operating an independent consulting business supporting a diverse portfolio of global clients in their startup, strategy, and innovation initiatives. Key clients in the hospitality, media, innovation, and technology spaces: ▪ CHRGR is the first advertising platform you want to take home and use again. We distribute brand-sponsored, card-sized phone chargers through thousands of lifestyle venues nationwide. CHRGR fits in your… Show more Learning + sharpening advisory and business skills. Operating an independent consulting business supporting a diverse portfolio of global clients in their startup, strategy, and innovation initiatives. Key clients in the hospitality, media, innovation, and technology spaces: ▪ CHRGR is the first advertising platform you want to take home and use again. We distribute brand-sponsored, card-sized phone chargers through thousands of lifestyle venues nationwide. CHRGR fits in your pocket and immediately powers any iPhone or Android. I ran Strategy + Finance/Operations at this Media Startup ▪ For Delhicioso, a prepared meal delivery e-commerce platform, I served as a Co-Founder and Consultant. I ideated concept, launched the test case, designed meals, and created a robust, scalable business model for a prepared-meal delivery app ▪ I worked as the Project Manager for the ESADE Innovation Summit; planning and coordinating this event and workshop series. Ultimately it was comprised of 120 attendees with key company representatives from Amazon, HP, Microsoft, Banco Santander, SY Partners, Telefonica, Werfen, and the Zobele Group. ▪ With Quicksilver Translate, I led the client engagement and assessed company performance, strategy, and brand position in the B2B translation services market; translated (no pun intended) research to formulate an offline/digital strategy and implementation plan ▪ At Sadako Technologies, a Robotics/Optics company, I led a project team in conducting extensive market feasibility testing and designing the appropriate entry strategy for a flagship product in North America Show less



Esade

• Spain
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Full-Time MBA

  • Sep 2014 - Apr 2016

  Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Academic, Professional, and Personal growth. Took the leap to an International MBA at ESADE where I got to meet, learn, work, travel, and experience life with an amazing group of people from all over the world: ▪VP Design & Innovation Club - Member of the board of the club; designed, organized and executed 200 person Innovation Summit event ▪President ESADE Soccer Club - Gold medal winners IESE Spring Games 2015 ▪ALCP, Kellogg-ESADE International Growth Challenge - International… Show more Academic, Professional, and Personal growth. Took the leap to an International MBA at ESADE where I got to meet, learn, work, travel, and experience life with an amazing group of people from all over the world: ▪VP Design & Innovation Club - Member of the board of the club; designed, organized and executed 200 person Innovation Summit event ▪President ESADE Soccer Club - Gold medal winners IESE Spring Games 2015 ▪ALCP, Kellogg-ESADE International Growth Challenge - International consulting project for large scale manufacturer Show less



Birch Coffee

• United States
• Food & Beverages
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founding Team + Managing Partner

  • Jan 2008 - May 2014

  Greater New York City Area From Chef => Chef-Entrepreneur, and 0-1+. In the early stages of the NYC artisanal coffee boom, we ideated Birch Coffee and landed our first location in the Flatiron District. As a member of the founding team, I contributed to the creation, start-up phase, management, and expansion of this artisanal coffee start-up: ▪ Participating in the preparation and implementation of the business plan as part of the start-up team ▪ P&L analysis and cost control; rotating and innovating the… Show more From Chef => Chef-Entrepreneur, and 0-1+. In the early stages of the NYC artisanal coffee boom, we ideated Birch Coffee and landed our first location in the Flatiron District. As a member of the founding team, I contributed to the creation, start-up phase, management, and expansion of this artisanal coffee start-up: ▪ Participating in the preparation and implementation of the business plan as part of the start-up team ▪ P&L analysis and cost control; rotating and innovating the culinary product portfolio ▪ Hiring, training, and leading teams and expanding to 3 new locations + wholesale and e-comm Show less



Rice Restaurants

• Consultant/Events + Special Projects Chef

  • Mar 2008 - Feb 2011

  Greater New York City Area Building on my passion for food + cooking + entrepreneurship, and developing business ability. I initially began as the Events & Special Projects Chef at this eclectic restaurant group but my role expanded to include culinary + business ops work: ▪ Theme and menu creation for a variety of events ▪ Executing cost/profit analysis for 5 Rice Restaurant properties ▪ Preparing and launching a new product line of 2 seasonal pop-up projects