Fernando Emilio Chavez

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Co-founder & COO at Trellis Systems | ex-Intuit

Trellis Systems
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
14+ years experience
Kellogg School of Management
English
Raising
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Overview

I started Trellis Systems to fix B2B payments for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Grew the team to 47 people across 5 countries. Signed 66 paying customers, 12 of them enterprises. Most at home with B2B sales and fundraising. Learning woodworking.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Working sessions on product
  • Questions about B2B payments
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Generic networking requests

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Skills
fintechfundraisingB2B salesproduct
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Seed round open - compliance automation for property managers, $325k MRR

Stage
Seed
Raising
$325k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$777k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$325k MRR after 20 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$325k MRR after 20 months. Looking for investors who know robotics and can help with hiring.

Atlanta, GA · remote OKfundraisingproductfintech
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Oct 2024 - Present
    Trellis Systems · 2 yr · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Grew the team to 15 people across 4 countries.
    • Previously built and sold a small B2B payments company.
    • Raised $8 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Senior Consultant
    May 2021 - Oct 2024
    Intuit · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Ran commercial diligence on 13 deals.
    • Designed the operating model for a 3 thousand-person transformation.
  3. Consultant
    Apr 2018 - May 2021
    Pinterest · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Ran commercial diligence on 16 deals.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $82 million.
  4. Business Analyst
    Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
    Atlassian · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 32 a week to 4.
    • Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 768ms to 168ms.
  5. Consultant
    Nov 2012 - Jul 2015
    Wayfair · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Designed the operating model for a 6 thousand-person transformation.

Projects

B2B payments benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing B2B sales and fintech on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Kellogg School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. Stanford University
    BS, Business Administration
    2003 - 2007

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