Speakers
Hugo Cornejo
Meet Hugo Cornejo, a Madrid-born tech enthusiast and entrepreneur.
Trained as a software engineer and interaction designer, Hugo moved to London in late 2014, driven by his passion for early-stage projects. A few months later, he joined Monzo as their first designer and founding member.
During his six-year tenure at Monzo, Hugo designed the product and the iconic hot coral card as an individual contributor and built and led a 30-strong team encompassing product design, brand, and research in his role as VP of Design.
In 2021, Hugo embraced a new challenge by co-founding Packfleet, a B-Corp status, zero-emissions, high-quality delivery company that’s making waves in London with its fleet of electric vans, thoughtfully designed product, and exceptional team of drivers.
When he isn’t leading design and product at Packfleet, Hugo advises startups, mentors the next generation of innovators, and enjoys exploring London. He’s married to artist Lucia Soto (https://luciasoto.com), and harbours a firm belief that he will one day become a Wimbledon champion, despite having played tennis for just one year.
About the talk
Growing Design at Monzo
In 2015 the team started Monzo with a dream: making money work for everyone. Hugo was the only designer in the company so would design everything (which is crazy when you think about it!). Output quality and bandwidth were quite limited, but as a positive design consistency and communication were great!
Today, with around 1 million customers, Monzo has scaled their design team to more than a dozen brilliant people. They've learned so much during that process and have had time to reflect on how interesting it is that teams can get used to seeing processes breaking miserably every six months! Near misses here and there, unexpected mistakes, soul-searching and also a couple of lucky successes. Hugo will be sharing his journey this all while making sense about what's next!
He'll also drop a joke or two, just to check you're paying attention.