Angela Sanchez is founder and CEO of Artyfactos, a sustainable and ethically responsible jewelry business that offers pieces made from 100 % recycled natural materials like orange peel and fruit and tree seeds. She is also CEO and co-founder of Merge-Tek – a social enterprise for construction stakeholders to discover, connect and track compliance for services from minority owned businesses.
Angela has worked for CVS Health, founding and managing their Construction Solutions Team and has more than 18 years of experience in the construction industry holding management positions for multi-million-dollar projects with/for the government. She was also Program Manager for Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Program for Manizales Mas, an action research project to develop the entrepreneurial capacity in Manizales, by bringing together the policies, structures, programs and climate that foster entrepreneurship. Angela is also co-founder and CEO of Consult@me, a platform that connects entrepreneurs around the world with Boston’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Before founding Artyfactos and Merge-Tek, Angela co-founded and was the CFO/COO of Type-U, a platform that helps improve the lifestyle of people with diabetes.
Born in Bogota, Colombia, Angela holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Javeriana University and a MBA from Babson College. She is also a Certified Zumba Instructor, an energetic mother of three wonderful girls, and a fun wife.
Description Talk
We have the power to change how we see reality around us. We cannot control what happens to us but we can control how we react to it. We can control our own joy or lack of it. By seeing the optimistic side of every challenging situation in our ordinary lives, we bring joy and happiness to our life and it opens the doors to immeasurable opportunities. By sharing my story, I hope I can show how those puzzling moments of my life taught me that through paying-it-forward, kindness and gratitude we can live a joyful life.