Gert Findel
Chief Growth Officer at Acid Labs
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolGert Findel is a board director and C-level executive with 15+ years building technology-driven ventures and scaling organizations across Latin America and the U.S. As co-founder of Acid Labs—now a ~800-person software company operating in five countries—he combines hands-on engineering roots with strategic growth, governance and fundraising readiness. He specializes in driving structural change: implementing measurable strategic goals, multilayered financial reporting, IFRS/Big4-quality audits and clear owner-management separation to enable institutional capital. Gert pairs executive programs at MIT and Harvard Business School with a computer science background, and actively invests, mentors and advises startups across fintech, professional services and healthtech. He also hosts a podcast on scaling sustainably, reflecting a focus on growth that avoids founder dependency and burnout.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatik, Bachelor's degree, Informatik at University of MünsterEntrepreneurship and Competitiveness, Business, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness, Business at Columbia Business SchoolEndeavor: Leaders at Scale, Organizational Leadership, Endeavor: Leaders at Scale, Organizational Leadership at INSEADScaling Entrepreneurial Ventures, Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures at Harvard Business SchoolBSc., Computer Science, BSc., Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileFormación de Nuevos Directores, Formación de Nuevos Directores at ESE Business School Chile
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
internationalization10
translation9
spree9
localization9
rails8
sketchup8
commerce8
ecommerce8
espn7
api6
python5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
acidlabs/acid-tweet-bot
Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:21 commits in 1 day
finintech/finintech.cl
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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