Marco Vega

Marco Vega

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Head of Talent Growth
Germany

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  • SafetyWing
    Head of Talent Growth
    SafetyWing
    Sep 2024 - Current (2 years 1 month)
    SafetyWing is a Y Combinator-backed, Series B insurtech building a "country on the internet" (A global safety net including health insurance, income protection, and more)

    I design and improve the systems that shape how SafetyWing thinks about talent: performance reviews, career progression frameworks, and the culture infrastructure that helps ambitious people thrive. I facilitate leadership workshops and trainings, coach leaders, and advise on complex personnel decisions.
  • Freelancer
    Culture Consultant & Leadership Coach
    Freelancer
    Jun 2018 - Current (8 years 4 months)
    I advise and coach startups, scaleups, and NGOs to strengthen culture, leadership, and organizational health. Drawing on insights from psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and systems thinking, I help teams and leaders work more effectively, communicate clearly, and sustain high performance without burnout.

    Representative work:

    SafetyWing (200-person remote startup) – Designed and facilitated programs to increase belonging, psychological safety, and trust. Coached leaders and emerging talent to improve collaboration and decision-making. Measured team happiness, stress, and growth to implement data-driven improvements. Created rituals and initiatives that make a flat structure cohesive and community-oriented.

  • Fast Track Malmo
    Portfolio Company // Alumni
    Fast Track Malmo
    Feb 2022 - May 2022 (4 months)
    SageWealth was selected amongst 500 applicants to join the 2022 batch of FTMO.

    Fast Track Malmo helps amazing teams accelerate their growth and raise their first VC round. Once a year they invest €50k in 10 different startups that they believe will change the world.

    Based in Malmö, Southern Sweden, our accelerator has been voted the best accelerator program in Sweden and is one of the highest quality accelerator programs in Europe.
  • SageWealth
    Founder, CEO
    SageWealth
    Feb 2020 - Oct 2023 (3 years 9 months)
    Founded and led SageWealth, the "first digital private bank for conscious Millennials". Our mission was to close the financial literacy gap and make sustainable investing accessible to the next generation of wealth holders.

    Highlights:

    - Grew sustainable assets under management to €2,000,000.
    - Selected from 450 applicants for the Fast Track Malmö accelerator program.
    - Secured €500K in angel investment to build and expand our MVP.
    - Invited to speak at global events including Delivery Hero, House of Beautiful Business, and Berlin Boss Babes.

    SageWealth ceased operations in 2023, but the experience sharpened my skills in fundraising, hiring and team management, product-market fit, and scaling
  • ProVeg International
    Organizational Development Manager
    ProVeg International
    Sep 2017 - May 2018 (9 months)
    ProVeg is the largest food awareness non-profit in Europe. I improved the internal communication and productivity tools by bringing all 100 employees onto Slack and Wrike. I helped the departments clarify their SOPs and KPIs, and supported the early development of the ProVeg incubator.
  • Nootropicscom
    Founder, CEO
    Nootropicscom
    Mar 2015 - Sep 2017 (2 years 7 months)
    We built the most evidence-based and user-friendly B2C e-commerce platforms for brain supplements. Brought to $500K ARR within 2 years of launch. Successful exit.
  • University of Sussex
    Associate Researcher
    University of Sussex
    Sep 2014 - Feb 2015 (6 months)
    I supported The Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Diversity (LEAD) with their quantitative and qualitative research, and conducted undergraduate lectures and seminars.
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  • University of Sussex
    Master of Science - MSc, Cognitive Neuroscience
    University of Sussex
    Jan 2013 - Jan 2014 (1 year 1 month)
    I learned key insights into the nature of human behaviour and cognition. My research focused on better understanding social hierarchies, and how they relate to pro-social behaviour. During this year I published a book chapter with renown Professor, Jamie Ward, on "The Social Neuroscience of Power and it's links with Empathy and Cognition". Due to my performance I was awarded a £100,000 PhD scholarship - which I turned down in order to start my first business.
  • University of Sussex
    Bachelor's degree, Politics and Philosophy
    University of Sussex
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2013 (3 years 1 month)
    During my degree I learned about the historic function of international political and economic institutions. Moreover, I refined my writing and argumentation skills through my study of epistemology, meta-ethics, metaphysics and semantics. During my studies, I developed a key interest into the topic of 'Transhumanism' and co-authored and produced a popular mini-documentary on the topic - which amassed over a quarter million views on Youtube.
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    Posthuman: An Introduction to Transhumanism
    co-wrote, storyboarded and produced a short documentary film (with over 200,000 views on youtube) on how technology might shape our species and society.

    Presented the film and gave a talk at the ‘Anticipating 2025’ (2014) conference, organized by the London Futurists and Humanity+, on the social effects of unequal technological spread.
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    Chancellor's International Research Scholarship (£100,000)
    Issued by University of Sussex
    Recipient of £100,000 in funding from the Sussex university Chancellor's International Research Scholarship for a research PhD in Psychology on the topic of the social neuroscience of power.

    I stepped down from the program to found a startup
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    Against the Demonization of Drugs
    Quillette
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    The Social Neuroscience of Power and Its Links with Empathy, Cooperation and Cognition
    The Intoxication of Power Springer Jan
    The concept of power is of interest to researchers in a number of different fields. Historians, philosophers, political scientists, sociologists and now psychologists and neuroscientists have each conceptualised and studied power in their own way. Sociologists such as Max Webber conceived of power as ‘the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance, regardless of the basis on which this probability rests’ (Weber et al., 1978: 53). Political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes understood power as the ‘present means to obtain some future apparent good’ (2010: 40). And political scientists such as Robert Dhal made attempts to formally express power thus: ‘A has power
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