andres varela da Costa
Consultant, Father, and life-designer in Madrid, Spain
Father, strategic business development + innovation consultant & entrepreneur. Currently living in Madrid. My interests range from Life to Yoga. I am also interested in traveling as an experience, music as an expression, and Self-transformation as the trigger to Consciousness.
I've learnt that the right mentoring and mindset drives towards self-awareness discovering, and this is what i try to lead with "Design Thinking" methodology & tools applied to humans workview-lifeview-coherency problematic following Stanford professors Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.
My experience is based on 3 main pillars (psychology growth mindset, technology, storytelling) deployed in my professional background as follows:
20+ years proven experience within the Iberian Digital field driving companies towards omni-commerce transformation as an expert consultant & entrepreneur. Track record as a mentor, funding partner or business angel and executor on supporting businesses development in different industries within international corporate environments & start-ups.
International working footprint in several countries (UK, GE, France, Spain, Portugal and Latam), with extensive experience in Performance Marketing & Digital Media, eCommerce/mCommerce, mobile payments & transactional Data, APi and SaaS models along different industries from Travel to Media, Telco, Retail, BioTech, FMCG or Finance.
Since 2016 i've been actively supporting as syndicated investor new start-ups like: servantrip.com, SaaS which i back as Strategic Partnerships responsible. Lately, full involved with thebeeminelab.com, a biotech startup that is designing a new well-being category products based on CBD.
Previously, trying to pop-up something new to bridge relations between millennials and brands at Havas Media/Vivendi Corporation with Snapchat as an excuse...
Improvised researcher and casual writer awarded for business performance, i've had the opportunity to mentor multiple start-up projects (30+) within different academical & executional environments. Among them: Valley Digital University, Telefonica Open Future, IE University & Founder Institute.
I am very interested on Education as a source of inspiration, space to exchange and share knowledge, and the incubation of new disruptive projects that can design the future.
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