Afonso's career spans 19.5 years of marketing, design, tech consulting in corporate entities before becoming a full time entrepreneur just 5 years ago, when he founded innovation consultancy Saint Brand focused on building corporate ventures.
Under Saint Brand Afonso has built 8 corporate startups for corporate entities such as EDF Luminus and Telenet (Liberty Global), as well as 2 corporate startup accelerators. Alongside being a venture builder, Afonso has been sharing his methodology with accelerators such as Maze Impact and Fabrica de StartUps as a startup pitch instructor, and with the ICT Hub in Serbia and Innvest Albania as a corporate innovation trainer, where he contributed to the launch of the Serbia SuperCluster (Srbija Inovira Superklaster) combining Startups, Corporate Entities, Regional Government and Academia.
Agile certified, Afonso is also advisor to 1 startup in destination management marketing in the UK (Geotourist), Afonso is also an active partner at startup CREMAR (cremar.pt) and the Blue Beat Group where he aims to build a perpetual circle of blue economy venture building.
Father of 1, truly International, Afonso has worked in 8, and is now living in his 9th country.