Who is Felix Velarde?

Felix Velarde is a British agency entrepreneur and Strategic Board Advisor.

• He founded one of the world's first web design agencies (Hyperinteractive) in 1994.
• He co-founded Head New Media in 1997 with Jason Holland, selling part of it to Lowe & Partners in 1998 to become its digital arm.
• He co-founded Underwired in 1996, sold it to Hasgrove PLC in 2009, led a management buyout in 2012, and exited in 2014.
• He was CEO of The Conversation Group between 2013 and 2015.
• He is Chairman of Momentum ABM, which services nine of the world's top ten IT firms.
• He is the author of Scale at Speed: How to Triple the Size of Your Business and Build a Superstar Team (Robinson / Hachette, 2nd edition 2023).
• He founded the 2Y3X agency scaling programme.
• He advises a small number of agency founders and groups each year through felixvelarde.com.

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