Maria Hoyos Email & Phone Number

Singapore

We’re a company that works on Improving food delivery, logistics, and ride-hailing operations with actionable data and AI-driven technology. We partner with companies who want to be the leaders of the market. Clients reach out because: 🚩They aren’t 100% satisfied with the availability of their drivers. 🚩 Struggle because they don’t have solid live data on what competitors are paying their drivers. This leads to overpaying, underpaying, or having a shortage of drivers during peak times. 🚩 Lack of real-time insights on competitors' latest moves led to increased acquisition costs and high churn rates over time. Does it sound familiar to you?

Cologny, Geneva, Ch

Coralus collectively practices different ways of doing things for a better now and a new inheritance. ​Members offer and access resources at their own pace, creating a self-regenerating pay-it-forward pool of skills, connections, funds, and support then used to advance​ ventures ​and the collective doing world changing work. Coralus has circulated nearly $1​6.5M to 1​70+ women- and nonbinary-led ventures by distributing capital via ​c​ollective decision-making. 45% of those founders are from chronically excluded racial and ethnic groups. The payback rate on its unsecured 0% interest loans is 95%. Founded in Canada in 2015, Coralus' current footprint includes the US, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.

Singapore, Singapore, Sg

✅ Spearheaded developing and executing a five-year financial strategy for series A funding. ✅Achieved revenue targets by growing existing accounts and actively seeking new partnerships and customers.✅ Drove continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and implementing solutions.✅ Ensured alignment between strategies and business goals and objectives.✅ Executed effective decisions and adapted strategies based on emerging needs. ✅ Guided and led small-scale and large-scale projects from conception to completion.✅ Influenced decision-making by communicating key insights to executive leadership.

Sg

✅ Advised 30 fintech leaders on ambassador strategies.✅ Led a team of 50 interns to support 800+ speakers. Provided dynamic and comprehensive leadership to a team of 50 interns responsible for supporting 650+ speakers. ✅ Evaluated the performance of interns and provided additional coaching as needed.✅ Coordinated and led training engagements and meetings to support intern performance.✅ Fostered and maintained collaborative working relationships with colleagues and leadership.✅ Defined and implemented new processes, protocols, standards, and best practices.https://www.fintechfestival.sg/speakers2020

Ho Chi Minh City, Vn

✅ Pioneered firm's buy-side engagement strategy by improving platform efficiency five times on initial phase of deal-making.✅ Appointed for acquiring and handle relations with 80 institutional investors in Asia. Angels, Family Offices, VC, and PE.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Bogotá, Co

✅ Administered and conducted execution of contracts for approximately 2 M USD.Fundación Capital provides guidance and advice to the Colombian government and private organizations for developing strategies for financial inclusion and social development.We work with governments and private actors, adapting our methodologies according to the needs of each specific population in order to further social, productive, and digital inclusion.We use information and communications technology (ICT) to reach millions of people in a cost-efficient manner.We encourage peer learning and make use of the best possible trainers: people living within the communities where we work or who have had similar experiences.

Bogotá, Co

✅ Directed a team of 20 focused on three core areas (Research, Content Development, and Product Development), oversaw 50 projects based in Africa, America, and Asia—guided co-creation of 12 Fintech & Digital solutions for 1 million users.✅ Handled execution of social and corporate innovation contracts for approximately 3 M USD.*DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT*We design, test, implement and perfect methodologies and digital tools with the potential for massive dissemination, putting them at the service of financial and economic inclusion. Our Digital Solutions division centers on three principle areas: ICT4D – Information and communication technologies for development, including innovations related to sustainable development in general. ICT4E – Information and communications technology for education. ICT4I – Information and communications technologies for inclusion, centered on empowerment, civic participation and financial inclusion in general.

Bogotá, Co

✅ Shaped three areas structured into new digital research and development Department.✅ Generated 10 new business opportunities with leading financial institutions in Mexico.Fundación Capital is an international development organization that imagines, creates and tests innovative ideas with the goal of eliminating poverty. We collaborate with both public and private partners to develop and implement new approaches that enable low-income families to grow, value and protect their financial assets. We do this through financial inclusion, capacity building and promoting investment. In this effort, we support millions of families by providing resources in order to fulfill their ambitions and define their own paths out of poverty.

Montevideo, Montevideo, Uy

UDELAR University, Uruguay – Teacher of the "Financial Innovation" module at the Postgraduate Programme - Economy and Management for Inclusion (2015 – 2019)https://postulaciones.posgrados.udelar.edu.uy/detallePosgrado.php?idServicio=5&idPosgrado=82

Bogotá D.C., Bogotá, Co

Externado University, Colombia - Teacher of the "Alternative Fundraising and Negotiation" module for the Master's program of Management for Development (2015 – 2019)

London, Gb

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Launched in 2013, the Emerging Leaders Initiative brings together the next generation of social entrepreneurs from around the world. Selected and supported through a partnership by the Skoll Foundation and the Mastercard Foundation, these leaders represent the great potential and passion of social entrepreneurship’s future leaders. This year’s cohort includes a leader from Senegal who combines hip-hop and activism; a doctor from Zimbabwe using evidence to scale social innovation; and the founder of a Kenyan social enterprise that bridges the gap between tea farmers and factories.

Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Caba, Ar

✅ Led expansion, development, and implementation of a startup into three main Latam markets; Peru, Colombia & Mexico.✅ Prepared and set up pitch for series A investment round - 8 M USD.www.afluenta.com is a Latin FinTech company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the process to expand its services to the rest of Latin American markets, with the mission to promote an easy, safe and transparent financial culture. It develops innovative products and experiences, which help people handle their finances in an easy and more human way. It seeks to become a solid investment alternative for lenders and best loan conditions for creditworthy borrowers.Afluenta is the only peer-to-peer lending company in Latin America authorized to operate by a local SEC. The system works through a client segregated account in an ordinary administrative trust ruled by a local law, where investors act as trustees and Afluenta acts as the trustee. Loans are granted through a trust with contributions made by lenders in accordance with their instructions. Afluenta is registered with the Public Ordinary Trustees Registry (Registro de Fiduciarios Ordinarios Públicos) of the National Securities Commission (Comisión Nacional de Valores). That Resolution allows Afluenta to provide public fiduciary services while being monitored by the National Securities Commission, an entity which neither authorizes nor monitors any fiduciary agreement executed by the trusteehttps://www.afluenta.com/informacion_sobre_afluenta/equipo_gerencial

Bogotá, Co

✅ Designed, co-founded and led the implementation of LittleBigMoney, a social initiative platform that has currently facilitated the development of 260 social initiatives, allowing the creation of a community of 5,650 donors and raising a total of 1.3 million USD invested directly in social impact.Crowdfunding platform for supporting and investing in projects, initiatives, and enterprises with social and environmental impact. LittleBigMoney plays the critical intermediation role bringing together all the partners and components that are integral to the growth and success of these inspirational entrepreneurs. Our initial focus is Colombia, Perú and Bolivia. Fundación Capital is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing poverty and enhancing the lives of low-income and marginalized or vulnerable populations in Latin America and the Caribbean, through innovative strategies for financial inclusión, as a key factor for social development.

Bogotá, Dc, Co

✅ Designed a two-year fundraising strategy for the Human Rights think tank CINEP. The amount raised through the strategy was 2 M USD.

Bogotá, D.C., Co

✅ Organized 12 training workshops funded by the CBI for + 3,000 SME entrepreneurs.

✅ Prepared summary reports of 25 National Public Law Project for the Bolivar State Congressman.

Masters Of Science In Innovation (Mi), Innovation And Entreprenurship

Master'S Degree, Banca Y Servicios Financieros

Government And International Relations, Focus In Public Administration/ Public Finance, Development Economics And International Development