About us

yl consulting Inc.

We are a boutique business development and project management consulting firm. Our methodology adheres to the guidelines of the Agile Project Management philosophy. We have a team of professionals that work remotely between Miami and Madrid, with business acumen in leading challenging projects in different industries related to launching new ventures, business development, financial analysis, and economic strategic planning.

YL Consulting Inc.
YL Consulting Strategic Boutique Consulting Firm

Why are we different? We work to make a change in society by offering the best consulting practices to empower our clients. We have worked on business projects in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean during the last eight years, providing advisory, consulting, mentoring, and support services.

Our Mission

We are deeply committed to helping small-sized companies and entrepreneurs to build a profitable business and replicable, flexible, and sustainable model aligned with a social purpose.

Our Vision

We want to be the trusted consultants of business owners and start-ups, bringing solutions to ensure their venture goals.

Social impact and sustainability

  • Our commitment to generating social impact is implicit in each of the links in our value chain. We are focused on continuous improvement, respecting, and promoting development in our ecosystem.
  • We work with our clients to develop an innovative value proposition for a flexible, replicable, and sustainable business model, identifying growth opportunities that positively impact society and the environment.
  • We mentor entrepreneurs in their initial stage to empower and identify scalable and sustainable solutions.
  • We increase our productivity by working in sustainable or eco-friendly spaces. We promote creativity and well-being to reduce our carbon footprint. So, all our reports are delivered in digital format, and we offer our services online.
  • We work under business alliances that contribute to sustainable and economic growth.

“YL Consulting team have been a turning point for our business. We are in the service industry and it was easy for us to get lost in our cost structure. We were overwhelmed, tired and we didn't know where to start. They help us re-structure our services for them to be profitable. Everything starts to make sense. Also, as they are a boutique consulting firm, you get personalized service which is very helpful and generates reliability. Now, we are so grateful to work with them as an ally.”

Cristina Delgado — Founder of Bungaloo - Agency
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“YL Consulting is a needle in a haystack consulting firm. The time they invested in understanding my product and creating my strategy by my side, reminded me what personalization is really about. Besides, they made it all clearer for my proceedings regarding my businesses plan. The results talk by themselves.”

Yleana Ketchum — Health Coach, Speaker and writer.  Founder of Vive la Buena Vida después de los 50
We build business

core values

Confidence

Building relationships with our clients, partners, and allies based on trust, respecting their ideas and organizational culture with a proactive approach towards business goals.

Commitment

We work with enthusiasm and persistence to solve client's issues to develop their entrepreneurship or new business project.

Ethics

We facilitate customer learning by sharing tools that allow them to make the best decisions according to their industry regulations.

Excellence

We work by focusing on improving our clients' value proposition, promoting the highest standards in managing their projects, and delivering results on time to respond to their concerns.

Innovation

We create unique and original customized solutions to each venture project.

Leadership

As solutions designers, we communicate clearly what our client needs to do, providing recommendations to drive the action plan, and develop a profitable business.

Social Impact

We analyze each project's core business model to align ourselves with the corresponding  Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG's ) and define how their value proposition can impact the community economically, socially, and environmentally.

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our team

YL Consulting Inc.

YARMELI LARES

30+ years | Early-stage and scale-up businesses | Board & CEO Advisory | Operational Turnaround | Business and Project Management Consultant.

Yarmeli is a visionary, performance-driven strategist with over 30 years of executive leadership and consulting experience across different services industries. Her strength spans high growth environments and turnaround situations, ranging from an early stage, project management and venture start-ups.

Yarmeli also has served in CEO, senior executive, on Board capacities in a wide range of business development and Oil & Gas consulting enterprises, construction firms, Non-Profits Organizations, and the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce of the United States (VACC). She is an Advisory Panel Member of the Customer Experience Program at the University of Houston Bauer Business College. For three years, she was also a mentor at the Business School of the University of Miami. Her deep operational experience, strategic leadership, business and corporate development, project management, and alliance brought successful results, optimizing the stakeholder's value.

Alvaro Calvo YL Consulting

Alvaro Calvo

5+ years |Financial Modeling and Execution | Startup Management |Business Financial Consulting | Co-Founder & CFO at Cooking Hub.

Alvaro is a strategic leader with over five years of financial planning, corporate finance, and project finance experience. Throughout Alvaro's career, he has successfully worked on projects seeking to raise over $100 M in capital.

Alvaro has served as a board of directors and financial management consultant for start-ups, including his role at YL CONSULTING Inc. and COOKING HUB, as Co-founder and Chief Financial Officer. Drawing upon operational and investment experience at start-ups and scale-up businesses, Alvaro has created methodologies to help entrepreneurs build scalable and fundable solutions – accelerating its organic growth.

Francisco Arocha  YL Consulting

francisco arocha

25+ years | International Business Development | Capital Raising | Head of Investor Relations | Hospitality, Sports and Real Estate Management Consultant | Crisis Management Consultant  | Founder of Pont Ventures

Francisco is an entrepreneur with a solid knowledge of the evolution of the Hospitality, Food & Beverage, and Sports industries. He has accumulated more than 25 years of experience leading the development of projects in Latin American and the United States markets. He has raised and managed projects valued at more than $250 M throughout his professional career.

Francisco has also served as CEO and member of the board of directors in several hotels of recognized international brands, professional baseball teams, and exclusive restaurants. Francisco holds several degrees, including MBAs from Columbia University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a DESS from the Universite Pantheon Sorbonne in Paris.