WHO WE ARE
SWS is a boutique advisory firm and forward-looking commerce growth platform. We are passionate about the future of brands within a fully connected world. We love data, ad tech, the vast potential behind retail media, leading digital marketplaces, and the still untapped potential of the US market. We are a handful of highly experienced partners with hands-on experience worldwide and a passion for investing, serving our clients, and leveraging technology.
WHAT WE DO BEST
BRAND DEVELOPMENT
We develop full brand development including product design, market analysis and storytelling development.
RETAIL CHANNEL DEVELOPMENT
We provide offline and online channel distribution audits as well as retail strategy planning and execution recommendations.
INORGANIC GROWTH PLATFORM
We execute search and find, due diligence, M&A negotiations for clients wishing to grow within its markets or around the world. We have executed more than 16 projects in all continents.
THE TEAM
JUAN SALDÍVAR
Managing Partner & Founder
Juan boasts 30+ years’ experience as an operator, startup founder, consultant, board member, entrepreneur and venture capitalist within leading companies in Mexico, the US and Germany. Throughout his career, Juan has worked for global companies such as Bertelsmann AG, Televisa and Entravision were he headed USD $1bn in revenue digital business unit. Juan has built successful companies like the eCommerce player Submarino, a headhunting company People@, the consulting business SWS and the venture fund RiseCapital Latam. Other milestones include his presidency of the Mexican chapter of the IAB, Board memberships of publicly traded Entravision (EVC), Travesias Media, Recorcholis, Metro International, Ambulante and Save the Children and ITAM-EPIC among other. Juan offers solid business head experience, entrepreneurship, consulting and operational experience that enables future business planning and exclusion capabilities. Juan holds a BA in economics from Mexico’s ITAM University and an MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona.
Partner
Mayela has been working in the retail industry for 20 years. During the past three years she has been fully immersed in eCommerce for Walmart Mexico. Here she has had several assignments being her most recent successful project the creation and launching of the Marketplace. This new business model creation involved breaking paradigms where instead of buying inventory, suppliers become partners and sell directly to customers through the platform as third parties. In the first year of operation, this business model has gotten to represent 15% of walmart.com.mx business with over 550 suppliers now active.
Partner
Paula has over 12 years’ experience designing and implementing business strategies for the public and private sectors in Mexico and the US. Particular areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, governance-structure and accountability-processes design. Her experience include 5 years at Ainda, a leading consulting boutique firm in Mexico, where she worked on a wide range of projects designed to tackle public-sector energy and transportation challenges. Paula holds a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from ITAM (Mexico).
Partner
Associate at SWS, CEO and Founder at People@. With 20+ years of experience in the consulting, media and cultural industries, María has been involved in the strategic development and launch of several startups (The Pool, Boletia, Lina Salud, People@, Vitral Magazine), and worked at leading finance, cultural and media institutions, offering her widespread expertise in project management and platforms innovation. In addition to her entrepreneurial experience, Maria had the opportunity to work for seven years as Project Manager at Rothschild Bank and Banco Bankaool. María holds a B.A. and an M.A. in International Business Management from ITAM (Mexico) as well as a second M.A. in Psychology from the ITREM.
Contact Us
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Information SWS
Address : 846 21 Street,
Unit 1, Santa Monica CA 90403 USA
info@sws.ms
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