Sebastian is an executive, designer, multi channel retail leader, investor and creative mind at the intersection of design, art, culture, technology and business strategy, with a simple artistic eye and methodology.

Across his career, he’s been a driving creative force, accelerator and team player for growth, innovation and imagination behind multi-billion-dollar businesses and esteemed global brands.

Sebastian holds savvy technical, tactical and operational merchandising, product and brand development expertise in the fields of specialty fashion, lifestyle, consumer and home.

He’s a dynamic and hands-on value driven human that loves to roll up his sleeves to help build modern brands, inspired teams and global businesses powered by authenticity, purpose, social & environmental consciousness, inclusivity, partnerships, collaboration and the joy of living & creating.

He is committed to operationalizing creative thinking, analytics, tech & research to drive human centric design that inspires and is transformational; delivering long term sustainable growth, brand value and revenue as an engine for good of people & planet.

His work has been published by Vogue, The New York Times, Forbes, Architectural Digest, Fast Company, Bloomberg, House Beautiful, Business of Home, Interior Design and more.

As the SVP of Product for Crate & Barrel and Crate & Kids, he restructured the brand’s product functions and built the company’s first in-house design team, and leads a team of creatives, designers and experts as they create and curate product, customer experiences and brand collaborations that add beauty and value to the lives of citizens globally, helping carry the 60 year old legacy of their founders to inspire people to build a home with beauty and purpose.
In his post he led the end to end product transformation and product positioning being part of the team that delivered record setting growth of +1B over three years.

As head of Metaverse and Web 3.0 for Crate and Barrel Holdings, he is tasked to learn, educate, strategize, engage, envision and help lead the company into this new dimension.

As a Latin American Angel Investor he’s passionate about emerging tech and startups in LatAm, and supporting the region’s growth and transformation with pre-seed and early stage funding.

He is still a work in progress, curious about the world around him and very much enjoying the ride of work and life and always open to connect, share and collaborate.