José Betancur Entrepreneur, creative, author, urban sketcher & podcaster. I

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Docente de Cátedra

UniversidadEAFIT

Jul 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 6 months)

Lecturer at EAFIT University in the subject Project 4 of the Marketing area

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Executive Board Member

Carla Cristina Foundation

Oct 2022 - Current (4 years 1 month)

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Director Nodo

UniversidadEAFIT

Jun 2022 - Current (4 years 5 months)

Chief Design Officer

Intergrupo S.A.

Jul 2018 - Current (8 years 4 months)

Chief Design Officer

Intergrupo

Jul 2018 - May 2022 (3 years 11 months)

Mentor

Startup Grind

Sep 2017 - Current (9 years 2 months)

Rockstart, one of Europe's first accelerators, was founded in Amsterdam in 2011 with a goal to provide startups with access to the market, capital, knowledge, and community.

Since the inception, Rockstart has invested in more than 100 startups and supported them in their
journey to raise more than €45 million and hire more than 600 people. Rockstart is an international
team of 40+ professionals dedicated to support and empower startups to become scalable and change their world for the better.

Learn more at: https://www.rockstart.com

Mentor

Rockstart

Sep 2017 - Nov 2021 (4 years 3 months)

Rockstart, one of Europe's first accelerators, was founded in Amsterdam in 2011 with a goal to provide startups with access to the market, capital, knowledge, and community.

Since the inception, Rockstart has invested in more than 100 startups and supported them in their journey to raise more than €45 million and hire more than 600 people. Rockstart is an international team of 40+ professionals dedicated to support and empower startups to become scalable and change their world for the better.

Learn more at: https://www.rockstart.com

Chief Innovation Officer

Intergrupo S.A.

Feb 2017 - Jun 2017 (5 months)

Constantly "bang the drum" for innovation, being responsible for identifying and proposing areas
where technology, company structure and day-to-day practices can be combined and refined to create products that drive our clients business towards its corporate goals.

Chief Innovation Officer

Intergrupo

Feb 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year 5 months)

Constantly “bang the drum” for innovation, being responsible for identifying and proposing areas where technology, company structure and day-to-day practices can be combined and refined to create products that drive our clients business towards its corporate goals.

Managing Director

SMART

Oct 2016 - Jan 2017 (4 months)

Medellin Smart Services is a private initiative that focuses on creating new scalable businesses for ITO, KPO and BPO companies from the city as well as creating and developing new services that leverage each of the members capabilities. I have been in charge of create a new "corporate venture"

Medellín Chapter Director

Startup Grind

Sep 2015 - Current (11 years 2 months)

Startup Grind is a global community of entrepreneurs based on events, designed to educate, inspire and connect entrepreneurs, investors and company representatives.

What is our vision?
We want to give any entrepreneurs the stage and the opportunity to share their hard work with those who need it or who can profit from it. Incubators and accelerators take only about 3 % of the entrepreneurs, we are pleased to help to the other 97% also and help them on their way.

Startup Grind values:
We believe in making friends, not contacts. We believe in giving, not taking. We believe in helping others before helping yourself. We are truly passionate about helping founders, entrepreneurs and startups succeed. We intend t

Co-Founder / Mentor / Entrepreneur

Startups Academy

Jan 2014 - Oct 2016 (2 years 10 months)

I work with entrepreneurs, teaching/mentorship them on how to create a startups.
I research every day for new tools for teaching and to help the entrepreneur ecosystem.

Co-Director

Apple

Mar 2013 - Aug 2014 (1 year 6 months)

Helping the next generation of Colombian entrepreneurs build great companies.

Mobile Applications Strategy Manager

Intergrupo S.A.

Dec 2010 - Jun 2014 (3 years 7 months)

Mobile Strategic Consulting, and mobile applications development.

CEO - Co-Founder

KZ Labs

Jan 2007 - Current (19 years 10 months)

Strategy design and implementation of different kind of products with a great mobile development team that has published a number of iPhone/iPad/Android applications:

- Lead and grow a team of passionate engineers
- Manage employee career development by providing coaching and mentoring to junior engineers while guiding senior contributors to maximize their potential.
- Serve as the team’s Scrum Master, breaking down roadblocks as well as managing communications with stakeholders and dependent teams. Create a culture of continuous improvement through retrospection.
- Act as an ambassador for KZ Labs, recruiting and motivating top talent.

KZLabs has also developed a number of contracted applications.

Quality Manager

Intergrupo S.A.

Dec 2005 - Dec 2010 (5 years 1 month)

Lead SEPG team, define, plan and monitoring the software
process. Create models to simulate the capability of the organization. Continuous improve the company process.

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Research Manager

Oct 2004 - Dec 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Look for the state of the art in software testing, and try to bring them to our company.

Research Manager

Aleriant Inc

May 2001 - May 2004 (3 years 1 month)

Consolidate a team with the skills to create fast prototypes and research the state of the art, to improve our solutions.

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President - Apple Ambassador

ColombiaMug

Jan 2001 - Aug 2016 (15 years 8 months)

Build a community, and create a strong relations ships with Apple product costumers and different key bloggers.

President

Apple

Build a community, and create a strong relations ships with Apple product costumers and different
key bloggers.

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