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

StocksEmoji

StocksEmoji is a platform that aims to fill the research gap in investment.  Bringing to the market, products that support the user through discovery, decision, and follow-up while investing.

🌐 Our Ideology: 🌐

Now, as the CEO of Stocksemoji, We are on a mission to transform how investors perceive the stock market. Stocksemoji is not just about providing financial information; it's about offering expertise in a format that anyone can understand, breaking down barriers to investing. We lay down the fundamental reasoning behind the emotion that informs every decision, using visuals, graphs, scores, and emojis to break down complex information and make it more accessible.

💡 Our Vision: 💡

In a world where investors abound, there remains a gap in true stock market understanding, often due to the perception that it's as complex as rocket science. We recognize this gap and are dedicated to bridging it. Stocksemoji isn't here to instruct but to explain. Our innovative application uses simple emoji analysis to make the stock market a friendlier place for all investors

Founder and CEO

Tradersync India

The most flexible, powerful, complete, and convenient trading journal for Stock, Forex, Options, Futures, and Futures Options day traders.

Currently, I serve as the Director for the India at Tradersync.in .

Tradersync is the ultimate trading journal designed to boost your performance in three easy steps:

Sync your trades.
Identify your patterns.
Boost your performance.

At Tradersync, we help traders find their trading edge by providing easy-to-use reports that quickly reveal your trading behavior. Our smart trades feedback, AI feedback, and tools for simulating new trading strategies set us apart. We make performance reporting, tracking commissions, and trade-specific analytics simple and accessible.

Director

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Software Engineer

Founder Stocksemoji | Director Tradersync India | Trader | Engineer

First-generation entrepreneur, young trader, and coder at heart. Responsible for creating a Fintech product from writing logic to Go-To-Market Strategies.

🚀 Passionate about Simplifying Stock Market Understanding through Emojis and Journal 📈

🔹 As a seasoned finance professional with nearly a decade of experience in trading, I've honed my skills in creating automated systems and developing strategies to navigate the ever-changing markets. 

My journey began while pursuing my engineering degree when I was introduced to the stock market by attending a class for a thousand rupees. Since then, I've dedicated myself to understanding the market, reading over 50 books in two years, and attending workshops led by renowned Wall Street traders such as Courtney Smith. After working as a software engineer for Hewlett-Packard, I decided to transition into full-time trading and have never looked back.

🌐 Our Ideology: 🌐

Now, as the CEO of Stocksemoji, We are on a mission to transform how investors perceive the stock market. Stocksemoji is not just about providing financial information; it's about offering expertise in a format that anyone can understand, breaking down barriers to investing. We lay down the fundamental reasoning behind the emotion that informs every decision, using visuals, graphs, scores, and emojis to break down complex information and make it more accessible.

💡 Our Vision: 💡

In a world where investors abound, there remains a gap in true stock market understanding, often due to the perception that it's as complex as rocket science. We recognize this gap and are dedicated to bridging it. Stocksemoji isn't here to instruct but to explain. Our innovative application uses simple emoji analysis to make the stock market a friendlier place for all investors.

Currently, I serve as the Director for the India at Tradersync.in .

Tradersync is the ultimate trading journal designed to boost your performance in three easy steps:

Sync your trades.
Identify your patterns.
Boost your performance.

At Tradersync, we help traders find their trading edge by providing easy-to-use reports that quickly reveal your trading behavior. Our smart trades feedback, AI feedback, and tools for simulating new trading strategies set us apart. We make performance reporting, tracking commissions, and trade-specific analytics simple and accessible.

Let's connect and explore how we can together demystify the stock market and make trading/investing more accessible for everyone. 📈🚀 #FinancialLiteracy #InvestingSimplified #StocksemojiRevolution #TradingJournal #Tradersync

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