Emilio is a pan-European who has also spent extensive time in Asia. Skilled in complex financial transactions, M&A, fund raising, outsourcing, strategy and European technology businesses including broad ranging digital marketplaces start-up experience. Emilio has over 10 years running boutique advisory businesses, and over 15 years in senior executive positions with global champions across outsourcing, M&A, strategy and operations. He brings high discipline and governance to GrowthWorks. Emilio engages across Madrid, Paris, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Martin spends most of his time across four cities in Asia. He is highly skilled in Asian business (12+ markets in-depth for over 35 years), strategic planning, bus dev execution, emerging market expansion and risk management, joint venture design and execution, regulatory and government affairs, M&A, and other complex and patient win-win deal making. Martin has worked for a range of leading global tech companies and global services firms and has one of the most diverse and embedded networks of the GrowthWorks team.

Andrew is a global technology services senior executive and proven Asian business leader who has experience in general management, enterprise sales leadership, and operational growth scaling of billion-dollar businesses. He is also very experienced in medtech and fintech start-up ecosystems and world-leading disruptive technologies. He has worked his way up through corporate Australia, and further out into the highest ranks of general management of global Fortune 500 enterprises Asia Pacific businesses. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, Perth and Sydney. He is a natural-born builder and leader of elite sales organizations. He is one of our highest trust mentors to founders.

Krzys is a 25-year veteran investment banker from Europe and Asia skilled in global investment banking, global technology business strategy and Asian finance. Krzys has a great passion for disruptive technology companies, complex transactions and fundraising, and has decades of experience over hundreds of deals placing investors into global growth companies. He is a proud Wharton grad and worked in three global tier 1 investment banks in San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Jakarta, and co-founded a nationally leading Chinese investment bank. In recent years, he typically engages across Boston, Hong Kong, Gdansk and London. Arguably Krzys’s defining team contribution is knowing what investors are going to think… before investors think it, and convincingly communicating that to our client founders.

Dave is a skilled techno-commercial-engineering leader with 30+ years of international experience, spanning extensive business operations, strategy consulting, business development, venture capital and commodity trading. He has worked in mobile network operations in various CxO and CEO roles, co-founded multiple tech startups and advised on multi-$billion M&A deals. Dave is a passionate engineering science and innovation advocate. He has lived and worked in New Delhi, Chandigarh, Rome, Paris, Honiara (Solomon Islands) and Melbourne.

Rich lives and works currently in Lisbon and London. He is a 35-year veteran in the technology, telecoms, and communications infrastructure space. He served as an accomplished Senior Executive in one of America’s Fortune 15 companies, leading their International Business in EMEA and APAC. He is highly skilled in anticipating and positioning scaled businesses to meet disruptive market trends, and, complemented by his deep operational, sales and strategic planning capabilities, in achieving sustainable and significant top line/ profitable growth in Europe’s largest markets. Rich has built an advisory portfolio with senior clients focused on step-change growth opportunities. He is a successful executive coach and mentor, specialised in creating a high-performance culture. Rich brings extra boardroom gravitas to our GrowthWorks team as we assist clients to launch more ambitious scaled projects with larger investors.

Mike is a Silicon Valley veteran with 12+ years of experience as a growth-company mentor, strategist, and scaler in San Francisco. He is himself a serial entrepreneur in digital platforms, AI, and software. He believes passionately in great technology businesses powered by market-leading product engineering. Mike is a humanist who shows great empathy to other founders, but with the needed tough love. He has spent time at two of the major VCs and taught at both Stanford and UC-Berkeley. He has served as mentor and advisor to no less than three incubator programs in California, two in Europe and two, including nationwide, in Australia. He has won honours for his AI developments within the California ecosystem. Mike has himself travelled the founder’s journey.

Intrapreneur and Entrepreneur with 20+ years experience in Digital Businesses in Latin America. Built from scratch and operated 20+ eCommerce and eServices companies, including (i) leading online initiatives for global retailers of FMCG andfinance, as well as (ii) being a serial entrepreneur for some of LATAM’s leading digital platforms, typically as CEO and co-Founder. He has lived and worked in: Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and France.