Ramon Escobar
Head LATAM Events & Community at This Week in Fintech
Ramon Escobar
Head LATAM Events & Community at This Week in Fintech
Mexico City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Head LATAM Events & Community
2024 - Current
This Week in Fintech (including TWIF Europe, TWIF LatAm, TWIF Asia, and other editions) reaches 100,000+ fintech enthusiasts every week, with over 15,000 attendees signed up for our events around the world at thisweekinfintech.com/events. Please reach out to help us gather the fintech community in your city! ramon@thisweekinfintech.com
International Expansion Director - Mexico & LATAM
2023
CFX is a closed-loop payment network that monetizes good money international flow and embeds blockchain wallets inside brand and merchant ecosystems to deliver instant local fiat currency. We're currently focused on allowing more Mexicans to receive their remittances faster, cheaper, and more conveniently. More at movemoney.com/mx
Founding Partner & Consultant
2023
XC Labs is a go-to-market laboratory focused on supporting and advising digital businesses to scale their operations in LATAM. XC has 3 Funding Partners and +80 community members, including angel investors, developers, operators, and senior leaders with fintech, crypto, SaaS, and eCommerce brand experience. Our main partners advise and consult startups in go-to-market operations, sales, growth models, fundraising, and product market fit. Our community is constantly researching, investing, building, or scaling up startups, which gives us the right edge to support our venture partners. Collectively, we invested or advised +25 startups and projects in Fintech, Crypto, Vertical SaaS, EdTech, ClimateTech and other industries, including names like Verqor, Kashin, GGs Gaming, Regen Protocol, Maya Protocol, Avalanche, Strade World, LeadSales, VisualizeValue, Agéndalo, Sommos, and more. We're open for business. Send me a note to learn more about how we can help: roma@xc-labs.com
Strategy & Growth
2023 - 2023
Verqor is a leading agro-fintech lender transforming the way farmers get access to innovative credit products in Mexico and soon in LATAM.
Global Director of Community, Events & Partnerships
2022 - 2023
Metamap is on a mission to unlock borderless growth globally, recognizing the merits that all of us as digital users have. As Director of Community and Partnerships, I'm in charge of: - Work closely with the Sales, Product, and Marketing teams to unlock opportunities to expand our reach, access new markets, and create new business opportunities. - Led the online and offline events strategy, partnering with top event organizers in LATAM, Africa, and other regions to participate and - Support the sales process end-to-end, generating new leads and nurturing our sales pipeline with new potential customers. - Create alliances with strategic partners in the regions where we operate, including being part of top Startup and Business associations, partnering with VCs, Accelerators, and Venture Builders, and working with some of the most significant and most recognized professional associations in the region.
Regional Director
2021 - 2022
Amber is a global leader with a proven record in the digital asset space with more than 600 specialists across finance and technology, more than 1,000 institutional clients, and more than US$ 1 Trillion in cumulative trading since our inception in 2017. For 2022, Amber is facing a global expansion expanding its services in new regions, including Latin America, where we´re focusing on being one of the top ecosystem leaders for the crypto financing space: What does Amber offer through WhaleFin, our API-driven platform? - Buy crypto using wire transfers, bank deposits, and more. - EARN attractive yields with a variety of interest-rate products - Trade and swap seamlessly +100 digital assets - Spend your digital assets with WhaleFin's upcoming card program - Borrow against digital assets at a lower rate than market averages
Venture Manager
2020 - 2022
I led the construction of a new venture, evaluating and investing in the most promising ConTech startups in Latam, North America and Europe. Proudly supporting the Mexican innovation ecosystem at one of the most successful Mexican companies in the world.
Senior Advisor/Consultant in Strategy, Operations & Growth
2020 - 2021
Helping founders, entrepreneurs, and operators to design and execute growth strategies. - Consultant at Binance.com, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, as part of the expansion plan to enter the Mexican market. - Advisor at several pre-seed startups, helping them define and set up the growth and expansion plan and the fundraising calendar. Including Pack & Pack, LaPieza.io, Hi-Kitchen, Parnity, Verqor, PartRunner, and a few others. - Part of the founding team of a new EdTech platform for small business owners.
Strategy & Operations
2019 - 2020
Eva is leading a personal health movement that will allow millions of women to feel comfortable and in control of their breast health for the first time, with EvaClinic, a unique experience that works as an adjunct technology that detects malignant and benign anomalies through the thermal patterns from the breast in a completely non-invasive, pain and radiation-free way. As part of the leadership team, I was in charge of: - Execution of the launching plan and go-to-market strategy for Eva Center, our direct-to-customer service for breast cancer detection. In charge of defining pricing, distribution channels, logistics, brand and product positioning, and target market. • Restructure of the financial, operational, regulatory, and legal state of the company in Mexico, preparing the business for several product launches. • Definition of the administrative, financial, and regulatory policies for the Mexican market. • Lead the structure and creation of new business areas and hiring of new personnel. Areas include Growth/Marketing, Operations, Customer Service, HR, and Finance. • Creation and monitoring of annual business forecast, business, and growth plan. • Budget managing and fiscal and financial controls for sustainable growth. • Participation in fundraising activities for the extended Series Seed round, working closely with Julian, Eva´s CEO. What to know more, meet Eva Center at: https://youtu.be/12h-0qUdJag
Country Manager
2015 - 2019
Responsible for the market P&L, local business plan definition, and execution. Results: +40% YoY growth with a positive EBITDA, 180% YoY growth for the customer user base. Responsibilities: • Manager of eight direct reports (executive team), four indirect reports, and +150 people team in areas including growth and expansion, operations, customer service, sales, finance, legal, and product & BI. • Member of the global senior management team and contributor to defining the company strategy, product development roadmap, and growth performance for the local market. • Participant in several cross-functional and multi-national projects, including the global rollout of a new revenue and pricing model and the launch of a new cross-brand version of our driver app. • Responsible for implementing a local business review, changing the financial and operational structure to reach a positive EBITDA of 5%, and sustainable double-digit growth rates. • Elected General Manager for Maxi Mobility Mexico to lead the second phase of the local merge of Cabify and Easy Taxi operations after 1.5 years as country manager for Easy Taxi.