San Francisco Bay Area
Deep Tech Founder, C-Level Executive, Independent Board Member & Advisor with a 20-year career dedicated to Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum Science, Research, Software Development and Automation. Privileged to have partnered with industry leaders including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, among others in Silicon Valley, collaborating in research, development, investment and go-to-market. Co-founded 8 deep tech and research companies + a nonprofit organization, serving as CEO in 4 of them. Also served as CTO, CMO, Chief Product & Strategy Officer. Track record includes 4 exits with $20M+ venture capital-backed valuations. Brings cross-functional team leadership, communications, and multidisciplinary expertise in technical product management, sales/marketing management, and financial management. Enabling innovation by translating and coordinating between multiple stakeholders that don't typically understand each other. Extremely concerned about Latin America's future, his region of origin, because of minimal deep tech (AI, Quantum Computing, Research) capabilities and investment. Committed to supporting the evolution of companies and governments to the technology revolution that has already caused the extinction of 60%+ Fortune Global 500 companies since the year 2000 (Fortune 2022), the 300 million jobs that Gen AI is already replacing, and the $7 Trillion USD that it's generating (Goldman Sachs 2023). As exposed in Exponential Organizations 2.0: Every single large enterprise and government now needs a Chief AI Officer. Evolve or disappear. Other Highlights: • Raised $100M+ USD for tech startups, funds and nonprofits. • Collaborated with 40+ Fortune Global 500 companies and financial institutions in deep tech research, development and customer acquisition automation. • Managed 200+ people teams that built tech currently being used by 80M+ paying users and generating $4B+ in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). • Self-taught software engineering at age 16. • Former Chief Digital Ambassador at Save the Children, reducing donor acquisition costs up to 50% via fundraising automation. • Native-level 100% English and Spanish proficiency. • 33K+ LinkedIn followers & 1K+ skill endorsements. For detailed information, sources, awards, recommendations, media, and keynote speaker conferences, links are found within LinkedIn profile below.
Building proprietary hyperspecialized Generative AI foundation models, infrastructure and use cases. We're liberating human potential by enabling education, healthcare & financial services. This would otherwise remain impossible because existing Generative AI solutions are too expensive, contaminating and extremely difficult to implement for 80%+ of the global population.
• Provides strategic advisory, contributing to new business development, acting as brand ambassador and shareholder representing the company's interests.
• Co-founded Adext AI as a Research & Development (R&D) tech company, collaborating with Google and Facebook (now Meta) in pioneering experimental Artificial Intelligence (AI) research for advertising automation. The research also proved to be remarkable in financial services automation. • Successfully graduated from FbStart (Facebook's Accelerator) and became Google's first channel sales AI Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) partner. • Demonstrated exceptional fundraising abilities, securing over $8M USD in seed-stage funding to enhance algorithm research and establish strong product-market fit. • Spearheaded impressive growth, driving user acquisition to surpass 100,000 users across 70+ countries. • As CEO of an early-stage AI startup, assumed multiple additional roles including interim CFO and COO. Provided vision, shaping culture and strategy, cross-functional team leadership and communication, building a team of 100+, overseeing finances, P&L ownership, new business development, product program management, legal affairs, fundraising, investor relations, operational efficiency and partnerships.
• Chairman of the Board of Directors until the acquisition was finalized. • Responsible for providing strategic leadership, governance, driving the organization's research agenda, stakeholder engagement, risk management, financial oversight, and collaboration with industry partners and academia.
• Defilanthropy.org was a web3 decentralized International Non-Profit Organization (INGO) in partnership with Save the Children and other INGOs. Leveraged next generation technologies like the Ethereum blockchain, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), smart contracts and financial services artificial intelligence automation to provide donors and volunteers with transparency over their donations, rewarding them with decentralized governance tokens so that they could vote on how INGOs allocated their contributions via proprietary donation mining and give to earn technology. • Before the acquisition, he was responsible for providing strategic leadership, organizational management, financial oversight, P&L ownership, stakeholder engagement, influencer marketing, fundraising, program development, board relations, driving impact, financial sustainability, and accountability in alignment with the organization's mission of transparency and decentralizing governance in philanthropy. • The decentralized INGO platform was able to reduce the donor acquisition cost of INGOs by up to 50%, via providing fundraising automation, rewards, transparency and voting rights to donors and volunteers. • Was also able to increase donor lifetime value by 20%+. • Successfully sold 10K+ NFTs with 100% of profits donated and achieved 5K+ recurring donors for INGOs.
• President of the AI, Technology & Innovation Committee at the 2023 edition of the leading impact investing forum in Latin America.