Public Profile

Carlos Vadillo is a leader in innovation and design strategy consultant with 10 years of experience. He is currently the Head of Business Development at Redshift Digital, a consulting firm focused on innovating digital products and experiences. He is formerly the founder of Trigger Point Collective, an innovation consulting firm and founder/Co-CEO of Agribots, a webapp designed for cost accounting and activity tracking in agriculture. As the Head of Business Development for Redshift Digital, Carlos has created strategies for finding business opportunities, market research, financial modeling, and pitching. While with Agribots and Trigger Point Collective, Carlos managed the front end design team responsible for setting up the UI/UX portion of the webapp for customers. Carlos has also done market research and strategy for both the Latin American Market (focusing in Mexico, Chile, and Argentina) as well as for Japan, North America, and Europe. For his work at Agribots, Carlos was selected for Start-up Chile, won the Grand Prize at UPenn's Y-Prize Engineering Competition in 2014, received the Santander Venture Award in 2014, and the Wharton Innovation Award in 2015.

Carlos has had prior international entrepreneurial experience within CPG and Computer Software in Japan and Latin America as well as enterprise experience with Wells Fargo Securities. His education includes a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Political Economy with emphasis on Japanese and Italian, an MBA from The Wharton School focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship, and an MA from UPenn in International Area Studies with an emphasis in Japanese. His current programming skills skew to the front-end, with experience in Javascript, HTML, CSS, AWS, and Github. Carlos is fluent in Spanish, English, Japanese and Italian. Carlos is currently learning Mandarin Chinese.