Carlos Baradello

Dr. Carlos Baradello is an investor, advisor, public speaker and university professor. A leading innovation and entrepreneurship practitioner, Carlos draws his understanding from his broad global business and academic experience, deep technical knowledge and understanding of the realities innovators encounter in organizations both large and small. His experience working with hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world has enabled him to gain key lessons for high-growth ventures to scale globally.

Carlos’ interests include new global business creation, venture funding, business acceleration for “born global” startups and global scaling for “foreign born” startups in emerging economies. In addition, Carlos has teaching responsibilities across four continents as a member of the faculty at Hult International Business School, the Danish Technical University (Denmark), Universidad Catolica de Cordoba (Argentina), ESPAE/ESPOL (Ecuador), CENTRUM Católica (Peru) and the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China). He was the founder of the groundbreaking Silicon Valley Immersion program, while serving as Associate Dean for Global and Executive Programs at the University of San Francisco. He is public speaker and corporate advisor to Fortune 500 companies, Economic Development Agencies and NGOs across the world.

Carlos is also a Founder and General Partner of ALAYA-CP, Cordoba, Argentina’s first venture capital firm and Founder and Managing Partner of Sausalito Ventures, a firm supporting Latin American ventures to scale globally.

After earning his Engineering Degree from Argentina’s Catholic University of Córdoba, Carlos earned his MSc from the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. For over 30 years, Carlos was in the telecommunications and computer industry with progressively senior executive roles at ITT, NYNEX, Digital Equipment Corporation, Advanced Fibre Communications (IPO 1996) and Motorola, where he was the company’s Corporate Vice President for the Latin America and Caribbean region. He has authored over 50 technical and management papers and has been awarded six USA/EU patents for his inventions.

Carlos lives with his wife Ana in Tiburon, Northern California and has four grown-up children. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian.

You can read more about Carlos via his regularly updated blog. These writings are the foundation of his future book titled Soft Landing in Silicon ValleyTM.