Business Executive & Advisor · Strategy · AI · Growth

Better decisions.
Better business.

I help leadership teams connect strategy, AI and culture to drive business growth — turning the decisions that matter into priorities, capabilities and execution.

Havas Play Bionic Minds FloraQueen Idilia Foods Board & C-level
Álvaro Malmierca speaking on stage
Álvaro Malmierca Barcelona · Global
Strategy · AI · Growth
23+Years of experience
25+Countries led
5M&A executed
GrowthBuilt across brands, markets, teams & business models
Point of view
Technology changes what is possible. People decide what is worth doing.
About

I have spent my career working across multiple sides of the business.

Creative agencies taught me to challenge conventions. Brands taught me to understand customers and organizations. Growth businesses taught me to connect decisions with numbers. Leadership taught me that execution is ultimately about people.

Today I bring those perspectives together when working with executives and organisations facing a simple but difficult question: what should we do next — and what will actually create value?

Experience builds judgement. Curiosity keeps it useful.
What I do

I work where business decisions become growth.

Not from a single discipline. I connect business, people, technology and creativity to bring focus to complex situations and move from ambition to measurable impact.

01

Business & Growth

Strategy, prioritisation, business models, expansion and the decisions that create sustainable growth.

02

AI & Business Reinvention

AI applied where it creates value: decisions, operating models, capabilities, products and new ways of working.

03

Leadership & Organisations

From executive teams to operating models, culture, talent and the organisational conditions required to execute.

04

Marketing & Creativity

Brand, relevance, customer understanding and creativity used as genuine levers for commercial advantage.

Journey

Closer to the decisions that shape the business.

23+ years of operating experience across business, growth, marketing and transformation — from creative agencies and global brands to board-level leadership, international networks and AI advisory.

2001 — 2015

Creativity & Strategy

DoubleYou · BBDO · Pavlov · Elogia

Strategy, creative direction and client leadership across leading agencies, working with brands including Nike, Audi, FC Barcelona and Pepsico.

2015 — 2019

Business & Digital

Idilia Foods

Managed €20M in media investment while driving digital adoption, data capabilities and customer-focused transformation inside a large FMCG organisation.

2019 — 2022

Growth & Leadership

FloraQueen · Board Member

Led growth, brand, eCommerce and product across 21 countries, with board responsibility and a €5M investment generating ~€25M in revenue.

2022 — Present

Global Leadership & Advisory

Havas Play · Bionic Minds

Global leadership across 25+ countries, combining strategy, growth, talent, expansion and M&A with business and AI advisory for executive teams.

2022 — Present

Global Managing Director

Havas Play · Havas Group

Leading a network across 25+ countries: strategy, product, growth, talent, expansion and M&A.

2023 — Present

Founder

Bionic Minds

Business and AI advisory for leadership teams, focused on where technology can improve decisions, operations, products and growth.

2019 — 2022

CMO, Growth Director & Board Member

FloraQueen · FloraChic

Brand, eCommerce, performance and retention across 21 countries. €5M investment generated ~€25M in revenue.

2015 — 2019

Business Manager & Media

Idilia Foods · ColaCao & Nocilla

Managed €20M in media investment and helped move the organisation toward a more digital, data-driven and customer-focused model.

2001 — 2015

Head of Digital & Strategy

DoubleYou · BBDO · Pavlov · Elogia

Fourteen years across creative and digital agencies, leading strategy, digital transformation and client work for brands including Nike, Audi, FC Barcelona, Pepsico, eDreams and CaixaBank.

25+Countries managed globally
5M&A processes executed
€20MMedia investment managed
5×ROI achieved in a growth role
Bionic Minds

Where AI becomes a business conversation.

Advisory
Workshops
Criteria
Impact
Current focus

Bionic Minds is not a side note. It is a response to a new business reality.

It brings together the same things that define the broader positioning of this site: strategic thinking, practical adoption of AI, executive conversation and measurable business impact.

Rather than positioning AI as the destination, the focus is on using it to improve judgement, sharpen priorities, evolve operating models and unlock real growth opportunities.

AI doesn’t transform companies on its own. People do.
Ideas

Articles, interviews and public thinking.

This section is designed to grow into a real archive of thought leadership: business, AI, leadership, marketing and the changing shape of work.

Anuncios

Cannes

Creativity, culture and where the real value of the festival now happens.

Cannes from the Croisette: the festival that no longer fits inside the Palais

A reflection on where the real value of the world’s largest creativity festival increasingly happens — outside the official stage, closer to conversation and context.

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Business Insider

AI

Opportunity, reinvention and the growing importance of human judgement.

AI: opportunity, reinvention and the value of human judgement

A conversation on how AI changes organisations while making human judgement more — not less — important.

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Euncet

Digital

Behaviour first. Technology second. Transformation starts with people.

Digital is not a channel. It is a change in behaviour.

Why digital transformation starts by understanding people and their changing habits, not by adding technology for its own sake.

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Euncet

Startups

Skills, adaptability and why careers no longer follow one single lane.

We will not study for one profession for the next 30 years

An early reflection on startups, skills, adaptability and the changing relationship between careers and organisations.

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LinkedIn

Identity

Giving face and voice to the digital self in an increasingly synthetic world.

Broadcast you: giving face and voice to your digital self

On identity, communication and the increasingly blurred frontier between physical and digital presence.

Open LinkedIn →
LinkedIn

Change

Transformation is not the goal. Growth, relevance and better decisions are.

Digital transformation: what it is — and what it isn't

A perspective on why real transformation is structural, not simply technological — and why business impact should remain the real destination.

Open LinkedIn →
MarketingNews

AI & Brands

Your next brand battle will not be about being seen

Why AI-mediated decisions shift the competitive game from visibility to eligibility, recommendation and trust.

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Control Publicidad

Startups

Why startups are beating traditional companies

A perspective on speed, adaptability and why organisational models can become a competitive advantage.

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MarketingDirecto

Leadership

From CMOs to transformation and innovation leaders

How senior marketing roles are evolving as growth, innovation and transformation move closer to the centre of business strategy.

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20minutos

Branded Content

Why creative content wins

A media roundtable on branded content, attention, relevance, measurement and the growing role of AI in the creative ecosystem.

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LinkedIn

AI & Marketing

AI is changing consumption habits and the way marketing works

A reflection after contributing to a 20minutos feature on how AI is reshaping consumer behaviour and marketing practice.

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In the room

Conversations, workshops and stages across different moments of the journey.

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Let's talk

Complex business problem? Let's make it clearer.

Open to conversations around business advisory, AI strategy, executive workshops, boards and selected speaking opportunities.

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