Emiliano Galindo
Executive and personal assistant with over ten years of experience supporting senior leaders, founders, and principals across both professional and deeply personal domains.
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Executive and personal assistant with over ten years of experience supporting senior leaders, founders, and principals across both professional and deeply personal domains. Known for building the kind of quiet, reliable structure that allows a principal to focus fully on what matters most. Brings genuine warmth, high emotional intelligence, and absolute discretion to every environment.
Design-literate and detail-oriented, with hands-on experience in art object documentation, gallery and vendor coordination, renovation-adjacent project management, and the operational systems that keep a complex, multifaceted life running without friction.
Experience
Founder at Studio Binat (2024 – Present)
A small independent design practice operated on a limited, self-directed basis alongside other professional commitments, producing limited-edition art objects in collaboration with artisans in Michoacán, Mexico.
- Developed hands-on experience in art object documentation, provenance records, international shipping and storage logistics, and collector and gallery correspondence.
Junior Chief of Staff at Estrategia Publica Consultores (2023 – 2024)
- Served as a central coordination point between leadership and teams, tracking priorities, managing information flow, and ensuring follow-through across fast-moving workstreams.
- Prepared leadership for meetings and key decisions, maintaining organizational clarity across multiple concurrent projects.
Executive Assistant to CEO/Commissioner at Major League Soccer (2018 – 2023)
Provided comprehensive executive and personal support to the Commissioner of MLS, managing the full spectrum of professional, personal, and household logistics for a principal operating at the highest level.
- Managed complex, multi-timezone calendars balancing professional, personal, and family commitments across board members, league owners, and external partners.
- Coordinated sophisticated domestic and international travel, including detailed itineraries, ground transport, hotels, visas, and expense management.
- Served as primary liaison between the Commissioner and internal teams, external stakeholders, and personal service providers, managing correspondence and ensuring nothing fell through the cracks.
- Handled sensitive personal and professional matters with consistent discretion, sound judgment, and absolute confidentiality.
Special Assistant at ProMexico Trade & Investment Agency (2014 – 2018)
- Worked closely with cultural institutions, galleries, and designers across international contexts, facilitating exhibitions, design fairs, and cultural programming.
- Produced the first Mexico nation-brand design pavilion at a major New York design fair across three editions, managing vendors, artists, logistics, and on-the-ground operations.
- Coordinated complex schedules, travel, and documentation for senior leadership across multilingual, multicultural environments.
Executive & Personal Assistant at Michelle Gerson Interiors (2012 – 2014)
- Supported the principal of a high-end interior design studio across scheduling, client materials, vendor coordination, invoicing, and day-to-day studio operations.
- Assisted with project documentation and coordination across multiple concurrent renovation and interior design projects, tracking timelines, contractors, and deliverables.
- Developed strong foundations in managing the operational and administrative complexity that comes with a design-driven, client-service environment.
Education
Entrepreneurship Essentials – Harvard Business School Online (2022 – 2022)
BBA in Design Management – Parsons School of Design (2012)
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design – Central Saint Martins (2008)
