Engels Valenzuela

About Engels Valenzuela

My professional mission statement is to empower people and businesses to overcome challenges of growing and creating lasting positive impact. I do this as a business leader who specializes in strategy, innovation and operations. Think differently. I reconstruct complex and confusing strategies into focused and creative ones that coupled with continuous innovation drives simplicity and high-quality products and processes, resulting in high end to end customer experience. Driven Passionately. I am fascinated with developing tools that break businesses out of the underperforming cycle and truly empower them to bring disruptive products that deliver customer centric solutions. Skilled Brilliantly. I have 15+ years of leadership experience bringing fresh ideas to traditional markets that generate higher revenue through disruptive business models, products and thinking. I also have expertise in applying cross-industry leading practices to leapfrog past obstacles and reach new capability and operational excellence. Team Persistently. I minimize the endless talent drain through an inside-out approach that empowers our people to think differently and deliver significant lasting change at every level of organization. Happy to connect with Fortune fellow leaders who are interested in bringing new paradigms and end-to-end customer focused solutions into play. Let’s talk.

Experience

1. Head of Commercial Strategy

   1848 Ventures

   Aug 2022 — Present · Cleveland, OH, US

   Building profitable ventures by embracing uncertainty through Strategy Creation & Decision Science

Education

• Boston College

  BA, Major: Computer Science

• Esade

  MBA, Finance and Operations

• Stanford University

  Strategic Decision and Risk Management Certificate, Decision Quality

  2016 — 2017

• University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

  MBA, Finance and Strategy