Dan Baker

About Dan Baker

ME: Founder / Co-Founder of two Outsourcing Agencies providing US companies with bilingual, college-educated talent from Latin America.VALATAM: I founded VALATAM (Virtual Assistants Latin America) to help growing businesses quickly hire the best remote talent and delegate their online operations to free up their core team, efficiently scale, and increase profitability. We do this by providing them with the top 0.4% of bilingual, college-educated talent from Latin America, for up to 70% less than hiring domestically.PASSIONS: Business ideation, Near-shoring, Latin America, delegation, hiring, and remote work. And in my personal life: Latin America, travel, coffee, food, and pretty much any sport or outdoor activity :)EXPERIENCE: 5 years in-house experience in Investment Brokers around the Americas (Mexico, USA, Argentina and Venezuela), with increased responsibilities up to Outsourcing Director and National Manager of Coordinators (16 direct reports) in 2015. 10 years startup experience in 2 staffing and outsourcing businesses, one with a 7 figure valuation exit after 18 months and the other scaled to hires and counting.EDUCATION: 2.1(Honours) from the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom).

Experience

1. Founder

   Valatam

   Sep 2016 — Present

   Valatam stands for \"Virtual Assistants Latin America\". We provide talented, bilingual VAs (Virtual Assistants) & remote team members to busy entrepreneurs and businesses all over the world. Our team members work from their home offices or from the Caracas branch of Impact Hub, a global community of co-working locations reserved for start ups with a positive social impact. Our company mission is:\"To give time back to busy entrepreneurs, by helping them with their work-load, and to give opportunity to talented Venezuelans, by providing them placements in exciting start-ups.\"

Education

• The University of Sheffield

  Bsc, Economic, Social & Physical Geographies

  2007 — 2010

Skills

• Team Leadership
• Financial Analysis
• Business Planning
• Management
• Portfolio Management
• Financial Planning
• Finance
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Mutual Funds
• Securities
• Training
• New Business Development
• Negotiation
• Microsoft Office
• Business Development
• Wealth Management
• Investments