Roche David

Roche David

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SIGLA - Managing Director | Empowering businesses with real-time geospatial intelligence to reduce risks and improve decision-making
Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

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  • S
    Founder
    SOLID OI MOEDIM
    Sep 2021 - Current (5 years 2 months)
    An investment company built around the participation in small and medium-sized companies in technological oriented sectors:
    • AI & Quantum Computing, VR, AR
    • Environmental & Future of food (cultivated protein cells- sustainable seafood and meat innovation,
    vertical farms etc.)
    • Health Tech (Customized Genomic Treatments, DNA)
    • Military & Defense
    I’ve started this move to get closer to the sectors and companies that will matter the most in a few months or years from now and to keep a close presence in the immediate future. SIGLA is my down to earth activity whereas SOLID OI is leg in what is going to be relevant in the future.
  • SISTEMAS DE INFORMACIÓN GEOGRÁFICA DE LATINO AMERICA  SIGLA SAS
    Founder & Managing Director
    SISTEMAS DE INFORMACIÓN GEOGRÁFICA DE LATINO AMERICA SIGLA SAS
    Jul 2013 - Current (13 years 4 months)
    Co-founder and Director of SIGLA. A leading company in geospatial solutions capturing information and generating value added solutions to assess key assets of companies to ensure they can pursue smoothly their business activities. The company has grown organically from a small company to a medium-sized company with more than 145 employees and an operational capacity to operate in the entire continent.
    Achievements:
    • We have implemented innovative solutions such as Digital Twins analysis, Geospatial Services, VR,
    IR, AR
    • We have constantly invested in providing best-of-breed solutions for our customers, being more
    and more competitive but also increasing our profit margin and our capacity to manag
  • P
    Co-Founder
    Punta de Garzas Inversiones Forestales
    Mar 2012 - Current (14 years 8 months)
    Participation in a company specialized in reforestation in the Vichada Department in Colombia. It’s a Business that combines a positive environmental footprint with a plantation of 1360 acres of Caribbean Pine, Acacia Mangium and Eucaliptus each with specific properties. Also, 500 acres dedicated to cows. It’s a development in a region that will soon be one of the barns of Latin America.
    Achievements:
    • We have established sustainable practices that contribute to the mitigation of carbon emissions and the regeneration of a key ecosystem.
    • We also have a social project that includes a school for the children of the region that we are financing.
  • Blom Sistemas Geoespaciales
    Managing Director Colombia & Regional (Colombia)
    Blom Sistemas Geoespaciales
    Sep 2010 - Aug 2013 (3 years)
    After the acquisition of Opera Wireless by BLOM, my role has been to close Agreements with strategic players in the field of Directories and Navigation generating 3D data models for TELEATLAS (absorbed by TomTom), NAVTEQ (later HERE), Via Michelin, Guia Repsol, NDRIVE (Photo-realistic oblique imagery).
  • Blom Sistemas Geoespaciales
    Director Strategic Partnerships & Key Accounts
    Blom Sistemas Geoespaciales
    Aug 2007 - Sep 2010 (3 years 2 months)
    After the acquisition of Opera Wireless by BLOM my role changed and I focused on developing strategic business relationship with leading navigation and mapping companies (Tomtom - TeleAtlas, Navteq - Nokia, Via Michelin, Guia Repsol, etc.)
  • O
    Co-Founder & Business Development Director
    Opera Wireless
    Nov 2005 - Aug 2007 (1 year 10 months)
    OW developed an interface miniaturized technology to track objects and people and generated 2D & 3D data models included in the interface for future generations of navigation devices and offering a white brand to portals such as Yellow Pages, Directories etc... OW reached agreements to have an embedded flat fee for messaging.
    In charge of market expansion through partners and customers in several geographic markets: LATAM & EMEA.
    Achivements:
    • Design & Development of a new generation of services and introduction of a new business model in the market (tracking, flat fee, variety of use cases and visualization)
    • Signature of several key partnership contracts determinant to companies next steps.
    • Geographic and se
  • G
    Business Development Director
    GCT Iberica TEKEL Networks
    Feb 2003 - Nov 2005 (2 years 10 months)
    TEKEK was a start-up that developed an integrated solution to track industrial vehicles and connect peripherals such as cameras to ensure safety of operations. Communication at that time was made using GPRS (position and photos). and a server with functionalities such has developed an interface miniaturized technology to track objects and people and generated 2D & 3D data models included in the interface for future generation of navigation devices. OW reached agreements to have an embedded flat fee for messaging.
    At that time in charge of market expansion through partners and customers in several geographic markets: LATAM, EMEA and China.
  • DEMTECH
    Business Development & Co-Founder
    DEMTECH
    Feb 2000 - Dec 2004 (4 years 11 months)
    BDemtech is an Open Innovation Specialist for corporations, Investment Consultancy Partner for Venture Capital Firms, and Sales & Business Developer for High-Tech Companies
    Back then, the company was solely focused in providing business development consultancy for the Iberian market and some very specific times LATAM.
    I oversaw Sales & Business Development.
  • Perfumes y Diseño
    Brand Manager
    Perfumes y Diseño
    Feb 1998 - Feb 2000 (2 years 1 month)
    Brand Manager Jesus del Pozo Perfumes & in charge of ALDEASA Duty Free of Perfumes Givenchy, J. Del Pozo, Roberto Verino, Angel Schlesser, Armand Basi
  • Parfums Christian Dior
    Marketing Assistant
    Parfums Christian Dior
    Nov 1996 - Apr 1998 (1 year 6 months)
    Marketing Assistant for Parfums Christian Dior product line
  • F
    Trainees in Floors of several Stock Exchanges
    FINACOR
    Jan 1990 - Jan 1996 (6 years 1 month)
    Summer time trainings from 1990 to 1996 (Paris, Brussels, Chicago)
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  • Inalde Business School
    PADE, Business Administration and Management, General (Bogotá)
    Inalde Business School
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (2 years)
  • ISG Institut Supérieur de Gestion
    Bachelor of Administration (Paris, Business
    ISG Institut Supérieur de Gestion
    Jan 1992 - Dec 1996 (5 years)
  • Lycée JansondeSailly
    BAC B (Paris, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
    Lycée JansondeSailly
    Jan 1980 - Dec 1992 (13 years)