Felipe Daguila

From an early age in Brazil, Felipe always wanted to learn skills that could be applied in the real world. School was especially challenging for him because it felt like nothing he was being taught would prepare him for the real world. So he usually went to his father's small wood floor shop after school where he witnessed skills like finance, customer service, sales, and marketing being applied.

When he was 12, he got the opportunity to apply these skills himself by making a business deal to solve a problem: his class lacked uniforms to compete in his school’s sports competition. He took the initiative to pick up the yellow pages and every day he called several sports company brands to ask for sponsorship for his class. There were many rejections so he decided to improve his message by explaining the benefits of sponsoring a school team.

Thanks to polishing his pitch, he was able to land a partnership with Umbro – which was also the sponsor of a Brazilian soccer team at that time. That was the moment he realized that one should not wait or expect anything to be handed to them and always go for the challenge that others say is impossible.

Today, he creates future-ready organisations by propelling financial, technological, and people performance. His skillset and adaptability have taken him across APAC, EMEA, AMER, and LATAM. Thanks to his passion and leadership (of business, operations, and people), he has designed a career where he partnered with innovative organisations such as Oracle, AWS, Google, KaiOS, Microsoft, PLUG & PLAY, R3, UBER, and others.

This is also why working at Terrascope as the Chief Customer and Commercial Officer has been the ideal opportunity to flex his transformation and tech skills for a worthy cause. Terrascope is driven by the mission to empower companies to decarbonise how they function overall. He works with a diverse group of purpose-driven individuals across technology, data science, strategy and more. Because carbon measurement and management is a VERY difficult task, they manage the complexity of carbon measurement, abatement, collaborate seamlessly between teams and with external partners, and share trusted data with stakeholders.