Alejandro Rivas-Micoud Email & Phone Number

Miami, Florida, Us

Founder & CEO of one of the global leaders in user experience remote testing. A Software as a Service (SaaS) state of the art platform with a proprietary respondent panel of almost 1,5 million, and customers in over 51 countries.

Irving, Texas, Us

YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) is a global leadership organization of Chief Executives of organizations of a significant size with more than 21,000 members, whose combined companies generate more than US$6 trillion in revenue and employ more than 15 million people in 125 countries.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

The Founder Institute is an American business incubator, entrepreneur training and startup launch program that was founded in Palo Alto, California in 2009. Although based in Silicon Valley, The Founder Institute maintains chapters in over 80 cities and more than 40 different nations across the globe.It offers a four-month part-time program for new and early-stage entrepreneurs that helps them develop their business ideas and form a company. As of 2014, over 1,300 companies had been created from the program, 89% of which were still operational.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

In early 2001 purchased a majority stake in Alo Comunicaciones, the Spanish subsidiary of RSL Communications, and in late 2002 acquired a majority stake of wireless carrier Banda Ancha. In Alo led a restructuring of the employee head count from 440 to 130, the balance sheet liabilities from €140 million to €7 million, and the business model to an externalized cost of customer acquisition system through the launch and management of an innovative franchising sales system in over 20 cities. Managed a similar process in Banda Ancha.Negotiated and sold Alo to Euphony Plc and Banda Ancha to Clearwire Corporation in separate transactions in 2006 for a combined return of $35 million on an investment of $1 million.

Member of the Board and subsequently Chairman of the Board of a Joint Venture set up by Dragados Industrial, Hidrocantabrico, and Liberty Global subsidiary UPC Holding BV.The JV was established to invest in the deployment and management of a national wireless network in Spain through an investment of over $300 million and the use of a national license of wireless spectrum in the 3.5 Ghz band granted by the Spanish Government in a non auction based competitive process in early 2000.

As CEO and co-founder of the Spanish subsidiary of RSL Communications Ltd led the process of initial incorporation, hiring of senior management team, obtaining a Spanish telecommunications license, implementing & financing a national telecommunication network, securing a local investor base, negotiating interconnection agreements with Telefonica, Vodafone and other carriers, and the launching of services to both residential and business customers in late 1999. Within the space of 9 months of commercial operations achieved over $45 million in revenue and 150.000 customers. Other milestones included:• Securing local investor funding of $15 million;• Managing the development of a proprietary customer care and billing system for both voice and data;• Creating & leading a consortium of European multinationals, Dragados, Hidrocantabrico, & UPC, that won a merit based competition for Spanish wireless spectrum in the 3.5 Ghz range, & who committed to funding the venture over $300 million;• Board Director of the resulting joint venture Banda Ancha S.A, and subsequently Chairman of the Board;• Managing the vendor selection & financing process;• Wireless network & service build-out to fulfill spectrum license conditions requiring service in 22 cities within one year of license grant.

Founder and CEO of Mediafon, a value added service provider for semi-automated call center telephony services. Managed launch in 1994, regulatory permits, hiring of key personnel, acquisition and financing of equipment, minimum viable product (MVP) & customer discovery iterations through free cash flow equal to 2X initial investment per year.

Japanese branch of a French telecom focused consultancy. Restructured and restored to profitability within 6 months of starting, managing a mix of 15 French, US and Japanese consultants. Clients secured and grown during 2 year leadership included British Telecom, France Telecom, and AT&T.

Through a re-designed critical safety system surveillance program, and effective component and system testing, enabled a re-start of a Mississippi nuclear power plant that had been shut down by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as well as a faster process of turnover from construction to operations in Kansas and Ohio.

Amp, Executive Education "Challenge Of Leadership"

Mba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Movie Directing

Business/Managerial Economics

Nuclear Power Reactor Operations, Nuclear Power Generation