Team
Meet our team
Navio (or nao in Old Spanish) was the primary ship used by early Spanish and Portuguese explorers during the Age of Discovery. The ships’ design made them ideal for navigating through uncharted waters to unknown territories.
Just like the navios of old, we help clients navigate the challenges of a transformation. With multi-disciplinary expertise from technology to store management, we help you build and lead programs to drive transformation and fuel growth.
Carlos D. Castelán
Founder & Managing Director
Before founding The Navio Group, Carlos was a Partner & Chief Strategy Officer at Conlego, a premier negotiations and … partnership firm. There he advised on growth strategy …
Kate McDonald
Senior Principal
Kate is a former Principal in Target Corporation’s corporate strategy group in Minneapolis, MN …
Jadesola Arowolo
Senior Analyst
Before joining The Navio Group, Jadesola built her career in retail in merchandising and operations roles at Office Depot and …
Stefan A. Castelán
Head of Marketing Practice
Stefan is the Head of Marketing Practice at The Navio Group and holds a B.A. from Stanford University. Before joining Navio, he was the first marketer at DataFox and helped scale it for five years until its acquisition by Oracle.
Blog
Three initiatives to strengthen your omnichannel experience in a lean fashion
You can elevate your organization’s capacity to serve customers in an omnichannel fashion through a few select initiatives. We will tell you some of the
Navigating the rest of 2022: How to be greedy when others are fearful
Many of you have likely heard legendary investor Warren Buffett’s old adage about investing: “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others
Avoid going a-SKU of your customers with these three pillars of omnichannel fulfillment
In an apparent reversal of the post-pandemic “new normal,” retailer inventory levels are slowly rising again amid a variety of factors, including inflation, some consumer slowdown
