PITCH IN THE SKY
MEXICO CITY
Pitch at the Beach presents Pitch in the Sky.
Join us for our first urban edition in the biggest city in Latin America.
Mexico City is the center of Mexico’s political, cultural and economic activity. Known for its resilience and adaptability, the city is a melting pot of entrepreneurs and artists who have successfully transformed it into one of the leading business, tech and creative hubs in the world.
Pitch in the Sky is an exclusive business experience filled with world-leading speakers, cutting-edge entrepreneurs and seasoned CEOs. Immerse yourself in three unmissable days of keynotes, panels and hands-on workshops alongside opportunities to experience the vibrant Mexican culture. Inspired by the city’s buzzing atmosphere and environmental innovation, we’ll be exploring how business leaders can prioritize sustainability, wellness and community to obtain the most lucrative investments.
We’ll be based in Club 51, a unique space for business people to come together to spark transformation, change and disruption, all while enjoying the best view of the city. Relax in the intimate surroundings of a world-class business club with unrivaled amenities; world-class fine dining, mixology, spa, fitness center, library – all exclusive to Pitch in the Sky attendees.* Let’s talk business and toast the sunset in one of the most iconic cities in the world.
The best of Pitch at the Beach in the luxury and convenience of the city.
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Speakers
Zev Siegl
Co-founder Starbucks
Zev Siegl is passionate about enabling start-up entrepreneurs to make good decisions.
He is one of the three Co-Founders of Starbucks Coffee Company and also has founded several additional small US companies.
Since 2010, Mr. Siegl has coached hundreds of individual entrepreneurs located in 15 countries. His current clients include men and women in Spain, Lebanon, and Bolivia who are developing B2C online platforms and phone apps.
Katya Echazarreta
Blue Origin Space Mission
Katya is an electrical and computer engineer born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, at the age of seven she moved to the United States and studied at the renowned University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), she is currently pursuing a master's degree at Johns Hopkins University.
She entered NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) program as a fellow, and later became a full-time engineer, managing to work on 5 NASA missions, such as Perseverance and Europa Clipper. In 2022 she was part of Blue Origin's NS-21 mission and became the first woman born in Mexico to go into space.
María Ariza
Ceo Biva
Maria is an Industrial Engineer with academic excellence from Universidad Iberoamericana and has a Master's degree in Business Management with concentration in Finance from Harvard. She spent her entire professional life in the private equity sector, holding positions such as: CEO of the Mexican Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AMEXCAP); Partner at Ictus Capital; and as associate at the NAFTA Fund LLC. Actually, she performs as CEO at Bolsa Institutional de Valores (BIVA), a global electronic marketplace for buying and selling securities, created with the aim of deepening the Mexican stock market and generating a competitive financing alternative for high growth companies. Additionally, she serves as an independent member and partner of various boards.
María's career has been recognized with an award from the Women Economic Forum, from the International Entrepreneurs Council, and in publications such as Expansión, Forbes, Líderes, Revista 2020, among others.
Rafael Martínez
Bosquia Founder Partner
International innovative mindset professional with background as sales director, trade marketing and distribution management roles within different industries (Biotech, Pharma, Vaccines, Medical Devices, FMCG, Consultancy, Engineering) and markets (Spain, Portugal, UK, Italy, France, Latam, etc).
Senior entrepreneur adding business acumen to promising startups in biotech, environmental and digitalization industries.
Marcial Chaverri
Procomer Business Catalyst
Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur, Mentor and Coach with more than 35 years of experience in Business, Investment Banking and Internationalization. Developer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems.
Leader Seedstars Costa Rica for Procomer, creating the Incubation and Acceleration programs for Internationalization. Structurer and Fund Manager of KGlobal, the first Institutional Venture Capital Fund in Costa Rica.
Andrew Miller
Chief Growth Consultant
Andrew Lee Miller is an early-stage startup marketing consultant known as @AndrewStartups.
In 15 years Andrew has driven growth for 3 VC-backed startup exits and dozens of successfully funded startups. He's taught low-budget growth hacks in over 15 countries, written for INC magazine, StartupGrind, and StartupNation, and his first book entitled The Startup Growth Book is one of the top new marketing books on Amazon.
Mohammed Al-Rashidi
Founder & Executive Chairman
Mohammed is a Founder of Multiple ventures in Telecom, mContent, mHealth, mTourism, mEducation, mGovernment and Fintech. All his ventures are addressed under its Group One Global (Og), an idea Generation and incubation venture with business model adoption to the market needs and future growth. Og is a Multi Vertical markets digital inclusion platform. Mohammed as an aspiring entrepreneur with passion to mobilization of lifestyle services. He acts as a transformer to the current infrastructure of verticals markets.
Diversity and unity of Og Group makes its mission towards its "One" Vision achievable. In 2020, Mohammed, Founded Og Money (Formerly known as Payit), a mobile financial & Payment platform with strong presence in more than 12 countries cross GCC, Middle East, North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Europe, and US, offering Payments, Merchant services, mPos, Mobile banking switch, Mobile Wallet and Money Transfer.
Carlos Mats
Founder & CEO IKA Platform
Creating the future of AI, AR, VR and UX.
Artist, designer, tech entrepreneur and speaker. Founder and CEO of Xchematic & IKA Platform, a new Artificial Intelligence startup.
Award Winning Filmmaker | Entrepreneur | Director | Writer | Designer | Photographer | Event Producer | Digital Nomad | Advanced Diver.
Adam Keynes
General Partner
General Partner Billoneurons Investment fund. Adán Bernal has been the most active angel investor in Latin America with an average of one investment per month.
As an entrepreneur, he has founded and successfully obtained "exits" in four companies in the entertainment, financial services, construction equipment and LED lighting sectors before turning 28 years old.
Israel Pons
Co-founder Pitch in the sky
Co-founder of Pitch at the Beach (Mr. Pitch at the beach) Startups & Angel Investors event in the most beautiful beaches in the world.
CEO and Co-Founding Partner of Angels Nest LATAM, Angels Nest is an Angel Investment Network operating in Mexico and LATAM.
He has given many conferences agencies; speaks on a varied related topic like entrepreneurship, innovation, Fintech, cross-border angel investing in more than 12 countries.
Eduardo Correia
CEO Taguspark
Eduardo Correia is the CEO of Taguspark, the biggest technology and science park in Portugal and professor at ISCTE Business School.
Through the years he gained a broad national and international experience in the management field. Eduardo started his studies at ISCTE Business School, where was the first student to ever take part in the ERASMUS programme. He has a PhD in Finance, by the University of Strathclyde, a MBA at the University of Glasgow and a Conflict and Chaos Management course at Harvard School of Government.
Pablo García
Executive Director BOOST
Passionate about the economic development of LAC, Pablo has more than 12 years experience working in the LATAM startup ecosystem. He is a board member of Boost Acceleration Camp. He has contributed to channeling more than 1M USD in over 15 startups, including Arcus, Slidebean and Vozy.
Ali Jamal
First Check Ventures
Ali Jamal has more than 10 years of experience in various Product and Growth roles at companies like Zynga, RockYou, Agoda, Rappi, and most recently at PayClip (one of LatAm's fastest growing FinTech companies).
He is an angel investor who has completed more than 200 deals.
Digital Marketing, Mobile Growth, China Marketing - former Product Director, Data Scientist, & Corporate Strategist.
Passionate about Digital Marketing, Mobile Growth, Asia, Product Management, Analytics, Strategy, Data, & Technology, Former Investment Banker at Stanford MS Statistics and Stanford Econ.
It has worked for early-stage venture-backed portfolio companies of all sizes mainly focused on the Social Gaming, Consumer Internet and Enterprise Software spaces.
Ignacio Martínez
Co-founder Esfera Médica
Ignacio Martínez is a medical surgeon from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM). He is passionate about his profession and innovation leader by combining different methods of alternative medicine with new scientific technologies.
His professional achievements are linked to his vision of life: set and meet objectives. Thanks to his intensive preparation, charisma and talent, he is a successful doctor who has achieved all their dreams, helping their patients find health, sharing their knowledge and research, and training every day to offer the best in the world to people they are close to. to him. In search of innovation, M.D.
Ignacio Martínez has tirelessly explored various paths of medical science and technology; this has led him to bring new ones to Mexico technologies worldwide that he has made available to all the public in his country through Esfera Medica, his personal and professional life project.
Raúl Ferraez
CEO Líderes Mexicanos Magazine
Founder of the Mexican Leaders Magazine and the FCO Group communication group with more than 7 agencies and 4 media outlets. He has more than 29 years of experience in relationships and contact with the most influential leaders in Mexico. The publications that he leads to this day have provided him with extensive knowledge of the reality in Mexico, becoming a witness to the growth and development of the most relevant characters in Mexico.
Raúl directs Eliot Media, a media outlet focused on promoting and consolidating the development of digital media, social networks, and the evolution of content on multiple platforms in Mexico and Latin America.
Melissa Blaustein
Allied for Startups
Melissa Blaustein is the Founder of Allied for Startups, a global network of startup policy associations whose goal is to make the voice of startups heard in government. Allied for Startups counts more than 19 countries on four continents as members, including 13 in the EU alone.
Her background in digital policy and advocacy spans the local, national, and international levels, having held roles at The White House, UN Women, the UNEP, the G20 Research Group. Her entrepreneurial spirit has led her to take on challenges in the startup and technology space, including advising the French government on a taxation structure for the digital economy, serving as an ambassador at an accelerator in Paris and working at the Vice President of International Outreach at France Digitale, an association dedicated to lobbying the government on behalf of startups in France. Blaustein holds a Masters Degree Cum Laude from Sciences Po in Paris and an undergraduate degree with honors from UC Berkeley. She speaks four languages and has lived in four countries.
Enrique Calderón
Vice-president of Hotel Operations
Enrique Calderón, a graduate in Hospitality from the San Ángel Center for Higher Studies (CESSA), is Vice President of Hotel Operations at Posadas, leading the Group's Hotel Division with more than 185 hotels today.
In 1999 he joined Posadas as Director of Sales for Fiesta Americana Hotels, managing 20 hotels of the brand. Since then, he has held various positions, such as Regional Director of South Sales, Director of Key Accounts for Hotels in the City and Director of Sales in Mexico. In February 2010, he was promoted to the position of Commercial Corporate Director of Hotelera Posadas, being responsible for the income of all the Group's hotels, and for the entire commercial strategy for all brands and markets.
His more than 30 years of experience in the sector makes him one of the most experienced executives today.
Isabel Castillo
Embajada de la República Dominicana en México
She served in the Dominican foreign service from 2002 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2020, as Counselor of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Mexico, where she gained extensive experience in Mexico-Dominican Republic bilateral relations. Her work to strengthen trade and investment relations, as well as to achieve air connectivity between the two countries, has been significant. Since 2017, she has led the initiative that resulted in the creation of the Mexico-Dominican Republic Binational Chamber of Business and Services, A.C.
George Nader
Founder Pa’lante Dominicana
George Alexander Nader is an entrepreneur, investor and real estate developer. He is the Founder and CEO of Nader Enterprises, an investment, development and asset management firm with a primary focus on Real Estate. In 2020, Mr. Nader launched the initiative “Pa’lante Dominicana” with the purpose of promoting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Dominican Republic by working as a platform to connect entrepreneurs and investors.
Michelle Ferrari
Alejandro González
Managing Partner Redwood Ventures
Alejandro Gonzalez is a Managing Partner at Redwood Ventures, where he focuses on portfolio and investment strategy, leveraging his experience as entrepreneur, investment banker and angel investor. Alejandro has a degree in finance and administration with a specialty in banking and securities finance, as well as finance institution management and financial engineering. He has a Diploma in Justice from Harvard and is certified as an investment strategy advisor by the Mexican Investment Association and for trading derivatives by the Chicago Stock Exchange. He is the founder of Cosechando, an NGO that promotes entrepreneurship in young people and is an active promoter of educational and disability care NGOs.
Norman Muller
CEO Fondeadora
Technology entrepreneur. He has created companies that have reached millions of users in Mexico. Today the ventures he has cofounded have an annual accumulated GMV of US$1,000 MM+.
He is the Co-founder and CEO of Fondeadora a radically different digital bank in Mexico. Fondeadora provides accessible financial services to 82M+ Mexicans that have costly and inefficient basic
banking services.
Dennis Thokozani
South Africa Embassy
Najeeb Durrani
Pakistan Embassy
Maeve Vonheynitz
Ireland Embassy
Jorge Cejudo
Head of Venture Capital, Mezzanine & Impact Investing
In his plastic work, he is considered a multidisciplinary artist since he has ventured into traditional techniques of drawing, sculpture and painting, digital processes, as well as installation, muralism, video and photography. As a designer he has experimented not only in graphic areas, but also as a product designer, art-object and urbanism.
He has been an academic at various Universities, giving lectures and workshops at Congresses on Art, Architecture, Design and Communication. His projects have been exhibited, disseminated and published in press, magazines, national and foreign books. Parallel to his artistic work, he runs his Design and Visual Communication Studio.
Amy Pollard
Startup Program Manager
Startup Program Manager for OVHcloud’s Startup Program in Canada and Latin America. Prior to OVHcloud Amy was a venture capital investor at BDC Capital, one of Canada’s largest institutional venture capital funds. Throughout her investment career and volunteer work she has built strong connections with founders, investment funds, accelerators, and technology organizations across Canada. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and was on the founding team of BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund. Outside of work, Amy can be found zipping around Montreal on her Vespa in search of the best ice cream and spending time in nature.
Lorena Sanchez
The Founder Institute
Serial entrepreneur who has grown Internet and mobile companies in nine countries. Led commercial and operations teams at Linio (LatAm's largest online store sold to Falabella), created Envío Click a shipping comparison aggregator (endeavor company) and created, operated and sold Urban Guilt and AlmaZen botanicals.Country director for Founder Institute in Mexico City and leading the Latin American Unicorn Rappi in a new stealth mode fintech vertical.
Martha Delgado
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Jose Miguel Cortes
Head of Venture Capital, Mezzanine & Impact Investing
Luís Rubén Chavez
CEO Yo te presto
Juan Carlos Silva
Co-founder Roombeast
Juan Carlos Silva is an entrepreneur, musician and Marketing, Communications and Creativity expert. He is Co-Founder and President at RoomBeast, LATAM’s first online b2b hotel marketplace. He is also a Startup Chile Alumni, International Partner and LACBAN Founder for Chile at the WBAF, and winner of Pitch at the Beach 2021 in Cozumel. As a musician he has toured internationally with his band Dr. Vena and played major festivals with the likes of Soundgarden, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Strokes and many more.
Diego Amondaray
Co-founder Nippy
I studied law and then went on to build things from scratch. Over there I heard that the greatest pleasure in life is "doing what people say you can't do". Since then I decided to dream and work every day at Nippy.
What is nippy? Nippy is a workertech platform that provides benefits and services to independent workers in the gig economy. We are transforming the future of workers.
Blaine Doyle
CEO ChektAhora
Andrew Branion
CEO IOTICITI Networks Inc
Prior to becoming CEO of Ioticiti Networks Inc. in September 2021, Andrew was Managing Partner of Branion Harper Advisory Inc. which he co-founded in the fall of 2019. He retired from the Bank of Nova Scotia in February 2019 where Andrew was Executive Vice President and Group Treasurer. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing Scotiabank’s global treasury and investment operations, including medium-term and capital funding, asset/liability management, liquidity, and public and private investment portfolios.He moved to Global Risk Management in 2012 where he became Executive Vice President and Chief Market Risk Officer.Andrew holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alberta.
Andrés Vázquez
Co-founder EUNO Capital
Co-Fund Manager of FARM Capital, an Industrial Real Estate fund specialized in agribusiness, which promotes high-impact investments, technological innovation and ESG investment criteria for exporting companies in Latin America.
Founder of Bull Partner, a financial boutique specialized in agribusiness (later merged with Grupo Enture) and co-founder of EUNO Capital, a Venture Capital fund specialized in the agtech, foodtech and fintech sectors.
Full investment cycle experience with more than 20 companies, structuring more than 150 investment projects and financing more than US$250 MM in equity & debt investments.
Graduate in Financial Management from ITESO, and Master in Finance from ITESM.
Ulises Jasso
Founder Enture
Founder of ENTURE, investment banking firm and manager of private equity funds. PRIME certifying office. In addition, a firm belonging to the LATAM XCALA program and endorsed by the Multilateral Investment Fund (belonging to the IDB). He is a founding partner of different investment vehicles that are currently in operation: EUNO CAPITAL, an Agtech private equity fund, EMEENT, a vehicle specializing in the development of real estate in the high-value tourism sector. SAN PIAGO MEDICAL GROUP, a highly specialized private health hospital model, which seeks to develop and acquire hospital medical assets under a modern and humanized architectural design and FARM CAPITAL, the first agro-industrial Reit in Mexico.
Alan Alvarado
Founder & CEO Métricas
Andy Brown
Andy Brown is an award-winning British artist. For over half a decade he has travelled the globe to document baseball: ballparks, stadiums, the players and people who make up the game. So far I have made artwork in 12 different countries all within 9 innings: US, Canada, Dominican Republic, Korea , Japan, Taiwan, Cuba, Mexico, England, Scotland, Italy and China.
His work has been recognised by news outlets worldwide, with articles written about him in Europe, Asia and the United States of America. He has also appeared on BBC, ESPN, Fox Sports, Eleven Sports, and he has sold his work to galleries, museums, and collectors (including MLB players and fans) across the globe! He has received recognition from Buckingham Palace.
Michelle Lopez
Artist
A multidisciplinary artist with a career in painting, sculpture and performing arts, Michelle López, a graduate of Communication Sciences at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Guadalajara) and specializing in light management at the Royal College of Arts (London) has led its main message about the water crisis to artistic, cultural and business scenarios. She has presented her visual work in several individual and more than 80 group exhibitions on 4 continents of the world.
Media editor and teacher of art, semiotics and communication, she seeks to bring the community closer to the value of natural resources on our planet in different ways.
She manages cultural projects for the benefit of vulnerable groups in Mexico such as homeless children, women with cancer and migrants.
Until now, she is the only living Mexican artist who has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York MOMA in 2014.
Visit to “El Gallito” traditional ranch
Less than two hours from the bustle of Mexico City, discover a slice of tranquility nestled in the beautiful Mexican countryside.
Together we will enjoy the ranch impressive art collection, a traditional Mexican ranch show and a delicious barbacoa, a treasured Mexican dish slow-cooked in the ground.
Yoga in the Sky
Put on your yoga pants and get your mat on top of Mexico City.
Our yoga teacher is waiting at Club 51 to help us start the day in the best possible way.
Take a deep breath and relax, while enjoying the most beautiful view of Mexico City.
Mexico City tour bus “Turibus”
Be amazed at all times through a tour that offers a look at the most beautiful spots of Mexico City, through its architecture, monuments and museums.
Experience the most artistic and historically significant neighborhoods in Mexico City. Connect with their culture and visit incredible places full of music, magic, flavor and fun.
Visit to Chapultepec Castle
Join us for a guided tour of Chapultepec Castle, one of the Mexico must-visit historic attractions in the center of Parque Chapultepec.
The construction of Chapultepec Castle began in 1785, although it was created as a rest home, over time it was adapted to different uses: it was a military college, an imperial residence with Maximiliano and Carlota (1864-1867), a presidential residence and, since 1939, the seat of the National Museum of History.
Paseo de la Reforma by bicycle
Once a week the most beautiful avenue in Latin America closes to vehicles, becoming one of the most immpressive community cycling experiences in the world. We will be joining in the fun with a selection of bikes available to ride for the day.
The Paseo Dominical “Muévete en Bici” is a recreational bike path that enables one of the most beautiful and iconic avenues in Latin America to give way to runners, skaters and cyclists.
Join and enjoy Paseo de la Reforma in a unique and different way.
Club 51
Your Pitch in the Sky access includes use of Club 51 facilities, usually reserved for members only.
You can enjoy everything this exclusive business club has to offer, including the gym, meeting rooms, showers, restaurant & spa.
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