Catalina Valentino 🔥

ELIXR

ELIXR is a Global Smart City Group, transforming the way we live, work, and connect, via Planning, Energy, Data, Health, Education.

Under its Planet2030 vision, it delivers Smart City solutions, which together with its partners such as AECOM, Pinsent Masons and alongside Local Governments collaborate to improve National Infrastructure.

Elixr and its 30 Towns Framework is working with Government members to enable smarter regeneration nationally, including energy, planning and construction, retrofit and health. 

Elixr's mission is simple: improve existing cities — via technology, finance and data.
 
📍 UK | Middle East | US

Group CEO (& Co-Founder)

Una Terra Venture Capital Fund

Una Terra is a $200M early-growth venture capital fund scaling circular economy solutions with deep industry expertise, a powerful partner ecosystem, and a vision for systemic change. We invest in market-ready innovations that can drive measurable climate impact (2Gtons CO₂ reduction & 1Mtons plastic waste prevented by 2030) while delivering superior returns (25%+ IRR). By leveraging our network and experience, we accelerate growth, unlock capital, and create real, lasting change beyond financial gains.

Member of the Board of Advisors

Clean Energy Business Council MENA

The Clean Energy Business Council MENA is a non-profit, non-governmental membership organization that comprises leading local, regional, and international organizations committed to accelerating the development and deployment of clean energy in the MENA region.

Founded in 2012, the Council serves as a comprehensive clean energy platform aiming to foster a more coordinated, inclusive, and clean energy sector, encouraging collective approaches, and facilitating the development of forward-looking policies that reflect the needs and perspectives of the private sector and industry.

MetaConnex

Executive Board Member

Transforming how local councils urban plan, design and build developments through Digital Twins and Data.

An ELIXR technology.

Experience the future of urban planning with MetaConnex, where collaboration meets innovation, and sustainability to redefine what's possible in city development. MetaConnex is a groundbreaking technology platform that facilitates collaboration between public sector organisations and private industries in the field of sustainable urban planning and development. 

It offers a user friendly 3D model interface that integrates land and asset data, sustainability metrics, and construction industry standards to accelerate decision-making while adhering to national planning guidelines and environmental protection.

ArcLive

ArcLive is the world’s first data driven marketplace that uses real time energy data to underwrite products for assets across insurance, mortgages, carbon and energy.

Currently, ArcLive kits are being deployed across the UK, New York and the Middle East, in collaboration with major property owners, financial institutions, and regulators, including the NHS, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Lloyds Bank, Barclays Bank, NYCHA (New York State Housing Authority) and many more.

ArcLive's mission is to bring growth to the clean energy sector through its real time data solutions.

Chief Sustainability Officer

Live Data Trust

The Live Data Trust is a Non-Profit Organisation, changing the way we share and use data by enabling real-time integration for performance and technology benchmarking.

The Live Data Trust is a Non-Profit Organisation, changing the way we share and use data by enabling real-time integration for performance and technology benchmarking. 

By connecting private and public sector data, it helps unlock valuable insights and improvements. 

Using advanced data security and storage methods, developed by NASA and MIT, it ensures that information is safe and well-organised. 

This is the first framework to integrate live data with a focus on ethics, AI, and crucial sectors like the built environment, energy, and infrastructure. 

Aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 17, this approach supports the development of smart cities, making our urban spaces more efficient and sustainable through global partnerships and collaboration.

COO & Founding Team

STEPS

STEPS is a smart city investment fund which provides municipalities and local regions with finance for regeneration and sustainable infrastructure projects. 

Its unique data-led blended finance approach includes green bonds, equity investments, and loans, to enable tailored solutions for local development with its primary goal to strengthen local economies and benefit entire communities and regions.

Founder

Generationally Yours

The #1 ESG Podcast focused on sustainability, real estate and tech across generations.

Guests Include: Sir Robert McAlpine, Lloyds Bank, Barratt Homes, OakNorth Bank, WGBCSD, NHS, Flight Story, UKRI, Channel 4 Project Home and more.

Co-Host

Waxelene

Waxelene is a sustainable natural skincare brand, which has received unsolicited endorsements from A-list celebrities like Hilaria Baldwin, Halle Berry, Zooey Deschanel, Victoria's Secret Angel Lily Aldridge, and Gigi Hadid.

And 1000s of 5-star reviews, 100 million social media impressions. 

It has a patented aeration process has been scientifically proven to be highly effective in addressing eczema and catering to the needs of sensitive skin. 

Approximately >$2M units sold & approx $5M sales to date.

Lead Investor

World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF)

The Smart Cities Board of the WBAF focuses on developing intelligent urban environments. It leverages advanced technologies and innovative financial solutions to enhance city efficiency, sustainability, and liveability. By collaborating with public, private, and academic sectors, the board aims to address urban challenges and promote interconnected systems for improved quality of life and economic growth.

Smart Cities Board

Senator For United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

CEO of ELIXR | MSc | Global Top 100 Women in Tech | Senator @ WBAF | Ft. Business Insider, Forbes etc. 🦄

Catalina Valentino (MSc) is the Group CEO of ELIXR, a global smart city group transforming cities through technology, finance, and data. She is also a Member of the Advisory Board for the €200m Climate Tech Fund Una Terra and the Clean Energy Business Council MENA.

ELIXR works with partners like the NHS, Lloyds Bank, UK & Saudi Governments and NYCHA to drive data-driven regeneration, unlocking £1bn in development value in the UK. 
Its ecosystem has also enabled the first-ever live data-linked loan and is building the world’s first fully digitised carbon credit market—redefining how cities grow, finance, and decarbonise.

Her journey began at 11, when she earned her first A* GCSE, then started a BA at 16, and an MSc at 19—launching her corporate career along the way. She later founded “Pivot”, her first company; securing a six-figure investment, scaling to <20 team members, and winning several industry awards.

Since, she has been awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 and Global Top 100 Women in Tech 2023 for her work with ELIXR. And is a globally recognised speaker for Forbes, the United Nations, LEAP, the World Economic Forum, and more. 🎤

CEO & Co-Founder

Building unicorns 🦄. 
Next-Gen Sustainable Tech Incubator/ VC.

Mediaworks

As an Account Manager, I work within the Client Success department managing a portfolio of clients and overseeing their eCommerce growth 🚀

Account Manager

OurMFC

Middlesbrough Football Club has been a passion of mine since as far back as I can remember. I’ve always liked talking about them and sharing my thoughts with other fans, so I thought why not set up a blog. I’ve always wanted my own, but never knew what on!

It was like a lightbulb went off in my head and I thought, I can do this 💡

On the site and across our socials, we discussed latest news, transfer rumours and much more. We managed to build a community of around 30,000+ and I look back on the experience with fond memories!

Visualsoft Ltd

- Managed a portfolio of around 50 clients ranging from annual revenues of around £90k p/y - £5m p/y.

- Corresponded with OLM teams and the client to build our strategies and undertake health checks of the website, to spot opportunities for continued growth.

- Upsold relevant Visualsoft services that were relevant for the clients growth of their eCommerce business.

eCommerce Strategist

Wander Films

My role at Wander Films as a social media manager, was to create super awesome, fun and creative content and manage campaigns, whilst keeping our clients goals in mind and helping them achieve them ⚡

I had the privilege of working with some amazing companies on some amazing campaigns such as; JDM Earth, Crime Scene Assist, Daniel Bishara Financial, SJOG, Power of Women & of course Wander’s & The Beat The Scroll Podcast 🔥

I met some amazing people (both clients and people internally) and certainly made friends for life. Most importantly, learnt an awful lot ❤️

Social Media Manager

Unitel Direct Ltd

My first full-time role after my apprenticeship. 

At Unitel I worked with clients from all different industries, to create social media & SEO strategies, with the goal of getting their website ranking as high as possible on search engines and as much brand exposure as possible on social.

Working with a number of different brands in different industries definitely gave me the tools and skills to be able to create efficient social strategies aimed at different target audiences. Really helped me think outside the box with campaigns 🤘

Made some awesome friends there too! ❤️

SEO Analyst

Colewood Internet

In the final part of my time at Colewood and my apprenticeship, I was given more of a social role. I had the chance to run campaigns for brands like etyres and Belvisi. Belvisi was particularly interesting as it was my first time running a social strategy on Pinterest. Being a furniture brand they had huge success on there and I learnt a lot.

Nothing but good things to speak of Colewood. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there and I'm grateful for the opportunity they gave me to finish my apprenticeship.

Social Media & Digital Marketing Executive

I first started Colewood where I left off at Colehouse (From one Cole to another, I know right 😅), but slowly transitioned to helping out with SEO and writing articles. It was actually super useful and interesting as this was my first look into SEO and that side of marketing. I was also super fortunate to work with RAC and etyres and their product titles and descriptions.

I also wrote weekly blogs for clients such as Asda Tyres and Jasmine Silk, which was my first crack at writing long-form content. It was a great experience and actually proved to work well 😄

Digital Marketing Executive

Colehouse Communications 

I started my career at Colehouse as a digital marketing executive. Massive love to them, as this is where my passion for marketing began and I gained all the basic and necessary skills needed to keep progressing in the industry.

Examples of work that I had produced in my time there were; creating imagery for YouTube thumbnails and podcasts for OddsMonkey, creating efficient social strategies in the lead up to events such as TEDxNewcastle, TEDxManchester, TEDxLiverpool, Thinking Digital & BIMShow Live, managed to get TEDxNewcastle to No.6 trending on Twitter.

👋 Hi there, I'm Jordan, an Account Manager at Mediaworks & Founder of OurMFC

As you can see from my experience below, my background is in marketing as a whole, but now more around helping businesses grow and scale online through different forms of marketing. However, I'm a huge advocate for health and wellbeing, physical and mental, so you'll be seeing more of that in my content.

Throughout my marketing journey so far, I've had the pleasure of working with some amazing brands such as; TEDx Newcastle (getting the hashtag trending #6 on Twitter 😉), Manchester & Liverpool, Thinking Digital, OddsMonkey, RAC, etyres, Asda Tyres, JDM Earth, Evergreen Direct, British Beds, Whitman Industrial, Power of Women and met some amazing and inspirational people.

Oh and I started my own brand, OurMFC, what a whirlwind so far ey? 🌪️

Going forward I'm looking to continue growing and learning in this space helping businesses shine a light on their digital strategies and seeing how we can help them grow. See you at the top! 🚀

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