Two-time founder & award-winning designer. I talk about founders' mental health and the mindset to live a joyful life. I love fixing old motorcycles 🛵

I’m a two-time founder and award-winning design director with a proven track record of leading teams to successfully bring over 50 innovative physical and digital products to market.

With 20+ years of experience across startups, consultancies, and corporate settings, I’ve developed a holistic approach that combines creative design thinking, operational and manufacturing expertise, and emotional intelligence to drive innovation and team success.

Today, I serve as Director of Products at Grizzly Industrial, where I lead three brands: Grizzly, Shop Fox, and South Bend, overseeing product strategy, design, merchandising, pricing, logistics, and development.

In parallel, I continue to coach a select group of founders and leaders, placing emotional intelligence at the core of my work to empower better decision-making, stronger collaboration, and sustainable growth. 

I also write regularly:

Advise Myself → essays on emotional intelligence and personal growth

The Design Practice → essays on product management, design, and leadership


Originally from Argentina 🇦🇷 and now based in Bellingham, WA, I enjoy life as a dad, exploring the outdoors, and restoring old motorcycles 🛵 🏍️.

Career Highlights include:

 ➜ Founded and led two startups, including one exit in 2022.
 ➜ Directed the design and launch of 50+ products across industries.
 ➜ Earned 35 patents for innovative product designs.
 ➜ Exhibited twice at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), with one design in its permanent collection.
 ➜ Created products that won more than 75 major design awards.
 ➜ Founded and built a design consultancy serving global brands such as Crate & Barrel, CB2, Club Quarters Hotels, and Herman Miller.
 ➜ Established overseas manufacturing operations for multiple clients.

Manuel Saez

Mugentix Solutions

Chief Executive Officer

Sales And Marketing Specialist

Thor Industries

• Apply engineering best practices
• Maintain brand consistency throughout the design process
• Design, develop, test and deploy features in a timely manner.
• Create wireframes to illustrate advanced solutions for applications.
• Work to achieve a balance between functional and aesthetic designs.
• Continually work to ensure the user experience determines design choices.
• Work to solve complex challenges with the utilization of modern web application development processes and standard methodologies.

Frontend Developer

Phormalabs

Co-Founder

• Continually tested the site for usability while addressing any bugs.
• Made high level contributions to a team leading site optimizations.
• Collaborated with product managers to design cutting edge features.
• Worked to create tools that enhanced user interaction in any browser.
• Worked with teams to solve issues and find and implement efficiencies.
• Ensured the technology implemented promoted efficiency, speed, and smooth functionality.

High Tech Energy

demogency

• Built quality landing pages that resulted on 340% more customers
• Contributed to the team and helped them add custom designs to Wordpress themes
• Ensured the technology implemented promoted efficiency, speed and smooth functionality
• Contributed in different outsourcing projects and build complex advanced custom Wordpress plugins

Translated designs and wireframes into high quality code.
Designed, built, and maintained high performance, reusable, and reliable code using latest JS Frameworks.
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application

Frontend Web Developer 

LinkedIn growth made simple

You’ve probably worked with “agencies” before.

The kind that take your money, slow your momentum, and leave you wondering if Meta ads even work anymore.

I’ve been on the other side. Mocked. Ghosted. Underrated.

So I built Mugentix... 

an AI-powered Meta ads partner for brands spending $30k+/mo who are tired of guesswork and baby-sitting junior media buyers.

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We don’t take many clients.
But the ones we do?
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