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Marta is the president and co-founder of Kaccelerator, a next– generation thematic investing fund focused on disrupting innovations that are changing the world for the better and have long-term growth potential.
She is a health activist, social business advocate, entrepreneur and startup investor with 15+ years of experience working in Sales & Marketing. She is known to be a proactive, passionate and creative thinker with an ability to detect new products and emerging markets which has led her to travel the world in search of new business opportunities.
Marta began her professional career working at IBM in the Software Marketing department in Madrid, Spain. Shortly after, she became the leading founder of wearetrade.com which provides support for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in their expansion into South America and Europe. During this time, she successfully orchestrated a large network of subcontractors in China, Vietnam, Switzerland, Spain, Chile and Peru.
Marta also founded updeluxe.com, a consulting company that specializes in giving support and valuable advice to a wide range of companies but primarily to those focused on luxury and premium markets. Advice includes methods on how to best raise brand awareness by using “Trading-up” strategies to get more exposure and consequently, improve profit margins.
Her years of experience working with and managing multidisciplinary teams from around the world, as well as her complete understanding of financial markets, has led Marta to become a strong supporter of an environmentally conscious model of investing. This resulted in the co-founding of the Kaccelerator Innovation & Impact Fund where she is currently developing new investment strategies and building portfolios that cover a broad array of asset classes in well-established companies and startups focused on Green technologies.
She holds a degree in Business Administration from the Finis Terrae University in Santiago Chile, as well as a Masters Degree in Marketing from the Autónoma University in Madrid, a Masters Degree in Luxury Brand Management and a Diploma in Digital Marketing from the IE Business School in Madrid.
Marta has both Spanish and Chilean nationality, and previously lived in Argentina, Chile, and Switzerland before settling in Madrid, Spain where she currently resides with her husband and 3 daughters.
Nil brings more than 20 years of corporate experience in M&A, risk management, and supply chain operations. With deep expertise at project management and process improvement, Nil is best known for getting things done.
She started her career in risk management for Marsh & McLennan, one of the largest global insurance brokers, and the skills and judgment gleaned from that experience led to a move to GE in risk management as part of the corporate treasury department at GE HQ in Connecticut and in London. While at GE she completed their management training program and achieved Six Sigma certification.
Nil is active in women’s professional networking groups and looks for opportunities to promote women to leadership roles in the corporate world. Her position at Solvoyo has also heightened her awareness of the need to advocate for women leadership in the technology and entrepreneurship fields.
Sebastián is the Founder and CEO of Kaccelerator, a next-generation thematic investing fund focused on disrupting innovations that are changing the world for the better and have long-term growth potential. He is an environmental activist, social business advocate and an avid investor in start-ups and publicly traded companies.
From 2005 to 2018, prior to the founding of Kaccelerator, Sebastián was a key executive at Ria Money Transfer, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ: EEFT), and was a driving force behind the company’s evolution from a small money transfer operation to the 3rd largest remittance company in the world.
Soon after joining Ria in 2005, Sebastián executed a number of strategic decisions which allowed Ria to compete on the global market and would become instrumental to the company’s $500 million acquisition by Euronet Worldwide in 2007.
As Managing Director of Europe, Middle East, Africa & South Asia for the past 10 years, Sebastián led the international expansion of Ria Money Transfer overseeing sales, operations, finance, compliance, regulations, IT systems and the scaling of the company around the world. Under his leadership, nearly 150k locations were incorporated into Ria’s network and his P&L would reach an impressive EBIT growth of nearly 25% annually over the past 10 years.
Sebastián began his career in Chile where he was born and bred. From 2001 to 2004, he worked in Chile at Inter Money Exchange where he learned about currency and stock trading. From 2004 to 2005 Sebastian worked for Chequepoint, a currency exchange company based in London with operations across Europe. Sebastián holds an MBA in International Business and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Gabriela Mistral University. He has also completed postgraduate studies in Strategy and Innovation from the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, and is a frequent speaker in financial inclusion forums organized by the World Bank, IFAD and the United Nations, amongst others. In 2015 he received, on behalf of Ria, the “World’s Best Money Transfer Company Award” from the International Association of Money Transfer Network (IAMTN).
He has Chilean and Swiss nationality, and has lived in Santiago, London, Geneva and currently resides in Madrid with his wife and daughters.
Nil brings more than 20 years of corporate experience in M&A, risk management, and supply chain operations. With deep expertise at project management and process improvement, Nil is best known for getting things done.
She started her career in risk management for Marsh & McLennan, one of the largest global insurance brokers, and the skills and judgment gleaned from that experience led to a move to GE in risk management as part of the corporate treasury department at GE HQ in Connecticut and in London. While at GE she completed their management training program and achieved Six Sigma certification.
Nil is active in women’s professional networking groups and looks for opportunities to promote women to leadership roles in the corporate world. Her position at Solvoyo has also heightened her awareness of the need to advocate for women leadership in the technology and entrepreneurship fields.
Marta is the president and co-founder of Kaccelerator, a next – generation thematic investing fund focused on disrupting innovations that are changing the world for the better and have long-term growth potential.
She is a health activist, social business advocate, entrepreneur and startup investor with +15 years of experience working in Sales & Marketing. She is known to be a proactive, passionate and creative thinker with an ability to detect new products and emerging markets which has led her to travel the world in search of new business opportunities.
Marta began her professional career working at IBM in the Software Marketing department in Madrid, Spain. Shortly after, she became the leading founder of wearetrade.com which provides support for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in their expansion into South America and Europe. During this time, she successfully orchestrated a large network of subcontractors in China, Vietnam, Switzerland, Spain, Chile and Peru.
Marta also founded updeluxe.com, a consulting company that specializes in giving support and valuable advice to a wide range of companies but primarily to those focused on luxury and premium markets. Advice includes methods on how to best raise brand awareness by using “Trading-up” strategies to get more exposure and consequently improve profit margins.
Her years of experience working with and managing multidisciplinary teams from around the world, as well as her complete understanding of financial markets has led Marta to become a strong supporter for an environmentally conscious model of investing, which resulted in the co-founding of the Kaccelerator Innovation & Impact Fund where she is currently developing new investment strategies and building portfolios that cover a broad array of asset classes in well-established companies and startups focused on Green technologies.
She holds a degree in Business Administration from the Finis Terrae University in Santiago Chile, as well as a Masters Degree in Marketing from the Autónoma University in Madrid, a Masters Degree in Luxury Brand Management and a Diploma in Digital Marketing from the IE Business School in Madrid.
Marta has both Spanish and Chilean nationality, and had lived in Argentina, Chile, and Switzerland before settling in Madrid, Spain where she currently resides with her husband and 3 daughters.
Nil brings more than 20 years of corporate experience in M&A, risk management, and supply chain operations. With deep expertise at project management and process improvement, Nil is best known for getting things done.
She started her career in risk management for Marsh & McLennan, one of the largest global insurance brokers, and the skills and judgment gleaned from that experience led to a move to GE in risk management as part of the corporate treasury department at GE HQ in Connecticut and in London. While at GE she completed their management training program and achieved Six Sigma certification.
Nil is active in women’s professional networking groups and looks for opportunities to promote women to leadership roles in the corporate world. Her position at Solvoyo has also heightened her awareness of the need to advocate for women leadership in the technology and entrepreneurship fields.
Omer is a seasoned supply chain professional with more than 20 years experience in supply chain management, with an emphasis on business analytics and fact-based decision making as well as delivering high-quality software and consulting services. Omer is motivated to solve difficult business problems through innovation, information technology and automation while always focusing on the end result of delighting customers.
Prior to joining Solvoyo, Omer was Principal and Vice President at Chainalytics, a supply chain consulting company. Omer’s professional track record also includes senior-level positions at i2 Technologies (now a part of JDA) and Philips Electronics North America.
Omer received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech and holds several patents related to the use of analytics in planning supply chains better.
Erol’s nearly 20 years of software development and management experience has been largely acquired on a variety of US Government projects. Erol also gained extensive knowledge and experience on Military Logistics Systems, In Transit Visibility, Automated Identification Technologies, RFID and Supply Chain Management systems and COTS integration and custom software development for both defense and civilian governmental agencies.
At Solvoyo, Erol’s strategic and analytical mind makes him adept at optimizing resources and developing innovative solutions in complex environments. Always a people person, Erol loves engaging with customers and building lasting relationships.
Erol is Certified PMP with DOD Active Secret Clearance. He completed the Master of Science in Software Systems Engineering program at George Mason University in Virginia. He received his BS degree in Computer Science from Georgia College and State University in Georgia. He holds an AS degree in Electronics from Bosphorus University in Istanbul.
Emre brings 15 years experience in management consulting, information technologies management, software design and implementation, operations management, strategy development, and innovation.
As co-lead of Solvoyo’s global team, he actively participates in the identification of business requirements of Solvoyo’s customers and ensures our software capabilities are aligned to meet their evolving needs. In addition, he and the Customer Solutions team are responsible for the design and implementation of customer business solutions with a primary focus on providing an exceptional ROI for our customers.
He received a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, and an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University.
Yosun has more than 20 years of experience in implementing Planning, Pricing and Optimization solutions in global companies in U.S. and Europe. She has led cross-functional teams in large-scale projects touching different points in Retail lifecycle, including Category Planning, Assortment Localization, Demand Planning, Size Optimization, Promotion Planning, Allocation and Replenishment, Markdown Optimization and Supply Chain Management. Following her consulting tenure with Silicon-valley based software companies, she brought her Advanced Analytics and Business Process Engineering experience to Apparel Retail where she worked at Gap Inc. and Cache where she led Merchandise Planning and Distribution teams to adopt new capabilities in Forecasting, Assortment Localization and Price Optimization to improve sales and profitability.
Yosun holds B.S. and Master of Engineering degrees in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. She is one of the contributing authors in Oxford Handbook of Price Management and has been a guest lecturer in San Francisco State and Columbia University business school in multiple occasions.
Sebastián is the Founder and CEO of Kaccelerator, a next-generation thematic investing fund focused on disrupting innovations that are changing the world for the better and have long-term growth potential. He is an environmental activist, social business advocate and an avid investor in start-ups and publicly traded companies.
From 2005 to 2018, prior to the founding of Kaccelerator, Sebastián was a key executive at Ria Money Transfer, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ: EEFT), and was a driving force behind the company’s evolution from a small money transfer operation to the 3rd largest remittance company in the world.
Soon after joining Ria in 2005, Sebastián executed a number of strategic decisions which allowed Ria to compete on the global market and would become instrumental to the company’s $500 million acquisition by Euronet Worldwide in 2007.
As Managing Director of Europe, Middle East, Africa & South Asia for the past 10 years, Sebastián led the international expansion of Ria Money Transfer overseeing sales, operations, finance, compliance, regulations, IT systems and the scaling of the company around the world. Under his leadership, nearly 150k locations were incorporated into Ria’s network and his P&L would reach an impressive EBIT growth of nearly 25% annually over the past 10 years.
Sebastián began his career in Chile where he was born and bred. From 2001 to 2004, he worked in Chile at Inter Money Exchange where he learned about currency and stock trading. From 2004 to 2005 Sebastian worked for Chequepoint, a currency exchange company based in London with operations across Europe. Sebastián holds an MBA in International Business and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Gabriela Mistral University. He has also completed postgraduate studies in Strategy and Innovation from the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, and is a frequent speaker in financial inclusion forums organized by the World Bank, IFAD and the United Nations, amongst others.In 2015 he received, on behalf of Ria, the “World’s Best Money Transfer Company Award” from the International Association of Money Transfer Network (IAMTN).
He has Chilean and Swiss nationality, and has lived in Santiago, London, Geneva and currently resides in Madrid with his wife and daughters.
Nil brings more than 20 years of corporate experience in M&A, risk management, and supply chain operations. With deep expertise at project management and process improvement, Nil is best known for getting things done.
She started her career in risk management for Marsh & McLennan, one of the largest global insurance brokers, and the skills and judgment gleaned from that experience led to a move to GE in risk management as part of the corporate treasury department at GE HQ in Connecticut and in London. While at GE she completed their management training program and achieved Six Sigma certification.
Nil is active in women’s professional networking groups and looks for opportunities to promote women to leadership roles in the corporate world. Her position at Solvoyo has also heightened her awareness of the need to advocate for women leadership in the technology and entrepreneurship fields.
Omer is a seasoned supply chain professional with more than 20 years experience in supply chain management, with an emphasis on business analytics and fact-based decision making as well as delivering high-quality software and consulting services. Omer is motivated to solve difficult business problems through innovation, information technology and automation while always focusing on the end result of delighting customers.
Prior to joining Solvoyo, Omer was Principal and Vice President at Chainalytics, a supply chain consulting company. Omer’s professional track record also includes senior-level positions at i2 Technologies (now a part of JDA) and Philips Electronics North America.
Omer received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech and holds several patents related to the use of analytics in planning supply chains better.
Erol’s nearly 20 years of software development and management experience has been largely acquired on a variety of US Government projects. Erol also gained extensive knowledge and experience on Military Logistics Systems, In Transit Visibility, Automated Identification Technologies, RFID and Supply Chain Management systems and COTS integration and custom software development for both defense and civilian governmental agencies.
At Solvoyo, Erol’s strategic and analytical mind makes him adept at optimizing resources and developing innovative solutions in complex environments. Always a people person, Erol loves engaging with customers and building lasting relationships.
Erol is Certified PMP with DOD Active Secret Clearance. He completed the Master of Science in Software Systems Engineering program at George Mason University in Virginia. He received his BS degree in Computer Science from Georgia College and State University in Georgia. He holds an AS degree in Electronics from Bosphorus University in Istanbul.
Emre brings 15 years experience in management consulting, information technologies management, software design and implementation, operations management, strategy development, and innovation.
As co-lead of Solvoyo’s global team, he actively participates in the identification of business requirements of Solvoyo’s customers and ensures our software capabilities are aligned to meet their evolving needs. In addition, he and the Customer Solutions team are responsible for the design and implementation of customer business solutions with a primary focus on providing an exceptional ROI for our customers.
He received a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, and an MBA in Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University.
Yosun has more than 20 years of experience in implementing Planning, Pricing and Optimization solutions in global companies in U.S. and Europe. She has led cross-functional teams in large-scale projects touching different points in Retail lifecycle, including Category Planning, Assortment Localization, Demand Planning, Size Optimization, Promotion Planning, Allocation and Replenishment, Markdown Optimization and Supply Chain Management. Following her consulting tenure with Silicon-valley based software companies, she brought her Advanced Analytics and Business Process Engineering experience to Apparel Retail where she worked at Gap Inc. and Cache where she led Merchandise Planning and Distribution teams to adopt new capabilities in Forecasting, Assortment Localization and Price Optimization to improve sales and profitability.
Yosun holds B.S. and Master of Engineering degrees in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University. She is one of the contributing authors in Oxford Handbook of Price Management and has been a guest lecturer in San Francisco State and Columbia University business school in multiple occasions.
