Founder profile
Carlos Pascual Adell
Founder of Singular Beacon and The Beacon Holding. A mining engineer who moved from strategy consulting and data analytics to helping companies go digital.
About me
Carlos Pascual Adell
Mining Engineer specialising in energy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Founding partner and director of Singular Beacon, a company specialised in digitalisation.
He worked as a project engineer in London and then as a consultant and team lead in Madrid, first in strategy and later in analytics and BI, across banking, oil and gas, automotive and retail. He led BI and analytics for the HR area of a retail company with more than 100,000 employees.
He is a full member of the Spanish Society for Academic Excellence, a member of the COIMCE professional association and a certified Microsoft and Odoo partner.
- Price elasticity model to optimise discounts and margin in the sales season.
- Customer segmentation with enriched RFM models.
- BI reporting for management: budget control, supplier contribution and WSSI.
- Point-of-sale transformation: active selling, supplier negotiation and efficient assortment.
Career
From engineering to data
Mining Engineer
Graduates from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, specialising in energy and fuels, and joins the COIMCE professional association.
London
Project engineer at Schneider Electric. In November he founds Digital Branding Ltd in London.
Strategy and analytics
Consultant and team lead at Altair Management Consultants: strategy, advanced analytics and BI.
Singular Beacon
Founds Singular Beacon in November. That year he becomes a full member of the Spanish Society for Academic Excellence.
- Today
The Beacon Holding
Founder of the group that includes Singular Beacon, Singular Works and Nuestras Causas.
Today
Where he is now
Singular Beacon
Founder and director of the digitalization consultancy: data, processes, Odoo and Microsoft.
The Beacon Holding
Founder of the group that brings together consulting, content, observatories and social causes.
Singular Works
Hosts Outstarting and Polemizando, and produces Profesionales Excepcionales.
Nuestras Causas
Drives the group's charity initiative, including the charity gala against cancer.
Wellbeing Observatory
Co-founder of the observatory, built on Singular Beacon's technology and analytics.
LasTop100 judge
Member of the judging panel of LasTop100 Women Leaders in Spain.
Talks and media
Carlos Pascual Adell, live on stage
What he writes
His ideas, on his blog
On Pensamientos (“Thoughts”) he writes about business, technology and what he learns along the way. His founder's letter explains why Singular Beacon exists.