Be the Business | Icebreaker

Be the Business | Icebreaker

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I help companies turn ambitious growth plans into reality by building the talent, culture, and operating models to support them. With experience across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, I bring a global perspective to scaling teams. As Chief of Staff, I’ve driven cross-functional alignment, embedded data-driven workforce planning, and delivered operational excellence including in AI-enabled operating practices. My strength lies in translating business priorities into scalable people strategies, that enable sustainable growth. Out of normal work, I am a voluntary Government Parish Councillor and Chair of the Personnel Committee. I also advise start-ups on how to scale their operations. I am a volunteer beach lifeguard and an avid sports fan.

Mandy Imaguezegie

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On a mission to maximize my womanhood. I am the quintessential intersection between customer, brand AND strategy with an uncommon ability to humanize. I exist to challenge the status quo for the greater good and skilled at connecting the dots of seemingly unrelated things - putting them together into powerful, meaningful ideas that are rooted in driving measurable outcomes. My approach is simplicity scales, complexity fails. Established and solution-driven Brands Manager with 10+ years of customer-centric experience in multi-cultural environments (Africa, Asia, US and UK) leading and part of distributed, passionate cross-functional teams, full life cycle customer, brand, marketing and business management, analytical research, process improvement, growth planning and progressive technology adoption. Experienced in building, scaling and managing powerful, iconic brands, as well as launching new ones. Expertise: 🪄 Relational Intelligence 🪄 Data & Business Analytics 🪄 Complex Problem-Solving 🪄 Planning, Monitoring & Growth 🪄 Revenue Generation 🪄 KPI Driven 🪄 Strategic Leadership & Advisory 🪄 Agile Development 🪄 Business & IT Alignment 🪄 Program & Project Management 🪄 Enterprise Implementations & Process Improvements 🪄 Risk Mitigation 🪄 Cross-Functional Collaboration Superpowers: 🪄 Disruptive Thinking 🪄 Extraordinary Foresight 🪄 Organization 🪄 Meticulous Attention to Detail 🪄 Storyteller - Humanization

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VC | Start-ups | Blockchain | DeFi | Web3 | NED

Catalina I Munteanu

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Over 14 years in technology, I developed the ability to manage both people and complex projects. Key achievements include leading large infrastructure and data migrations and navigating the complexities of decoupling the technology estate following M&A. Additionally, I have worked on four greenfield projects, bringing B2B, B2C, and SaaS products to market. My expertise extends to building technology teams from the ground up and rapidly scaling them to 20 members. I focus on ensuring team productivity and efficiency, work well across time zones, and have experience managing geographically distributed teams. With solid foundations in project delivery, gathering product requirements, and aligning business stakeholders with technical goals, I easily handle ambiguity.

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