David Fialho

Chief of Staff to 2 founders, & employee #1 at one of them. One of 3 people running AI consultancy of roughly €2M revenue, owning business-facing side of CEO's role & working inside client projects. Building internal AI-Agent workflows, making operations scaleable and growth robust. Owning complete B2B GTM engine form form, inbound over partnerships to outbound initiatives.

Chief of Staff to CEO (focus: AI deployment & growth) at Salfati Group (2025-08 – Present)

AI consultancy; €2M revenue on 3 FTEs

• Took AI agent into client's workflow at Foresight Works, $25M Series construction software company, with their engineering team. When first version failed, diagnosed failure and specified approval queue that fixed it
• Selected delivery agency from field of ten & ran $80k Azure remediation across 384 resources and 1.5TB SharePoint migration inside US fund of funds' own estate, alongside client's IT lead, under CEO's interim CTO appointment there
• Wrote company's vendor security and legal standard and ran it across 11 vendor reviews: Tailscale, Clerk, Railway, Recall. Caught invoicing-entity mismatch and held $28k supplier payment

Chief of Staff to Co-Founder & CEO at Everyman Health (2024-03 – 2025-07)

D2C men's health telemedicine; roughly 2,000 subscribers

• Ran relocation to Bern after cantonal rules halted sales: external counsel, notary, physician re-licensing, new legal structure. Selling again in six weeks
• Opened partner pharmacy channel from cold first contact and built it into automated order-intake, fulfilment and delivery operation
• Built management reporting in three weeks from HubSpot and Stripe, and wrote investor analyses behind CHF 2.4M preseed that closed
• Owned Swissmedic, labelling and import compliance on merchandise and packaging sourced for new product line: Chinese suppliers, 5,000-unit commitments, in stock in Zurich within eight weeks
• Hired every role end to end (Head of Marketing still in post) and installed weekly leadership meeting that turned founder's daily 1:1s into decisions with named owner and date

Entrepreneur in Residence (in-house UGC venture) at Joli Group (2023-03 – 2024-02)

140-person social media agency group

• Built B2B pipeline and pricing for new venture inside group, set price at €2,000 per ten-video package and closed its first clients, Eurowings and Zwieback. Grew to five direct reports

Business Development & M&A Manager at The Quality Group (2022-02 – 2023-02)

D2C sports supplement manufacturer

• Ran due diligence on €10M acquisition alongside Stefan Smalla, ex-founder of Westwing. Convinced CMO, against room, for moving brands into Hyrox; ESN entered category twenty months later, in October 2024.

M.Sc. in Economics – University of Ulm (2020-20 – 2022-22)

B.Sc. in Economics – University of Konstanz (2016-20 – 2020-20)

Internship in Business – Multiple (2021-22 – 2022-22)