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Teo is a multifaceted business executive with an entrepreneurial mindset around tech and innovation. His career spans the Start-Up, business and NGO ecosystem across Europe & the US. He started his career at Deel in 2021 as part of the inaugural 50 person cohort leading the South European SDR team by the end of the year. Pivoting to Synthesia in 2022 as the Global Head of Sales Development and growing a team of 4 to 17 individuals and ARR from $4M to $46M in 1 year, contributing to its unicorn status. After taking a small break and solo traveling throughout South America, he returned to Deel (now the fastest growing startup in the history valued at $12B with 4.5k employees and $600M ARR), leading key market expansions for Deel HRIS, a new product vertical.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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