Our History
It’s fair to say that the origin of OUT Consulting Group is the career path of our co-founder Guilherme Pinto … for the purpose of this history at least, if we start with Big Bang we risk missing the point. We´ll share it in first person.
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In 2019 I resigned from my role at Marriott in the UAE. Not a bad time to resign after winning best commercial team and best sales individual results for Middle East and Africa for Marriott (more than 1 hotel in the region. Pinkie Promise). I worked in some of the top hotel brands before this, from Walt Disney World Resorts to Starwood, Meliá, Hyatt and Viceroy.
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For many great reasons, I came back home (Portugal) with my family and opened a consultancy company. Not the most “risk it all entrepreneurship” start as I had a nice consultancy project agreed with Manchester City beforehand. This project was the start, it was followed by many others top tier engagements, from Formula 1 and MotoGP to hotel restructures and creation of new brands.
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From our early contact with independent owners, we were able to understand that the abnormal year on year growth we brought to our partners, was a reflection of lack of commercial resources and talent pool. This was definitely a need for us to address. And so the idea of OUT CG started to unfold.
Disclaimer: If you like it, we should grab a coffee and talk about it. If you didn't like but were interested enough to read it to the end, we should grab a coffee talk about it.
Empowering independent hotels
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Sales Team
3
Marketing Team
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Revenue Team
100's
Strong Team above Property Commercial Support
This was the size of my proactive commercial team on the last multinational hotel brand property I managed.
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And that is where we add value!
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Our Outstanding team has the talent, reach and knowledge to outperform competitors who do not currently have the resources to actively manage an ever changing commercial landscape.
Thinking OUT of the box
Our model reflects our way.
White Label
Your company, your brand.
Our focus, drive and talent is commercial enablement. We boost the brand you built and manage.
Shared risk
Win together!
Yes ... we do have the traditional consultancy fee based model BUT our big preference is to join exciting projects with joint ownership.
Investment
We invest or work via our investor network to access capital needed to scale.
Talent
We work with the best in the industry.
We´re office based, remote, hybrid, full time, part time, freelance, partnerships ... if it ensures we have the best talent working together, we´re there!
Venture House
Most of the time we work with established companies. The best in what they do on the field, circuit or property. We accelerate their commercial growth.
We do have a venture studio as well, where we build brands for tomorrow.
Want to be the best, work with the very best.
Here are some of our current and past client and partners
