Felix Velarde

Felix Velarde started one of the world's first specialist digital agencies in 1994. He then had a successful twenty years as an industry leader, innovator and serial founder. From 1994 to 2015 he was CEO of five award-winning marketing agencies, chair of half a dozen more (including several agencies of the year), and CEO of an agency roll-up.

His stellar career also included being an Adjunct Professor at Hult International Business School, UK lead at Vint Cerf and Mei Lin Fung's People-Centered Internet, and a member of SRI's Innovation for Jobs Leadership Forum. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

In 2016 Felix Velarde founded 2Y3X, an international two-year growth acceleration program that routinely triples participating companies' value. In 2022 he co-founded AVA Acquisitions, an Austin-based M&A firm, which acquires marketing agencies and applies 2Y3X to scale them rapidly.

Felix Velarde is the author of the manual for 2Y3X, Scale at Speed, and a regular Burner.

Companies

• Partner Scale at Speed Media (2022)
• Partner and Chief Strategy Officer AVA Acquisitions (2022)
• Board Advisor Kiely & Co. (2018)
• CEO at The 2Y3X® Programme, chair and board advisor The 2Y3X Programme (2015)
• Keynote Speaker, Workshop Leader and Trainer UK and USA (2015)
• Adjunct Professor and visiting lecturer Hult International Business School (2011)
• Non-Executive Chair Rawnet (2019 — 2021)
• Non-Executive Chair White Bear Studio (2019 — 2021)
• Non-Executive Chair Verb Brands (2018 — 2020)