Coaching Service

Daniel Romero

Daniel completed the Lic&MBA programme at Esade in 1992.

He has financial experience as CFO of various business groups, both in Spain (Barcelona and Palma) and abroad (France, Italy, Germany and the United States).

He built his career at Spanish companies such as Agrolimen (JoyCo Group, Eat Out and Gallina Blanca divisions), Ferrer Internacional and the Werfen Group, as well as at American corporations (Wrigley’s) and German multinationals (TUI AG) in the consumer-goods, pharmaceutical, medical-devices and tourism sectors. He currently serves as Finance Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Zimmer Biomet Dental.

He has a broad view of business, having served as an executive not only in finance but also in other corporate areas, including human resources, IT, internal auditing and legal.

Over the years, he has been a member and secretary of the boards of several holding companies. In this capacity, he developed skills in shareholder relationship management at wholly owned enterprises as well as at joint ventures and private-equity-owned companies.

Daniel Romero

Daniel completed the Lic&MBA programme at Esade in 1992.

He has financial experience as CFO of various business groups, both in Spain (Barcelona and Palma) and abroad (France, Italy, Germany and the United States).

He built his career at Spanish companies such as Agrolimen (JoyCo Group, Eat Out and Gallina Blanca divisions), Ferrer Internacional and the Werfen Group, as well as at American corporations (Wrigley’s) and German multinationals (TUI AG) in the consumer-goods, pharmaceutical, medical-devices and tourism sectors. He currently serves as Finance Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Zimmer Biomet Dental.

He has a broad view of business, having served as an executive not only in finance but also in other corporate areas, including human resources, IT, internal auditing and legal.

Over the years, he has been a member and secretary of the boards of several holding companies. In this capacity, he developed skills in shareholder relationship management at wholly owned enterprises as well as at joint ventures and private-equity-owned companies.

Daniel Romero

Daniel completed the Lic&MBA programme at Esade in 1992.

He has financial experience as CFO of various business groups, both in Spain (Barcelona and Palma) and abroad (France, Italy, Germany and the United States).

He built his career at Spanish companies such as Agrolimen (JoyCo Group, Eat Out and Gallina Blanca divisions), Ferrer Internacional and the Werfen Group, as well as at American corporations (Wrigley’s) and German multinationals (TUI AG) in the consumer-goods, pharmaceutical, medical-devices and tourism sectors. He currently serves as Finance Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Zimmer Biomet Dental.

He has a broad view of business, having served as an executive not only in finance but also in other corporate areas, including human resources, IT, internal auditing and legal.

Over the years, he has been a member and secretary of the boards of several holding companies. In this capacity, he developed skills in shareholder relationship management at wholly owned enterprises as well as at joint ventures and private-equity-owned companies.

Francisco Calvo

Francisco works as Head of Investments and Business Opportunities at BCC Grupo Cajamar Banca Privada.

He has more than 20 years of experience in finance and asset management. He has held various positions, including Director of Investee Companies and Joint Ventures, General Manager of SGIIC, CFO, Investment Fund Manager and Auditor of Financial Institutions at companies such as Cajamar, March Asset Management and EY.

His areas of expertise are asset management, business management and development, mergers and acquisitions, and team leadership.

Francisco Calvo

Francisco works as Head of Investments and Business Opportunities at BCC Grupo Cajamar Banca Privada.

He has more than 20 years of experience in finance and asset management. He has held various positions, including Director of Investee Companies and Joint Ventures, General Manager of SGIIC, CFO, Investment Fund Manager and Auditor of Financial Institutions at companies such as Cajamar, March Asset Management and EY.

His areas of expertise are asset management, business management and development, mergers and acquisitions, and team leadership.

Francisco Calvo

Francisco works as Head of Investments and Business Opportunities at BCC Grupo Cajamar Banca Privada.

He has more than 20 years of experience in finance and asset management. He has held various positions, including Director of Investee Companies and Joint Ventures, General Manager of SGIIC, CFO, Investment Fund Manager and Auditor of Financial Institutions at companies such as Cajamar, March Asset Management and EY.

His areas of expertise are asset management, business management and development, mergers and acquisitions, and team leadership.

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Rocío Reol Olano

Activa, versátil, multilingüe, orientada a resultados y con visión holística de empresa. Mentalidad abierta y bien estructurada, organizada y planificadora. Alta capacidad de comunicación y de adaptación a los entornos empresariales y sociales cambiantes. Visión del negocio, rigurosa, con capacidad para la gestión de personas y acostumbrada a la toma de decisiones. Experiencia demostrable en empresas de distintos sectores en todas las áreas económico-financieras.

Rocío Reol Olano

Activa, versátil, multilingüe, orientada a resultados y con visión holística de empresa. Mentalidad abierta y bien estructurada, organizada y planificadora. Alta capacidad de comunicación y de adaptación a los entornos empresariales y sociales cambiantes. Visión del negocio, rigurosa, con capacidad para la gestión de personas y acostumbrada a la toma de decisiones. Experiencia demostrable en empresas de distintos sectores en todas las áreas económico-financieras.

Rocío Reol Olano

Activa, versátil, multilingüe, orientada a resultados y con visión holística de empresa. Mentalidad abierta y bien estructurada, organizada y planificadora. Alta capacidad de comunicación y de adaptación a los entornos empresariales y sociales cambiantes. Visión del negocio, rigurosa, con capacidad para la gestión de personas y acostumbrada a la toma de decisiones. Experiencia demostrable en empresas de distintos sectores en todas las áreas económico-financieras.

Juan Maria Massons

Joan Maria holds a Bachelor in Business Studies and an MBA from Esade, a Bachelor in Economics from the University of Córdoba and a PhD in Business Administration from Ramon Llull University. He won the 2012 ACCID Award for Academic Excellence. He is a member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors. He has taught finance at Esade since 1966 and has been a guest lecturer at several universities in Spain and abroad. He has published six books on financial analysis and strategy. His seventh book is set to be published shortly. He works as a consultant on finance and business strategy. He provides advice to management teams. He sits on several boards and is a consultant to various general assembles.

Juan Maria Massons

Joan Maria holds a Bachelor in Business Studies and an MBA from Esade, a Bachelor in Economics from the University of Córdoba and a PhD in Business Administration from Ramon Llull University. He won the 2012 ACCID Award for Academic Excellence. He is a member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors. He has taught finance at Esade since 1966 and has been a guest lecturer at several universities in Spain and abroad. He has published six books on financial analysis and strategy. His seventh book is set to be published shortly. He works as a consultant on finance and business strategy. He provides advice to management teams. He sits on several boards and is a consultant to various general assembles.

Juan Maria Massons

Joan Maria holds a Bachelor in Business Studies and an MBA from Esade, a Bachelor in Economics from the University of Córdoba and a PhD in Business Administration from Ramon Llull University. He won the 2012 ACCID Award for Academic Excellence. He is a member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors. He has taught finance at Esade since 1966 and has been a guest lecturer at several universities in Spain and abroad. He has published six books on financial analysis and strategy. His seventh book is set to be published shortly. He works as a consultant on finance and business strategy. He provides advice to management teams. He sits on several boards and is a consultant to various general assembles.

Jaime Calatayud

Extensive experience in the financial sector, passionate about planning and financial advice and everything that involves innovation in the financial sector.

Jaime Calatayud

Extensive experience in the financial sector, passionate about planning and financial advice and everything that involves innovation in the financial sector.

Jaime Calatayud

Extensive experience in the financial sector, passionate about planning and financial advice and everything that involves innovation in the financial sector.

Mónica Muñoz

Mónica is a co-founder and partner at The Innova Room©, a strategic consulting firm specialised in the tourism industry (hotels, restaurants and leisure). The Innova Room builds bridges between business and design, always with a focus on innovation. Its projects range from market and feasibility studies to the development of new lines of business, improving the user experience and market repositioning.

Mónica holds a Master in Architecture from the University of Navarra, an MBA from Esade and a Postgraduate Degree in Cultural Management from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).

Over the course of more than 20 years, she has built her corporate career at multinational companies in various sectors, including hotels (NH Hotels), food and beverages (Heineken), architecture, engineering and consulting (IDOM International).

In 2010, she founded The Innova Room, where together with her partner she works on projects in Spain, Europe and Latin America. She is also a co-founder of other innovative ventures, including Mona & Leo Sustainable Lifestyle (a certified natural cosmetics brand) and INPULSA (an entrepreneurship and training network for the promotion of senior employment).

Multifaceted and committed to sharing knowledge, Mónica regularly contributes to media outlets, universities, business schools and professional forums on the subjects of innovation, design, tourism and entrepreneurship.

Juan Manuel Peña

Ha dedicado su amplia vida profesional al sector de la salud y de los hospitales, y ha tenido la oportunidad de trabajar en la gerencia de hospitales, la consultoría hospitalaria a escala nacional e internacional, la gestión integral de proyectos de nuevos centros asistenciales en Europa, África, Asia y América, y la gestión de empresas proveedoras de servicios para el diseño, la construcción, el equipamiento, el mantenimiento y la operación de hospitales. 

Xavier López

Xavier has held senior management positions in the industrial, logistics and textile sectors. He gained professional experience by purchasing and managing companies. His main areas of interest are logistics and the transformation of operations. He is passionate about innovation and the implementation of new processes in companies.

Olivia Bosch

Communications & Brand Director en Esade Alumni.

Con más de 15 años de experiencia en el sector digital y en marketing online, Olivia ha ocupado diversos puestos dentro de la organización de Esade Alumni, hasta llegar a dirigir el área de comunicación digital.

Su área de experiencia, tras haber trabajado varios años en el área digital dirigiendo grandes proyectos como CRM, se centra en la comunicación automatizada, el marketing basado en datos y la identidad de marca.

Es licenciada en Periodismo, Executive Master in Digital Business en Esade en el 2015 y estancia en Silicon Valley en 2016.

Ana Puig Palomar

I guide individuals and teams in personal and group development processes and help organisations with a genuine desire to improve. I develop their leadership capacity and personal and interpersonal skills to enable them to achieve the best results as a team sustainably over time. I have more than 25 years of experience in management, having held business-management positions at various national and international companies.

Session languages: Spanish, Catalan and English

Main certifications:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Coaches Training Institute
• Leadership Certification, The Leadership Circle
• Relational Styles – Bridge
   

Carlos de Barnola Torres

Specialities:

• Ontological executive coaching. This approach enables coachees to tackle the challenges they face in areas such as their relationship with particular subjects, their family, their boss or their organisation. Through speech acts, this approach allows them to confront false beliefs and overcome fears and self-limitations, making it a very powerful instrument of change and development. This approach helps coachees deal with challenges in various real-life situations, including work, team relationships, intimate relationships and parent-child relationships. 
• Systemic coaching. This approach is used to delve into difficult situations in the coachee’s professional context. It enables teams to evolve into high-performance teams, generating dynamics that facilitate the establishment of relational objectives, rules of conduct and levels of rigour within the team. 

 
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and Catalan
 
Certifications: 

• Associate Certified Coach (ICF/EEC) 
• ATC (ICF/EEC)
   

Adela Ureta

Adela holds a Bachelor in Law and an Executive MBA from Esade. She has a rich background, thanks to more than 20 years in different human-resources roles.

She currently serves as General Manager of People at Saint-Gobain for Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Algeria, where she has a clear focus on improving employee and customer experiences with the company.

She is dedicated to working for and with people, committed to promoting the human-resources strategy at all levels of the organisation and leading the transformation policy to make the company more agile, digital, open and customer-centric.

Igor Nishimura’s Ikigai

Mr. Igor Nishimura’s Ikigai is to democratize access to learning, creation and self-development through entrepreneurship, innovation and technology, helping people to understand how business, investment and culture/essence work, interconnect and impact our lives, so that everyone can make better decisions and accomplish their objectives/purposes.

Igor holds a Bachelor’s degree from EAESP-FGV with major in Corporate Finance & International Management, a CEMS Master of Science in International Management @ ESADE Barcelona and @ HEC Paris, an Executive Education @ Harvard Business School with focus in Private Equity and Venture Capital and an Executive Education @ Singularity University. He was also a Board Member of CEMS Alumni Association and its Treasurer, being awarded as the CEMS Alumnus of the Year in 2013. He was Board Member of exGV (EAESP-FGV Alumni Association), President of ESADE Alumni Association (Chapter Brazil) and a member at Harvard Angels of Brazil and HEC Paris Alumni Association.

Igor has lived abroad for more than 12 years, accumulating a broad international and diversified industry experience. He held positions in blue-chip companies such as Fininvest-Unibanco (BR), Unilever Bestfoods (BR), ECS Elitegroup (ES), L'Oréal Madrid (ES), Ferrari-Maserati West Europe (FR), BNP Paribas (FR), SAP (DE) and UBS Wealth Management and Investment Bank (CH, BS, UK and US).

Currently he is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ MAGNET Venture Capital (Proprietary Impact Investment Fund), Board Member @ InTaxi Media (MediaTech), Co-Founder & Board Member @ Kodo Interactive (EdTech), Co-Founder & Board Member @ Academy FW|10 (Venture Builder), Financial Advisory Board @ AUDEN Educacional (EdTech) and Co-Founder & Board Member @ CBKK (Socio-environmental Impact Investment with initial focus in the Amazon Rainforest).

In terms of Philanthropy, Mr. Nishimura was a Latin America Philanthropy Circle Member @ Synergos and was a Founder Member @ NEB (Nikkey Empreendedores do Brasil).

SPECIALTIES:
Venture Capital / Impact Investments / Entrepreneurship, Capital Raise (Club Deals, Private Placements, Secondary Sale), Wealth Management (UHNW Clients & Global Family Offices), Investment Bank (Concentrated Equity Stake - Origination & Structuring), Margin
Loans, Fund Structuring.

Kelly Pettersen

Kelly Pettersen is Global Head of Business Development, Sales and Marketing at Lendingblock, an institutionally focused cryptocurrency lending firm based in London, UK. Prior to joining Lendingblock, Kelly oversaw European Marketing for BNY Mellon’s largest revenue generating business, Asset Servicing. Earlier, Kelly held various strategic marketing roles at Macquarie in New York and London. Kelly started her career at BMO Capital Markets. 

Kelly is an executive with over 10 years of international experience helping companies of all sizes achieve growth. She has a track record building innovative tech start-ups with a focus on fintech and has led multi-million-dollar strategic projects and transformational marketing and sales-driven initiatives in the finance and banking sector. Kelly is a valued and sought-after advisor to start-ups, on topics across the entire business lifecycle ranging from fundraising and product market fit through to go-to-market strategy and scaling operations. Kelly is an endlessly curious person, with an open mind and passion for diversity and for how technology can positively shape the future of the financial industry.

Kelly is a former US collegiate student athlete completing her undergraduate degree at Providence College. She is currently living in London, UK and earned her Executive MBA from Esade Business & Law School in Spain. 
 

Mercedes Sancho

Con 20 años de trayectoria corporativa en Dirección y Desarrollo de Personas, principalmente en el sector asegurador, en la actualidad es mentora y coach para el desarrollo y la transformación cultural de las organizaciones. Socia-directora de Knosis y co-fundadora de Leading People®, es PCC por la ICF, miembro activo en asociaciones de Business Mentoring y Coaching para el Liderazgo, y especialista en gestión de carreras. Desde 2011 colabora con ESADE como Career Coach y Advisor.

Javier Bécares Barbosa

I use executive coaching tools to help people who want to give their career a boost to develop their potential and achieve challenging goals.

I work with entrepreneurs, executives and Family-Business owners in processes of generational change and in situations of family/company conflict.

I help teams that want to reach a higher performance level by working on their cohesion, engagement, communication and productivity.

My training and experience as a civil engineer and MBA have enabled me to develop a down-to-earth coaching style with concrete, measurable objectives and results.

Languages: Spanish and English

Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation

Josep Solé Pié

Graduado en ADE por ESADE y experiencia académica en la universidad norteamericana de Emory University, estado de Georgia. 

Josep inició su carrera en el departamento de Transacciones de Deloitte Barcelona como analista focalizándose en la reestructuración de empresas, asesoramiento de deuda y servicios de creación de valor para empresas. Durante la carrera universitaria, realizó prácticas en banca comercial de BBVA y en el departamento de estrategia y trade marketing de Reckitt Benckisser. 

Es un amante del baloncesto, deporte que sigue practicando actualmente en Liga EBA, y que paralelamente a su carrera profesional en el mundo empresarial, le ayuda a mantener y reforzar su carácter de grupo, competitividad y responsabilidad.  

Claudia Muñoz Fresquet

Miembro de la Junta del Club de Finanzas desde 2021 y Presidente de la Comisión Young desde septiembre de 2020. Ha dedicado la mayor parte de su carrera profesional a las finanzas y a la consultoría.

A parte de su título en ESADE, tiene un Máster en Finanzas Corporativas y diversos títulos en innovación social y medioambiental (lleva a cabo diversos proyectos pro-bono para diversas organizaciones nacionales e internacionales). 

Con una amplia experiencia internacional (1 año en Colombia y 2 años en Chile),  actualmente trabaja en BNP Paribas CIB - Group Finance, especializada en Guarantees & Facilities de EMEA, localizada en Madrid.

Francisco Javier Loperena

Javier es un apasionado por las últimas tecnologías, la creación de impacto mediante estrategias corporativas que creen valor a largo plazo para la sociedad así como la evolución de los mercados financieros y de una economía cada vez más interconectada. Actual alumno del último año del grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas en ESADE,está realizando su program exchange en la Washington University en San Luis. Ha estado colaborando en proyectos de consultoría con instituciones y empresas como la ONG Clinton Health Access Initiative, el Clúster de Servicios Financieros de Ecuador o el grupo de restauración americano Niche Food Group. 

Ramon Garcia Gay

Ramon has been extensively involved in values education, strategy, digital platforms and socially responsible investment.

He is a board member or trustee for several non-governmental organisations, including the Esplai Foundation, the Adsis Foundation and Acció Solidària Contra l’Atur. He founded Spain’s first socially responsible investment fund, which is currently managed by CaixaBank.

He has served as general administrator of Esade and director of the Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Science in Management programmes.

Before spending the last 20 years at Esade, his long career included stints as Project Director at Oxfam Intermon and Director of Internal Management at Esteve Química.

He directs the Programme for Discerning Leadership, which is organised by the Curia of the Society of Jesus and designed for senior executives of the Vatican and Catholic religious institutions.

Martino Nogueira Canle

Gerente de Museo de Arte Contemporáneo.  Mi experiencia se ha desarrollado en las áreas de control financiero además del estudio de procesos y operaciones en el sector servicios en Pymes y multinacionales.

Riccardo Bacchini

Ricardo holds a Bachelor in Labour Relations from the University of the Latin American Educational Centre (UCEL). He continued his training in labour relations at Garrigues and studied marketing and sales at Esade. He is also a co-active coach. Over the past 28 years, he has built his career in human resources at large multinationals. Since 2015, he has been the Director of Human Resources and Organisation at Volkswagen Spain. Over the years, he has driven the transformation of the company’s culture, mainly by promoting the development of leadership, female talent, work-life balance and well-being – four major issues that have always interested him and which he believes are fundamental for the development of talent in organisations.

Marta Guirao

Con más de 30 años de experiencia profesional, desde el año 2001 Marta ha venido ocupado posiciones de dirección en diferentes empresas tanto familiares como pertenecientes a grupos internacionales, que operan en diversos sectores como el de servicios, inmobiliario o la industria de alimentación y bebidas.

Desde sus comienzos en el departamento fiscal de PWC a principios de los años 90 y hasta su incorporación al grupo familiar El Enebro en 2018 como directora general, ha desarrollado su carrera fundamentalmente en el ámbito tributario y mercantil, liderando proyectos corporativos a nivel nacional e internacional.

Licenciada en Derecho y Master en Asesoría Fiscal de Empresas por el IE, en 2020 cursó el Programa de Consejeros (ESADE), compatibilizando en la actualidad su actividad laboral con sus responsabilidades como consejera independiente.

Rita Estévez

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Onofre Pascual

CEO Pabisa Hotels

Guillermo Valles

Director General en Saica Natur

Pedro Capitao

CEO of Hospitality business

Álvaro Cárcel

Bachelor and Master in Law from Esade. More than 10 years of experience in the field of executive talent, both in Spain and abroad. He currently serves as Director of Executive Search at Saltor Talent.

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Roanne Othman

Roanne works as a consultant with startups. Before enrolling in the MBA programme at Esade Business School (class of 2020), she acquired more than eight years of professional experience in multidisciplinary functions such as business and product development in e-commerce, retail and fashion, as well as account management in oil and gas. She has lived in seven countries so far and is passionate about new businesses, dogs and jazz.

Xienu Zhang

Xienu grew up in an island of Southeasten China and relocated to Beijing in 2011 for the undergraduate study. Currently she is working at China headquarter of a top-tier German automotive company, specialized in mobility strategy and digital transformation. 

Xienu holds dual master's degree of International Management and CEMS Master in Management from ESADE and bachelor's degree from University of International Business and Economics. She also studied at Ivey Business School and Autonomous University of Barcelona as exchange student.

Xienu is very warmhearted and open-minded. She loves traveling, musical theatre and cats. She has traveled to over 20 countries and enjoys communicating with people of diverse cultural backgrounds. She speaks Chinese, English and Spanish.

If you want to know more about Beijing or China, or grab a drink in Beijing, she is your person!

Miranda Fenoy

She is a graduate in Business Direction by Esade and Management by the University of Beijing. She is also a graduate of Psychology by UOC. She has been the first student to represent Esade on the international leadership program Future Leaders, which aims to form future global leaders with deep knowledge of China.

He has professional experience as a summer intern in investment banking in London (Goldman Sachs) and in strategic consultancy in Madrid (McKinsey ). Company). She will now be incorporated as a consultant into the offices of McKinsey . Company in New York.

Josuan Eguiluz Castañeira

Josuan holds a Bachelor in Law and ICT from the University of Deusto (2020). He completed the Double Master in Legal Practice + Intellectual Property, New Technologies and Data Protection at Esade Law School in 2021. He currently practises law in the Intellectual Property, New Technologies and Data Protection Department at Cuatrecasas and is a Legal Counsel Secondee at Adevinta.

Mercè Rius

With my extensive experience in executive recruitment and my knowledge of market needs, I help my clients face moments of professional transition – whether due to a job change or a promotion – by fostering knowledge of their own skills, interests and motivations, while also developing the most appropriate way to come across and persuade others.

Areas:

· Identification and development of competencies and leadership styles

· Professional transition

· Empowerment through self-awareness and control of strengths and motivations

Carlos Hernández Durán

Carlos Hernández Durán joined Uría Menéndez in 2018 and is a senior associate in the International Arbitration and Litigation Group in Madrid.

He has more than seven years of experience acting as a lawyer and arbitration secretary in commercial and investment-protection arbitration proceedings before various arbitral institutions and jurisdictions. He has experience working on cases subject to various legislations and related to different industrial sectors (construction, energy, engineering and telecommunications). He frequently represents multinational corporations and sovereign states in proceedings for recognition, enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards.

Before joining Uría Menéndez, he worked at another firm in Barcelona for three years.

His mother tongues are Spanish and Catalan, he is fluent in English and has a basic level of German

Ricardo Marquez

Trade Show Director

From México, Director of Alimentaria FoodTech and Alimentaria México in Fira Barcelona.

Sports business passionate, former president of the ESADE MBA Sports Business Club.

My instagram: @marqmx

Andrea Sala

Business Process Consultant Part of the Zurich chapter board and loving to see how we grow and mature y con mucha illusion de ayudar a mis companeros a desarrollar el chapter y de seguir formando parte de la "Esade community"!

Madre de 2 "pre-teens" y disfrutando de la vida en Suiza, el chocolate y las montanas :)

As a Business Process Consultant based in Zurich, and having developed my career in several multinationals, leading the delivery of complex business transformation programs across departments, industries and geographies, I am now enjoying a new career path as an consultant helping companies redesigning their processes with the aim of gaining efficiencies and effectiveness, riding the wave and enjoying meeting new people, continue to learn and stepping out of my comfort zone!

Maria Luisa Vila

María Luisa’s entire career has been dedicated to service companies in the tourist industry, inside a family  group. She started out as the managing director of Consultur, Consultores Turísticos S.A., a company in the Editur Group. She subsequently worked as the manager of the group’s central services and its CEO.

During the final stage of her career, she was the editor of trade publications and in charge of sales and distribution.

Yulia Mukhacheva

Yulia Mukhacheva is a Spanish corporate lawyer working in Barcelona.

Yulia is an active member in the Alumni network of ESADE Business School. She holds a  Master in International Business and Commercial  Law by ESADE Law School. Currently, she is preparing a  Master in International Taxation Law.  Her specialization is in the field of international private law, corporate and business investments as well as tax structuring. She participated in post graduate programs at the renowned Hague Academy of International Law in The Netherlands.

As an engaged volunteer in the “ESADE Alumni Giving Back project” she uses her professional skills to support family companies in developing countries in Latin America

Yulia’s spare time is dedicated to sports. Running is part of her daily routine and a perfect way to organize her working life. Her jogging shoes are always close at hand!  In summer time rafting and mountaineering in the Pyrenees are an excellent way to recharge her energy levels. She is fond of cutting-edge technological innovations and the latest computer gadgets.

Yulia works fluently in Spanish, Catalan, English and Russian.

Clare Zhong

Hallo, I’m Clare Zhong, from Shanghai, I have worked and studied in 4 different countries, including UK, Australia, Spain and of course my home country China. After graduated from MIM CEMS program I joined Bosch global emerging market headquarter as product manager.

I'm a people person, I enjoy spending time with family, friends and colleagues.  On my work, I’m committed, goal driving, and strategic minded. In my spare time, I love traveling, I do a lot of sports such as running, swimming, biking, archery and surfing.

Cristina Manchado Rubio

Cristina Manchado Rubio is an expert in Client Management, Marketing Communication and Sales. For more than 15 years, Cristina Manchado worked for Pharmaceutical companies, in the Healthcare sector, working in several key positions in Consumer Care / OTC Marketing Manager, Category and Purchasing Manager and Channel Manager.

Born in Barcelona, Cristina earned a Political Science Bachelor at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, a Master in Pharmaceutical Marketing Management in 2008 from EADA, an Executive Master in Marketing and Sales in 2006 from ESADE, and a Master in Corporate Communication and Digital Technologies in 2002 from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Before moving to Hamburg, Cristina worked in Spain for Pharmaceutical companies, leaders of branded Consumer Care distribution in Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Cristina is currently Partner Manager at Cargonexx Freight forwarder company in Germany. She is keen and determined on integrating the Chapter with the Alumni, and expand it. She would like to enrich the experience through get-togethers to exchange state-of-the-art business tendencies and entrepreneurship.

Pedro Cesar Galvan

Versatile and highly competent senior marketing VP and professional possessing more than 20 yearsof experience in managing director, CMO, CDO, growth hacker, COMMS, directing business development initiatives and in digital strategy and social media across Europe, Latin America, USA, Middle East, Africa and Asia regions. Significantly enhanced organizational reach and market share through the application of robust digital strategies, effective pricing and excellent client relationship management; transformed struggling units into vital, streamlined and growing businesses; also produced measurable year-on-year improvement under dynamic, shifting conditions and in downturn markets. Possesses solid management skills and the ability to analyze issues, devise continuous process improvements and incorporate initiatives to increase efficiency, streamline operations and decrease overall expenses with minimal resources. Besides Pedro has a proven track record on teaching marketing, sales and advertising for many years.

José Alberto Ramírez

José Alberto es un profesional con 25 años de experiencia en el sector automoción. Tras estudiar Derecho en la Universidad de Granada y realizar el MBA en Esade, se incorporó a Ford Credit desde donde inició su carrera en Ford Motor Company en diversos puestos de gerencia en el área comercial y de marketing. Con un intervalo de 8 años como Director de RACC en Andalucía, vuelve a trabajar en Ford en el área de Vehículos Industriales como responsable nacional de Vehículos Transformados.

Joan Colom

Joan holds a Bachelor in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Diploma in Public Health from Spain’s National School of Public Health, a Master in Management from Esade and a Master in Drug Dependence from the University of Barcelona.

He is Deputy Director General of Drug Dependence and Director of the Programme for the Prevention, Control and Care of HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Viral Hepatitis at the Catalan Health Department. He is a member of the inter-regional committee of the National Plan on Drugs and the regional coordinator of the National Plan on AIDS. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and a coordinator of various European Union projects.

He has authored more than 50 articles in Spanish and international journals in the field of drug addiction. He is also a co-author of all of Catalonia’s strategic plans on drugs. He has sat on more than 25 scientific committees.

He teaches in the Master in Drug Dependence at the University of Barcelona and has participated in many conferences and seminars both in Catalonia and Spain and abroad.

He has received several awards and recognitions, including the Reina Sofia Award for the Prevention of Drug Dependence, the Diario Médico Award for Best Research Initiative, the Recognition for Best European Policy on Alcohol from the Assembly of European Regions, the Ignasi Fina Award for Occupational Health, the Recognition of Best Practices on Gender Violence

and Drugs from the Spanish Ministry of Health and the Knowledge-Action-Change Paolo Pertica Award for Best Harm-Reduction Policy in the Field of Drug Dependence.

He currently serves as President of the Esade Alumni Public Management Club.

Andrea Boniardi

Passionate about sales management and business innovation. I worked 2 years as an Economist in international ONGs previously in Brussels and than in Milan with focus on data analysis and scenario evaluation. I changed industry in 2008 and I moved to Eni Retail Gas & Power to develop my expertise in Marketing & Sales and to acquire a sound experience of the Italian Retail Energy Market. My current position is Head of Campaign Operation.

In 2015 I graduated from the Executive Master in Marketing and Sales (EMMS), an international double degree program held by Sda Bocconi and ESADE Business School.

Since December 2015 I am Board Member of the ESADE Alumni Milan Chapter. 

Rolando Carrazco

Soci Director en iTLand

Executive with more than 15 years of experience. Currently I specialize in the adaptation of analog businesses to a digital environment, from the definition of strategy and process automation, to commercial support in the go-to-market strategy. I have implemented strategic projects in various industries: automotive, banking, microfinance, consulting, insurance, media, technology and education in Latin America. As a corporate executive, I have worked at all levels of business strategy, planning, development and growth in companies such as HSBC, Interbank, La Positiva and Pacífico Business School. I am passionate about teaching, I collaborate as a professor and postgraduate speaker in various business schools in Peru, Colombia and Central America.

Isla Ramos

Ramos Island born in Granada, studies course between Spain and England. Licensed by the Complutense in Business Administration and Senior Executive Program at ESADE.

Isla has developed her career in the technology sector, in companies such as IBM and Lenovo where she was the Director General. Since 2008, he developed an international career as a member of the Lenovo Steering Committee Europe Middle East and Africa. He has more than 10 years of experience in large Business Transformations, both from the digital point of view, as well as process optimization and post merger management. His areas of expertise are Technology, Transformation and International Management. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of a listed company, EZENTIS, and is currently a member of the Board of Save the Children. His great passions are education and the third sector, to which he is currently engaged.

Begoña Landazuri

Professional of more than 25 years in the management of Human Resources. Passion to live abroad and enjoy the multicultural experience. I have lived, so far, in Switzerland, Brazil, Canada and Spain. My work experience is very varied in terms of sectors in which I have worked being that I started in the pharmaceutical sector and I have known sectors such as Insurance, Telecommunications, Private Hospitals, Retail and Infrastructure and Energy. I currently work at Acciona for the Industrial and Concessions Divisions, leading the Human Resources Department. Always looking for new ways to learn, I am a professor at EOI, European University and I collaborate with ESADE in the People Management Club.

Gemma Sisó

Gemma is the Director of Marketing and a member of the Management Committee at Aramark. She has 25 years of experience in the food sector (consumer goods, retail and services), where she has worked for leading national and multinational companies. She has solid experience in marketing, retail, sales and purchasing. Gemma has a global vision of business and analytical capacity for decision-making. She is also proactive and used to leading multidisciplinary teams and working on international projects. She is interested in innovation and the digital transformation of companies. She is a key ambassador of EJE&CON Barcelona and currently coordinates the EngageMEN programme.

Gemma is a founding member of WERock Capital, a group of female business angels who invest in pre-seed/seed stage startups with at least one woman on the founding team. She received a scholarship take part in the Santander W50 Women on Boards programme at UCLA in 2019. A total of 42 such scholarships are awarded worldwide.

Alexandros Kazantzis

Currently EU Head of Capital Planning at Amazon; I have an electrical engineering background with experience in Construction.

Griselda Serra

Griselda started her career at HP, which is where she decided to reorient her career by studying at Esade. This would open the doors for her to work in the quality department and, later, in the purchasing department.

After 13 years, she decided to get a fresh start at another multinational, Henkel, where she still works today. She started out in the human resources department, where she managed payroll for a

factory. Gradually, she took on more and more responsibilities, until one day she was offered the position of Human Resources Manager – a position she has held for nearly 10 years.

In this capacity, she is responsible for strengthening the entire Henkel Iberia team by coordinating three pillars: HR Business Partners, which actively contributes to the business strategy and translates it into organisational and personal capabilities; Centres of Expertise, which drives strategic, innovative, efficient and competitive human-resources programmes and processes on the basis of business needs; and Human Resources Operations, which strives to offer the best service, continuously improve and develop more efficient processes.

At the local level, human resources acts as the main interface of a global organisation that drives execution through collaboration with business.

Daniel Sánchez

Daniel holds a Bachelor in Economics and an MBA from Esade, as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago.

He is a co-founder and general partner at Nauta Capital, a technology venture capital firm that was founded in Barcelona and currently has offices in London and Munich. He gained experience as an mergers and acquisitions consultant at Deloitte and as Deputy General Manager at Taurus. He has been a board member at the European private equity association Invest Europe and at the Spanish Association of Capital, Growth and Investment (ASCRI).

At various stages of his career, has been a collaborator and academic assistant at Esade, teaching finance, strategy and international business expansion.

Mónica Domínguez

Directora ComeOn Brands! B2B Marketing

Soy Mónica Domínguez, una persona emprendedora, entusiasta y optimista por naturaleza. Me apasiona el mundo de la empresa y la creación de marcas con sentido.

Después de mas de 20 años ocupando puestos directivos, desempeñando funciones de Dirección de Marketing y Desarrollo de Negocio en diferentes sectores, en 2018 creé mi propio negocio ComeOn Brands!, una consultora de marketing estratégico y creación de marca en entornos B2B, ayudando a este tipo de organizaciones a generar más resultados, creando más valor.

Creo firmemente que es tiempo de entender que no se trata de trabajar para ser importantes, sino de hacer cosas que importen y en este nuevo camino, Esade siempre ha sido y será, mi perfecto compañero de viaje.

Evarist Juncosa

Evarist has 20 years of experience in marketing, trade marketing and sales at consumer-goods companies such as Bacardi, Heineken and Nike. He currently works at Bacardi Global as an International Key Account Manager, handling accounts such as Carrefour World Trade, Auchan, Amazon, Coopernic and EMD. He previously served as Trade Marketing Manager at Bacardi and Group Marketing Manager at Heineken.

Evarist is accustomed to working in international and multicultural environments, having had several overseas professional experiences, including the launch of Heineken in Chile.

His involvement in Esade Alumni stretches back many years: he founded the Marketing Club in 2001 and served as its president for a decade. He is currently a member-at-large of the club’s board.

José Campos

José holds a Bachelor in Business Studies and an MBA from Esade.

He spent 14 years building a career in marketing at various consumer-goods multinationals (CPC/Unilever, PepsiCo and Kellogg’s). He later went on to lead various growth projects in consumer healthcare, both at multinationals (SmithKline Beecham) and at family businesses (Lacer, Ordesa and Ferrer), where he spent a total of nearly 19 years. He has served as a board member and as chairman of the board at two subsidiaries of Ordesa.

He is currently an independent consultant at the Warrior Consumer Healthcare Advisory, where he focuses on business-development projects, internationalisation, strategic marketing, and mergers and acquisitions.

He is a founding member and treasurer of Instituto Consumer Healthcare. He serves as a mentor at Esade Alumni and is a member of Esade BAN.

Maria Del Carmen Fernández

María del Carmen is a journalist specialising in health and medicine. Since February 2016, she has directed the Unidad Editorial titles Diario Médico, Correo Farmacéutico and CuídatePlus.

She joined Diario Médico’s Barcelona newsroom in 1994 and was later appointed team coordinator and editor-in-chief, a position she held from 2004 until January 2016. She had previously contributed to the newspaper Avui (now El Punt Avui) and worked as a newswriter specialising in health and medicine at Diari de Barcelona and Nou Diari de Barcelona (defunct since 1994).

She holds a Bachelor in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1989) and a Postgraduate Degree in Integrated Health Services Management from Esade (2011-2012). She is a board member of the Esade Alumni Health and Pharma Club. She also teaches in the Master in Hospital and Health Service Management at the University of Barcelona (UB) and in the UB-ESAME Master in Pharmaceutical Industry Scientific Departments.

Miguel Mas

Miguel completed the Executive MBA at Esade (2005-2006), the International Management Programme in Sales and Marketing at the Volkswagen Group (2013-2014) and the Master in Legal Consultancy at Instituto de Empresa (1995-1996).

He now serves as Director of Purchasing and Transport at Volkswagen Group España Distribución (the group’s vehicle distribution company in Spain, which includes Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and light commercial vehicle brands).

He has 25 years of professional experience, of which he has spent the last 20 in the automotive industry, where he has held different managerial responsibilities. He previously worked as a Facility Manager for Nissan Spain, DB Transfesa and Ferrovial at Acciona.

He has a global vision of business, is proactive and is used to working with multidisciplinary teams.

In recent years, he has expanded his specific training in innovation and digitalisation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the International Seminar in Digital Transformation (ISDI) at Harvard.

Maite Usón

Specialities: Career coaching for senior professionals. Helping senior executives make career changes. 

Language: Spanish 

Certification: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation 
 

Aditya Priyadarshi

Aditya is an Esade MBA (Class of 2016) with 10+ years of professional experience in Enterprise Software, Telecommunications and Management Consulting industries. Having obtained degrees in both business and technology, Aditya draws from his rich and diverse skill set to help companies leverage technology as a driver of profitable growth. He currently works at Oracle's Dublin office as a Senior Account Manager responsible for evangelizing core Oracle technologies and driving growth for the company in the UK mid-market.

Outside of work, Aditya is an avid practitioner of Krav Maga - an Israeli Mixed Martial Art. He loves reading non-fiction and curating music playlists.

Verónica Valls

Verónica holds a Bachelor in Law from the University of Málaga and a Master in ICT Law, Social Networks and Intellectual Property from Esade. She has built her career at law firms and international corporations. She currently works as an intellectual and industrial property lawyer at the Bimbo Group.

Rolando Carrazco

Ejecutivo con más de 15 años de experiencia. Actualmente me especializo en la adaptación de los negocios analógicos a un entorno digital, desde la definición de la estrategia y la automatización de procesos, hasta el acompañamiento comercial en la estrategia go-to-market. He implementado proyectos estratégicos en diversas industrias: automotriz, banca, microfinanzas, consultoría, seguros, medios, tecnología y educación en Latinoamérica.

Como ejecutivo corporativo, he trabajado en todos los niveles de la estrategia comercial, planificación, desarrollo y crecimiento en empresas como HSBC, Interbank, La Positiva y Pacífico Business School.

Me apasiona la docencia, colaboro como profesor y speaker de postgrado en diversas escuelas de negocio en Perú, Colombia y Centroamérica.
 

Carlos García

Executive Master in Digital Business at Esade (EMDB 18/19) with exchange at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business in Silicon Valley. Professional experience includes global roles at SKF in Sales, Technology, E-business, Digital Solutions. After an International career based out of London and Madrid, Carlos has now been living in Gothenburg for the last few years, driving Digital Sales Solutions of SKF.

He has also joined COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology proposing programs in the area of Digitalization. 

Carlos is a Board member of the Esade Alumni Chapter in Sweden, which is based in Stockholm, and he is the representative in Gothenburg. If you are moving to Gothenburg or visiting this city, he will be happy to welcome you.  

Aurora Martinez Ramos

Always curious about learning new things. Passionate about innovation. Believer in making learning fun, simple and accessible to all through innovations in learning, digital products and services. VP & General Manager @Wiley. Strategic Advisor @Joint European Disruptive Initiative.

Aurora graduated with an Executive MBA in April 2018. She participates with ESADE Alumni and is a member of several clubs. Currently, she is VP & General Manager at Wiley & Sons and lives in NYC. She also devotes her time in the role of Strategic Advisor to the JEDI Foundation (Joint European Disruptive Initiative). Prior to this experience, she was the COO and Managing Director at Gamelearn--a game-based learning company. She is also the co-founder and CEO of EVERLEARNING. She spent the majority of her career in executive leadership positions for two of the world's largest education technology and services companies, McGraw-Hill and Pearson Education, and for a ‘rising star’ Curriculum Associates where she learned about entrepreneurship and how to grow a start-up—skills that she was able to apply at Trinity Education as Senior Vice President. Over the years, the teams she has led has influenced the lives of millions of students, teachers and professors across the world. Lastly, she is co-leader of the Financial Forum at EjeCon (Asociación Española de Ejecutiv@s y Consejer@s).
 

Carmen Vallhonesta

I am a professional with more than 18 years of experience in international-level management positions in business development at companies of various sizes in different sectors. As an executive coach, I guide leaders through the personal and professional development process during moments of change or uncertainty, enabling them to achieve their goals. Slow down to move forward.

Languages: Spanish, Catalan, English and French

Certifications:

Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation

Systemic Coaching

Olimpia Capdevilla

Licenciada en el BBA de ESADE 2020. Olimpia inició su carrera profesional con el programa SUD de ESADE, colaborando como consultora social en un proyecto cafetero del Corregimiento de Las Hermosas (Chaparral, Colombia). Al finalizar el SUD, se incorporó como Retail Intern en Ulabox, donde descubrió un gran interés por el sector de la distribución alimentaria, del cual más tarde, realizaría el TFG, ganando la Mención de Honor de los Premios TFG BBA 2020. Actualmente, está continuado su carrera en Findus España, donde trabaja como Customer Category & Trade Marketing Intern, formándose y aprendiendo cada día más sobre el FMCG, sector en el que quiere seguir enfocándose para tener éxito.  

Joan Basseda

Licenciado en el Doble Grado de Esade en ADE y Derecho (promoción 2018). 
 
En la actualidad, Joan Basseda es consultor estratégico en KPMG (dispone de más de 3 años de experiencia en la empresa). 
 
Miembro de la junta directiva del Club Turismo y Ocio, así como miembro de la Comisión Young.

Paula Teixidor Bustins

I am a Finance professional with more than 15 years of international experience within controlling, performance management, business partnering, sales force efficiency, accounting and audit.

After completing the Lic&MBA at ESADE, I started my career back home, in Barcelona, working for PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditor and Financial Transactions Analyst. Looking for an international experience, I moved to London to join Medtronic's Internal Audit team, working in more than 14 different countries while obtaining the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) certification.

Looking to broaden my horizons, I completed the full time MBA at the London Business School, specializing in Finance and being a board member of its Healthcare club. Upon graduation, I joined the Finance Development Program at Novartis in their headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, where I worked in five different Finance departments, from accounting, to treasury and including controlling and performance management.

I have lived and worked for the past six years in Oslo, working first as Finance and Sales Force Efficiency Manager at Novartis and currently for JDE (Friele coffee), leading its Finance team.

I speak Catalan, Spanish, English and Norwegian and enjoy learning new languages.

I am married, have three kids and I love modern dance, jazz and tap dancing.

Rafael Sueiro

Rafael has extensive managerial experience, with a special focus on finance and strategic consulting, having worked in various industries and positions across Europe. He is currently based in Brussels, where he works at the Radisson Hotel Group as Senior Vice President for Group Controlling and Planning. He previously served as Global CFO of CWT Meetings & Events, working out of London and Madrid, after having been General Manager of CWT Spain. Prior to that, he worked at Vodafone Spain and at Deloitte as Strategy and Operations Manager. His educational background includes the Advanced Management Programme, the Executive MBA at Esade Business School and the Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Wales.

Miguel Galmes

Ingeniero y MBA hispano-alemán de 49 años de edad, especializado en gestión de proyectos, eficiencia energética y sostenibilidad en el sector de la hostelería de ocio.

Más de 20 años de experiencia profesional en diversos sectores en áreas como dirección general, gestión de proyectos, facility management, sostenibilidad, estrategia y diseño organizativo.

Idiomas nativos: Español, alemán y catalán. Inglés fluido. Portugués, italiano y francés muy básicos.

Creativo, autodidacta, analítico.

Casado y con 3 hijos.

Borja Solans

Responsable del área Laboral de la firma Gabinet Casas, despacho especializado en derecho laboral y fiscal, con un equipo formado por más de 30 profesionales con sede en Lleida y Mollerusa.

Graduado en Derecho por la Universidad de Lleida. Master de Abogacia y doble master de Derecho Laboral y Recursos Humanos por ESADE y Master en marketing y digital business.

Desde el 2014 imparto clases como profesor asociado en el grado de Relaciones Laborales de la Escuela Universitaria de Relaciones Laborales (EURL) adscrito a la Universidad de Lleida. Concretamente en las asignaturas de derecho del trabajo y derecho procesal laboral y sancionador.

Actualmente, también ejerzo las siguientes responsabilidades:

Desde 2016, Mediador y conciliador del Tribunal Laboral de Catalunya.

Desde 2017, presidente de los jóvenes abogados de Lleida.
Desde 2017, miembro de la Junta Directiva de ESADE ALUMNI LLEIDA.
Desde 2017, miembro de la Junta Directiva de PIMEC JOVES LLEIDA
Desde 2018, miembro del comité ejecutivo de PIMEC LLEIDA
Desde 2018, Miembro del Consejo de Administración en la Comisión de Seguridad y Salud Laboral del Consejo de Relaciones Laborales.
Desde 2019, miembro del Comité Ejecutivo de la Cámara de Comercio de Lleida.
Desde 2019, Vocal de la Comisión Provincial del Observatorio de Lucha Contra el Fraude a la Seguridad Social.
Desde 2019, Miembro de la comisión de cultura del ICALL
Desde 2020, Vicepresidente de PIMEC JOVES Lleida.
Desde 2020, Colaborador de teleponent en la sección del asesor
Desde 2020, Colaborador de GLOBALleida en la sección de la voz de los expertos
Desde 2021, Miembro de la comisió Laboral de PIMEC

Jan Dasca

Alicia González Peñalver

Alicia González Peñalver, a law graduate, has more than 18 years of experience working at IBM where she currently plays the role of IBM Europe & MEA Strategic Kaizen. In his long professional career within the company, he has always held leadership positions both as a people manager and as a project manager. He currently works as a project manager certified by the Project Management Institute in the area of ​​IBM Supply Chain. Team leadership, digital transformation consulting, process reengineering, and improvement of the customer experience in agile environments, scrum, kanban, design thinking, are his areas of greatest experience. PMD 2018 at Esade. PMD 2018 en Esade.

Jaime-Enrique Hugas

Jaime-Enrique is a co-founder and co-CEO, alongside his brother Paco, of Conren Tramway, a real estate investment and management company focused on investing in and developing office, residential and mixed-use buildings. He is also a board member of the Association of Construction Developers of Catalonia (APCE) and a member of the Urban Land Institute.

Before founding Conren Tramway, Jaime-Enrique worked in the financial industry of London, where he lived for 20 years. During that time, he was a partner responsible for Iberia at a European private equity fund and worked for 11 years in the investment banking and M&A departments of Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan.

He holds a Lic&MBA from Esade a Bachelor in Law from the University of Barcelona. He received a scholarship from La Caixa in the United Kingdom. He is also a graduate of the Executive Program for Growing Companies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has frequently collaborated with faculty from Esade’s Department of Economics and Finance, teaching classes in subjects organised by this department.

He was a co-founder and, for 13 years, president of the United Kingdom Chapter of Esade Alumni. He served as treasurer and vice chair of the British Spanish Society, a foundation that promotes UK-Spain relations. He has sat on the board of several organisations in Spain, including SARquavitae and Consorci de Salut i Social de Catalunya.

Juan Huguet

Secretario autonómico de Innovación y Transformación Digital en Generalitat Valenciana

Joan Romero

Joan is the Director of Wine Tourism at Raventós Codorníu. He holds a Bachelor in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Barcelona, a Bachelor of Science from Juniata College (Pennsylvania, USA) and a Postgraduate Degree in Marketing Management from Esade Barcelona.

He began his career in marketing at Chupa Chups, where he worked in the international marketing department at the company’s Barcelona headquarters.

He then moved to London to join the tourism sector, working in the marketing department of the startup Opodo before going on to direct Catalonia’s tourism brand promotion office for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

He later worked at PortAventura World in Tarragona, where he led the international sales department, and later managed Hotel El Palauet in Barcelona.

For seven years, he was based in São Paulo, Brazil, managing the promotion of the Catalonia tourism brand for all of South America.

Since 1st April 2020, he has served as Director of Wine Tourism at Raventós Codorníu in Barcelona, where he is responsible for the wine tourism business of several of the group’s brands: Codorníu, Raimat, Bodegas Bilbaínas, Legaris, Artesa (USA) and La Séptima (Argentina).

Francesc Fons

​​​​​​Dr.-Ing. in Electronics technology with 20+ years of expertise in the automotive industry, specialized in the fields of embedded software, hardware design and system & network architectures, with a proven track record of value creation in both exploitation (product development) and exploration (advanced engineering and applied research) disciplines. Along his career, he has been with Tier 1 & 2 companies from US, Germany and China, and has contributed to the successful launch of many commercial projects for OEMs in Europe and Asia, like BMW, Audi, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and Renault/Nissan, among others.

Adriana Del Solar

After 17 years working in different organisations, I have a very broad vision of the business world. Through unconditional acceptance and belief in you, active listening, empathy and assertiveness, we will work together to develop your potential and well-being in a pragmatic and authentic way. We can work on either the personal or professional sphere. Everything is interconnected, since we are a single being.

In order to be able to choose freely, we will first look into who you are, in order to re-discover and connect with your values, interests and motivations. Enjoying a full life requires thought, emotion and behaviour acting in harmony and always in keeping with your values.

One of my key elements is learning and knowledge development. I have received training to acquire and expand my toolkit to guide you along the path to self-knowledge, the development of autonomy and selfesteem, the identification and modification of your negative thoughts or emotions, the improvement of your emotional management, the improvement of your time management, etc.

Languages: Spanish, Catalan

Certifications:

- International Coaching Expert, Gold Level, Instituto Europeo de Coaching (IEC)

Carlos Oliveras

Bachelor of Economics from the University of Barcelona. Bachelor of Market Research and Techniques from the University of Barcelona and Maastricht University. MBA from Esade (2009-2011).

With nearly 20 years of experience in market intelligence consulting, Carlos started his career at PRM International, where he worked as project manager. He later worked at AMINT for 11 years, including 6 years as managing partner at the Santiago de Chile office. He founded LMI Consulting in May 2020.

Emilio Vázquez

He is an industrial engineer with 25 years of experience in the industrial and mining sectors, helping companies meet the needs of today’s generations without compromising the possibilities of future generations.

Perry Reyes

Perry began his Accounting and Finance career in Big 6 public accounting and has since held multiple CFO & Controller roles across many industries. He is currently happily entrenched the California Wine Industry and hopes to continue his growth in the wine world, possibly even internationally. His passion for management and entrepreneurship was a perfect foil for his ESADE education. He has also served on the SF Alumni Board for almost ten years now. Creating bonds with many other European business schools to help serve the ESADE SF alumni community in broader ways has always been a source of pride and joy, particularly during his tenure as chapter president.

In his spare time, Perry loves to travel the world and cook the foods learned on those travels. He is also extremely passionate about tennis (Rafa!), aikido and dance.

Email: pvfinancial@gmail.com

Eduardo Monge Montes

Position and company: Executive Vice President at RDVAL Proveedora de Precios

Eduardo has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and securities sector in Central America and the Caribbean. He has extensive knowledge of portfolio management, risk management, artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital transformation, as well as more than 16 years of management experience.

Noah Leshan

Noah serves as an Investor at Touchdown Ventures, a venture capital firm. He focuses on property technology, home improvement, Industry 4.0, and water technology investments. Before joining Touchdown, Noah was an Investor at Pegasus Tech Ventures, advising and working on diligence for both venture and M&A opportunities. Additionally, Noah was the manager for Startup World Cup, a global pitch competition with a $1M investment prize. Before Pegasus, Noah worked in finance at TEGNA and also developed the financial plan for PeaceStartup, a social impact fund in Bogotá, Colombia.Earlier in his career, Noah worked in commercial real estate as a Land Acquisition Associate at K Hovnanian Homes and an Assistant to the Executive Managing Director at Newmark Knight Frank and The Executive Director Of Capital Markets at Cushman & Wakefield. Noah graduated magna cum laude from Towson University in Maryland and has a Master of Science in Finance from Esade. In his spare time, Noah enjoys attending concerts and being obsessive about food. He is a world traveler and has lived in five countries.

Manuel Morales

Life motto: “Wo ein Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg” “Whether you think you can, or think you cannot, you are right”

Interests: music, business and history literature, networking and sports like hiking and diving.

Follow me on instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ibergourmet/

Guillermo Valles

Como Director de Procurement de Saica estoy a cargo de un equipo de profesionales con la responsabilidad de comprar y aprovisionar para las seis fábricas de papel de papel de la compañía en España, Francia y el Reino Unido.

El equipo se encarga además de liderar las compras centrales para las otras tres divisiones del grupo Saica. Participo además activamente en todas aquellas líneas de trabajo de las asociaciones sectoriales que tengan como objetivo incrementar la recogida y el reciclado del papel usado tanto en España como en Europa

Vicky Ramirez

She has an extensive experience in Corporate Finance in both Industry and Financial Services.  Initiated her career by joining the Financial Management Program with General Electric in the USA.

True believer in team work. She enjoys working in a diverse team.
Passionate on promoting inclusion, diversity, and equality, as well as supporting social causes to create a positive impact in the society.

Vishesh Dalal

Vishesh is currently the Head of Strategy at Indie Home Loans, a mortgage finance company based in India. Before completed the ESADE MBA in 2018, Vishesh has qualified as a Chartered Accountant and holds a CFA Charter. He has over 11 years of work experience across entrepreneurship and finance, having worked with various teams at Ernst & Young in India and Norway in the past. Outside of work, Vishesh likes to travel and is a certified scuba diver.

Sebastian Sandler

Sebastian Sandler is a Senior Business Analyst at Raiffeisenbank International AG (RBI) in Vienna where is working on overarching Business and IT projects. The projects relate to Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting and also impact the CEE Network Banks of RBI. In addition, he is responsible for the Bank Steering of the Austrian subsidiaries.

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) regards Austria, where it is a leading corporate and investment bank, as well as Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as its home market. 13 markets of the region are covered by subsidiary banks. Additionally, the Group comprises numerous other financial service providers, for instance in the fields of leasing, asset management, as well as M&A.
 
Prior to RBI Mr. Sandler was heading the Controlling, Accounts Payable and Regulatory Reporting section at BayernLB New York. During that time, he also joined the Board of the ESADE International Chapter New York.
 
Mr. Sandler earned an MBA in International Business Administration from ESADE Business School  and Georgetown University in the GEMBA program. He graduated from Dual University Heidenheim with a Diploma in Business and IT.

Isabel Marwitz

As coach and mentor to entrepreneurs and startups, Isabel supports companies in developing and executing cross regional and cultural growth strategies.

Karine Selma Laronze

Bachelor&MBA at ESADE, I also completed my CEMS Master's in International Management at ESADE and Stockholm School of Economics in 2007. After graduating, I worked more than 6 years in Business Consulting in Spain, South Africa and Colombia. I moved to Austria in 2014, where I have started a family. I am currently working as Project Manager at AEI, Agency for European Integration and Economic Development, in Vienna. I am a Spanish, French and Catalan native speaker, and also speak English and German fluently. I am involved in the Austria Chapter since its launch.

Jaime Schmidt

Abogado y Notario Público con más de 8 años de experiencia en asesoría legal corporativa. Especialista en Derecho Corporativo, Informático y de Propiedad Intelectual, me dedico a la creación de empresas y la protección de sus activos intangibles.

Alumni desde el 2016, egresado del Master de propiedad intelectual y derecho de las TIC.

Amante de la tecnología y el deporte.

Tomas Antoni Juste

Systemic coach and facilitator.

Expert in managing conflicts and difficult situations.

Development of personal relationships, leadership and work teams. Conflict transformation processes. Intervention in complex and uncertain situations; movement of one or more parts leads to a positive transformation of the entire situation.

Agricultural Engineer, Master in Public Management (Esade). Director of Interpersonal Relations and Work Dynamics at the Catalan Government’s Department of Territory and Sustainability. Former Director of Research and Innovation, former Director of the Technical Office of the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works and former Director of the Technical Office of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.

Roland Scharrer

Roland Scharrer is currently AXA Group Chief Technology & Innovation Officer as well as AXA Group Chief Data Officer.

As part of his mandate, he is responsible for leveraging data and emerging technologies at scale with the potential to disrupt the current insurance business model and provide opportunities to shape future businesses.

•       Roland started at AXA Group in January 2018 as CTIO/CDO in charge of data & technology innovation teams in Paris, Lausanne, Singapore and San Francisco. Initially, he joined AXA Germany in 2016 as Head of Data Strategy & Analytics.
•       Prior to joining AXA, Roland has worked in Germany, Spain, UK, US and India in software engineering, data science and strategy consulting, focussing on the Automotive and Financial Services industries.In his last position, Roland was Chief Data Scientist for Capgemini Consulting.
•       Roland studied computer engineering, statistics, business administration and design thinking, among others at ESADE Business School Barcelona and Stanford/HPI School of Design Thinking. 

Lucía Lagunas Reyes

My name is Lucia Lagunas, I am 28 years old and I have a Law Degree from the Public University of Navarra. Subsequently, I completed an optional Master's Degree in Access to Law, completing it with the postgraduate course in International Business Law, at the Esade Law School.

Simultaneously to my specialization in international business law, I took the course of Skills and Management for lawyers, in Esade. This new training has allowed me to acquire more international knowledge applied at all times to Spanish and European Law, as well as to develop new essential skills in the practice of the 21st century, such as leadership, negotiation, work. as a team, motivation and empathy, among others.

I consider myself a proactive, disciplined person, with initiative and eager for improvement every day.

Regarding my professional aspect, I started doing internships in Pamplona, ​​in the area of ​​Corporate Law at ARPA Abogados Consultores and subsequently, I undertook an international career in the legal department of a German company, VR. LEASING, Aktiengesellschaft, located in Frankfurt (Germany).

Once in Spain again, I have worked for two and a half years as a lawyer in the area of ​​Real Estate & Foreign Investment in an office in Barcelona and currently, I continue to train and work as a lawyer in the area of ​​Corporate & New Technologies in the office of Miliners SLP lawyers

Eulàlia Pujolà

Eulàlia Pujolà Elies has more than 40 years of experience working as an organisational consultant at various companies. She holds a degree in industrial engineering and is an EFQM Excellence Model assessor accredited by Club Excelencia en Gestión. She also holds an MBA from Esade. 

For the last 30 years, she has worked as the head of quality, auditing and regulations at Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals. 

Inés Rovira

Inés was born in Barcelona in 1976. Married with four children, she now lives in Madrid. She holds a Bachelor in Law and a Master in Business Law from Esade. She has been a member of the Barcelona Bar Association since 1999. She has worked at Garrigues for more than nine years. Previously, she managed the legal department at Philips, in addition to other posts. She lived in Bogotá, Colombia, for four years. Inés now focuses on promoting the unique characteristics of Spanish family businesses at Instituto de la Empresa Familiar.

Francesc Gibert

Francesc is a Managing Partner for Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Andorra at KPMG, where he oversees four offices and 850 professionals working in the fields of auditing, tax and legal services, and consulting.

He has more than 25 years of experience in auditing and advisory services, in areas such as corporate development, transactions, banking regulation, corporate governance and internal control. His clients include major Spanish financial institutions and international firms that have a presence in Spain. He has also collaborated with non-financial and public-sector entities. In addition, he regularly gives lectures in courses related to his areas of specialisation, particularly those targeting board members at publicly traded companies.

Previously at KPMG, he was responsible for the financial and markets sector in Catalonia and for risk advisory services throughout Spain.

Alba Rubio

Bachelor in Business Administration and Masters at Esade (Lic&MDE 12) with exchange at Singapore Management University. During her times at Esade, she represented the students awarded with talent scholarships in several occasions and she was also President of Esade students' groups during the last 3 years of her Bachelor. 

Previous professional experience includes striving at the Investment Management division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, collaborating on the M&A efforts at The Economist Group and working as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. After an international career based out of London, Hong Kong, New York and Madrid, Alba has now been living in Dubai for the last two years, driving the strategy of Careem, the first unicorn in the MENA region. 

She is also one fo the leaders of the LeanIn circle of "Women in Tech" in Dubai and President of the Esade Alumni UAE Chapter.

Eduard Mendiluce

CEO of Anticipa Real Estate – CEO of  Aliseda Inmobiliaria 

Responsible for Blackstone´s residential investments in Spain (€17bn AuM). 

Before joining Anticipa Real Estate, he was a member of the management committee of CatalunyaBank, Senior Vice President of Port Aventura and Real Estate Corporate Manager of Criteria Holding (“la Caixa”).   

He is board member of several Real Estate companies, member of the ULI-Barcelona executive committee and vice chairman of the Esade Real Estate Council.  

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business & Economics from the UAB (1988-1993) and an MBA from the Esade Business School. 

Angel Puig

Online business and innovation manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Internet industry (first project in 1995). Skilled in Innovation Financing, Business Planning, B2B, E-commerce and Entrepreneurship ("I know how to improve your business with an efficient use of technology"). Strong business development professional with a LADE & MBA from Esade and trained in Philosophy and Psychology in the E.E.P.A. (París).

Manuel Rosales

Más de diez años de experiencia en el liderazgo y definición de estrategias de negocio, marketing y ventas para el sector de la automoción como la multinacional BMW Ibérica en Madrid y en organizaciones más locales como Grupo Avisa que representa las marcas del grupo Volkswagen en Sevilla. Inicio de carrera profesional en el mundo de la agencia local como Grupo Imagen y Quid quid, y en medios de comunicación como Vocento y Grupo Prisa. Especialista en proyectos de Transformación Digital y Customer Experience orientados a redefinir modelos de negocio y propuestas de valor con el fin de contribuir a desarrollar organizaciones más competitivas e innovadoras. Experiencia como emprendedor en diferentes start-up en sectores como retail o servicios. Apasionado de los ratos en familia y amigos, de la práctica del golf y pádel, y de viajar para disfrutar la experiencia de conocer rincones únicos.

Jaume Hugas

Fue Director del Centro de Investigación de la Logística Empresarial (CILE) y Primer Presidente y fundador del Council of Supply Chain Management Professional (CSCMP) en España.  

Antes de asumir la dirección ejecutiva de Executive Education, fue director de los programas MBA de Esade. 

Es diplomado en CPCL por la Harvard Business School y también ha realizado cursos de posgrado en Stanford, Darden y Olin Business School. 

En su extensa carrera directiva, ha sido Director of Supply Chain Management para la División de Consumo de Ralston Purina Europe, en Europa, Oriente Medio y África, y Director of Manufacturing Operations de Ralston Purina Internacional, con responsabilidad sobre 32 fábricas europeas, además de Corporate Director of Manufacturing and Engineering de Ralston Purina Company para Canadá, Asia-Pacífico y Latinoamérica. Con anterioridad, fue director de Producción e Ingeniería para Gallina Blanca Purina en España y Portugal, y también director de Proyectos y Obras en Master SA de Ingeniería y Consultoría. 

Ha publicado artículos en diferentes revistas y es autor de numerosos casos de estudio. 

Es profesor de Esade desde 1990, Ingeniero Industrial, MBA por Esade  y Doctor en Derecho, Economía y Empresa. 

Laura Martinez

Laura Martínez Molera is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for MathWorks. Laura is the technical lead for the Machine Learning and Data Science Solution where she leads the strategy, development and creation of technical content and marketing promotion. Prior to joining MathWorks, Laura was the Senior Marketing Manager at HubSpot where she was responsible for the go-to-market strategy for multiple regions and alignment with the Sales team.

Laura was born in Barcelona where she studied industrial engineering at UPC. She also holds a Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from ESADE and a Master in International Marketing from HULT, Boston, where she moved in 2014. Laura is living in Boston with her husband and son.

Maria Stefanoni

I am passionate about marketing and innovation. I graduated from the Esade MBA in 2018, after completing a semester in the American University of Georgetown. The MBA helped me boost my career and discover a deep passion for the healthcare industry. After the MBA, I briefly worked for the Spanish company Almirall, before landing at Johnson & Johnson where I entered in the marketing development program IRDP.

I started my career working as a communication and digital marketing consultant in various fields: arts, education, food and beverage, both in house as well as in agency. I got my BA and MA in foreign languages at the Venice University Ca' Foscari (with exchanges in France and Germany). As a result of my studies and the passion for traveling, I speak 6 languages fluently. I also hold an Executive Master in Digital Marketing from the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona.

Alejandra Pérez

Alejandra is enthusiastic about innovation, marketing and the mobility of the future. Since beginning her career at Allianz, she has worked in various sectors, including banking, FCGs, consulting and, most recently, the automotive industry, where she works in web development.

She studied business in Colombia and international business in Germany. She also holds an MSc in Marketing Management from Esade (2017).

She is a board member of the Esade Alumni Barcelona International Chapter, which organises events for the expat community living in Barcelona.

María Porta Ferrer

Specialities: Executive coaching, which consists of establishing an ongoing professional relationship to enable the coachee to:

• Develop further learning and discovery
• Commit to new actions
• Achieve extraordinary results in the professional sphere

My commitment to coachees is to provide them with a tool for developing their talent and potential starting in the present and moving towards the future. Over the course of the process, coachees learn to identify empowering or limiting beliefs, modify specific behaviours and develop skills to achieve their objectives. The process promotes a deeper understanding of how we relate to others and to ourselves. 

Language: English, Catalan and Spanish
Certification: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation 

 

Carmen Ansotegui

Carmen is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Esade.

She holds a Bachelor in Business Administration, a Master in Economic Theory and a PhD in Economics, which has given her a broad vision of the world of finance. She is a Professor in the Department of Financial Management and Control at Esade, where she teaches and conducts research. Her main research interests are capital markets and asset valuation.

Her current research activities focus on alternative finance and shadow banking.

Christian Sipión

Gerente de Desarrollo de Negocios en el sector educativo. Me apasiona la docencia creativa que desarrollo activamente y mi propósito es transformar la educación hacia un modelo integral, escalable e innovador. 

Mis principales temas de interés son finanzas corporativas, planeamiento estratégico, inteligencia de mercado y generación de nuevos negocios.

Músico baterista y percusionista de distintas bandas musicales. 

Corporate MBA en ESADE, Diplomado de International Business en Georgetown University y Exchange Student en IE Business School.

Adriena Badal Chamaki

Adriena began her marketing career in the mobile gaming industry and has since worked across multiple industries for tech companies in Silicon Valley. Her passion for understanding consumer behavior has led her to her current role as Sr. Product Marketing Manager of an international communications app, where she leverages her knowledge to influence user behaviors in order to drive adoption and retention. 

In her spare time, she is an avid soccer player and enjoys the hustle of city life in San Francisco. 

Jorge Cuervo Cimadevilla

As an executive coach with prior managerial experience and 10 years as a team coach, I am equipped to effectively guide processes of leadership development, personal change and career change, to work on overcoming obstacles and insecurities, to generate motivating visions and to change perspectives. I also assist with project leadership and organisational

change management. Due to my scientific and technical background, I have experience working with rational and analytical types who have difficulty accepting and managing their own emotions and those of their team.

Session languages: Spanish, Catalan and English

Certifications:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
• TLC-certified

Anna Borrell

Digital business strategist. Especializada en el mundo digital, Anna empezó su carrera profesional en el mundo de las start ups i en el sector del deporte, trabajando en empresas como el FC Barcelona. En 2017, cursó el Executive Master en Digital Business por ESADE y desarrolló, durante casi tres años, la experiencia digital de Banco Sabadell. En 2020, volvió al mundo del deporte entrando en Dorna Sports, empresa propietaria de los derechos comerciales y televisivos de campeonatos de motor, entre ellos MotoGP™️. Allí ha empezado la construcción y desarrollo digital de sus OTTs. 
 

Antonio Sala

Durante más de ocho años, ha desempeñado diversos cargos en los departamentos de Marketing y Ventas de Reckitt. Es colaborador entusiasta y miembro de la Junta de dos ONG de Barcelona: Entrecultures y Entxartxad, ambas con proyectos en países en vías de desarrollo.

Josep Vilana

Des del maig del 2020 m'ocupo de la direcció d'Espic, empresa que ofereix serveis de contact center per tercers. Hi arribo provinent d’Andorra telecom on durant els darrers anys he estat desenvolupant diferents càrrecs en l'àmbit comercial.

Enginyer Superior per la Universitat Ramon Llull curso a posterior un EMBA a ESADE.

Javier Izquierdo Lopez

Gijón, 1974.

Formación

Principal:Program for Management Development (ESADE Business School, 2008).Doctor cum laude, Ingeniería Ambiental (Universidad de Oviedo, 2017)

Ingeniero Industrial, Electrotecnia (Universidad de Oviedo, 2000).

Experto Prevencionista de Nivel Superior, 3 especialidades. (Colegio de Ingenieros Técnicos Industriales de Asturias, 2001)

Auditor de Sistemas de Calidad (AENOR, 2002).

Six sigma Black Belt, (Juran Institute, 2004).

Desempeño profesional:

19 años de experiencia en EDP, sector energético:

Generación: Director de Producción Central Térmica de Aboño (2001 a 2016)

Comercial: Jefe de Movilidad Sostenible (2016 - actualidad)

Profesor Asociado de la Universidad de Oviedo (2008-2016), Profesor externo Universidad de Oviedo (actualidad).

José Andrés De Lorenzo-Cáceres Apolinario

Cofundé y soy Co-CEO de la agencia de Marketing Digital Klawter. He asesorado a diferentes empresas e instituciones públicas en marketing digital y derecho de las nuevas tecnologías. Particularmente, estoy especializado en social ads, brand safety y smart data. He trabajado para diferentes marcas como la Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, Hospitales San Roque o instituciones como la Universidad de Salamanca, diferentes cabildos insulares o para el Gobierno de las Islas Canarias.

En el ámbito académico realizo estudios de doctorado en el área de derecho procesal de la Universidad de Salamanca. El objeto de la investigación es el estudio de los mecanismos de protección y control frente a la inteligencia artificial.

Cristina Saeta

With more than 15 years of experience in the creation and development of marketing strategies, Cristina has held various marketing positions at Red Bull. She has been the Chief Marketing Officer at Llaollao since 2021.

Her expertise revolves around brand positioning and the development of business strategies in different markets, setting and meeting marketing and sales objectives, and developing and consolidating brand image over the long term.

She holds a Bachelor a Telecommunications Engineering and an Executive Master in Marketing and Sales from Esade (2016). She also completed the Digital Business programme at Santa Clara University.

Rosa M. Sanz

TBD

Xisco Mateu

Director en Agència de Estratègia Turística de les Illes Balears (AETIB)

Ricardo Díaz Sánchez

Consultor en Gestión del Talento y Coach

Marta Grañó

Soy Consultora en Innovación & Personas. Especializada en el desarrollo de talento y en impulsar equipos. Las personas son el gran tesoro de las organizaciones.

Profesora en ESADE, speaker en TEDx y con más de 2.000 horas de formación InCompany impartida en grandes organizaciones, mejorando su marco de trabajo y alcanzando progresos reales tangibles. Encontrarás algunas de sus opiniones sobre mí en mi página web. Y me encanta seguir haciéndolo, siempre con profesionales y organizaciones comprometidos y con un propósito claro.

Ayudo a facilitar el cambio a líderes que quieren transformar sus organizaciones, para pasar a trabajar con equipos diversos, ágiles y con propósito. Ahora más que nunca, las organizaciones dependen de la diversidad de talentos y de la capacidad de organizar verdaderos equipos. Entre mis programas encontrarás “Impulsa talento femenino” -un programa de mejora de competencias para mujeres profesionales - y “Lidera el cambio” -un programa de mejora de competencias para líderes de equipos y equipos-.

He publicado 5 libros, entre los que están "¡Vamos! Cómo aplicar la iniciativa emprendedora en la empresa y en la vida" y "¿Somos malas madres? El libro para la madres que trabajan dentro y fuera de casa". Actualmente estoy escribiendo mi 6º libro, porque me encanta escribir y divulgar mi trabajo.

Miguel Angel Cruz Lorente

Supply Chain Director en NUTRITION & SANTE S.A.S

Ignasi Ferrer

Founder & Executive Partner en Seastainable Ventures

Inmaculada Infante

Profesional con más de 20 años participando en la definición y seguimiento de la Estrategia de Crecimiento de Grupos de Empresas Multinacionales del sector industrial, servicios e inmobiliario principalmente.

Trayectoria desarrollada principalmente en, Arthur Andersen (Auditoría), Grupo Lar (Real Estate), Grupo Alibérico (Transformación de Aluminio), Grupo Cuñado (Tubería-Válvula-Bridas-Accesorios de Acero/Industrias Bienes de Equipo y Energía) desde las áreas de Finanzas Corporativas, Organización, TI& Comunicaciones, M&A, Expansión Internacional y Desarrollo de Negocio.

Como perfil ejecutivo se caracteriza por ser “El Motor que hace que las cosas se muevan”.

Consejera Dominical en compañías manufactureras del sector del metal (Periodo 2004 – 2011) destacando su visión de negocio, capacidad de análisis fiable y preciso, habilidades de comunicación y negociación.

Es licenciada en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad de Valladolid (1990-1994) y Loughborough University Reino Unido (1995) con formación de postgrado EMBA IESE Business School (2002-2004).

Ha participado en el Executive PDI Icex 2ª Edición (2017-2018) y más recientemente en el Programa de Consejeros de ESADE (Feb 2022).

Lluis Planchat

Bachelor of Business Administration and Law (Esade) and Bachelor of Economics (University of Barcelona). Associate in the Corporate Finance Department at KPMG, where he works as an adviser on mergers and acquisitions and business valuation projects. Prior experience as an economic and financial modelling consultant at Deloitte. Lecturer of Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.

Juan Rovira de Ossó

After a 28-year career at various multinationals, in 2011 he became a Lecturer in the Department of People Management and Organisation at Esade.

He was the founder and first director of Universitas Telefónica, Telefónica’s corporate university. In 2005, he led the team responsible for defining the strategic model, design and launch of the Universitas Telefónica Campus. During his tenure as director (2005-2010), Universitas Telefónica offered 17 programmes to more than 5,500 executives from the 23 countries where the company operates. From the outset, Universitas Telefónica’s academic programme has focused on developing leadership as a key element to create a new corporate culture, communicate the company’s business strategy and encourage the exchange of ideas and practices between company executives. Prof. Rovira joined the Telefónica Group in 1997 as Deputy General Manager of Business Development at Telefónica International. He participated in defining and executing the strategy for the company’s expansion in selected countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. As a result, the Telefónica Centroamérica joint venture was created and mobile telephone services were rolled out in Guatemala and El Salvador.

In 1999, he participated in the international expansion of Atento, the Telefónica Group’s call centre subsidiary, as head of strategic development. In 2001, he joined Terra as Global Director of Human Resources; in this capacity, he led the restructuring and integration of the company into Telefónica. He was subsequently appointed Deputy General Manager of Telefónica in Catalonia. Before joining the Telefónica Group, he spent 15 years in the banking industry, first at BBVA and later at Banco Santander, where he worked in the international and transactional banking areas. As head of International Legal Services at BBVA, he played a very active role in getting the bank’s shares listed on the world’s major stock markets. His experience at Banco Santander included designing and developing electronic banking and cash management services for companies.

He is currently Vice Chair for Iberia and a member of the international faculty at the Oxford Leadership Academy.

Juan Rovira de Ossó

After twenty-eight years working for various multinationals, he joined the ESADE Department of People Management and Organisation as Lecturer in 2011.

He was the Founder and first Director of Universitas Telefónica, the Spanish telecom's corporate university. In 2005 he led the team responsible for defining Campus Universitas Telefónica's strategic model and design and implementing its launch. During his tenure as Director (2005-2010), Universitas Telefónica offered 17 programmes to more than 5,500 executives from the 23 countries where the company has a presence.

From the outset, the focus of Universitas Telefónica's academic programme concentrated on developing leadership as a key element to create a new corporate culture, communicate the company's business strategy and encourage the exchange of ideas and practices between executives.

Professor Rovira joined Grupo Telefónica in 1997 as Sub-Director General for Telefónica International's Business Development Area. He participated in defining and implementing the company's strategy for its expansion in specific Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a result of the latter, the Telefónica Centroamérica joint venture was created, and mobile phone services were implemented in Guatemala and El Salvador.

In 1999, he participated as Head of Strategic Development in the international expansion of Atento, Grupo Telefónica's call centre subsidiary. In 2001, he moved to Terra as Global Director of Human Resources from which he led the internet company's restructuring and integration in Telefónica. He was later named Sub-Director General for Telefónica in Catalonia.

Before joining Grupo Telefónica, he worked in the banking sector for fifteen years, first for BBVA and then Banco Santander, working in the international and transactional banking areas.
As Head of International Legal Services at BBVA, he was very active in the bank's shares being traded in the leading markets around the world. Worth highlighting from his experience at Banco Santander are the design and development of e-banking and cash management services for companies.
Currently, he is Vice Chair for Iberia at the Oxford Leadership Academy and a member of its international faculty.

Samuel Pimentel

TBD

Neveen Hussein

Neveen is a Regional Business Development Manager at Siemens Energy Hub Middle East. She has extensive experience in account management, strategy formation and execution, GTM strategies, sales and business development.

She moved to Dubai in 2021, but has been living and working in the GCC for the past 12 years.
Her previous experience includes working in the telecommunications industry for 10 years. Last year, she shifted her career to join the energy sector.
Neveen is passionate about having an impact on everyone’s life that she crosses paths with. She is also passionate about learning and above all having fun while doing it!

She has a Bachelor in Business Administration from Cairo University, a Professional Certificate in Marketing from the American University in Cairo and an Executive MBA from Esade.

Arantzazu Claverías

TBD

Roi Villar Vázquez

I have specialised in health innovation for 15 years. I have a PhD in Biochemistry and Biomedicine from UCM, a CORE from Harvard Business School and a PMD from Esade. I care about my plant population, I enjoy the cultural scene from live music to contemporary art, and in my free time I like to attend conferences.

My career in health innovation has included positions in big pharma, research centres, hospitals, startups, venture capital and government agencies. I have held technical and leadership roles in operations, strategy, R&D, value creation and investment, building value proposals that involve various stakeholders and countries. With a focus on impact, inclusivity and sustainability, I entered politics as Chief of Staff in the Department of University, Innovation, and Digital Transformation in the Government of Navarre. Today, I improve the European environment for innovation as an Advisor on Innovation, Industrial Policy and Digital in the European Parliament in Brussels.

On the social side, I founded and presided over PRISMA, an association for affective-sexual and gender diversity in science, technology and innovation, and ComunicaBiotec, an association for biotechnology communicators. I previously led the Health 2.0 Madrid Digital Health meetings.

As an immunologist, I have published various articles in specialised journals, mentored various startups and participated in the faculty of various acceleration programmes. I also write opinion articles on innovation for various Spanish media outlets.

I am originally from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and I am fluent in Italian, English, Catalan and French, although my native languages are Galician and Spanish . I currently live in Brussels, Belgium, and I fly regularly to Madrid and Barcelona. You can follow me on @erreuvedos.

Dr. Roi Villar Vázquez

Innovation and General Management.

Spanish cell: +34 600288873

Skype: roivillarv

Jaume Maspons

I graduated in 2007 from ESADE after spending one year in HEC Paris doing my double degree program. Eager for new international experiences I joined Société Générale inside the graduate program, which offer me the chance to work in different countries and meeting colleagues around the world. After working in M&A and Equity markets teams, I decided to focus my career in the credit field, specializing in arranging acquisition loans for large corporates and Private Equity funds.

In my current job, I advise clients in the process to raise financing in capital markets for companies exposed to a large variety of sectors. In my current job, I have a privileged seat to see how companies are quickly changing, impacted by innovation and digitalization trends.

Definitely we are living in a time of deep changes that are shaping tomorrow’s world!. I complement my dedicated job with an active engagement in ESADE’s Paris chapter since 2010. My tasks are to make alumni get to know each other and keep ESADE network alive. Last but not least, my friends usually tell me that I’m a passionate runner, a seasoned traveler and intrepid reader.

Luis Fernández de la Vega

Country Manager y Director Comercial, con más de 20 años de experiencia en gestión de equipos en diferentes sectores. Desde 2015, Director Comercial de Gomà-Camps Consumer, empresa del sector del papel y uno de los líderes en fabricación de MDD para la gran distribución. PMD 08. Miembro de la junta de Esade Alumni Aragón desde 2010. Aficionado al golf y a un buen vino, sobre todo si es compartido.

Eugenia Bieto

Managing director of ESADE for 8 years (2010-2018). Currently associate professor in the department of general management and strategy. PhD from Universidad Ramon Llull. BSc in management and MBA from ESADE and the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.

Yanyu Zheng

Yanyu Zheng is co founder and vice president of All Star Partner. Started her career as the first Chinese employee in FC Barcelona, she has rich years of experience and expertise in sports marketing & communications, sponsorship, sports event management and digital operations.  

Yanyu was senior business development manager at Alibaba group before she founded All Star Partner, and she worked with Tencent Sports during years being its correspondent in Europe. Yanyu got her MBA degree at ESADE Business School (Barcelona) with full scholarship. She led the Sports Business club in ESADE and won a sports  marketing thesis competition organized by Financial Times. Yanyu studied The business of Entertainment, Media and Sports at Harvard Business School in 2018.

Yanyu is fluent in Spanish, English and Catalan, and have a good knowledge of French and Portuguese.

Roberto Castro-Tomé

Managing Partner at SocialUrban, is an urban economist with more than 22 years of experience in the real estate sector and is an expert in urban strategy, real estate, financing and valuations.

He defines himself as a Social Entrepreneur because he considers that the irruption of technology will end up transforming the world. He is also a mentor in several institutions, with a strong involvement with disability.

https://www.instagram.com/castrurban
https://www.facebook.com/castrurban

Hemal Thacker

Hemal Thacker is a young professional with 3 years of experience in IT industry and 2+ years in the hospitality industry. He has done his B.E in Computer Science from University of Mumbai and MBA from ESADE Business School, Spain. He is currently leading the partnerships and acquisitions team at a hospitality start up, Vista Rooms. Over the 5+ years of work experience, he has developed expertise in Strategic Business Development, Sales Strategy and B2B Marketing.

Instagram: hemalthacker

Anna Fos Llopart

Anna Fos Llopart (MBA Part Time 2014) is a Board Member of the Esade Alumni Chapter in Frankfurt.  Originally from Barcelona, she leaves in Frankfurt since several years. Anna holds a wide experience in Governance Functions in the Pharmaceutical Sector. As a good mediterranean, she enjoys with good food and wine. While travelling, she enjoys of her passions: music and reading. Anna feels proud of being a member of F.C.Barcelona since several years and supports arts organisations as the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.

Marco Büehler

I am from Frankfurt and I graduated from the M.Sc. in International Management at ESADE in 2010. Since 2012 I’ve been working for Deloitte Consulting based in Frankfurt with a focus on the financial services sector. My hobbies mainly center around sports, in particular running, but also triathlon and others.

Joan Miquel Malagelada

With more than 25 years of experience in the automotive sector, both in Spain and Germany, I have worked as Marketing and Commercial Director of the Volkswagen, SEAT, Audi and Hyundai brands.

I am currently an independent consultant (automotivemarketing.es), in addition to collaborating with ESADE Alumni as a mentor and president of the Automotive and Mobility Club.

MY PERSONAL BLOG: http://www.foroautomocion.com/

WEB AS CONSULTANT: https://www.automotivemarketing.es/

Irakli Rogava

Hi, my name is Irakli and I am ESADE MBA graduate from Co2017. After finishing my MBA studies I have joined IKEA supply chain team in Älmhult where IKEA was born 70 years ago. I am privileged to represent ESADE Alumni in Sweden and to help build a strong collaboration between ESADE and IKEA. Looking forward to supporting ESADE community in connecting with Swedish talent as well as with the business represented in Sweden.

Aleyois Haro Peralta

Experiencia en políticas públicas relacionadas con la investigación y la innovación, particularmente en Estrategias para la Especialización Inteligente (RIS3). Acostumbrada a trabajar en la interfaz ciencia, empresa y política con el objetivo de fortalecer las dinámicas de innovación y competitividad Regional.
Mi pasión es generar el mayor impacto posible para mejorar nuestra sociedad. Me encanta conversar y si es con un buen vino, mejor.

Alexandra Molina-Martell

Alexandra holds a Bachelor in Law from Esade Law School. She joined the Corporate Law Department at Uría Menéndez in 2000 and was appointed coordinating associate in January 2010. Her practice focuses on corporate law, particularly on company acquisitions and sales, mergers and restructuring, joint ventures, and investment and divestment transactions of all sorts through national and international structures.

She has more than 15 years of experience advising on contractual and board secretarial matters (financial transactions and mergers and acquisitions). She also works regularly with entrepreneurs and social enterprises

Acisclo Pérez

Professional with more than 10 years of professional experience internationally in multinationals and technology companies. Specialist in growth, optimization and expansion of companies, has experience in the management of commercial teams, marketing (CX) and innovation and in the development of new products and services, with a strategic vision, 360º of the business and focused on the ROI of projects and corporate EBITDA. Currently, he is a director of several technology companies whose core is 4.0 technology and user experience under a customer centric perspective.

Montserrat Escoda Martínez

Tourism Professional with over 25 years of experience, Tourist Activities Technician and Diploma in Restoration from HTSI-Ramon Llull, with postgraduate studies in Tourism Management and Management DGT06 in Esade.

Specialist in Hotel Management and Events, with great experience in Operations and Commercial Strategy. Creative, analytical and methodical, although I always leave some room for improvisation ...

I like to learn and grow surrounded by passionate professionals, who inspire to progress, and at the same time, train those who want to learn from me.

Lover of life, of human relations and cultures, with the great luck of having traveled the five continents. I believe in the power of people, and music as the guiding thread of our most intimate feelings.

Alexandra Molina-Martell

Alexandra holds a Bachelor in Law from Esade Law School. She joined the Corporate Law Department at Uría Menéndez in 2000 and was appointed coordinating associate in January 2010. Her practice focuses on corporate law, particularly on company acquisitions and sales, mergers and restructuring, joint ventures, and investment and divestment transactions of all sorts through national and international structures.

She has more than 15 years of experience advising on contractual and board secretarial matters (financial transactions and mergers and acquisitions). She also works regularly with entrepreneurs and social enterprises.

Sonia Madurga

Passionate about technology, especially the ones changing how we operate on a daily basis and help businesses to be customer centric.
Currently leading EMEA business development for Google Cloud Platform in SMB segment at Google and actively collaborating with start-ups.
In my personal life, I love to spend time with friends and family, travel to discover new cultures and dance latin music.

Jordi Fabregat

Jordi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Esade and Director of the Executive Master in Economic-Financial Management in Barcelona.

He previously served as controller of a French multinational in the textile sector that distributes products through its own shops and through catalogue sales, as well as general manager of the manufacturing company that supplied this multinational. Before that, he managed a chain of shoe shops.

He has taught courses in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Portugal. His PhD thesis dealt with initial public offerings on the Spanish stock market and the Neuer Markt. His fields of interest include financial analysis and planning, investment decision-making and its effects on value creation, and the valuation of companies (especially non-listed companies) for acquisition processes, the search for investors for capital increases, and the placement of share packages.

He has advised numerous investors and entrepreneurs on company valuation operations. He is a member of the Spanish Institute of Financial Analysts (IEAF) and sits on several boards of directors. He holds the Expert in Business Valuation Certificate, awarded by the IEAF.

Ona Serra

Board Member – Finances responsible

Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration by Esade, in 2003 I started my professional career at Ernst & Young, in Barcelona, in the External Audit division. In 2006 I joined Miguel Torres, where I was the Head of the International Financial Controlling Department at the Group's Headquarters, where I worked till I moved to Dubai, in 2012. From 2013 to 2017 I was the Finance Controller & Finance Manager at Natura Bissé in Dubai. Since 2017 I provide advisory and consulting services to Companies.  

I live in Dubai since 2012 and I am a Board Member of Dubai Esade Alumni Chapter since 2016 (in charge of the Finance area).

Stefan Neville

Dynamic and challenging environments promote self-improvement which I am very passionate about and dedicated to. Combining my technical skills of analytical and innovative thinking with my interpersonal skills of leadership and communication have ensured exceptional results for both the company and my clients.

Mónica Muñoz

Mónica is a co-founder and partner at The Innova Room©, a strategic consulting firm specialised in the tourism industry (hotels, restaurants and leisure). The Innova Room builds bridges between business and design, always with a focus on innovation. Its projects range from market and feasibility studies to the development of new lines of business, improving the user experience and market repositioning.

Mónica holds a Master in Architecture from the University of Navarra, an MBA from Esade and a Postgraduate Degree in Cultural Management from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).

Over the course of more than 20 years, she has built her corporate career at multinational companies in various sectors, including hotels (NH Hotels), food and beverages (Heineken), architecture, engineering and consulting (IDOM International).

In 2010, she founded The Innova Room, where together with her partner she works on projects in Spain, Europe and Latin America. She is also a co-founder of other innovative ventures, including Mona & Leo Sustainable Lifestyle (a certified natural cosmetics brand) and INPULSA (an entrepreneurship and training network for the promotion of senior employment).

Multifaceted and committed to sharing knowledge, Mónica regularly contributes to media outlets, universities, business schools and professional forums on the subjects of innovation, design, tourism and entrepreneurship.

Juan Manuel Peña

Ha dedicado su amplia vida profesional al sector de la salud y de los hospitales, y ha tenido la oportunidad de trabajar en la gerencia de hospitales, la consultoría hospitalaria a escala nacional e internacional, la gestión integral de proyectos de nuevos centros asistenciales en Europa, África, Asia y América, y la gestión de empresas proveedoras de servicios para el diseño, la construcción, el equipamiento, el mantenimiento y la operación de hospitales. 

Mariano Rigau

Mariano holds a Bachelor in Philosophy and Educational Sciences and an MBA from Esade (1988). He collaborates with the Esade Challenge for Talent as a private individual (1,000 x 1,000 programme) and serves as Vice President of the Insurance Club.

Since 2006, he has been the CEO of Arag SE Spain, a member of the group’s executive committee and President of Arag Services Spain and Portugal.

Over the course of his career, he has served as General Manager of the Royal Automobile Club of Spain (RACE), a board member at ARC Transsistance, Operations Manager at the Royal Automobile Club of Catalonia (RACC), General Manager of Universal Asistencia (RACC Group), a member of the executive committee of RACC, Deputy General Manager of Sabadell Aseguradora, Deputy CEO of Banco de Europa and General Manager of Investment and Leasing for Europe at the Banco de Europa Group.

Xavier López

Xavier has held senior management positions in the industrial, logistics and textile sectors. He gained professional experience by purchasing and managing companies. His main areas of interest are logistics and the transformation of operations. He is passionate about innovation and the implementation of new processes in companies.

Ricard Lascorz

Ricard holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor in Law from Esade (class of 2019). During his studies, he was involved in various academic activities, including the Esade Student Finance Society and the Esade debate team. After doing internships in the fields of corporate law (Uría Menéndez) and investment banking (Morgan Stanley), he decided to go to work for the family business. He currently serves as Business Development Manager at Plimon Global and is a member of the company’s board of directors. His primary responsibilities are management, growth and internationalisation.

Ana Puig Palomar

I guide individuals and teams in personal and group development processes and help organisations with a genuine desire to improve. I develop their leadership capacity and personal and interpersonal skills to enable them to achieve the best results as a team sustainably over time. I have more than 25 years of experience in management, having held business-management positions at various national and international companies.

Session languages: Spanish, Catalan and English

Main certifications:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Coaches Training Institute
• Leadership Certification, The Leadership Circle
• Relational Styles – Bridge
   

Berta Santos Rouco

I provide guidance to people who are undergoing professional transition processes; people in the legal and engineering sectors who are facing new challenges that require management and team-leading skills; and women who wish to strengthen their female leadership. 

Languages: Spanish 

Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation
 

Adela Ureta

Adela holds a Bachelor in Law and an Executive MBA from Esade. She has a rich background, thanks to more than 20 years in different human-resources roles.

She currently serves as General Manager of People at Saint-Gobain for Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Algeria, where she has a clear focus on improving employee and customer experiences with the company.

She is dedicated to working for and with people, committed to promoting the human-resources strategy at all levels of the organisation and leading the transformation policy to make the company more agile, digital, open and customer-centric.

Kelly Pettersen

Kelly Pettersen is Global Head of Business Development, Sales and Marketing at Lendingblock, an institutionally focused cryptocurrency lending firm based in London, UK. Prior to joining Lendingblock, Kelly oversaw European Marketing for BNY Mellon’s largest revenue generating business, Asset Servicing. Earlier, Kelly held various strategic marketing roles at Macquarie in New York and London. Kelly started her career at BMO Capital Markets. 

Kelly is an executive with over 10 years of international experience helping companies of all sizes achieve growth. She has a track record building innovative tech start-ups with a focus on fintech and has led multi-million-dollar strategic projects and transformational marketing and sales-driven initiatives in the finance and banking sector. Kelly is a valued and sought-after advisor to start-ups, on topics across the entire business lifecycle ranging from fundraising and product market fit through to go-to-market strategy and scaling operations. Kelly is an endlessly curious person, with an open mind and passion for diversity and for how technology can positively shape the future of the financial industry.

Kelly is a former US collegiate student athlete completing her undergraduate degree at Providence College. She is currently living in London, UK and earned her Executive MBA from Esade Business & Law School in Spain. 
 

Mercedes Sancho

Con 20 años de trayectoria corporativa en Dirección y Desarrollo de Personas, principalmente en el sector asegurador, en la actualidad es mentora y coach para el desarrollo y la transformación cultural de las organizaciones. Socia-directora de Knosis y co-fundadora de Leading People®, es PCC por la ICF, miembro activo en asociaciones de Business Mentoring y Coaching para el Liderazgo, y especialista en gestión de carreras. Desde 2011 colabora con ESADE como Career Coach y Advisor.

Rodrigo Rama Dellepiane

Career Coaching for High Performance / Strengthening Women’s Leadership / Coaching Migrant Professionals and Native Returnees / Supporting Work-Life Balance / Guiding Brave Decisions

GH ‘86 / MBA ‘89

Coach, trainer and psychologist. Forty-two years of professional experience as a senior executive, trainer and entrepreneur.

I provide growth tools to individuals, teams and organisations.

Deep, disruptive, tenacious and passionate.

Languages: Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese

Certification: Coach certified by the International Coaching Federation

Josep Solé Pié

Graduado en ADE por ESADE y experiencia académica en la universidad norteamericana de Emory University, estado de Georgia. 

Josep inició su carrera en el departamento de Transacciones de Deloitte Barcelona como analista focalizándose en la reestructuración de empresas, asesoramiento de deuda y servicios de creación de valor para empresas. Durante la carrera universitaria, realizó prácticas en banca comercial de BBVA y en el departamento de estrategia y trade marketing de Reckitt Benckisser. 

Es un amante del baloncesto, deporte que sigue practicando actualmente en Liga EBA, y que paralelamente a su carrera profesional en el mundo empresarial, le ayuda a mantener y reforzar su carácter de grupo, competitividad y responsabilidad.  

Claudia Muñoz Fresquet

Miembro de la Junta del Club de Finanzas desde 2021 y Presidente de la Comisión Young desde septiembre de 2020. Ha dedicado la mayor parte de su carrera profesional a las finanzas y a la consultoría.

A parte de su título en ESADE, tiene un Máster en Finanzas Corporativas y diversos títulos en innovación social y medioambiental (lleva a cabo diversos proyectos pro-bono para diversas organizaciones nacionales e internacionales). 

Con una amplia experiencia internacional (1 año en Colombia y 2 años en Chile),  actualmente trabaja en BNP Paribas CIB - Group Finance, especializada en Guarantees & Facilities de EMEA, localizada en Madrid.

Esteban Mogas

Esteban is a Lecturer in the Department of Strategy and General Management at Esade. He has been the director of the Executive MBA for five years.

His main focus is on competitive strategy and entrepreneurship. He recently started developing a new area of interest related to values and strategic decision-making.

He enjoyed a long career in strategic marketing and sales at HP Inc. at the international level (Europe and United States). Previously, he worked as a consultant for KPMG in Spain and as a financial controller at Werfen Mexico.

Esteban serves on the board of trustees of two Jesuit foundations in Catalonia and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid.

Ramon Garcia Gay

Ramon has been extensively involved in values education, strategy, digital platforms and socially responsible investment.

He is a board member or trustee for several non-governmental organisations, including the Esplai Foundation, the Adsis Foundation and Acció Solidària Contra l’Atur. He founded Spain’s first socially responsible investment fund, which is currently managed by CaixaBank.

He has served as general administrator of Esade and director of the Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Science in Management programmes.

Before spending the last 20 years at Esade, his long career included stints as Project Director at Oxfam Intermon and Director of Internal Management at Esteve Química.

He directs the Programme for Discerning Leadership, which is organised by the Curia of the Society of Jesus and designed for senior executives of the Vatican and Catholic religious institutions.

Jaume Polo-Torné

CEO de Twilomedia, una agencia de comunicación y publicidad especializada en el sector hostelero, que ayuda a sus clientes con las técnicas más innovadoras. Con más de 10 años de experiencia en el mundo del marketing y el marketing digital, ha ayudado a empresas a crecer en el mundo digital multiplicando X2 sus ventas en menos de 3 años. Ahora tiene su propio videoblog en YouTube, donde habla de marketing, publicidad, ventas, negocios y el mundo digital.

Riccardo Bacchini

Ricardo holds a Bachelor in Labour Relations from the University of the Latin American Educational Centre (UCEL). He continued his training in labour relations at Garrigues and studied marketing and sales at Esade. He is also a co-active coach. Over the past 28 years, he has built his career in human resources at large multinationals. Since 2015, he has been the Director of Human Resources and Organisation at Volkswagen Spain. Over the years, he has driven the transformation of the company’s culture, mainly by promoting the development of leadership, female talent, work-life balance and well-being – four major issues that have always interested him and which he believes are fundamental for the development of talent in organisations.

Julio Balaguer

Julio es licenciado en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, PDD por el Instituto de Empresa y ha realizado el Programa de Consejeros de ESADE

Cuenta con una experiencia de más de 34 años en el sector de Auditoría y Consultoría, desarrollando toda su carrera en PwC. En junio de 2021 se prejubiló, y actualmente su lema es "Disfrutar y Contribuir", tratando de devolver a la Sociedad una parte de lo que ha recibido en el pasado.

Rita Estévez

TBD

Onofre Pascual

CEO Pabisa Hotels

Guillermo Valles

Director General en Saica Natur

Pedro Capitao

CEO of Hospitality business

Álvaro Cárcel

Bachelor and Master in Law from Esade. More than 10 years of experience in the field of executive talent, both in Spain and abroad. He currently serves as Director of Executive Search at Saltor Talent.

Roanne Othman

Roanne works as a consultant with startups. Before enrolling in the MBA programme at Esade Business School (class of 2020), she acquired more than eight years of professional experience in multidisciplinary functions such as business and product development in e-commerce, retail and fashion, as well as account management in oil and gas. She has lived in seven countries so far and is passionate about new businesses, dogs and jazz.

Xienu Zhang

Xienu grew up in an island of Southeasten China and relocated to Beijing in 2011 for the undergraduate study. Currently she is working at China headquarter of a top-tier German automotive company, specialized in mobility strategy and digital transformation. 

Xienu holds dual master's degree of International Management and CEMS Master in Management from ESADE and bachelor's degree from University of International Business and Economics. She also studied at Ivey Business School and Autonomous University of Barcelona as exchange student.

Xienu is very warmhearted and open-minded. She loves traveling, musical theatre and cats. She has traveled to over 20 countries and enjoys communicating with people of diverse cultural backgrounds. She speaks Chinese, English and Spanish.

If you want to know more about Beijing or China, or grab a drink in Beijing, she is your person!

Josuan Eguiluz Castañeira

Josuan holds a Bachelor in Law and ICT from the University of Deusto (2020). He completed the Double Master in Legal Practice + Intellectual Property, New Technologies and Data Protection at Esade Law School in 2021. He currently practises law in the Intellectual Property, New Technologies and Data Protection Department at Cuatrecasas and is a Legal Counsel Secondee at Adevinta.

Mercè Rius

With my extensive experience in executive recruitment and my knowledge of market needs, I help my clients face moments of professional transition – whether due to a job change or a promotion – by fostering knowledge of their own skills, interests and motivations, while also developing the most appropriate way to come across and persuade others.

Areas:

· Identification and development of competencies and leadership styles

· Professional transition

· Empowerment through self-awareness and control of strengths and motivations

Miquel Colet

Miquel has spent the last 14 years (split between California and New Jersey) as the CEO for the USA and Canada of VIBIA, a leading high-end decorative lighting brand. Previously he worked as CFO or Financial Controller in several companies from different industries in Barcelona. Always eager to lead, learn and to proactively get involved, he has been part of the Board of the ESADE Alumni NY Chapter as a Vice President or President for the past 6 years.

Carlos Hernández Durán

Carlos Hernández Durán joined Uría Menéndez in 2018 and is a senior associate in the International Arbitration and Litigation Group in Madrid.

He has more than seven years of experience acting as a lawyer and arbitration secretary in commercial and investment-protection arbitration proceedings before various arbitral institutions and jurisdictions. He has experience working on cases subject to various legislations and related to different industrial sectors (construction, energy, engineering and telecommunications). He frequently represents multinational corporations and sovereign states in proceedings for recognition, enforcement and annulment of arbitral awards.

Before joining Uría Menéndez, he worked at another firm in Barcelona for three years.

His mother tongues are Spanish and Catalan, he is fluent in English and has a basic level of German

Paula Navajas

After her extensive management consulting experience in the Healthcare sector working for KPMG Barcelona, Paula Navajas completed an International MBA Program in HEC Geneva, which allowed her to apply her private sector background to the International Organizations sector.

Always aiming through her work at having a social impact, she joined UNAIDS where she supported countries to access and efficiently manage the required funding for the roll-out of AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment Programs worldwide. She also put her private sector experience at play when she joined the Corporate Development Department at the International Olympic Committee, where she managed Strategic and Transformational Projects.

Paula holds an BBA and Master’s degree from Esade Business School and is President of the Esade Alumni Lausanne Chapter, a small but dynamic chapter that offers his Alumni exciting networking and content-creating events and activities.

Andrea Sala

Business Process Consultant Part of the Zurich chapter board and loving to see how we grow and mature y con mucha illusion de ayudar a mis companeros a desarrollar el chapter y de seguir formando parte de la "Esade community"!

Madre de 2 "pre-teens" y disfrutando de la vida en Suiza, el chocolate y las montanas :)

As a Business Process Consultant based in Zurich, and having developed my career in several multinationals, leading the delivery of complex business transformation programs across departments, industries and geographies, I am now enjoying a new career path as an consultant helping companies redesigning their processes with the aim of gaining efficiencies and effectiveness, riding the wave and enjoying meeting new people, continue to learn and stepping out of my comfort zone!

Eulalia Vilaclara

Degree in law, 2006. Lawyer and registered economist. Tax adviser at Mateos Advocats and board member of several companies. Previously, worked at Vilaclara – Riera, MTR y Asociados, and Arthur Andersen. Lecturer in the ESADE department of law from 1985 to 1998.

Yulia Mukhacheva

Yulia Mukhacheva is a Spanish corporate lawyer working in Barcelona.

Yulia is an active member in the Alumni network of ESADE Business School. She holds a  Master in International Business and Commercial  Law by ESADE Law School. Currently, she is preparing a  Master in International Taxation Law.  Her specialization is in the field of international private law, corporate and business investments as well as tax structuring. She participated in post graduate programs at the renowned Hague Academy of International Law in The Netherlands.

As an engaged volunteer in the “ESADE Alumni Giving Back project” she uses her professional skills to support family companies in developing countries in Latin America

Yulia’s spare time is dedicated to sports. Running is part of her daily routine and a perfect way to organize her working life. Her jogging shoes are always close at hand!  In summer time rafting and mountaineering in the Pyrenees are an excellent way to recharge her energy levels. She is fond of cutting-edge technological innovations and the latest computer gadgets.

Yulia works fluently in Spanish, Catalan, English and Russian.

Isabel Markwitz

As coach and mentor to entrepreneurs and startups, Isabel supports companies in developing and executing cross regional and cultural growth strategies.

Cristina Manchado Rubio

Cristina Manchado Rubio is an expert in Client Management, Marketing Communication and Sales. For more than 15 years, Cristina Manchado worked for Pharmaceutical companies, in the Healthcare sector, working in several key positions in Consumer Care / OTC Marketing Manager, Category and Purchasing Manager and Channel Manager.

Born in Barcelona, Cristina earned a Political Science Bachelor at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, a Master in Pharmaceutical Marketing Management in 2008 from EADA, an Executive Master in Marketing and Sales in 2006 from ESADE, and a Master in Corporate Communication and Digital Technologies in 2002 from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Before moving to Hamburg, Cristina worked in Spain for Pharmaceutical companies, leaders of branded Consumer Care distribution in Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Cristina is currently Partner Manager at Cargonexx Freight forwarder company in Germany. She is keen and determined on integrating the Chapter with the Alumni, and expand it. She would like to enrich the experience through get-togethers to exchange state-of-the-art business tendencies and entrepreneurship.

Pedro Cesar Galvan

Versatile and highly competent senior marketing VP and professional possessing more than 20 yearsof experience in managing director, CMO, CDO, growth hacker, COMMS, directing business development initiatives and in digital strategy and social media across Europe, Latin America, USA, Middle East, Africa and Asia regions. Significantly enhanced organizational reach and market share through the application of robust digital strategies, effective pricing and excellent client relationship management; transformed struggling units into vital, streamlined and growing businesses; also produced measurable year-on-year improvement under dynamic, shifting conditions and in downturn markets. Possesses solid management skills and the ability to analyze issues, devise continuous process improvements and incorporate initiatives to increase efficiency, streamline operations and decrease overall expenses with minimal resources. Besides Pedro has a proven track record on teaching marketing, sales and advertising for many years.

José Alberto Ramírez

José Alberto es un profesional con 25 años de experiencia en el sector automoción. Tras estudiar Derecho en la Universidad de Granada y realizar el MBA en Esade, se incorporó a Ford Credit desde donde inició su carrera en Ford Motor Company en diversos puestos de gerencia en el área comercial y de marketing. Con un intervalo de 8 años como Director de RACC en Andalucía, vuelve a trabajar en Ford en el área de Vehículos Industriales como responsable nacional de Vehículos Transformados.

Joan Colom

Joan holds a Bachelor in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Diploma in Public Health from Spain’s National School of Public Health, a Master in Management from Esade and a Master in Drug Dependence from the University of Barcelona.

He is Deputy Director General of Drug Dependence and Director of the Programme for the Prevention, Control and Care of HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Viral Hepatitis at the Catalan Health Department. He is a member of the inter-regional committee of the National Plan on Drugs and the regional coordinator of the National Plan on AIDS. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and a coordinator of various European Union projects.

He has authored more than 50 articles in Spanish and international journals in the field of drug addiction. He is also a co-author of all of Catalonia’s strategic plans on drugs. He has sat on more than 25 scientific committees.

He teaches in the Master in Drug Dependence at the University of Barcelona and has participated in many conferences and seminars both in Catalonia and Spain and abroad.

He has received several awards and recognitions, including the Reina Sofia Award for the Prevention of Drug Dependence, the Diario Médico Award for Best Research Initiative, the Recognition for Best European Policy on Alcohol from the Assembly of European Regions, the Ignasi Fina Award for Occupational Health, the Recognition of Best Practices on Gender Violence

and Drugs from the Spanish Ministry of Health and the Knowledge-Action-Change Paolo Pertica Award for Best Harm-Reduction Policy in the Field of Drug Dependence.

He currently serves as President of the Esade Alumni Public Management Club.

Alejandra Pérez Velandia

I am Alejandra, from Colombia. I came to Barcelona 3 years ago to do the MSc in Marketing Management at ESADE and fell in love with this city. After completing my studies, I joined the automotive industry as a trainee of the Volkswagen Graduate Program. Now I am the Remarketing Project Manager in the Used Cars Department.

In my professional path I have worked in many sectors, from banking, consultancy, insurance to FMCG. Every step is a new chapter and I am taking the most out of my current one in Barcelona.

Amongst my hobbies, I like going to the cinema, walking by the sea, doing yoga, going to concerts and festivals and simply enjoying every day. I am a very positive person, energetic and open minded. Hope to transmit all my enthusiasm to this Chapter and its members!

See you soon!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alejapeve

Rolando Carrazco

Soci Director en iTLand

Executive with more than 15 years of experience. Currently I specialize in the adaptation of analog businesses to a digital environment, from the definition of strategy and process automation, to commercial support in the go-to-market strategy. I have implemented strategic projects in various industries: automotive, banking, microfinance, consulting, insurance, media, technology and education in Latin America. As a corporate executive, I have worked at all levels of business strategy, planning, development and growth in companies such as HSBC, Interbank, La Positiva and Pacífico Business School. I am passionate about teaching, I collaborate as a professor and postgraduate speaker in various business schools in Peru, Colombia and Central America.

Isla Ramos

Ramos Island born in Granada, studies course between Spain and England. Licensed by the Complutense in Business Administration and Senior Executive Program at ESADE.

Isla has developed her career in the technology sector, in companies such as IBM and Lenovo where she was the Director General. Since 2008, he developed an international career as a member of the Lenovo Steering Committee Europe Middle East and Africa. He has more than 10 years of experience in large Business Transformations, both from the digital point of view, as well as process optimization and post merger management. His areas of expertise are Technology, Transformation and International Management. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of a listed company, EZENTIS, and is currently a member of the Board of Save the Children. His great passions are education and the third sector, to which he is currently engaged.

Thomas Letko

Optimist, technology enthusiasts, life-long learner

Gemma Sisó

Gemma is the Director of Marketing and a member of the Management Committee at Aramark. She has 25 years of experience in the food sector (consumer goods, retail and services), where she has worked for leading national and multinational companies. She has solid experience in marketing, retail, sales and purchasing. Gemma has a global vision of business and analytical capacity for decision-making. She is also proactive and used to leading multidisciplinary teams and working on international projects. She is interested in innovation and the digital transformation of companies. She is a key ambassador of EJE&CON Barcelona and currently coordinates the EngageMEN programme.

Gemma is a founding member of WERock Capital, a group of female business angels who invest in pre-seed/seed stage startups with at least one woman on the founding team. She received a scholarship take part in the Santander W50 Women on Boards programme at UCLA in 2019. A total of 42 such scholarships are awarded worldwide.

Alexandros Kazantzis

Currently EU Head of Capital Planning at Amazon; I have an electrical engineering background with experience in Construction.

José Luis Porte

Executive President of MEROIL; the leading Independent Oil Company in Spain,  President of the Joint Venture Company LUKOIL-MEROIL, stablished July 2010, and President of a familiar group of companies. 

Previously he has been CEO at Spain United Distillers (Guinness PLC), Marketing Director at Martini & Rossi, International Director at Chupa Chups and Marketing Manager at Braun Española S.A. (Gillette Group) 

José Luis Porté is Airplane pilot from 1983, Yacht Captain, and he likes Road cycling and Photography.

Daniel Sánchez

Daniel holds a Bachelor in Economics and an MBA from Esade, as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago.

He is a co-founder and general partner at Nauta Capital, a technology venture capital firm that was founded in Barcelona and currently has offices in London and Munich. He gained experience as an mergers and acquisitions consultant at Deloitte and as Deputy General Manager at Taurus. He has been a board member at the European private equity association Invest Europe and at the Spanish Association of Capital, Growth and Investment (ASCRI).

At various stages of his career, has been a collaborator and academic assistant at Esade, teaching finance, strategy and international business expansion.

Lourdes Teixidor

Psicóloga especializada en organizaciones y trabajo con más de 30 años de experiencia como consultora en el ámbito de personas. Socia Directora de Psicotècnia y, desde el año 1995 profesora asociada en la Facultat de Educación y Psicología de la Universitat de Girona y colaboradora académica del departamento de Personas y Organización de Esade.

Daniel Reyes

Daniel has built a career in marketing at Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA). In recent years, he created and led the Corporate Marketing Department.

Over the course of his career at CCMA, he has led various departments, including Market Research, Commercial Marketing, Children and Youth Segment Marketing (Club Super3) and Self-Advertising on TV3, later becoming Marketing Director of TV3. He also oversees marketing at Catalunya Ràdio, where he created the company’s Corporate Marketing Area.

He holds a Bachelor and Master in Business Administration from Esade and an MBA from McGill University in Montreal.

José Campos

José holds a Bachelor in Business Studies and an MBA from Esade.

He spent 14 years building a career in marketing at various consumer-goods multinationals (CPC/Unilever, PepsiCo and Kellogg’s). He later went on to lead various growth projects in consumer healthcare, both at multinationals (SmithKline Beecham) and at family businesses (Lacer, Ordesa and Ferrer), where he spent a total of nearly 19 years. He has served as a board member and as chairman of the board at two subsidiaries of Ordesa.

He is currently an independent consultant at the Warrior Consumer Healthcare Advisory, where he focuses on business-development projects, internationalisation, strategic marketing, and mergers and acquisitions.

He is a founding member and treasurer of Instituto Consumer Healthcare. He serves as a mentor at Esade Alumni and is a member of Esade BAN.

Maria Del Carmen Fernández

María del Carmen is a journalist specialising in health and medicine. Since February 2016, she has directed the Unidad Editorial titles Diario Médico, Correo Farmacéutico and CuídatePlus.

She joined Diario Médico’s Barcelona newsroom in 1994 and was later appointed team coordinator and editor-in-chief, a position she held from 2004 until January 2016. She had previously contributed to the newspaper Avui (now El Punt Avui) and worked as a newswriter specialising in health and medicine at Diari de Barcelona and Nou Diari de Barcelona (defunct since 1994).

She holds a Bachelor in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1989) and a Postgraduate Degree in Integrated Health Services Management from Esade (2011-2012). She is a board member of the Esade Alumni Health and Pharma Club. She also teaches in the Master in Hospital and Health Service Management at the University of Barcelona (UB) and in the UB-ESAME Master in Pharmaceutical Industry Scientific Departments.

Álvaro Serrano

Álvaro has more than 20 years of experience in the B2B industrial sector, primarily in technical and management positions in the automotive industry. He currently works as Managing Director of Lohmann Spain.

Miguel Mas

Miguel completed the Executive MBA at Esade (2005-2006), the International Management Programme in Sales and Marketing at the Volkswagen Group (2013-2014) and the Master in Legal Consultancy at Instituto de Empresa (1995-1996).

He now serves as Director of Purchasing and Transport at Volkswagen Group España Distribución (the group’s vehicle distribution company in Spain, which includes Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and light commercial vehicle brands).

He has 25 years of professional experience, of which he has spent the last 20 in the automotive industry, where he has held different managerial responsibilities. He previously worked as a Facility Manager for Nissan Spain, DB Transfesa and Ferrovial at Acciona.

He has a global vision of business, is proactive and is used to working with multidisciplinary teams.

In recent years, he has expanded his specific training in innovation and digitalisation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the International Seminar in Digital Transformation (ISDI) at Harvard.

Beatriz Díaz Serrano

Coaching for executives and managers in transformation processes

Coaching for first-time managers: 

• Accessing strategies for success when faced with the challenge of managing teams for the first time
• Reflecting on the differences between a leader and a manager and applying these insights on a day-to-day basis
• Understanding power, authority and respect 
• How to build a top team 
• Setting limits through assertiveness and effective delegation

Coaching high-performance teams:
I help teams identify success strategies that will help them achieve their goals and generate other forms of learning that will take them to the next level, enabling them to become high-performance teams.

Language: Spanish

Certification: Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
 

Aditya Priyadarshi

Aditya is an Esade MBA (Class of 2016) with 10+ years of professional experience in Enterprise Software, Telecommunications and Management Consulting industries. Having obtained degrees in both business and technology, Aditya draws from his rich and diverse skill set to help companies leverage technology as a driver of profitable growth. He currently works at Oracle's Dublin office as a Senior Account Manager responsible for evangelizing core Oracle technologies and driving growth for the company in the UK mid-market.

Outside of work, Aditya is an avid practitioner of Krav Maga - an Israeli Mixed Martial Art. He loves reading non-fiction and curating music playlists.

Verónica Valls

Verónica holds a Bachelor in Law from the University of Málaga and a Master in ICT Law, Social Networks and Intellectual Property from Esade. She has built her career at law firms and international corporations. She currently works as an intellectual and industrial property lawyer at the Bimbo Group.

Rolando Carrazco

Ejecutivo con más de 15 años de experiencia. Actualmente me especializo en la adaptación de los negocios analógicos a un entorno digital, desde la definición de la estrategia y la automatización de procesos, hasta el acompañamiento comercial en la estrategia go-to-market. He implementado proyectos estratégicos en diversas industrias: automotriz, banca, microfinanzas, consultoría, seguros, medios, tecnología y educación en Latinoamérica.

Como ejecutivo corporativo, he trabajado en todos los niveles de la estrategia comercial, planificación, desarrollo y crecimiento en empresas como HSBC, Interbank, La Positiva y Pacífico Business School.

Me apasiona la docencia, colaboro como profesor y speaker de postgrado en diversas escuelas de negocio en Perú, Colombia y Centroamérica.
 

Carlos García

Executive Master in Digital Business at Esade (EMDB 18/19) with exchange at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business in Silicon Valley. Professional experience includes global roles at SKF in Sales, Technology, E-business, Digital Solutions. After an International career based out of London and Madrid, Carlos has now been living in Gothenburg for the last few years, driving Digital Sales Solutions of SKF.

He has also joined COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology proposing programs in the area of Digitalization. 

Carlos is a Board member of the Esade Alumni Chapter in Sweden, which is based in Stockholm, and he is the representative in Gothenburg. If you are moving to Gothenburg or visiting this city, he will be happy to welcome you.  

Anthony Vallance-Owen

I am in the middle of my Full Time MBA (graduate 2022) and I am the current MBASA President.  Prior to the MBA I had a 14 year career with PwC spending approximately the first half in audit/ assurance and the last in M&A and capital markets. I had the opportunity to live and work in the UK and Vancouver as well as extensive travel around the world.  Although, as you have probably worked out, this “experience” puts me firmly at the older end of the MBA class!  

I am using the MBA to facilitate a move into the Healthcare sector, preferably in Barcelona, and with that in mind will be starting my internship with Werfen this summer.  

Outside of the MBA I enjoy spending time with my new born first child Guillermo and my wife Anna (originally from Barcelona) as well as being a passionate ultra runner.
 

Carmen Vallhonesta

I am a professional with more than 18 years of experience in international-level management positions in business development at companies of various sizes in different sectors. As an executive coach, I guide leaders through the personal and professional development process during moments of change or uncertainty, enabling them to achieve their goals. Slow down to move forward.

Languages: Spanish, Catalan, English and French

Certifications:

Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation

Systemic Coaching

Paula García Monné

MSc in Marketing Management 2019 – Class Representative  

Graduada en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas por la Universidad Ramon Llull, en el MSc in Marketing Management por ESADE, y en dos programas internacionales en Negocios y Marketing por Università Bocconi y University of California, Los Angeles, Paula es una líder con vocación de servicio.  

Inició su carrera en la industria de la moda y la cosmética de lujo, trabajando en la Asociación Española del Lujo y en la Asociación del Paseo de Gracia, en Barcelona y en Londres. Siguió yéndose a París, como Digital Project Manager mundial para Gucci Beauty, marca ilustre dentro del porfolio de la división de lujo de Coty. En 2020, Paula optó por volver a Barcelona y explorar el ámbito del Product Management, esta vez desde una multinacional más cercana, Mango. Actualmente se encuentra de vuelta en el ámbito digital, y con foco en performance y crecimiento se encarga de gestionar una amplia cartera de clientes de distintos sectores.  

Paula siempre está lista para nuevos desafíos, y para ella seguir conectada a ESADE Alumni a través de la Comisión Young era la manera más natural y efectiva de seguir conectada a toda la comunidad de ESADE. 

Yulia Mukhacheva

•    International Business Law, Skills and Management for Lawyers, ESADE, LL.M.  14
•    International Tax Law, ESADE, MLT 19

Push further, dig deeper and climb higher.

Corporate lawyer. Specialist in M&A and Private Equity, International taxation, accounting & financial analysis. Active in ESADE Alumni Social (Latin America). Mentor for young entrepreneurs

Sport fanatic with passion for nature. Fond of Trekking Boot Camps. Focus on tech innovation, IT solutions #DigitalFutureSociety. 

Key words: #circulareconomy #enviroment #sustainability  #SustainableDevelopmentGoals
 

Paula Teixidor Bustins

I am a Finance professional with more than 15 years of international experience within controlling, performance management, business partnering, sales force efficiency, accounting and audit.

After completing the Lic&MBA at ESADE, I started my career back home, in Barcelona, working for PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditor and Financial Transactions Analyst. Looking for an international experience, I moved to London to join Medtronic's Internal Audit team, working in more than 14 different countries while obtaining the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) certification.

Looking to broaden my horizons, I completed the full time MBA at the London Business School, specializing in Finance and being a board member of its Healthcare club. Upon graduation, I joined the Finance Development Program at Novartis in their headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, where I worked in five different Finance departments, from accounting, to treasury and including controlling and performance management.

I have lived and worked for the past six years in Oslo, working first as Finance and Sales Force Efficiency Manager at Novartis and currently for JDE (Friele coffee), leading its Finance team.

I speak Catalan, Spanish, English and Norwegian and enjoy learning new languages.

I am married, have three kids and I love modern dance, jazz and tap dancing.

Rafael Sueiro

Rafael has extensive managerial experience, with a special focus on finance and strategic consulting, having worked in various industries and positions across Europe. He is currently based in Brussels, where he works at the Radisson Hotel Group as Senior Vice President for Group Controlling and Planning. He previously served as Global CFO of CWT Meetings & Events, working out of London and Madrid, after having been General Manager of CWT Spain. Prior to that, he worked at Vodafone Spain and at Deloitte as Strategy and Operations Manager. His educational background includes the Advanced Management Programme, the Executive MBA at Esade Business School and the Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Wales.

Paula Gual

Desde 2017 co-fundadora de Kalcetin.es, marca de calcetines que diseña, y fabrica 100% en España. Calcetines de compresión y calcetines de algodón estampados y de colores exclusivos.

Borja Solans

Responsable del área Laboral de la firma Gabinet Casas, despacho especializado en derecho laboral y fiscal, con un equipo formado por más de 30 profesionales con sede en Lleida y Mollerusa.

Graduado en Derecho por la Universidad de Lleida. Master de Abogacia y doble master de Derecho Laboral y Recursos Humanos por ESADE y Master en marketing y digital business.

Desde el 2014 imparto clases como profesor asociado en el grado de Relaciones Laborales de la Escuela Universitaria de Relaciones Laborales (EURL) adscrito a la Universidad de Lleida. Concretamente en las asignaturas de derecho del trabajo y derecho procesal laboral y sancionador.

Actualmente, también ejerzo las siguientes responsabilidades:

Desde 2016, Mediador y conciliador del Tribunal Laboral de Catalunya.

Desde 2017, presidente de los jóvenes abogados de Lleida.
Desde 2017, miembro de la Junta Directiva de ESADE ALUMNI LLEIDA.
Desde 2017, miembro de la Junta Directiva de PIMEC JOVES LLEIDA
Desde 2018, miembro del comité ejecutivo de PIMEC LLEIDA
Desde 2018, Miembro del Consejo de Administración en la Comisión de Seguridad y Salud Laboral del Consejo de Relaciones Laborales.
Desde 2019, miembro del Comité Ejecutivo de la Cámara de Comercio de Lleida.
Desde 2019, Vocal de la Comisión Provincial del Observatorio de Lucha Contra el Fraude a la Seguridad Social.
Desde 2019, Miembro de la comisión de cultura del ICALL
Desde 2020, Vicepresidente de PIMEC JOVES Lleida.
Desde 2020, Colaborador de teleponent en la sección del asesor
Desde 2020, Colaborador de GLOBALleida en la sección de la voz de los expertos
Desde 2021, Miembro de la comisió Laboral de PIMEC

Juan Sebastián Ferreira

Colombian lawyer with experience in contracts, corporate law, e-commerce and data privacy. Master in International Business Law from ESADE Business & Law School, and Master in Digital Law and Information Society from the Universitat de Barcelona.

A dedicated lawyer and team player. Always looking for the best solutions for internal and external clients. He has worked in law firms, consulting firms, and retail companies, which allows him to have a broad knowledge of what is expected of a lawyer as a business partner.

Enthusiastic about new technologies in the legal sector that can help lawyers and clients to achieve a more efficient business.

Alicia González Peñalver

Alicia González Peñalver, a law graduate, has more than 18 years of experience working at IBM where she currently plays the role of IBM Europe & MEA Strategic Kaizen. In his long professional career within the company, he has always held leadership positions both as a people manager and as a project manager. He currently works as a project manager certified by the Project Management Institute in the area of ​​IBM Supply Chain. Team leadership, digital transformation consulting, process reengineering, and improvement of the customer experience in agile environments, scrum, kanban, design thinking, are his areas of greatest experience. PMD 2018 at Esade. PMD 2018 en Esade.

Samuel Santacreu

Investor Relations Manager en Colonial

Juan Huguet

Secretario autonómico de Innovación y Transformación Digital en Generalitat Valenciana

Francesc Fons

​​​​​​Dr.-Ing. in Electronics technology with 20+ years of expertise in the automotive industry, specialized in the fields of embedded software, hardware design and system & network architectures, with a proven track record of value creation in both exploitation (product development) and exploration (advanced engineering and applied research) disciplines. Along his career, he has been with Tier 1 & 2 companies from US, Germany and China, and has contributed to the successful launch of many commercial projects for OEMs in Europe and Asia, like BMW, Audi, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and Renault/Nissan, among others.

Jesus Castell

Jesus has +15 years of experience in the legal field. He holds a Bachelor of laws by the University of Navarra, LLM (DIN) by Esade and MBA by IESE. Jesus is the Head of Legal Investments at a worldwide leader asset manager. He started his career at two of the largest European law firms and at a tier 1 financial institution. He lectures laws at the University of Navarra and at the University of Barcelona and he collaborates as Mentor at the University of St. Gallen. Co-author of the legal book: “Banking and Securities Law” and author of several legal articles and papers in different international publications. Jesus was recognised and awarded in 2020 by the “Inhousecommnity awards Switzerland” as one of the best in-house lawyers in Switzerland.

Adriana Del Solar

After 17 years working in different organisations, I have a very broad vision of the business world. Through unconditional acceptance and belief in you, active listening, empathy and assertiveness, we will work together to develop your potential and well-being in a pragmatic and authentic way. We can work on either the personal or professional sphere. Everything is interconnected, since we are a single being.

In order to be able to choose freely, we will first look into who you are, in order to re-discover and connect with your values, interests and motivations. Enjoying a full life requires thought, emotion and behaviour acting in harmony and always in keeping with your values.

One of my key elements is learning and knowledge development. I have received training to acquire and expand my toolkit to guide you along the path to self-knowledge, the development of autonomy and selfesteem, the identification and modification of your negative thoughts or emotions, the improvement of your emotional management, the improvement of your time management, etc.

Languages: Spanish, Catalan

Certifications:

- International Coaching Expert, Gold Level, Instituto Europeo de Coaching (IEC)

Carlos Oliveras

Bachelor of Economics from the University of Barcelona. Bachelor of Market Research and Techniques from the University of Barcelona and Maastricht University. MBA from Esade (2009-2011).

With nearly 20 years of experience in market intelligence consulting, Carlos started his career at PRM International, where he worked as project manager. He later worked at AMINT for 11 years, including 6 years as managing partner at the Santiago de Chile office. He founded LMI Consulting in May 2020.

Emilio Vázquez

He is an industrial engineer with 25 years of experience in the industrial and mining sectors, helping companies meet the needs of today’s generations without compromising the possibilities of future generations.

Wesam Abuznadah

Transformative educational leader and an Academic Vascular Surgeon with over 15 years of leadership success inspiring, changing, and disrupting healthcare, public administration, and Education on a national, regional, and international levels. With a passion for improvement, a transformative mindset, and an understanding of the impact of change for all stakeholders to create win- win situations that achieve the desired target
 

Eduardo Monge Montes

Position and company: Executive Vice President at RDVAL Proveedora de Precios

Eduardo has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and securities sector in Central America and the Caribbean. He has extensive knowledge of portfolio management, risk management, artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital transformation, as well as more than 16 years of management experience.

Montse Caellas

Montse Caellas

Noah Leshan

Noah serves as an Investor at Touchdown Ventures, a venture capital firm. He focuses on property technology, home improvement, Industry 4.0, and water technology investments. Before joining Touchdown, Noah was an Investor at Pegasus Tech Ventures, advising and working on diligence for both venture and M&A opportunities. Additionally, Noah was the manager for Startup World Cup, a global pitch competition with a $1M investment prize. Before Pegasus, Noah worked in finance at TEGNA and also developed the financial plan for PeaceStartup, a social impact fund in Bogotá, Colombia.Earlier in his career, Noah worked in commercial real estate as a Land Acquisition Associate at K Hovnanian Homes and an Assistant to the Executive Managing Director at Newmark Knight Frank and The Executive Director Of Capital Markets at Cushman & Wakefield. Noah graduated magna cum laude from Towson University in Maryland and has a Master of Science in Finance from Esade. In his spare time, Noah enjoys attending concerts and being obsessive about food. He is a world traveler and has lived in five countries.

Manuel Morales

Life motto: “Wo ein Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg” “Whether you think you can, or think you cannot, you are right”

Interests: music, business and history literature, networking and sports like hiking and diving.

Follow me on instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ibergourmet/

Guillermo Valles

Como Director de Procurement de Saica estoy a cargo de un equipo de profesionales con la responsabilidad de comprar y aprovisionar para las seis fábricas de papel de papel de la compañía en España, Francia y el Reino Unido.

El equipo se encarga además de liderar las compras centrales para las otras tres divisiones del grupo Saica. Participo además activamente en todas aquellas líneas de trabajo de las asociaciones sectoriales que tengan como objetivo incrementar la recogida y el reciclado del papel usado tanto en España como en Europa

Juan Francisco Mejía

Juan Francisco Mejía. Casado. Licenciado en Ciencias Administrativas y Licenciado en Banca y Finanzas por la Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas, programa de Administración y Dirección de Empresas por ESADE, Curso Académico de Doctorado en Economía Internacional y Desarrollo por la Universidad de Barcelona, cursos en ESADE de Finanzas y Empresa Familiar. Consultor internacional en proyectos de Organismos Multilaterales, Director-Fundador de la Empresa de Consultoría SOLUCIONA EMPRESARIAL con oficinas en Venezuela-República Dominicana-Panamá.

Vicky Ramirez

She has an extensive experience in Corporate Finance in both Industry and Financial Services.  Initiated her career by joining the Financial Management Program with General Electric in the USA.

True believer in team work. She enjoys working in a diverse team.
Passionate on promoting inclusion, diversity, and equality, as well as supporting social causes to create a positive impact in the society.

Vishesh Dalal

Vishesh is currently the Head of Strategy at Indie Home Loans, a mortgage finance company based in India. Before completed the ESADE MBA in 2018, Vishesh has qualified as a Chartered Accountant and holds a CFA Charter. He has over 11 years of work experience across entrepreneurship and finance, having worked with various teams at Ernst & Young in India and Norway in the past. Outside of work, Vishesh likes to travel and is a certified scuba diver.

Isabel Marwitz

As coach and mentor to entrepreneurs and startups, Isabel supports companies in developing and executing cross regional and cultural growth strategies.

Karine Selma Laronze

Bachelor&MBA at ESADE, I also completed my CEMS Master's in International Management at ESADE and Stockholm School of Economics in 2007. After graduating, I worked more than 6 years in Business Consulting in Spain, South Africa and Colombia. I moved to Austria in 2014, where I have started a family. I am currently working as Project Manager at AEI, Agency for European Integration and Economic Development, in Vienna. I am a Spanish, French and Catalan native speaker, and also speak English and German fluently. I am involved in the Austria Chapter since its launch.

Albert Janer

Albert is passionate, innovator and maximizer who enjoys meeting new people and working effectively and strategically to make an impact on society and organizations.

Albert is Manager based out of Accenture's New York office specialized in Financial Services (Finance & Risk). Since he joined the firm in Barcelona in 2012, he has helped clients in dozens of projects related to definition of business processes and agile operating models and implementation of new technologies in Reporting, Data Management, AML, Surveillance, RPA, AI, eComm and Blockchain.

Mrdjan Uzelac

I am originally from Belgrade, and grew up in Yugoslavia, Germany and Canada. Different cultures have always been a key part of my life, which attracted me to ESADE in the first place. Now I am keen to foster the ESADE spirit in Hamburg by helping create a vibrant local alumni community.

I have been working for various technology companies in Canada and Germany for over 15 years.  As a business developer I specialize in setting up strategic partnerships for software products and services, such as payment, accounting & HR, and ecommerce solutions.

I graduated in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, where I also completed a Master in German Literature.  I moved back to Europe for the ESADE MBA which then brought me to Hamburg in 2012, where I’ve been since.

I enjoy discovering different places near and far, and especially the many things Hamburg has to offer - whether eating, socializing or checking out the many happenings in the city.  I play tennis and the cajon, and try to sail and ski whenever time permits.

Roland Scharrer

Roland Scharrer is currently AXA Group Chief Technology & Innovation Officer as well as AXA Group Chief Data Officer.

As part of his mandate, he is responsible for leveraging data and emerging technologies at scale with the potential to disrupt the current insurance business model and provide opportunities to shape future businesses.

•       Roland started at AXA Group in January 2018 as CTIO/CDO in charge of data & technology innovation teams in Paris, Lausanne, Singapore and San Francisco. Initially, he joined AXA Germany in 2016 as Head of Data Strategy & Analytics.
•       Prior to joining AXA, Roland has worked in Germany, Spain, UK, US and India in software engineering, data science and strategy consulting, focussing on the Automotive and Financial Services industries.In his last position, Roland was Chief Data Scientist for Capgemini Consulting.
•       Roland studied computer engineering, statistics, business administration and design thinking, among others at ESADE Business School Barcelona and Stanford/HPI School of Design Thinking. 

Lucía Lagunas Reyes

My name is Lucia Lagunas, I am 28 years old and I have a Law Degree from the Public University of Navarra. Subsequently, I completed an optional Master's Degree in Access to Law, completing it with the postgraduate course in International Business Law, at the Esade Law School.

Simultaneously to my specialization in international business law, I took the course of Skills and Management for lawyers, in Esade. This new training has allowed me to acquire more international knowledge applied at all times to Spanish and European Law, as well as to develop new essential skills in the practice of the 21st century, such as leadership, negotiation, work. as a team, motivation and empathy, among others.

I consider myself a proactive, disciplined person, with initiative and eager for improvement every day.

Regarding my professional aspect, I started doing internships in Pamplona, ​​in the area of ​​Corporate Law at ARPA Abogados Consultores and subsequently, I undertook an international career in the legal department of a German company, VR. LEASING, Aktiengesellschaft, located in Frankfurt (Germany).

Once in Spain again, I have worked for two and a half years as a lawyer in the area of ​​Real Estate & Foreign Investment in an office in Barcelona and currently, I continue to train and work as a lawyer in the area of ​​Corporate & New Technologies in the office of Miliners SLP lawyers

Núria Agell

Director of the Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences and professor of the ESADE Busines School. Degree in Mathematical Sciences. University of Barcelona (UB) and PhD in Mathematics Applied by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). His research areas focus on Artificial Intelligence, in particular in ways of reasoning and his relationship with multi-criteria decision making. He has been president of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (2006-2010). He has led several research projects with both public and private funding. He has more than 50 publications in international magazines of recognized impact. He is currently participating in the editorial board of the international Journal "Information Fusion Journal".

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nuria_Agell 

Eulàlia Pujolà

Eulàlia Pujolà Elies has more than 40 years of experience working as an organisational consultant at various companies. She holds a degree in industrial engineering and is an EFQM Excellence Model assessor accredited by Club Excelencia en Gestión. She also holds an MBA from Esade. 

For the last 30 years, she has worked as the head of quality, auditing and regulations at Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals. 

Joan Sanfeliu

Joan holds a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering. He began his career at Nestlé and later became a strategic consultant at Cluster (now Oliver Wyman). For the last 15 years, he has been the CEO of Productos Montblanc SL and JSSL, companies founded by his great-grandfather in 1925 in the chemical, engineering and real-estate sectors.

He collaborates with non-profits related to the sport of sailing, including the Altafulla Yacht Club, the Catalan Sailing Federation and the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation. He also collaborates with social and cultural institutions, mainly in the Conca de Barberà region, through Fundació Martí l’Humà – Tot Conca.

Francesc Gibert

Francesc is a Managing Partner for Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Andorra at KPMG, where he oversees four offices and 850 professionals working in the fields of auditing, tax and legal services, and consulting.

He has more than 25 years of experience in auditing and advisory services, in areas such as corporate development, transactions, banking regulation, corporate governance and internal control. His clients include major Spanish financial institutions and international firms that have a presence in Spain. He has also collaborated with non-financial and public-sector entities. In addition, he regularly gives lectures in courses related to his areas of specialisation, particularly those targeting board members at publicly traded companies.

Previously at KPMG, he was responsible for the financial and markets sector in Catalonia and for risk advisory services throughout Spain.

Alba Rubio

Bachelor in Business Administration and Masters at Esade (Lic&MDE 12) with exchange at Singapore Management University. During her times at Esade, she represented the students awarded with talent scholarships in several occasions and she was also President of Esade students' groups during the last 3 years of her Bachelor. 

Previous professional experience includes striving at the Investment Management division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, collaborating on the M&A efforts at The Economist Group and working as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. After an international career based out of London, Hong Kong, New York and Madrid, Alba has now been living in Dubai for the last two years, driving the strategy of Careem, the first unicorn in the MENA region. 

She is also one fo the leaders of the LeanIn circle of "Women in Tech" in Dubai and President of the Esade Alumni UAE Chapter.

Andrea Ruizdelgado

Andrea is a principal associate in the real estate practice area at Garrigues. She specialises in real estate investment, real estate financing and all aspects related to the activity of investment funds in the real estate sector.

Her experience includes advising clients on all types of real estate transactions (sale and purchase, sale and leaseback, leasing, construction and development) and assisting in the implementation of financial transactions with underlying real estate assets.

She holds a Bachelor in Law from Esade. She is a member of the executive committee of the Esade Alumni Real Estate Club and the executive committee of the Young Leaders programme at the Urban Land Institute.

Angel Puig

Online business and innovation manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Internet industry (first project in 1995). Skilled in Innovation Financing, Business Planning, B2B, E-commerce and Entrepreneurship ("I know how to improve your business with an efficient use of technology"). Strong business development professional with a LADE & MBA from Esade and trained in Philosophy and Psychology in the E.E.P.A. (París).

Manuel Rosales

Más de diez años de experiencia en el liderazgo y definición de estrategias de negocio, marketing y ventas para el sector de la automoción como la multinacional BMW Ibérica en Madrid y en organizaciones más locales como Grupo Avisa que representa las marcas del grupo Volkswagen en Sevilla. Inicio de carrera profesional en el mundo de la agencia local como Grupo Imagen y Quid quid, y en medios de comunicación como Vocento y Grupo Prisa. Especialista en proyectos de Transformación Digital y Customer Experience orientados a redefinir modelos de negocio y propuestas de valor con el fin de contribuir a desarrollar organizaciones más competitivas e innovadoras. Experiencia como emprendedor en diferentes start-up en sectores como retail o servicios. Apasionado de los ratos en familia y amigos, de la práctica del golf y pádel, y de viajar para disfrutar la experiencia de conocer rincones únicos.

Laura Martinez

Laura Martínez Molera is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for MathWorks. Laura is the technical lead for the Machine Learning and Data Science Solution where she leads the strategy, development and creation of technical content and marketing promotion. Prior to joining MathWorks, Laura was the Senior Marketing Manager at HubSpot where she was responsible for the go-to-market strategy for multiple regions and alignment with the Sales team.

Laura was born in Barcelona where she studied industrial engineering at UPC. She also holds a Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from ESADE and a Master in International Marketing from HULT, Boston, where she moved in 2014. Laura is living in Boston with her husband and son.

Maria Stefanoni

I am passionate about marketing and innovation. I graduated from the Esade MBA in 2018, after completing a semester in the American University of Georgetown. The MBA helped me boost my career and discover a deep passion for the healthcare industry. After the MBA, I briefly worked for the Spanish company Almirall, before landing at Johnson & Johnson where I entered in the marketing development program IRDP.

I started my career working as a communication and digital marketing consultant in various fields: arts, education, food and beverage, both in house as well as in agency. I got my BA and MA in foreign languages at the Venice University Ca' Foscari (with exchanges in France and Germany). As a result of my studies and the passion for traveling, I speak 6 languages fluently. I also hold an Executive Master in Digital Marketing from the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona.

Jaime Castello

Jaime holds a Bachelor in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Valencia, an MBA from Esade and a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Kingston University London.

Before joining Esade in 2005, he held various positions of responsibility in marketing and sales at multinational corporations operating in Spain and abroad. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Marketing Management at Esade, where he coordinates the Sales and Key Account Management Area and directs the Executive Master in Marketing and Sales at Esade Madrid.

Among the Esade faculty, Jaime is a pioneer in educational innovation and in the application of new technologies to executive education.

María Porta Ferrer

Specialities: Executive coaching, which consists of establishing an ongoing professional relationship to enable the coachee to:

• Develop further learning and discovery
• Commit to new actions
• Achieve extraordinary results in the professional sphere

My commitment to coachees is to provide them with a tool for developing their talent and potential starting in the present and moving towards the future. Over the course of the process, coachees learn to identify empowering or limiting beliefs, modify specific behaviours and develop skills to achieve their objectives. The process promotes a deeper understanding of how we relate to others and to ourselves. 

Language: English, Catalan and Spanish
Certification: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation 

 

Carmen Ansotegui

Carmen is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Esade.

She holds a Bachelor in Business Administration, a Master in Economic Theory and a PhD in Economics, which has given her a broad vision of the world of finance. She is a Professor in the Department of Financial Management and Control at Esade, where she teaches and conducts research. Her main research interests are capital markets and asset valuation.

Her current research activities focus on alternative finance and shadow banking.

Christian Sipión

Gerente de Desarrollo de Negocios en el sector educativo. Me apasiona la docencia creativa que desarrollo activamente y mi propósito es transformar la educación hacia un modelo integral, escalable e innovador. 

Mis principales temas de interés son finanzas corporativas, planeamiento estratégico, inteligencia de mercado y generación de nuevos negocios.

Músico baterista y percusionista de distintas bandas musicales. 

Corporate MBA en ESADE, Diplomado de International Business en Georgetown University y Exchange Student en IE Business School.

Ramón Chalmeta

After seven years working at Kantar, in the television audience sector, where I was developing the software to measure and analyse audiences across the world, I decided to give an impulse to my career. I enrolled into the Executive MBA at ESADE and moved to Paris with my wife to start a new personal and professional adventure. Here in Paris I am working at Netatmo, a brand of Legrand developing groundbreaking connected consumer electronics. I am currently leading projects in the energy sector with partners like Engie or Vaillant, putting together the best of the energy sector and our technical know-how in IoT, to connect energy products and convert them into smart objects.

 
Passionate of chess, I am an international player and I collaborate with several institutions to develop not only the competition of our sport but also to bring its cognitive benefits to society.

Jorge Cuervo Cimadevilla

As an executive coach with prior managerial experience and 10 years as a team coach, I am equipped to effectively guide processes of leadership development, personal change and career change, to work on overcoming obstacles and insecurities, to generate motivating visions and to change perspectives. I also assist with project leadership and organisational

change management. Due to my scientific and technical background, I have experience working with rational and analytical types who have difficulty accepting and managing their own emotions and those of their team.

Session languages: Spanish, Catalan and English

Certifications:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
• TLC-certified

Anna Borrell

Digital business strategist. Especializada en el mundo digital, Anna empezó su carrera profesional en el mundo de las start ups i en el sector del deporte, trabajando en empresas como el FC Barcelona. En 2017, cursó el Executive Master en Digital Business por ESADE y desarrolló, durante casi tres años, la experiencia digital de Banco Sabadell. En 2020, volvió al mundo del deporte entrando en Dorna Sports, empresa propietaria de los derechos comerciales y televisivos de campeonatos de motor, entre ellos MotoGP™️. Allí ha empezado la construcción y desarrollo digital de sus OTTs. 
 

Antonio Sala

Durante más de ocho años, ha desempeñado diversos cargos en los departamentos de Marketing y Ventas de Reckitt. Es colaborador entusiasta y miembro de la Junta de dos ONG de Barcelona: Entrecultures y Entxartxad, ambas con proyectos en países en vías de desarrollo.

Claudia Cornella

Ha viscut i treballat en diferents països, parla 5 idiomes i ha liderat i negociat amb equips multiculturals. La distingeix la seva experiència internacional com a líder en el sector financer, a nivell públic i privat, especialment durant els seus darrers anys al Govern d’Andorra com a Secretaria d’Estat d’Assumptes Financers Internacionals, que li ha donat una visió i un enfocament complets sobre qualsevol situació.  Després de gairebé 25 anys en el món de les finances, al maig del 2019 va decidir donar un tomb a la seva vida per començar un nou projecte fent el que li apassiona: dedicar-se a les persones.

Especialitzada en Coaching Personal, Executiu i d’Equips, amb Coaching Sistèmic, PNL (Master Practitioner), Neurociència i Intel.ligència Emocional. MBA ESADE (Màster en Finances & International Management) i Programa a ESADE en Influential Leadership Up & Across. Programa Expertos de Raimón Samsó i Mentoria en comunicació amb Esther Nguema.

Javier Izquierdo Lopez

Gijón, 1974.

Formación

Principal:Program for Management Development (ESADE Business School, 2008).Doctor cum laude, Ingeniería Ambiental (Universidad de Oviedo, 2017)

Ingeniero Industrial, Electrotecnia (Universidad de Oviedo, 2000).

Experto Prevencionista de Nivel Superior, 3 especialidades. (Colegio de Ingenieros Técnicos Industriales de Asturias, 2001)

Auditor de Sistemas de Calidad (AENOR, 2002).

Six sigma Black Belt, (Juran Institute, 2004).

Desempeño profesional:

19 años de experiencia en EDP, sector energético:

Generación: Director de Producción Central Térmica de Aboño (2001 a 2016)

Comercial: Jefe de Movilidad Sostenible (2016 - actualidad)

Profesor Asociado de la Universidad de Oviedo (2008-2016), Profesor externo Universidad de Oviedo (actualidad).

José Andrés De Lorenzo-Cáceres Apolinario

Cofundé y soy Co-CEO de la agencia de Marketing Digital Klawter. He asesorado a diferentes empresas e instituciones públicas en marketing digital y derecho de las nuevas tecnologías. Particularmente, estoy especializado en social ads, brand safety y smart data. He trabajado para diferentes marcas como la Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, Hospitales San Roque o instituciones como la Universidad de Salamanca, diferentes cabildos insulares o para el Gobierno de las Islas Canarias.

En el ámbito académico realizo estudios de doctorado en el área de derecho procesal de la Universidad de Salamanca. El objeto de la investigación es el estudio de los mecanismos de protección y control frente a la inteligencia artificial.

Cristina Saeta

With more than 15 years of experience in the creation and development of marketing strategies, Cristina has held various marketing positions at Red Bull. She has been the Chief Marketing Officer at Llaollao since 2021.

Her expertise revolves around brand positioning and the development of business strategies in different markets, setting and meeting marketing and sales objectives, and developing and consolidating brand image over the long term.

She holds a Bachelor a Telecommunications Engineering and an Executive Master in Marketing and Sales from Esade (2016). She also completed the Digital Business programme at Santa Clara University.

Rosa M. Sanz

TBD

Xisco Mateu

Director en Agència de Estratègia Turística de les Illes Balears (AETIB)

Javier Borja

Interim Management & Independent Advisor - Council Member

Marta Grañó

Soy Consultora en Innovación & Personas. Especializada en el desarrollo de talento y en impulsar equipos. Las personas son el gran tesoro de las organizaciones.

Profesora en ESADE, speaker en TEDx y con más de 2.000 horas de formación InCompany impartida en grandes organizaciones, mejorando su marco de trabajo y alcanzando progresos reales tangibles. Encontrarás algunas de sus opiniones sobre mí en mi página web. Y me encanta seguir haciéndolo, siempre con profesionales y organizaciones comprometidos y con un propósito claro.

Ayudo a facilitar el cambio a líderes que quieren transformar sus organizaciones, para pasar a trabajar con equipos diversos, ágiles y con propósito. Ahora más que nunca, las organizaciones dependen de la diversidad de talentos y de la capacidad de organizar verdaderos equipos. Entre mis programas encontrarás “Impulsa talento femenino” -un programa de mejora de competencias para mujeres profesionales - y “Lidera el cambio” -un programa de mejora de competencias para líderes de equipos y equipos-.

He publicado 5 libros, entre los que están "¡Vamos! Cómo aplicar la iniciativa emprendedora en la empresa y en la vida" y "¿Somos malas madres? El libro para la madres que trabajan dentro y fuera de casa". Actualmente estoy escribiendo mi 6º libro, porque me encanta escribir y divulgar mi trabajo.

Ignasi Ferrer

Founder & Executive Partner en Seastainable Ventures

Inmaculada Infante

Profesional con más de 20 años participando en la definición y seguimiento de la Estrategia de Crecimiento de Grupos de Empresas Multinacionales del sector industrial, servicios e inmobiliario principalmente.

Trayectoria desarrollada principalmente en, Arthur Andersen (Auditoría), Grupo Lar (Real Estate), Grupo Alibérico (Transformación de Aluminio), Grupo Cuñado (Tubería-Válvula-Bridas-Accesorios de Acero/Industrias Bienes de Equipo y Energía) desde las áreas de Finanzas Corporativas, Organización, TI& Comunicaciones, M&A, Expansión Internacional y Desarrollo de Negocio.

Como perfil ejecutivo se caracteriza por ser “El Motor que hace que las cosas se muevan”.

Consejera Dominical en compañías manufactureras del sector del metal (Periodo 2004 – 2011) destacando su visión de negocio, capacidad de análisis fiable y preciso, habilidades de comunicación y negociación.

Es licenciada en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad de Valladolid (1990-1994) y Loughborough University Reino Unido (1995) con formación de postgrado EMBA IESE Business School (2002-2004).

Ha participado en el Executive PDI Icex 2ª Edición (2017-2018) y más recientemente en el Programa de Consejeros de ESADE (Feb 2022).

Lluis Planchat

Bachelor of Business Administration and Law (Esade) and Bachelor of Economics (University of Barcelona). Associate in the Corporate Finance Department at KPMG, where he works as an adviser on mergers and acquisitions and business valuation projects. Prior experience as an economic and financial modelling consultant at Deloitte. Lecturer of Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.

Joan Ramon Mas Navarro

Degree in Business Management and Administration from the UAB, PMD from Esade (2006) and PDG from IESE (2018). In addition, he has training in business and commercial strategy.

Executive expert in marketing, an area in which he has practiced professionally throughout his professional career.

He has held positions of managerial responsibility in various companies and sectors, some of them with global leadership and others with a clear desire for local or sector leadership: Kantar Worldpanel, PepsiCo, Winterthur, AXA, Agrupació Mutua and Crèdit Andorrà Group (experience in markets or consumer goods, insurance and banking sectors).

In recent years, he has held managerial responsibilities in digital transformation and orporate communication at the Crèdit Andorrà Group.

He has just started as an advisor in business consulting, basically in the fields of marketing, digital transformation and corporate communication, from a strategic approach, through the creation of B21 Consulting.

He is an innovative, proactive, personable and competent person, and possesses great communication skills.

Joaquin Roca

Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business Administration and Management from ESADE ('09).

Currently, he exercises the role of Innovation Beyond the Core Manager at Nestlé for the Europe Zone, within the Dairy and Nutrition categories, whose purpose is to create and develop an ecosystem of digital solutions that includes new business models in order to generate more growth for the company.

Previously, she worked at the pharmaceutical company ISDIN, where she developed the global community for beauty consultants, among other B2B projects.

He has more than 10 years of international experience in business consulting – strategy and operations – at Minsait (formerly Europraxis Consulting) and BeRepublic with a high strategic and business focus from different areas: economic-financial, technological, innovation and digital transformation.

Additionally, he is a tenured professor of "Finance for Entrepreneurs" in the Master's Degree in Strategic Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IED.

Marguerite Mc Mahon

Marguerite has more than 30 years of international professional experience in the field of medium- and long-term finance, first in London and later at the European Investment Bank in the Spanish and Italian markets. She is currently a non-executive director at SME Long Term Finance (London) Ltd and the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from University College Dublin, an MBA from Esade and a Master in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. In 2019-2020, she participated in the Programme for Directors at Esade in addition to similar courses in Milan and London.

Neveen Hussein

Neveen is a Regional Business Development Manager at Siemens Energy Hub Middle East. She has extensive experience in account management, strategy formation and execution, GTM strategies, sales and business development.

She moved to Dubai in 2021, but has been living and working in the GCC for the past 12 years.
Her previous experience includes working in the telecommunications industry for 10 years. Last year, she shifted her career to join the energy sector.
Neveen is passionate about having an impact on everyone’s life that she crosses paths with. She is also passionate about learning and above all having fun while doing it!

She has a Bachelor in Business Administration from Cairo University, a Professional Certificate in Marketing from the American University in Cairo and an Executive MBA from Esade.

Arantzazu Claverías

TBD

Piotr Opacki

Since graduating with an MBA in 2022, Piotr has transitioned into tech. He now works at Uber’s EMEA headquarters in Amsterdam, where he manages B2B projects, operationalises global initiatives in the region and provides strategic advice to senior leadership.

Prior to moving to Barcelona, Piotr used to live in the United Kingdom, where he completed a Master in Engineering. He then worked as a consulting engineer in London alongside architects and large property developers.

In his spare time, Piotr enjoys skiing, cycling and getting to know new and inspiring people.

Jaume Maspons

I graduated in 2007 from ESADE after spending one year in HEC Paris doing my double degree program. Eager for new international experiences I joined Société Générale inside the graduate program, which offer me the chance to work in different countries and meeting colleagues around the world. After working in M&A and Equity markets teams, I decided to focus my career in the credit field, specializing in arranging acquisition loans for large corporates and Private Equity funds.

In my current job, I advise clients in the process to raise financing in capital markets for companies exposed to a large variety of sectors. In my current job, I have a privileged seat to see how companies are quickly changing, impacted by innovation and digitalization trends.

Definitely we are living in a time of deep changes that are shaping tomorrow’s world!. I complement my dedicated job with an active engagement in ESADE’s Paris chapter since 2010. My tasks are to make alumni get to know each other and keep ESADE network alive. Last but not least, my friends usually tell me that I’m a passionate runner, a seasoned traveler and intrepid reader.

Miguel Ángel Sanz

Miguel Ángel Sanz organizó la primera cena de alumni de ESADE en el País Vasco a finales de 2008, lo que sería el embrión del Club ESADE en la zona.

Tras formar parte de su primera junta directiva, vuelve a estar en ella. Además de haber realizado en ESADE el programa de Dirección Estratégica en Márketing y Comercialización, es Doctor Ingeniero Industrial, tiene un postgrado en Teatro y Artes Escénicas por la UPV, un MBA por INSEAD, y ha estudiado el grado de Teología en la Universidad de Deusto. Reside en Bilbao y ha vivido también en Alemania, Reino Unido, Francia, Suiza y Singapur.

Es Partner en Madavi, donde se dedica a cambiar la forma en que las organizaciones cambian, proporcionando propósito y velocidad a miles de personas.

Eugenia Bieto

Managing director of ESADE for 8 years (2010-2018). Currently associate professor in the department of general management and strategy. PhD from Universidad Ramon Llull. BSc in management and MBA from ESADE and the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.

Yanyu Zheng

Yanyu Zheng is co founder and vice president of All Star Partner. Started her career as the first Chinese employee in FC Barcelona, she has rich years of experience and expertise in sports marketing & communications, sponsorship, sports event management and digital operations.  

Yanyu was senior business development manager at Alibaba group before she founded All Star Partner, and she worked with Tencent Sports during years being its correspondent in Europe. Yanyu got her MBA degree at ESADE Business School (Barcelona) with full scholarship. She led the Sports Business club in ESADE and won a sports  marketing thesis competition organized by Financial Times. Yanyu studied The business of Entertainment, Media and Sports at Harvard Business School in 2018.

Yanyu is fluent in Spanish, English and Catalan, and have a good knowledge of French and Portuguese.

Hemal Thacker

Hemal Thacker is a young professional with 3 years of experience in IT industry and 2+ years in the hospitality industry. He has done his B.E in Computer Science from University of Mumbai and MBA from ESADE Business School, Spain. He is currently leading the partnerships and acquisitions team at a hospitality start up, Vista Rooms. Over the 5+ years of work experience, he has developed expertise in Strategic Business Development, Sales Strategy and B2B Marketing.

Instagram: hemalthacker

Anna Fos Llopart

Anna Fos Llopart (MBA Part Time 2014) is a Board Member of the Esade Alumni Chapter in Frankfurt.  Originally from Barcelona, she leaves in Frankfurt since several years. Anna holds a wide experience in Governance Functions in the Pharmaceutical Sector. As a good mediterranean, she enjoys with good food and wine. While travelling, she enjoys of her passions: music and reading. Anna feels proud of being a member of F.C.Barcelona since several years and supports arts organisations as the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.

Maria Pericas

Maria is a Senior Business Analyst in an internal consulting team at Wayfair, the largest furniture e-commerce worldwide. She joined this fast paced environment in 2016, after completing her International BBA at ESADE, which gave her the opportunity to study in Singapore and work as a Strategic Consultant in Arthur D. Little. Maria is always looking for new challenges and adventures both personally and professionally, and strives for having a positive social impact.

Joan Miquel Malagelada

With more than 25 years of experience in the automotive sector, both in Spain and Germany, I have worked as Marketing and Commercial Director of the Volkswagen, SEAT, Audi and Hyundai brands.

I am currently an independent consultant (automotivemarketing.es), in addition to collaborating with ESADE Alumni as a mentor and president of the Automotive and Mobility Club.

MY PERSONAL BLOG: http://www.foroautomocion.com/

WEB AS CONSULTANT: https://www.automotivemarketing.es/

Aleyois Haro Peralta

Experiencia en políticas públicas relacionadas con la investigación y la innovación, particularmente en Estrategias para la Especialización Inteligente (RIS3). Acostumbrada a trabajar en la interfaz ciencia, empresa y política con el objetivo de fortalecer las dinámicas de innovación y competitividad Regional.
Mi pasión es generar el mayor impacto posible para mejorar nuestra sociedad. Me encanta conversar y si es con un buen vino, mejor.

Alexandra Molina-Martell

Alexandra holds a Bachelor in Law from Esade Law School. She joined the Corporate Law Department at Uría Menéndez in 2000 and was appointed coordinating associate in January 2010. Her practice focuses on corporate law, particularly on company acquisitions and sales, mergers and restructuring, joint ventures, and investment and divestment transactions of all sorts through national and international structures.

She has more than 15 years of experience advising on contractual and board secretarial matters (financial transactions and mergers and acquisitions). She also works regularly with entrepreneurs and social enterprises

Antonio Alés

I was born in the 60s and I consider myself a "Perennial", the ageless generation! . In 2013 I celebrated the fiftieth anniversary. Being surplus quota allowed me to get rid of the Military Service, finish my academic training and enter the labor market without interruptions.

I consider myself the fruit of multinationals. I accumulate more than 30 years of experience in 3 technology companies. During these 6 years I have had the luxury of leading strategic and operational areas. Having a permanent, avant-garde and real-time training is priceless! 7 years ago I focused on promoting intrapreneurship and managing change processes.

Since April 2019 I have a new challenge in Schneider Electric: direct the strategy and implement the new Client Software platforms to improve your user experience in the journey towards the Digital Transformation of the complex B2B environment.

All this multicultural and multidisciplinary baggage gives me a broad business vision and an enormous capacity for adaptation, as well as the virtue of promoting transformation projects, or business development, in highly volatile and uncertain VUCA scenarios.

On a personal level, I have a passion to undertake, innovate and motivate teams. I love technology and simplicity, I like intrigues, dilemmas and the art of magic, as well as reinventing day to day. My experience in intrapreneurship encourages me to advise startups and, my motivation for innovation and technology, lead me to support ESADE Alumni within the Board of Directors of the Business Innovation & Technologies Club and the ESADE Business Angels network BAN, as "collaborative startup advisor".

I have learned that companies are "living beings", with the obligation to evolve. If they don't, they disappear. As I would say @Darwin, it is a simple matter of adaptation!
 

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Montserrat Escoda Martínez

Tourism Professional with over 25 years of experience, Tourist Activities Technician and Diploma in Restoration from HTSI-Ramon Llull, with postgraduate studies in Tourism Management and Management DGT06 in Esade.

Specialist in Hotel Management and Events, with great experience in Operations and Commercial Strategy. Creative, analytical and methodical, although I always leave some room for improvisation ...

I like to learn and grow surrounded by passionate professionals, who inspire to progress, and at the same time, train those who want to learn from me.

Lover of life, of human relations and cultures, with the great luck of having traveled the five continents. I believe in the power of people, and music as the guiding thread of our most intimate feelings.

Alexandra Molina-Martell

Alexandra holds a Bachelor in Law from Esade Law School. She joined the Corporate Law Department at Uría Menéndez in 2000 and was appointed coordinating associate in January 2010. Her practice focuses on corporate law, particularly on company acquisitions and sales, mergers and restructuring, joint ventures, and investment and divestment transactions of all sorts through national and international structures.

She has more than 15 years of experience advising on contractual and board secretarial matters (financial transactions and mergers and acquisitions). She also works regularly with entrepreneurs and social enterprises.

Alba Rubio

Bachelor in Business Administration and Masters at ESADE (Lic&MDE' 12) with exchange at Singapore Management University. During her times at ESADE, she represented the students awarded with talent scholarships in several occasions and she was also President of ESADE students' groups during the last 3
years of her Bachelor. 

Previous professional experience includes striving at the Investment Management division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, collaborating on the M&A efforts at The Economist Group and working as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. After an international career based out of London, Hong
Kong, New York and Madrid, Alba has now been living in Dubai for the last two years, driving the
strategy of Careem, the first unicorn in the MENA region. 

She is also one fo the leaders of the LeanIn circle of "Women in Tech" in Dubai and President of the ESADE Alumni UAE Chapter.

Ona Serra

Board Member – Finances responsible

Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration by Esade, in 2003 I started my professional career at Ernst & Young, in Barcelona, in the External Audit division. In 2006 I joined Miguel Torres, where I was the Head of the International Financial Controlling Department at the Group's Headquarters, where I worked till I moved to Dubai, in 2012. From 2013 to 2017 I was the Finance Controller & Finance Manager at Natura Bissé in Dubai. Since 2017 I provide advisory and consulting services to Companies.  

I live in Dubai since 2012 and I am a Board Member of Dubai Esade Alumni Chapter since 2016 (in charge of the Finance area).

Stefan Neville

Dynamic and challenging environments promote self-improvement which I am very passionate about and dedicated to. Combining my technical skills of analytical and innovative thinking with my interpersonal skills of leadership and communication have ensured exceptional results for both the company and my clients.

José Francisco Rodríguez

José Francisco is the president of Capital magazine. He collaborates on executive programmes at Esade and is passionate about photography, travel and innovation.

Mariano Rigau

Mariano holds a Bachelor in Philosophy and Educational Sciences and an MBA from Esade (1988). He collaborates with the Esade Challenge for Talent as a private individual (1,000 x 1,000 programme) and serves as Vice President of the Insurance Club.

Since 2006, he has been the CEO of Arag SE Spain, a member of the group’s executive committee and President of Arag Services Spain and Portugal.

Over the course of his career, he has served as General Manager of the Royal Automobile Club of Spain (RACE), a board member at ARC Transsistance, Operations Manager at the Royal Automobile Club of Catalonia (RACC), General Manager of Universal Asistencia (RACC Group), a member of the executive committee of RACC, Deputy General Manager of Sabadell Aseguradora, Deputy CEO of Banco de Europa and General Manager of Investment and Leasing for Europe at the Banco de Europa Group.

Helena Borbón

Helena has 20 years of professional experience in general management. She currently serves as Director General of the CARES Foundation and Administrator of Empresa d’Inserció CODEC, both of which are dedicated to outsourcing operational and logistical services, to people with disabilities and to people at risk of social exclusion, respectively.

She holds a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). She has also completed the Leadership and Social Innovation Programme at Esade and the General Management Programme at IESE.

Xavier López

Xavier has held senior management positions in the industrial, logistics and textile sectors. He gained professional experience by purchasing and managing companies. His main areas of interest are logistics and the transformation of operations. He is passionate about innovation and the implementation of new processes in companies.

Ricard Lascorz

Ricard holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor in Law from Esade (class of 2019). During his studies, he was involved in various academic activities, including the Esade Student Finance Society and the Esade debate team. After doing internships in the fields of corporate law (Uría Menéndez) and investment banking (Morgan Stanley), he decided to go to work for the family business. He currently serves as Business Development Manager at Plimon Global and is a member of the company’s board of directors. His primary responsibilities are management, growth and internationalisation.

Susana Sebastiá

Susana holds a Bachelor in Law from the University of Zaragoza. She completed the Programme for Management Development at Esade in 2008 and the General Management Programme at IESE Business School in 2019.

She has 20 years of experience in executive positions at major companies in the health and social-care sector.

Specialised in management, she has held operations management and division management positions. In this capacity, she has contributed to the growth and transformation of the sector, which today is a benchmark for economic growth and job creation.

Throughout her career, Susana has worked with government bodies on the implementation and development of various services, emerging as a strong advocate for public-private partnerships.

Since 2019, she has served as Asset Management Director at Healthcare Activos, an investment platform specialised in real-estate assets in the health and long-term-care industry.

Ana Puig Palomar

I guide individuals and teams in personal and group development processes and help organisations with a genuine desire to improve. I develop their leadership capacity and personal and interpersonal skills to enable them to achieve the best results as a team sustainably over time. I have more than 25 years of experience in management, having held business-management positions at various national and international companies.

Session languages: Spanish, Catalan and English

Main certifications:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Coaches Training Institute
• Leadership Certification, The Leadership Circle
• Relational Styles – Bridge
   

Berta Santos Rouco

I provide guidance to people who are undergoing professional transition processes; people in the legal and engineering sectors who are facing new challenges that require management and team-leading skills; and women who wish to strengthen their female leadership. 

Languages: Spanish 

Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation
 

Clàudia Cornella Durany

My specialty is guiding leaders through their personal and professional development in changing times and environments. The goal of this process is to help them develop influential and motivational leadership so that they can achieve their goals, increase their performance, improve their team’s results and, at the same time, help them live fuller and happier personal and professional lives. 
I do all this through change management, development of executive skills (soft skills), emotional intelligence, self-leadership and team leadership.

Coaching Languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, English

Certifications: 

• Associate Certified Coach (ACC) for International Coach Federation
• Associate Certified Coach (CAC) for Spanish Coaching Association (ASESCO)

Alex Duran

Engineer by education, supply chain manager by experience, and sportsman by passion, Alex has held different leadership positions in several multinational companies in Barcelona and Zürich. He co-founded Nexspares in 2018, a consultancy firm devoted to help aircraft operators source aircraft spares more efficiently.

In Switzerland since 2011, he loves riding his road bike, participates in the Zürich visual arts scene and enjoys discovering hidden places, bars and restaurants throughout the city

Mercedes Sancho

Con 20 años de trayectoria corporativa en Dirección y Desarrollo de Personas, principalmente en el sector asegurador, en la actualidad es mentora y coach para el desarrollo y la transformación cultural de las organizaciones. Socia-directora de Knosis y co-fundadora de Leading People®, es PCC por la ICF, miembro activo en asociaciones de Business Mentoring y Coaching para el Liderazgo, y especialista en gestión de carreras. Desde 2011 colabora con ESADE como Career Coach y Advisor.

Rodrigo Rama Dellepiane

Career Coaching for High Performance / Strengthening Women’s Leadership / Coaching Migrant Professionals and Native Returnees / Supporting Work-Life Balance / Guiding Brave Decisions

GH ‘86 / MBA ‘89

Coach, trainer and psychologist. Forty-two years of professional experience as a senior executive, trainer and entrepreneur.

I provide growth tools to individuals, teams and organisations.

Deep, disruptive, tenacious and passionate.

Languages: Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese

Certification: Coach certified by the International Coaching Federation

Josep Solé Pié

Graduado en ADE por ESADE y experiencia académica en la universidad norteamericana de Emory University, estado de Georgia. 

Josep inició su carrera en el departamento de Transacciones de Deloitte Barcelona como analista focalizándose en la reestructuración de empresas, asesoramiento de deuda y servicios de creación de valor para empresas. Durante la carrera universitaria, realizó prácticas en banca comercial de BBVA y en el departamento de estrategia y trade marketing de Reckitt Benckisser. 

Es un amante del baloncesto, deporte que sigue practicando actualmente en Liga EBA, y que paralelamente a su carrera profesional en el mundo empresarial, le ayuda a mantener y reforzar su carácter de grupo, competitividad y responsabilidad.  

Esteban Mogas

Esteban is a Lecturer in the Department of Strategy and General Management at Esade. He has been the director of the Executive MBA for five years.

His main focus is on competitive strategy and entrepreneurship. He recently started developing a new area of interest related to values and strategic decision-making.

He enjoyed a long career in strategic marketing and sales at HP Inc. at the international level (Europe and United States). Previously, he worked as a consultant for KPMG in Spain and as a financial controller at Werfen Mexico.

Esteban serves on the board of trustees of two Jesuit foundations in Catalonia and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid.

Vanessa Daswani

I support executives and companies in their transformation and in achieving their personal, professional and business goals. I specialise in helping companies with sustainable and circular transformations and enabling managers and teams to achieve their goals.

Certifications: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation.

Jaume Polo-Torné

CEO de Twilomedia, una agencia de comunicación y publicidad especializada en el sector hostelero, que ayuda a sus clientes con las técnicas más innovadoras. Con más de 10 años de experiencia en el mundo del marketing y el marketing digital, ha ayudado a empresas a crecer en el mundo digital multiplicando X2 sus ventas en menos de 3 años. Ahora tiene su propio videoblog en YouTube, donde habla de marketing, publicidad, ventas, negocios y el mundo digital.

Maria Cudeiro

Maria earned a Bachelor in Pharmacy at the University of Santiago de Compostela and began her career in the pharmaceutical industry 18 years ago, mainly in marketing and sales positions. She continued her studies at Esade, where she earned an MBA. She entered senior management at the age of 30 and continued her training at IESE, where she completed the General Management Programme. At age 35, she decided to embark on her greatest professional adventure yet: leading the implementation in Spain and Portugal of a leading Austrian multinational third-party manufacturer that decided to change its strategic direction and create its own brand. During this process, Maria had the good fortune to study at Esade once again, this time in the Promociona programme, where she gained a real understanding of the need for women to be united, to help each other, and most importantly, to not put up professional barriers to other women. Serving on the WE Club board is therefore, in some sense, a return to the origins of Maria’s career. She is thrilled to give something back to the Esade community, which helped her become the person she is.

Julio Balaguer

Julio es licenciado en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, PDD por el Instituto de Empresa y ha realizado el Programa de Consejeros de ESADE

Cuenta con una experiencia de más de 34 años en el sector de Auditoría y Consultoría, desarrollando toda su carrera en PwC. En junio de 2021 se prejubiló, y actualmente su lema es "Disfrutar y Contribuir", tratando de devolver a la Sociedad una parte de lo que ha recibido en el pasado.

María Fanjul

TBD

Argentina Prieto

Dirección Financiera en IMNASA (Importaciones Náuticas S.A.)

Guillermo Valles

Director General en Saica Natur

Lutz Ellermann

​​​​​​UNTERNEHMEN. GANZHEITLICH. ENTWICKELN. Für mehr Flow, Lebensfreude und nachhaltigen Erfolg. - ecofeel.eu

Arnau Grifoll

Bachelor of Business Administration (IQS), two Masters in Finance (IEF and University of Alcalá) and MBA (Esade).

More than 10 years of professional experience in strategic consulting, venture capital, consumer goods, exports and publishing. He has a global vision of business management, with a strong focus on achieving objectives, improving processes and obtaining results.

He applies all of his knowledge and experience to ensure that his clients get the most out of their business and to identify any business opportunities that may arise, whether in terms of cost savings or growth and expansion.

He is a firm believer that all companies, regardless of their size and resources, should be able to access the best market conditions. “This is my personal objective, and it will be my job from now on.”

Pilar Feliz Barrio

With more than 30 years of experience, Pilar has spent her entire career in executive positions in the fields of people management, organisational development and transformation processes. She has worked for multinational companies in various sectors: chemical, retail and energy.

She holds a Bachelor in Biochemistry and a Postgraduate Degree in People Management and Development – Talent Management from Esade (2010). She is an ICF-certified executive coach and a mentor accredited by Red de Mentoring. She has lived in Paris for 10 years.

With the clear conviction that people and their talent are organisations’ greatest assets, Pilar currently works in human-resources consultancy, leadership development, change management and innovation, helping organisations to adapt and compete

Xienu Zhang

Xienu grew up in an island of Southeasten China and relocated to Beijing in 2011 for the undergraduate study. Currently she is working at China headquarter of a top-tier German automotive company, specialized in mobility strategy and digital transformation. 

Xienu holds dual master's degree of International Management and CEMS Master in Management from ESADE and bachelor's degree from University of International Business and Economics. She also studied at Ivey Business School and Autonomous University of Barcelona as exchange student.

Xienu is very warmhearted and open-minded. She loves traveling, musical theatre and cats. She has traveled to over 20 countries and enjoys communicating with people of diverse cultural backgrounds. She speaks Chinese, English and Spanish.

If you want to know more about Beijing or China, or grab a drink in Beijing, she is your person!

Marta Oliver

Marta is graduated from the Double Degree in Business Administration and Law at ESADE (Class of 2020) and studied the Double Master's Degree for Access to the Legal Profession and "International Business Law at ESADE (Class of 2021). She is currently an Associate at Baker & Mckenzie Barcelona, ​​practicing as a lawyer in the "Real Estate" Department, where she advises on issues related to real estate transactions, commercial leases and "Real Estate Finance"..

Mercè Rius

With my extensive experience in executive recruitment and my knowledge of market needs, I help my clients face moments of professional transition – whether due to a job change or a promotion – by fostering knowledge of their own skills, interests and motivations, while also developing the most appropriate way to come across and persuade others.

Areas:

· Identification and development of competencies and leadership styles

· Professional transition

· Empowerment through self-awareness and control of strengths and motivations

Miquel Colet

Miquel has spent the last 14 years (split between California and New Jersey) as the CEO for the USA and Canada of VIBIA, a leading high-end decorative lighting brand. Previously he worked as CFO or Financial Controller in several companies from different industries in Barcelona. Always eager to lead, learn and to proactively get involved, he has been part of the Board of the ESADE Alumni NY Chapter as a Vice President or President for the past 6 years.

Mariana de la Rosa

Mariana de la Rosa joined Uría Menéndez in 2016 and is currently a senior associate.

She is an academic assistant in Private International Law at Esade Law School (Ramón Llull University) and in Civil Procedural Law in the Master in Legal Practice at Abat Oliba CEU University.

She has more than seven years of experience in litigation before the civil and commercial courts at all levels, as well as in commercial arbitration – both national and international – and consulting on commercial and bankruptcy matters. Mariana advises clients in Spain and abroad from various economic sectors. Her professional activity is focused on the following areas: civil liability, construction contracts, corporate conflicts, banking and sales contracts, bankruptcy law, claims arising from the purchase or sale of portfolios, and enforcement of real and personal guarantees.

Her mother tongues are Spanish and Catalan, she is fluent in English and French and has a basic German level.

Paula Navajas

After her extensive management consulting experience in the Healthcare sector working for KPMG Barcelona, Paula Navajas completed an International MBA Program in HEC Geneva, which allowed her to apply her private sector background to the International Organizations sector.

Always aiming through her work at having a social impact, she joined UNAIDS where she supported countries to access and efficiently manage the required funding for the roll-out of AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment Programs worldwide. She also put her private sector experience at play when she joined the Corporate Development Department at the International Olympic Committee, where she managed Strategic and Transformational Projects.

Paula holds an BBA and Master’s degree from Esade Business School and is President of the Esade Alumni Lausanne Chapter, a small but dynamic chapter that offers his Alumni exciting networking and content-creating events and activities.

Ana Campos Von Bock

She has Brazilian and Spanish blood, now for 17 years based in Zurich, married with 2 kids. She is a compassionate professional with 15+ years of multinational corporations and entrepreneurial experience in different countries. Engaged and passionate about Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility activities and community programs with the objective of improving people’s life. Positive and resilient woman able to drive and develop initiatives creating verified social impact at company and community level.

Eulalia Vilaclara

Degree in law, 2006. Lawyer and registered economist. Tax adviser at Mateos Advocats and board member of several companies. Previously, worked at Vilaclara – Riera, MTR y Asociados, and Arthur Andersen. Lecturer in the ESADE department of law from 1985 to 1998.

Udeepto Maheshwari

Udeepto Maheshwary is an experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry internationally. His 12+ years of experience have been across Fund Management-Simulation, M&A, Business Planning, Strategic Marketing, Business Intelligence, California Legislation Advisory, Organizational Management, Corporate Strategy Formulation and Compliance & Risk Management. Udeepto has a B.S. in Business Administration from the California State University, USA & an MBA from The ESADE Business School, Spain with concentrations in Strategy, Finance & Marketing.

Udeepto currently serves as the President of the ESADE Mumbai Alumni Chapter. An 8-member Board of Directors who come with diverse profiles & experiences across different sectors oversees the chapter. The team in Mumbai aspires to make ESADE a known name associated with high quality & good content events that are meaningful for not only the ESADE Alumni, but also the community & industry at large. The ESADE brand in Mumbai is picking up traction & being noticed across the market. The Mumbai Chapter along with ESADE Careers & ESADE Admissions have created a model that focusses on collaboration, teamwork & strives to create a mutually beneficial ecosystem for alumni, incoming & admitted students & those who generally wish to know more about ESADE.Some of the chapter’s most successful events have been its HR Summit, ESADE Talkies, Biz Talks Marketing & a pipeline of several events for the upcoming year. The team is currently preparing to host the first ever all woman entrepreneurs’ panel in January.

Instagram: @Udeepto

Isabel Markwitz

As coach and mentor to entrepreneurs and startups, Isabel supports companies in developing and executing cross regional and cultural growth strategies.

Diego Brizuela

Google Sr. Technology Consultant - Product Manager

Diego is a deeply analytical, technology consultant, product manager, self-starter, and independent thinker who knows how to roll up his sleeves to create solutions to problems that have not been tackled yet.

10 years of experience implementing highly customized technology solutions for world-class Tech, Biotech, Finance, Manufacturing, and Insurance companies to address most critical issues in Commercial Operations and Strategy. Advising internal management and client decision-makers by presenting data findings based on deep analysis of marketing metrics and their correlation to sales growth.

Pedro Cesar Galvan

Versatile and highly competent senior marketing VP and professional possessing more than 20 yearsof experience in managing director, CMO, CDO, growth hacker, COMMS, directing business development initiatives and in digital strategy and social media across Europe, Latin America, USA, Middle East, Africa and Asia regions. Significantly enhanced organizational reach and market share through the application of robust digital strategies, effective pricing and excellent client relationship management; transformed struggling units into vital, streamlined and growing businesses; also produced measurable year-on-year improvement under dynamic, shifting conditions and in downturn markets. Possesses solid management skills and the ability to analyze issues, devise continuous process improvements and incorporate initiatives to increase efficiency, streamline operations and decrease overall expenses with minimal resources. Besides Pedro has a proven track record on teaching marketing, sales and advertising for many years.

Joan Colom

Joan holds a Bachelor in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Diploma in Public Health from Spain’s National School of Public Health, a Master in Management from Esade and a Master in Drug Dependence from the University of Barcelona.

He is Deputy Director General of Drug Dependence and Director of the Programme for the Prevention, Control and Care of HIV, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Viral Hepatitis at the Catalan Health Department. He is a member of the inter-regional committee of the National Plan on Drugs and the regional coordinator of the National Plan on AIDS. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation and a coordinator of various European Union projects.

He has authored more than 50 articles in Spanish and international journals in the field of drug addiction. He is also a co-author of all of Catalonia’s strategic plans on drugs. He has sat on more than 25 scientific committees.

He teaches in the Master in Drug Dependence at the University of Barcelona and has participated in many conferences and seminars both in Catalonia and Spain and abroad.

He has received several awards and recognitions, including the Reina Sofia Award for the Prevention of Drug Dependence, the Diario Médico Award for Best Research Initiative, the Recognition for Best European Policy on Alcohol from the Assembly of European Regions, the Ignasi Fina Award for Occupational Health, the Recognition of Best Practices on Gender Violence

and Drugs from the Spanish Ministry of Health and the Knowledge-Action-Change Paolo Pertica Award for Best Harm-Reduction Policy in the Field of Drug Dependence.

He currently serves as President of the Esade Alumni Public Management Club.

Alejandra Pérez Velandia

I am Alejandra, from Colombia. I came to Barcelona 3 years ago to do the MSc in Marketing Management at ESADE and fell in love with this city. After completing my studies, I joined the automotive industry as a trainee of the Volkswagen Graduate Program. Now I am the Remarketing Project Manager in the Used Cars Department.

In my professional path I have worked in many sectors, from banking, consultancy, insurance to FMCG. Every step is a new chapter and I am taking the most out of my current one in Barcelona.

Amongst my hobbies, I like going to the cinema, walking by the sea, doing yoga, going to concerts and festivals and simply enjoying every day. I am a very positive person, energetic and open minded. Hope to transmit all my enthusiasm to this Chapter and its members!

See you soon!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alejapeve

José Quevedo

Gerente de Negocios Micro y Pequeña Empresa en Caja Prymera

I am José, MBA with more than 20 years of experience in the Peruvian, Bolivian, Colombian and Panamanian financial systems in entities oriented to the Micro and Small Business and Banking segments. I am fascinated by my work and above all improve the quality of life of people via financial inclusion, and make it sustainable.

I am very passionate about music and especially heavy metal, we have a fan page on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with a group of friends that encourages and promotes the dissemination of that musical style in Latin America.

Isla Ramos

Ramos Island born in Granada, studies course between Spain and England. Licensed by the Complutense in Business Administration and Senior Executive Program at ESADE.

Isla has developed her career in the technology sector, in companies such as IBM and Lenovo where she was the Director General. Since 2008, he developed an international career as a member of the Lenovo Steering Committee Europe Middle East and Africa. He has more than 10 years of experience in large Business Transformations, both from the digital point of view, as well as process optimization and post merger management. His areas of expertise are Technology, Transformation and International Management. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of a listed company, EZENTIS, and is currently a member of the Board of Save the Children. His great passions are education and the third sector, to which he is currently engaged.

Thomas Letko

Optimist, technology enthusiasts, life-long learner

Jerome Trochet

Jerome has worked in consulting for more than 10 years. He specialises in accelerating the transformation of organisations. He is the Business Director at Nexe and co-founder of a company dedicated to improving the quality of life of people affected by migraines. He also participated in the ideation of the Migraine Adaptive Brain Center. He is the Vice President of the Esade Alumni

Automotive and Mobility Club and occasionally collaborates with Esade as an Academic Assistant (Marketing, Operations) and as a consultant for Esade Alumni (BIT Club, Young Committee).

He previously worked as a manager at the PSA Peugeot Citroen Group for Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula in sales, marketing and business excellence positions. His long career at multinationals and in consultancy has led him to conclude that equality between men and women is the only path towards our best possible future.

Alexandros Kazantzis

Currently EU Head of Capital Planning at Amazon; I have an electrical engineering background with experience in Construction.

José Luis Porte

Executive President of MEROIL; the leading Independent Oil Company in Spain,  President of the Joint Venture Company LUKOIL-MEROIL, stablished July 2010, and President of a familiar group of companies. 

Previously he has been CEO at Spain United Distillers (Guinness PLC), Marketing Director at Martini & Rossi, International Director at Chupa Chups and Marketing Manager at Braun Española S.A. (Gillette Group) 

José Luis Porté is Airplane pilot from 1983, Yacht Captain, and he likes Road cycling and Photography.

Daniel Sánchez

Daniel holds a Bachelor in Economics and an MBA from Esade, as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago.

He is a co-founder and general partner at Nauta Capital, a technology venture capital firm that was founded in Barcelona and currently has offices in London and Munich. He gained experience as an mergers and acquisitions consultant at Deloitte and as Deputy General Manager at Taurus. He has been a board member at the European private equity association Invest Europe and at the Spanish Association of Capital, Growth and Investment (ASCRI).

At various stages of his career, has been a collaborator and academic assistant at Esade, teaching finance, strategy and international business expansion.

Jorge Monclús

Jorge is an attorney in the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Department at Cuatrecasas. He has extensive experience advising clients in the entertainment, life sciences and e-commerce industries.

He holds a Bachelor in Law from the University of Navarra and a Master in Intellectual Property and the Information Society from Esade. He has also completed various programmes at Harvard Law School and IE Law School.

He is the author of numerous articles on legal doctrine and other publications, including the book Aspectos legales de las redes sociales (Editorial Bosch, 2016).

Lourdes Teixidor

Psicóloga especializada en organizaciones y trabajo con más de 30 años de experiencia como consultora en el ámbito de personas. Socia Directora de Psicotècnia y, desde el año 1995 profesora asociada en la Facultat de Educación y Psicología de la Universitat de Girona y colaboradora académica del departamento de Personas y Organización de Esade.

Daniel Reyes

Daniel has built a career in marketing at Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA). In recent years, he created and led the Corporate Marketing Department.

Over the course of his career at CCMA, he has led various departments, including Market Research, Commercial Marketing, Children and Youth Segment Marketing (Club Super3) and Self-Advertising on TV3, later becoming Marketing Director of TV3. He also oversees marketing at Catalunya Ràdio, where he created the company’s Corporate Marketing Area.

He holds a Bachelor and Master in Business Administration from Esade and an MBA from McGill University in Montreal.

Maria Del Carmen Fernández

María del Carmen is a journalist specialising in health and medicine. Since February 2016, she has directed the Unidad Editorial titles Diario Médico, Correo Farmacéutico and CuídatePlus.

She joined Diario Médico’s Barcelona newsroom in 1994 and was later appointed team coordinator and editor-in-chief, a position she held from 2004 until January 2016. She had previously contributed to the newspaper Avui (now El Punt Avui) and worked as a newswriter specialising in health and medicine at Diari de Barcelona and Nou Diari de Barcelona (defunct since 1994).

She holds a Bachelor in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1989) and a Postgraduate Degree in Integrated Health Services Management from Esade (2011-2012). She is a board member of the Esade Alumni Health and Pharma Club. She also teaches in the Master in Hospital and Health Service Management at the University of Barcelona (UB) and in the UB-ESAME Master in Pharmaceutical Industry Scientific Departments.

Ahmed Moussa

Esade EMBA, and a seasoned Chief Financial Officer with capability honed from 18+ years of corporate leadership, enterprise scale-up, and Board Advisory activities with market-leading banking firms and multi-sector conglomerates operating in global markets from a Middle East base. A highly effective commercial tactician, Ahmed is adept at setting strategic direction, building culture, developing teams, and transforming business operations to support a significant growth agenda in competitive global markets.

Technically proficient across Finance (public/private sources of debt/equity); US GAAP; IFRS; internal and Board reporting; treasury/cash management; MIS and human resources, Ahmed offers a refined strategic perspective and capability spanning business strategy development and implementation, company restructuring, business model pivot, planning, and product innovation.
He is suited to business-driver roles as CFO or Group Financial Controller in Real Estate, Education, and Consulting sectors and is attracted to complex business models associated with firms undergoing rapid growth or about to undertake acquisition, transformation, or worldwide expansion.

Ahmed earned his Executive MBA from Esade Business School in Barcelona (a top ten business school globally) and his Bachelor of Commerce from Mansoura University in Egypt. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from the California Board of Accountancy and a Graduate of the IFRS Certificate Program from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A Certified Trainer with a background providing advisory services to corporate clients in collaboration with the PwC Academy and Qatar University, he strongly supports developing the next generation of executives in an organization and plays a key role in acting as a mentor to aspiring business leaders in the teams he oversees.

Álvaro Serrano

Álvaro has more than 20 years of experience in the B2B industrial sector, primarily in technical and management positions in the automotive industry. He currently works as Managing Director of Lohmann Spain.

Miguel Mas

Miguel completed the Executive MBA at Esade (2005-2006), the International Management Programme in Sales and Marketing at the Volkswagen Group (2013-2014) and the Master in Legal Consultancy at Instituto de Empresa (1995-1996).

He now serves as Director of Purchasing and Transport at Volkswagen Group España Distribución (the group’s vehicle distribution company in Spain, which includes Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and light commercial vehicle brands).

He has 25 years of professional experience, of which he has spent the last 20 in the automotive industry, where he has held different managerial responsibilities. He previously worked as a Facility Manager for Nissan Spain, DB Transfesa and Ferrovial at Acciona.

He has a global vision of business, is proactive and is used to working with multidisciplinary teams.

In recent years, he has expanded his specific training in innovation and digitalisation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the International Seminar in Digital Transformation (ISDI) at Harvard.

Beatriz Díaz Serrano

Coaching for executives and managers in transformation processes

Coaching for first-time managers: 

• Accessing strategies for success when faced with the challenge of managing teams for the first time
• Reflecting on the differences between a leader and a manager and applying these insights on a day-to-day basis
• Understanding power, authority and respect 
• How to build a top team 
• Setting limits through assertiveness and effective delegation

Coaching high-performance teams:
I help teams identify success strategies that will help them achieve their goals and generate other forms of learning that will take them to the next level, enabling them to become high-performance teams.

Language: Spanish

Certification: Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
 

Maggie Robb

Maggie Robb is an innovative operations professional.
She loves expanding her horizons and pushing her limits through travel and outdoor adventures. Passionate about empowering women in her community, equity and social impact, she has experience at multinational corporations and entrepreneurial ventures in multiple countries. She currently resides in San Francisco, CA.

Verónica Valls

Verónica holds a Bachelor in Law from the University of Málaga and a Master in ICT Law, Social Networks and Intellectual Property from Esade. She has built her career at law firms and international corporations. She currently works as an intellectual and industrial property lawyer at the Bimbo Group.

José Quevedo

Soy José, MBA con más de 20 años de experiencia en los sistemas financieros peruano, boliviano, colombiano y panameño en entidades orientadas a los segmentos de la Micro y Pequeña Empresa, y la Banca. Me fascina mi trabajo y sobre todo mejorar la calidad de vida de la gente vía la inclusión financiera, y hacerla sostenible.
 
Me apasiona mucho la música y en especial el heavy metal, tenemos un fan page en Facebook, Instagram y Twitter con un grupo de amigos que fomenta y promueve la difusión de ese estilo musical en Latinoamérica.

Carlos García

Executive Master in Digital Business at Esade (EMDB 18/19) with exchange at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business in Silicon Valley. Professional experience includes global roles at SKF in Sales, Technology, E-business, Digital Solutions. After an International career based out of London and Madrid, Carlos has now been living in Gothenburg for the last few years, driving Digital Sales Solutions of SKF.

He has also joined COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology proposing programs in the area of Digitalization. 

Carlos is a Board member of the Esade Alumni Chapter in Sweden, which is based in Stockholm, and he is the representative in Gothenburg. If you are moving to Gothenburg or visiting this city, he will be happy to welcome you.  

Anthony Vallance-Owen

I am in the middle of my Full Time MBA (graduate 2022) and I am the current MBASA President.  Prior to the MBA I had a 14 year career with PwC spending approximately the first half in audit/ assurance and the last in M&A and capital markets. I had the opportunity to live and work in the UK and Vancouver as well as extensive travel around the world.  Although, as you have probably worked out, this “experience” puts me firmly at the older end of the MBA class!  

I am using the MBA to facilitate a move into the Healthcare sector, preferably in Barcelona, and with that in mind will be starting my internship with Werfen this summer.  

Outside of the MBA I enjoy spending time with my new born first child Guillermo and my wife Anna (originally from Barcelona) as well as being a passionate ultra runner.
 

Mª Pilar Mestre Aramendia

Career coaching: Development of one’s career either by changing jobs or getting a new one.

Executive coaching: Ensuring good performance in one’s current job by enhancing personal and leadership skills in order to maximise results.

Self-esteem and assertiveness coaching. Strengthening these aspects in order to achieve better personal balance that results in professional success and the ability to tackle new challenges at work.

Coaching for retirement: Approaching this new stage of life in a positive way.

Languages: Spanish and Catalan

Certification: Accredited Coaching Training Program (ACTP), International Coaching Federation

Paula García Monné

MSc in Marketing Management 2019 – Class Representative  

Graduada en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas por la Universidad Ramon Llull, en el MSc in Marketing Management por ESADE, y en dos programas internacionales en Negocios y Marketing por Università Bocconi y University of California, Los Angeles, Paula es una líder con vocación de servicio.  

Inició su carrera en la industria de la moda y la cosmética de lujo, trabajando en la Asociación Española del Lujo y en la Asociación del Paseo de Gracia, en Barcelona y en Londres. Siguió yéndose a París, como Digital Project Manager mundial para Gucci Beauty, marca ilustre dentro del porfolio de la división de lujo de Coty. En 2020, Paula optó por volver a Barcelona y explorar el ámbito del Product Management, esta vez desde una multinacional más cercana, Mango. Actualmente se encuentra de vuelta en el ámbito digital, y con foco en performance y crecimiento se encarga de gestionar una amplia cartera de clientes de distintos sectores.  

Paula siempre está lista para nuevos desafíos, y para ella seguir conectada a ESADE Alumni a través de la Comisión Young era la manera más natural y efectiva de seguir conectada a toda la comunidad de ESADE. 

Yulia Mukhacheva

•    International Business Law, Skills and Management for Lawyers, ESADE, LL.M.  14
•    International Tax Law, ESADE, MLT 19

Push further, dig deeper and climb higher.

Corporate lawyer. Specialist in M&A and Private Equity, International taxation, accounting & financial analysis. Active in ESADE Alumni Social (Latin America). Mentor for young entrepreneurs

Sport fanatic with passion for nature. Fond of Trekking Boot Camps. Focus on tech innovation, IT solutions #DigitalFutureSociety. 

Key words: #circulareconomy #enviroment #sustainability  #SustainableDevelopmentGoals
 

Guillermo Casasnovas

Profesor adjunto del Departamento de Sociedad, Política y Sostenibilidad de Esade, adscrito al Esade Center for Social Impact y al Instituto de Innovación Social. Realiza su actividad docente e investigadora en los campos del emprendimiento social y la inversión de impacto. Se doctoró en la Saïd Business School de la Universidad de Oxford. Antes de desarrollar su carrera académica, trabajó en el sector de las finanzas corporativas en Deloitte, dirigió el programa de aceleración social Momentum Project de Esade y fue profesor y consultor de la Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) de Nicaragua.

Rafael Sueiro

Rafael has extensive managerial experience, with a special focus on finance and strategic consulting, having worked in various industries and positions across Europe. He is currently based in Brussels, where he works at the Radisson Hotel Group as Senior Vice President for Group Controlling and Planning. He previously served as Global CFO of CWT Meetings & Events, working out of London and Madrid, after having been General Manager of CWT Spain. Prior to that, he worked at Vodafone Spain and at Deloitte as Strategy and Operations Manager. His educational background includes the Advanced Management Programme, the Executive MBA at Esade Business School and the Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Wales.

Paula Gual

Desde 2017 co-fundadora de Kalcetin.es, marca de calcetines que diseña, y fabrica 100% en España. Calcetines de compresión y calcetines de algodón estampados y de colores exclusivos.

Maria Lecinena

Soy María Leciñena y a nivel profesional, creo que me caracterizo por el aprendizaje continuo. Mi primera formación es ESADE, data de 2011 y ha continuado desde entonces.

Hace ya varios años que formo parte de la Junta de ESADE ALUMNI ARAGÓN, y estoy encantada de ello.

Soy economista de formación y tengo amplia experiencia sectorial, desde el sector formación, metal, sanitario, y ya desde hace varios años, trabajo en GRUPO ARTAL, grupo empresarial aragonés, dedicado a Concesionarios de Automoción y Sector Promoción Inmobiliaria.

A lo largo de los años, además de dedicarme a la dirección financiera y de administración, me he especializado en procesos de organización empresarial, y me he formado en la gestión, administración y sucesión de la empresa familiar, lo que es muy enriquecedor profesional y personalmente.

Como miembro de la Junta de ESADE ALUMNI, intento poner mi granito de arena en potenciar su conocimiento en particular, en Aragón, comunidad a la que pertenecemos.

Pedro Capitao

Ana María Díaz

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Jaume Borràs

 Director de Negocio en Culmia

Juan Huguet

Secretario autonómico de Innovación y Transformación Digital en Generalitat Valenciana

Francesc Fons

​​​​​​Dr.-Ing. in Electronics technology with 20+ years of expertise in the automotive industry, specialized in the fields of embedded software, hardware design and system & network architectures, with a proven track record of value creation in both exploitation (product development) and exploration (advanced engineering and applied research) disciplines. Along his career, he has been with Tier 1 & 2 companies from US, Germany and China, and has contributed to the successful launch of many commercial projects for OEMs in Europe and Asia, like BMW, Audi, Porsche, Jaguar Land Rover and Renault/Nissan, among others.

Jesus Castell

Jesus has +15 years of experience in the legal field. He holds a Bachelor of laws by the University of Navarra, LLM (DIN) by Esade and MBA by IESE. Jesus is the Head of Legal Investments at a worldwide leader asset manager. He started his career at two of the largest European law firms and at a tier 1 financial institution. He lectures laws at the University of Navarra and at the University of Barcelona and he collaborates as Mentor at the University of St. Gallen. Co-author of the legal book: “Banking and Securities Law” and author of several legal articles and papers in different international publications. Jesus was recognised and awarded in 2020 by the “Inhousecommnity awards Switzerland” as one of the best in-house lawyers in Switzerland.

Carlos Oliveras

Bachelor of Economics from the University of Barcelona. Bachelor of Market Research and Techniques from the University of Barcelona and Maastricht University. MBA from Esade (2009-2011).

With nearly 20 years of experience in market intelligence consulting, Carlos started his career at PRM International, where he worked as project manager. He later worked at AMINT for 11 years, including 6 years as managing partner at the Santiago de Chile office. He founded LMI Consulting in May 2020.

Emilio Vázquez

He is an industrial engineer with 25 years of experience in the industrial and mining sectors, helping companies meet the needs of today’s generations without compromising the possibilities of future generations.

Wesam Abuznadah

Transformative educational leader and an Academic Vascular Surgeon with over 15 years of leadership success inspiring, changing, and disrupting healthcare, public administration, and Education on a national, regional, and international levels. With a passion for improvement, a transformative mindset, and an understanding of the impact of change for all stakeholders to create win- win situations that achieve the desired target
 

Filippo Zani

Vivo en Milán, mi ciudad, con mi mujer y mi hijo de 1 año.

Mi pasión por las ventas y las finanzas me llevó a trabajar en el sector de los servicios financieros durante más de quince años, donde tuve ocasión de colaborar con instituciones como el Santander Consumer Bank, Hoist Finance y la Banca Mediolanum, entre otras.

En 2022, cofundé IrBox, una empresa de servicios digitales con sede en Milán que ofrece servicios web y de diseño gráfico multilingües para empresas que operan con mercados extranjeros.

He cursado el Executive Master in Marketing and Sales (EMMS), un doble grado conjunto de Esade Business School y la SDA Bocconi. Estudié en el Politecnico di Milano y en la Universidad Marconi de Roma, donde me gradué en Ingeniería Industrial en 2008.

Me gustan los deportes, especialmente navegar, esquiar y hacer senderismo.

Eduardo Monge Montes

Position and company: Executive Vice President at RDVAL Proveedora de Precios

Eduardo has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and securities sector in Central America and the Caribbean. He has extensive knowledge of portfolio management, risk management, artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital transformation, as well as more than 16 years of management experience.

Montse Caellas

Montse Caellas

Noah Leshan

Noah serves as an Investor at Touchdown Ventures, a venture capital firm. He focuses on property technology, home improvement, Industry 4.0, and water technology investments. Before joining Touchdown, Noah was an Investor at Pegasus Tech Ventures, advising and working on diligence for both venture and M&A opportunities. Additionally, Noah was the manager for Startup World Cup, a global pitch competition with a $1M investment prize. Before Pegasus, Noah worked in finance at TEGNA and also developed the financial plan for PeaceStartup, a social impact fund in Bogotá, Colombia.Earlier in his career, Noah worked in commercial real estate as a Land Acquisition Associate at K Hovnanian Homes and an Assistant to the Executive Managing Director at Newmark Knight Frank and The Executive Director Of Capital Markets at Cushman & Wakefield. Noah graduated magna cum laude from Towson University in Maryland and has a Master of Science in Finance from Esade. In his spare time, Noah enjoys attending concerts and being obsessive about food. He is a world traveler and has lived in five countries.

Lourenço Reynolds de Sousa

I'm Lourenço from Lisbon, Portugal but I'm actually living in Barcelona where I have done the Full-Time MBA at ESADE with the 2019 class. My previous academic background was on Electrical and Computer Engineering and professionally before the MBA. I have reached the position of senior project manager at Efacec, an Energy Multinational Company. After my MBA internship in a Business Development position at Tesla, I'm now the head of Market Intelligence at Volkswagen Group Spain Distribution where I aim to shape mobility for our future generation and to come.

Outside the professional environment, I love to sail and play tennis and also travel to new places and meet different cultures. I also like to be challenged and live new experiences. I'm very interested in world history and in all topics related to transforming our planet into a big sustainable ecosystem.

The personal objective for life, I think we should always believe in ourselves and take the opportunities life gives us to learn and grow at all levels. If we have passion and the right motivation I believe everything is possible!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lourencoreynolds/

Guillermo Valles

Como Director de Procurement de Saica estoy a cargo de un equipo de profesionales con la responsabilidad de comprar y aprovisionar para las seis fábricas de papel de papel de la compañía en España, Francia y el Reino Unido.

El equipo se encarga además de liderar las compras centrales para las otras tres divisiones del grupo Saica. Participo además activamente en todas aquellas líneas de trabajo de las asociaciones sectoriales que tengan como objetivo incrementar la recogida y el reciclado del papel usado tanto en España como en Europa

Juan Francisco Mejía

Juan Francisco Mejía. Casado. Licenciado en Ciencias Administrativas y Licenciado en Banca y Finanzas por la Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas, programa de Administración y Dirección de Empresas por ESADE, Curso Académico de Doctorado en Economía Internacional y Desarrollo por la Universidad de Barcelona, cursos en ESADE de Finanzas y Empresa Familiar. Consultor internacional en proyectos de Organismos Multilaterales, Director-Fundador de la Empresa de Consultoría SOLUCIONA EMPRESARIAL con oficinas en Venezuela-República Dominicana-Panamá.

Vishesh Dalal

Vishesh is currently the Head of Strategy at Indie Home Loans, a mortgage finance company based in India. Before completed the ESADE MBA in 2018, Vishesh has qualified as a Chartered Accountant and holds a CFA Charter. He has over 11 years of work experience across entrepreneurship and finance, having worked with various teams at Ernst & Young in India and Norway in the past. Outside of work, Vishesh likes to travel and is a certified scuba diver.

Julian Grimm

Julian is a strategy consultant who was born in Germany and is currently living in Sydney, Australia. After having studied internationally in Germany, the US, Spain and Australia as well as after having gathered work experience a bit around the world, Julian decided to move back to Australia. As an ESADE alumni (Master in International Management and CEMS 2012/2013) he also runs the Australian chapter of the ESADE alumni network. Despite of living in Sydney, Barcelona still has a place in his heart and he tries to be back every year with travel as one of his passions.

Karine Selma Laronze

Bachelor&MBA at ESADE, I also completed my CEMS Master's in International Management at ESADE and Stockholm School of Economics in 2007. After graduating, I worked more than 6 years in Business Consulting in Spain, South Africa and Colombia. I moved to Austria in 2014, where I have started a family. I am currently working as Project Manager at AEI, Agency for European Integration and Economic Development, in Vienna. I am a Spanish, French and Catalan native speaker, and also speak English and German fluently. I am involved in the Austria Chapter since its launch.

Albert Janer

Albert is passionate, innovator and maximizer who enjoys meeting new people and working effectively and strategically to make an impact on society and organizations.

Albert is Manager based out of Accenture's New York office specialized in Financial Services (Finance & Risk). Since he joined the firm in Barcelona in 2012, he has helped clients in dozens of projects related to definition of business processes and agile operating models and implementation of new technologies in Reporting, Data Management, AML, Surveillance, RPA, AI, eComm and Blockchain.

Mrdjan Uzelac

I am originally from Belgrade, and grew up in Yugoslavia, Germany and Canada. Different cultures have always been a key part of my life, which attracted me to ESADE in the first place. Now I am keen to foster the ESADE spirit in Hamburg by helping create a vibrant local alumni community.

I have been working for various technology companies in Canada and Germany for over 15 years.  As a business developer I specialize in setting up strategic partnerships for software products and services, such as payment, accounting & HR, and ecommerce solutions.

I graduated in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, where I also completed a Master in German Literature.  I moved back to Europe for the ESADE MBA which then brought me to Hamburg in 2012, where I’ve been since.

I enjoy discovering different places near and far, and especially the many things Hamburg has to offer - whether eating, socializing or checking out the many happenings in the city.  I play tennis and the cajon, and try to sail and ski whenever time permits.

Thomas Gehard Pfenning

My current main focus is the management of new venture developments in Israel on behalf of a German investment group. My responsibilities range from identifying new business opportunities to their actual implementation. Besides, I am representing the investment group in renewable energy endeavors in Eastern Europe.

I am passionate about the Israeli high-tech scene as well as in general about innovation and sustainability. Through the experiences and the network, which I have gained here while setting up a new business, I am always happy to be the first point of contact not only for new Alumni in Israel but also for international corporations that seek to harness the potential of the start-up nation.

In my free time, I enjoy challenging myself during races, gaining new insights into the Israeli mindset by studying Hebrew and exploring new places around the globe.

Lucía Lagunas Reyes

My name is Lucia Lagunas, I am 28 years old and I have a Law Degree from the Public University of Navarra. Subsequently, I completed an optional Master's Degree in Access to Law, completing it with the postgraduate course in International Business Law, at the Esade Law School.

Simultaneously to my specialization in international business law, I took the course of Skills and Management for lawyers, in Esade. This new training has allowed me to acquire more international knowledge applied at all times to Spanish and European Law, as well as to develop new essential skills in the practice of the 21st century, such as leadership, negotiation, work. as a team, motivation and empathy, among others.

I consider myself a proactive, disciplined person, with initiative and eager for improvement every day.

Regarding my professional aspect, I started doing internships in Pamplona, ​​in the area of ​​Corporate Law at ARPA Abogados Consultores and subsequently, I undertook an international career in the legal department of a German company, VR. LEASING, Aktiengesellschaft, located in Frankfurt (Germany).

Once in Spain again, I have worked for two and a half years as a lawyer in the area of ​​Real Estate & Foreign Investment in an office in Barcelona and currently, I continue to train and work as a lawyer in the area of ​​Corporate & New Technologies in the office of Miliners SLP lawyers

Núria Agell

Director of the Department of Operations, Innovation and Data Sciences and professor of the ESADE Busines School. Degree in Mathematical Sciences. University of Barcelona (UB) and PhD in Mathematics Applied by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). His research areas focus on Artificial Intelligence, in particular in ways of reasoning and his relationship with multi-criteria decision making. He has been president of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (2006-2010). He has led several research projects with both public and private funding. He has more than 50 publications in international magazines of recognized impact. He is currently participating in the editorial board of the international Journal "Information Fusion Journal".

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nuria_Agell 

Eugenia Bieto

She has served as CEO of Esade for 8 years (2010–2018). She is currently a full professor in the Department of Directorate-General and Strategy. She is a doctor of the Ramon Llull University, a graduate in Business and Master's Sciences in Business Direction by Esade and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Eulàlia Pujolà

Eulàlia Pujolà Elies has more than 40 years of experience working as an organisational consultant at various companies. She holds a degree in industrial engineering and is an EFQM Excellence Model assessor accredited by Club Excelencia en Gestión. She also holds an MBA from Esade. 

For the last 30 years, she has worked as the head of quality, auditing and regulations at Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals. 

Joan Sanfeliu

Joan holds a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering. He began his career at Nestlé and later became a strategic consultant at Cluster (now Oliver Wyman). For the last 15 years, he has been the CEO of Productos Montblanc SL and JSSL, companies founded by his great-grandfather in 1925 in the chemical, engineering and real-estate sectors.

He collaborates with non-profits related to the sport of sailing, including the Altafulla Yacht Club, the Catalan Sailing Federation and the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation. He also collaborates with social and cultural institutions, mainly in the Conca de Barberà region, through Fundació Martí l’Humà – Tot Conca.

Francesc Gibert

Francesc is a Managing Partner for Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Andorra at KPMG, where he oversees four offices and 850 professionals working in the fields of auditing, tax and legal services, and consulting.

He has more than 25 years of experience in auditing and advisory services, in areas such as corporate development, transactions, banking regulation, corporate governance and internal control. His clients include major Spanish financial institutions and international firms that have a presence in Spain. He has also collaborated with non-financial and public-sector entities. In addition, he regularly gives lectures in courses related to his areas of specialisation, particularly those targeting board members at publicly traded companies.

Previously at KPMG, he was responsible for the financial and markets sector in Catalonia and for risk advisory services throughout Spain.

Alba Rubio

Bachelor in Business Administration and Masters at Esade (Lic&MDE 12) with exchange at Singapore Management University. During her times at Esade, she represented the students awarded with talent scholarships in several occasions and she was also President of Esade students' groups during the last 3 years of her Bachelor. 

Previous professional experience includes striving at the Investment Management division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, collaborating on the M&A efforts at The Economist Group and working as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. After an international career based out of London, Hong Kong, New York and Madrid, Alba has now been living in Dubai for the last two years, driving the strategy of Careem, the first unicorn in the MENA region. 

She is also one fo the leaders of the LeanIn circle of "Women in Tech" in Dubai and President of the Esade Alumni UAE Chapter.

Andrea Ruizdelgado

Andrea is a principal associate in the real estate practice area at Garrigues. She specialises in real estate investment, real estate financing and all aspects related to the activity of investment funds in the real estate sector.

Her experience includes advising clients on all types of real estate transactions (sale and purchase, sale and leaseback, leasing, construction and development) and assisting in the implementation of financial transactions with underlying real estate assets.

She holds a Bachelor in Law from Esade. She is a member of the executive committee of the Esade Alumni Real Estate Club and the executive committee of the Young Leaders programme at the Urban Land Institute.

Dr. Adriano Mones

Business Development Director Spain & LATAM en Phoenix Contact E-Mobility GmbH

Patricia Sotelo

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Lluis Lana

Más de 30 años de experiencia en el sector asegurador, básicamente en áreas directivas, comerciales y formación. Carrera profesional en varias aseguradoras y corredurías. Experto en previsión social complementaria. Actuario de Seguros y Economista (UB). Máster en Finanzas en Esade. 

Manuel Rosales

Más de diez años de experiencia en el liderazgo y definición de estrategias de negocio, marketing y ventas para el sector de la automoción como la multinacional BMW Ibérica en Madrid y en organizaciones más locales como Grupo Avisa que representa las marcas del grupo Volkswagen en Sevilla. Inicio de carrera profesional en el mundo de la agencia local como Grupo Imagen y Quid quid, y en medios de comunicación como Vocento y Grupo Prisa. Especialista en proyectos de Transformación Digital y Customer Experience orientados a redefinir modelos de negocio y propuestas de valor con el fin de contribuir a desarrollar organizaciones más competitivas e innovadoras. Experiencia como emprendedor en diferentes start-up en sectores como retail o servicios. Apasionado de los ratos en familia y amigos, de la práctica del golf y pádel, y de viajar para disfrutar la experiencia de conocer rincones únicos.

Silvia Manent

Silvia is the Founder and Managing Partner of Manent Capital, a Boston-based wealth management firm that focuses on helping young clients understand their personal and business finances so that they can feel accomplished, confident and excited about investing in their future dream goals. She has been featured on Forbes, CNN, Investor’s Business Daily. Market Watch & more. She has over six years of investment and wealth management experience, including individual investment management, comprehensive financial planning and high net worth advisory.

Prior to founding Manent Capital, Silvia worked as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley where she was responsible for providing clients with personalized plans to help them better manage their investments, cash flow and achieve their financial goals. Prior to this, Silvia worked with international ultra-high net worth clients at Credit Suisse in Zürich, Switzerland as well as J.P. Morgan in Boston, MA. Silvia began her career in Palo Alto, CA at Cepheid, a leader in molecular diagnostics and Instrumentation Laboratory (IL), a leader in critical care, hemostasis and point-of-care diagnostics.

​Silvia received her undergraduate and master's degree in Finance and International Management from ESADE, a Top-Ranked European Business School. Silvia is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®), the highest distinction in the investment management profession as well as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), the standard of excellence in financial planning. In addition to understanding the complexities of the changing financial climate, Silvia is held to the most rigorous ethical standards by both designations.
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Silvia speaks English, Spanish, French and Catalan.

Maria Stefanoni

I am passionate about marketing and innovation. I graduated from the Esade MBA in 2018, after completing a semester in the American University of Georgetown. The MBA helped me boost my career and discover a deep passion for the healthcare industry. After the MBA, I briefly worked for the Spanish company Almirall, before landing at Johnson & Johnson where I entered in the marketing development program IRDP.

I started my career working as a communication and digital marketing consultant in various fields: arts, education, food and beverage, both in house as well as in agency. I got my BA and MA in foreign languages at the Venice University Ca' Foscari (with exchanges in France and Germany). As a result of my studies and the passion for traveling, I speak 6 languages fluently. I also hold an Executive Master in Digital Marketing from the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona.

Jaime Castello

Jaime holds a Bachelor in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Valencia, an MBA from Esade and a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Kingston University London.

Before joining Esade in 2005, he held various positions of responsibility in marketing and sales at multinational corporations operating in Spain and abroad. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Marketing Management at Esade, where he coordinates the Sales and Key Account Management Area and directs the Executive Master in Marketing and Sales at Esade Madrid.

Among the Esade faculty, Jaime is a pioneer in educational innovation and in the application of new technologies to executive education.

Mercedes Sancho Jaime

I assist in processes of professional change when people find it difficult to achieve a goal or decide how to move towards it. My proposal is a practical, structured framework that enables coachees to make decisions confidently and enthusiastically and develop a plan for putting their decisions into practice. I use a mobilising method and proven tools, while also drawing on my own experience of personal and professional transformation. 

If you want to improve your leadership and strengthen your communication and relationship skills, we will make the most of your abilities through action-oriented conversations, developing an awareness of your strengths to provide you with support and levers for overcoming barriers and obstacles to your development. With this objective in mind, I combine various methodologies focused on improving personal effectiveness. 

Specialities: Career coaching, executive and leadership coaching, relational coaching, networking and personal branding.
 

Carmen Ansotegui

Carmen is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Esade.

She holds a Bachelor in Business Administration, a Master in Economic Theory and a PhD in Economics, which has given her a broad vision of the world of finance. She is a Professor in the Department of Financial Management and Control at Esade, where she teaches and conducts research. Her main research interests are capital markets and asset valuation.

Her current research activities focus on alternative finance and shadow banking.

Axel Yildiz

“I’m Partner at Font&Yildiz, experienced corporate and commercial lawyer qualified to practice Law in Spain and Argentina, with solid expertise in Real Estate Law and business Law. I received my Master´s degree in International Law by ISDE and an Executive Master in Business Administration (EMBA) by ESADE. 

I’m also a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and a regular collaborator of Acció and Spri within International transactions between Catalonia or the Basque Country and other countries.

As a boutique Law Firm with multi-lingual speaking lawyers we provide high service level with a cost-effective service to Companies and Individuals both local or international.”
 

Christian Sipión

Gerente de Desarrollo de Negocios en el sector educativo. Me apasiona la docencia creativa que desarrollo activamente y mi propósito es transformar la educación hacia un modelo integral, escalable e innovador. 

Mis principales temas de interés son finanzas corporativas, planeamiento estratégico, inteligencia de mercado y generación de nuevos negocios.

Músico baterista y percusionista de distintas bandas musicales. 

Corporate MBA en ESADE, Diplomado de International Business en Georgetown University y Exchange Student en IE Business School.

Ramón Chalmeta

After seven years working at Kantar, in the television audience sector, where I was developing the software to measure and analyse audiences across the world, I decided to give an impulse to my career. I enrolled into the Executive MBA at ESADE and moved to Paris with my wife to start a new personal and professional adventure. Here in Paris I am working at Netatmo, a brand of Legrand developing groundbreaking connected consumer electronics. I am currently leading projects in the energy sector with partners like Engie or Vaillant, putting together the best of the energy sector and our technical know-how in IoT, to connect energy products and convert them into smart objects.

 
Passionate of chess, I am an international player and I collaborate with several institutions to develop not only the competition of our sport but also to bring its cognitive benefits to society.

Montserrat Altarriba Palomares

Career and leadership development, people and team management, support for generational change, professional transitions, emotional and stress management, adaptation to change and work-life balance.

Languages: Spanish, Catalan, English and French

Certifications:

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation
• Certified Professional Coach (CPC), Spanish Coaching Association (ASESCO)
• Mentor Coach certified by the International Coaching Federation

Anna Borrell

Digital business strategist. Especializada en el mundo digital, Anna empezó su carrera profesional en el mundo de las start ups i en el sector del deporte, trabajando en empresas como el FC Barcelona. En 2017, cursó el Executive Master en Digital Business por ESADE y desarrolló, durante casi tres años, la experiencia digital de Banco Sabadell. En 2020, volvió al mundo del deporte entrando en Dorna Sports, empresa propietaria de los derechos comerciales y televisivos de campeonatos de motor, entre ellos MotoGP™️. Allí ha empezado la construcción y desarrollo digital de sus OTTs. 
 

Antonio Sala

Durante más de ocho años, ha desempeñado diversos cargos en los departamentos de Marketing y Ventas de Reckitt. Es colaborador entusiasta y miembro de la Junta de dos ONG de Barcelona: Entrecultures y Entxartxad, ambas con proyectos en países en vías de desarrollo.

Claudia Cornella

Ha viscut i treballat en diferents països, parla 5 idiomes i ha liderat i negociat amb equips multiculturals. La distingeix la seva experiència internacional com a líder en el sector financer, a nivell públic i privat, especialment durant els seus darrers anys al Govern d’Andorra com a Secretaria d’Estat d’Assumptes Financers Internacionals, que li ha donat una visió i un enfocament complets sobre qualsevol situació.  Després de gairebé 25 anys en el món de les finances, al maig del 2019 va decidir donar un tomb a la seva vida per començar un nou projecte fent el que li apassiona: dedicar-se a les persones.

Especialitzada en Coaching Personal, Executiu i d’Equips, amb Coaching Sistèmic, PNL (Master Practitioner), Neurociència i Intel.ligència Emocional. MBA ESADE (Màster en Finances & International Management) i Programa a ESADE en Influential Leadership Up & Across. Programa Expertos de Raimón Samsó i Mentoria en comunicació amb Esther Nguema.

Iván Prieto

Licenciado en Dirección y Administración de Empresas y MBA por ESADE; y Master en Marketing por EADA y MBA Intensificación en Internacional Business por la Université Catholique de Louvain; con una gran experiencia en gestión de PYMEs, así como en empresas multinacionales. Ha desarrollado su carrera como gerente y director de áreas funcionales de numerosas empresas y equipos en España y Portugal. Actualmente dirige una empresa dedicada a la transformación digital de las empresas basándose en software libre.

José Andrés De Lorenzo-Cáceres Apolinario

Cofundé y soy Co-CEO de la agencia de Marketing Digital Klawter. He asesorado a diferentes empresas e instituciones públicas en marketing digital y derecho de las nuevas tecnologías. Particularmente, estoy especializado en social ads, brand safety y smart data. He trabajado para diferentes marcas como la Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, Hospitales San Roque o instituciones como la Universidad de Salamanca, diferentes cabildos insulares o para el Gobierno de las Islas Canarias.

En el ámbito académico realizo estudios de doctorado en el área de derecho procesal de la Universidad de Salamanca. El objeto de la investigación es el estudio de los mecanismos de protección y control frente a la inteligencia artificial.

Juan José Suárez

Su carrera profesional ha estado ligada a la consultoría estratégica y actualmente es brand manager en DIAMANTO 1881. 

Como integrante del club de marketing de Madrid, busca los mejores profesionales y temáticas para compartir conocimiento en Alumni y generar networking y oportunidades entre los asociados.

Ana Plaza

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Xisco Mateu

Director en Agència de Estratègia Turística de les Illes Balears (AETIB)

Javier Borja

Interim Management & Independent Advisor - Council Member

Marta Grañó

Soy Consultora en Innovación & Personas. Especializada en el desarrollo de talento y en impulsar equipos. Las personas son el gran tesoro de las organizaciones.

Profesora en ESADE, speaker en TEDx y con más de 2.000 horas de formación InCompany impartida en grandes organizaciones, mejorando su marco de trabajo y alcanzando progresos reales tangibles. Encontrarás algunas de sus opiniones sobre mí en mi página web. Y me encanta seguir haciéndolo, siempre con profesionales y organizaciones comprometidos y con un propósito claro.

Ayudo a facilitar el cambio a líderes que quieren transformar sus organizaciones, para pasar a trabajar con equipos diversos, ágiles y con propósito. Ahora más que nunca, las organizaciones dependen de la diversidad de talentos y de la capacidad de organizar verdaderos equipos. Entre mis programas encontrarás “Impulsa talento femenino” -un programa de mejora de competencias para mujeres profesionales - y “Lidera el cambio” -un programa de mejora de competencias para líderes de equipos y equipos-.

He publicado 5 libros, entre los que están "¡Vamos! Cómo aplicar la iniciativa emprendedora en la empresa y en la vida" y "¿Somos malas madres? El libro para la madres que trabajan dentro y fuera de casa". Actualmente estoy escribiendo mi 6º libro, porque me encanta escribir y divulgar mi trabajo.

Ignasi Ferrer

Founder & Executive Partner en Seastainable Ventures

Miguel Ángel Morcuende

Es Ingeniero de Telecomunicaciones, Licenciado en Periodismo, Máster en Negocios Digitales, obtuvo un Certificado de Innovación y Emprendimiento (Stanford University), Programa Ejecutivo de Inteligencia Artificial en los Negocios y ha cursado el “Programa para Consejeros” y el “Programa ESG para Consejeros” en Esade Business School .

Cuenta con una experiencia de 33 años en el ámbito de la Tecnología y 24 años en el ámbito Digital, adquiridas en RTVE, Atos y Gartner. Ha sido Director Digital (CDO) Director de Tecnología y Operaciones (CTO/COO), Director Global de Innovación (CINO); actualmente como ínterin es Director de Transformación Digital (CDxO).

Actualmente es Miembro del Consejo Asesor de Bridgewhat.

Lluis Planchat

Bachelor of Business Administration and Law (Esade) and Bachelor of Economics (University of Barcelona). Associate in the Corporate Finance Department at KPMG, where he works as an adviser on mergers and acquisitions and business valuation projects. Prior experience as an economic and financial modelling consultant at Deloitte. Lecturer of Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.

Joan Ramon Mas Navarro

Degree in Business Management and Administration from the UAB, PMD from Esade (2006) and PDG from IESE (2018). In addition, he has training in business and commercial strategy.

Executive expert in marketing, an area in which he has practiced professionally throughout his professional career.

He has held positions of managerial responsibility in various companies and sectors, some of them with global leadership and others with a clear desire for local or sector leadership: Kantar Worldpanel, PepsiCo, Winterthur, AXA, Agrupació Mutua and Crèdit Andorrà Group (experience in markets or consumer goods, insurance and banking sectors).

In recent years, he has held managerial responsibilities in digital transformation and orporate communication at the Crèdit Andorrà Group.

He has just started as an advisor in business consulting, basically in the fields of marketing, digital transformation and corporate communication, from a strategic approach, through the creation of B21 Consulting.

He is an innovative, proactive, personable and competent person, and possesses great communication skills.

Joaquin Roca

Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business Administration and Management from ESADE ('09).

Currently, he exercises the role of Innovation Beyond the Core Manager at Nestlé for the Europe Zone, within the Dairy and Nutrition categories, whose purpose is to create and develop an ecosystem of digital solutions that includes new business models in order to generate more growth for the company.

Previously, she worked at the pharmaceutical company ISDIN, where she developed the global community for beauty consultants, among other B2B projects.

He has more than 10 years of international experience in business consulting – strategy and operations – at Minsait (formerly Europraxis Consulting) and BeRepublic with a high strategic and business focus from different areas: economic-financial, technological, innovation and digital transformation.

Additionally, he is a tenured professor of "Finance for Entrepreneurs" in the Master's Degree in Strategic Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IED.

Marguerite Mc Mahon

Marguerite has more than 30 years of international professional experience in the field of medium- and long-term finance, first in London and later at the European Investment Bank in the Spanish and Italian markets. She is currently a non-executive director at SME Long Term Finance (London) Ltd and the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts from University College Dublin, an MBA from Esade and a Master in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. In 2019-2020, she participated in the Programme for Directors at Esade in addition to similar courses in Milan and London.

Patricia Rebelo

Lifelong learner, passionate about leadership and a true believer that more diversity in senior executive positions will be key to achieving sustained business growth and high-performance teams in a VUCA world.
I graduated with an MBA in July 2017 and, since then, have been actively engaged with ESADE Alumni. In 2022, I co-founded the initiative SHEpharma - Inspiring, connecting & empowering future leaders in pharma, launched in close collaboration with Women Empowerment and Health & Pharma Esade Alumni Clubs.

Currently, in a post-MBA rotational program in Novartis Spain, a +2-year tailored program for future leaders to rotate across different functions of the organization. Prior to this experience, I had several strategic roles both in marketing and sales in the healthcare sector, with local and regional scope.
Outside of professional life, I love travelling and learning about new places and cultures. Two of my other favourite hobbies are reading and spending time with my family and friends.

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Piotr Opacki

Since graduating with an MBA in 2022, Piotr has transitioned into tech. He now works at Uber’s EMEA headquarters in Amsterdam, where he manages B2B projects, operationalises global initiatives in the region and provides strategic advice to senior leadership.

Prior to moving to Barcelona, Piotr used to live in the United Kingdom, where he completed a Master in Engineering. He then worked as a consulting engineer in London alongside architects and large property developers.

In his spare time, Piotr enjoys skiing, cycling and getting to know new and inspiring people.

Enric R. Bartlett

Enric. R. Bartlett Castellà, Lecturer of Public Law, has been at Esade (Ramon Llull University) since 2004. He previously served as Dean of Esade Law School (2009-2013). He has taught construction and environmental law in the International Business Law programme and administrative law in various undergraduate programmes. He currently teaches regulatory law and construction and environmental law in the Master in Legal Practice and leads the Human Rights Seminar.

He has taught in Mexico and Nicaragua, lectured at Pompeu Fabra University and spoken at various university and civil-service training centres, including the University of Barcelona, the University of Girona, the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (London), the Public Administration School of Catalonia, the Centre for Specialised Legal Studies and Training, and the Judicial School of the General Council of the Judiciary of Spain.

He holds a PhD in Law and is qualified as a secretary-controller of local administration, a post he held for six years (1980-1986) in the municipality of Monistrol de Montserrat. He subsequently served as Deputy Ombudsman of Catalonia for 11 years (1993-2004). Before that (1986-1993), he was an advisor and general secretary to the office of the Ombudsman.

His most recent studies deal with regulation of the economy to achieve a just energy transition, specifically regarding issues such as energy communities, fighting energy poverty, investment protection and promoting innovation.

Carolina Sánchez

Ingeniera Industrial con 8 años de experiencia en Mercadeo; iniciando en Consumo Masivo, y luego cambiando a la industria de Farmacéutica al culminar el MBA de Esade. Actualmente trabaja en Janssen Pharmaceutical como Gerente del portafolio de Diabetes y VIH para la región de Centro América y Caribe.

Emocionada de liderar el Panama Chapter para fomentar conexiones e intercambio de experiencia continuas entre los exalumnos de Esade.

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Jaume Maspons

I graduated in 2007 from ESADE after spending one year in HEC Paris doing my double degree program. Eager for new international experiences I joined Société Générale inside the graduate program, which offer me the chance to work in different countries and meeting colleagues around the world. After working in M&A and Equity markets teams, I decided to focus my career in the credit field, specializing in arranging acquisition loans for large corporates and Private Equity funds.

In my current job, I advise clients in the process to raise financing in capital markets for companies exposed to a large variety of sectors. In my current job, I have a privileged seat to see how companies are quickly changing, impacted by innovation and digitalization trends.

Definitely we are living in a time of deep changes that are shaping tomorrow’s world!. I complement my dedicated job with an active engagement in ESADE’s Paris chapter since 2010. My tasks are to make alumni get to know each other and keep ESADE network alive. Last but not least, my friends usually tell me that I’m a passionate runner, a seasoned traveler and intrepid reader.

Miguel Ángel Sanz

Miguel Ángel Sanz organizó la primera cena de alumni de ESADE en el País Vasco a finales de 2008, lo que sería el embrión del Club ESADE en la zona.

Tras formar parte de su primera junta directiva, vuelve a estar en ella. Además de haber realizado en ESADE el programa de Dirección Estratégica en Márketing y Comercialización, es Doctor Ingeniero Industrial, tiene un postgrado en Teatro y Artes Escénicas por la UPV, un MBA por INSEAD, y ha estudiado el grado de Teología en la Universidad de Deusto. Reside en Bilbao y ha vivido también en Alemania, Reino Unido, Francia, Suiza y Singapur.

Es Partner en Madavi, donde se dedica a cambiar la forma en que las organizaciones cambian, proporcionando propósito y velocidad a miles de personas.

Raimon Cambra

Professional with more than 35 years’ experience in SMEs and the FMCG and industrial sectors, in multidisciplinary projects related to sales, marketing and management. Expert in the development of new products, services and markets with a strategic outlook.
Expert consultant in process enhancement, adviser, business coaching and guidance for family firms.

Yanyu Zheng

Yanyu Zheng is co founder and vice president of All Star Partner. Started her career as the first Chinese employee in FC Barcelona, she has rich years of experience and expertise in sports marketing & communications, sponsorship, sports event management and digital operations.  

Yanyu was senior business development manager at Alibaba group before she founded All Star Partner, and she worked with Tencent Sports during years being its correspondent in Europe. Yanyu got her MBA degree at ESADE Business School (Barcelona) with full scholarship. She led the Sports Business club in ESADE and won a sports  marketing thesis competition organized by Financial Times. Yanyu studied The business of Entertainment, Media and Sports at Harvard Business School in 2018.

Yanyu is fluent in Spanish, English and Catalan, and have a good knowledge of French and Portuguese.

Per Lokkegaard

Per Lokkegaard is CEO at Dar Basil Holding, a Private Equity Firm in Saudi Arabia (JVs in Saudi Arabia with Multinationals). He is also Co-Founding partner in NeuroSteps©, the world´s first Company to bring Neuroscience to HR Assessments and Executive Development,

and Co-Founding partner in BiofreshTech®, a patent holder of two revolutionary environmentally friendly solutions to passive refrigeration without electricity,

which are expected to disrupt several industries on a global scale. Previously, he was CEO of EMS Seven Seas, the global market leader within Maritime Supply Chain and Logistics.

Per holds an Executive MBA from ESADE and BPSE from IMD.

Anna Fos Llopart

Anna Fos Llopart (MBA Part Time 2014) is a Board Member of the Esade Alumni Chapter in Frankfurt.  Originally from Barcelona, she leaves in Frankfurt since several years. Anna holds a wide experience in Governance Functions in the Pharmaceutical Sector. As a good mediterranean, she enjoys with good food and wine. While travelling, she enjoys of her passions: music and reading. Anna feels proud of being a member of F.C.Barcelona since several years and supports arts organisations as the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.

Maria Pericas

Maria is a Senior Business Analyst in an internal consulting team at Wayfair, the largest furniture e-commerce worldwide. She joined this fast paced environment in 2016, after completing her International BBA at ESADE, which gave her the opportunity to study in Singapore and work as a Strategic Consultant in Arthur D. Little. Maria is always looking for new challenges and adventures both personally and professionally, and strives for having a positive social impact.

Alexandra Molina-Martell

Alexandra holds a Bachelor in Law from Esade Law School. She joined the Corporate Law Department at Uría Menéndez in 2000 and was appointed coordinating associate in January 2010. Her practice focuses on corporate law, particularly on company acquisitions and sales, mergers and restructuring, joint ventures, and investment and divestment transactions of all sorts through national and international structures.

She has more than 15 years of experience advising on contractual and board secretarial matters (financial transactions and mergers and acquisitions). She also works regularly with entrepreneurs and social enterprises

Antonio Alés

I was born in the 60s and I consider myself a "Perennial", the ageless generation! . In 2013 I celebrated the fiftieth anniversary. Being surplus quota allowed me to get rid of the Military Service, finish my academic training and enter the labor market without interruptions.

I consider myself the fruit of multinationals. I accumulate more than 30 years of experience in 3 technology companies. During these 6 years I have had the luxury of leading strategic and operational areas. Having a permanent, avant-garde and real-time training is priceless! 7 years ago I focused on promoting intrapreneurship and managing change processes.

Since April 2019 I have a new challenge in Schneider Electric: direct the strategy and implement the new Client Software platforms to improve your user experience in the journey towards the Digital Transformation of the complex B2B environment.

All this multicultural and multidisciplinary baggage gives me a broad business vision and an enormous capacity for adaptation, as well as the virtue of promoting transformation projects, or business development, in highly volatile and uncertain VUCA scenarios.

On a personal level, I have a passion to undertake, innovate and motivate teams. I love technology and simplicity, I like intrigues, dilemmas and the art of magic, as well as reinventing day to day. My experience in intrapreneurship encourages me to advise startups and, my motivation for innovation and technology, lead me to support ESADE Alumni within the Board of Directors of the Business Innovation & Technologies Club and the ESADE Business Angels network BAN, as "collaborative startup advisor".

I have learned that companies are "living beings", with the obligation to evolve. If they don't, they disappear. As I would say @Darwin, it is a simple matter of adaptation!
 

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Javier Mencía Gutiérrez

Digital optimist addressing the change of era, I work at the Endesa Digital Transformation Office, with a specific focus on the business vision ("economics" and planning), implementation of the agile methodology and digitalization initiatives. On the other hand, I am part of the Board of an investment club in digital startups.

In the last professional stage I developed functions of management control, development of dashboards for senior management and participation in strategic projects in Enel.

Previously, 11 years managing teams and projects of an organizational and operational type, negotiating with public administrations, cooperating with multiple departments of the company and with suppliers.

I have grown in 5 different countries, which has given me the ability to work in multicultural environments and be very adaptable to changes.

Alexandra Molina-Martell

Alexandra holds a Bachelor in Law from Esade Law School. She joined the Corporate Law Department at Uría Menéndez in 2000 and was appointed coordinating associate in January 2010. Her practice focuses on corporate law, particularly on company acquisitions and sales, mergers and restructuring, joint ventures, and investment and divestment transactions of all sorts through national and international structures.

She has more than 15 years of experience advising on contractual and board secretarial matters (financial transactions and mergers and acquisitions). She also works regularly with entrepreneurs and social enterprises.

Alba Rubio

Bachelor in Business Administration and Masters at ESADE (Lic&MDE' 12) with exchange at Singapore Management University. During her times at ESADE, she represented the students awarded with talent scholarships in several occasions and she was also President of ESADE students' groups during the last 3
years of her Bachelor. 

Previous professional experience includes striving at the Investment Management division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, collaborating on the M&A efforts at The Economist Group and working as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. After an international career based out of London, Hong
Kong, New York and Madrid, Alba has now been living in Dubai for the last two years, driving the
strategy of Careem, the first unicorn in the MENA region. 

She is also one fo the leaders of the LeanIn circle of "Women in Tech" in Dubai and President of the ESADE Alumni UAE Chapter.

David Novoa

David is the Director of Mercer Consulting, S.L.U.

He has more than 20 years of experience advising multinational companies on how to transform their business strategy through people. He has held various positions at Mercer, including Business Leader at Mercer Marsh Benefits, the employee-benefits strategic area at Marsh McLennan.

His area of expertise is the design of compensation and benefits policies aligned with business objectives. He has in-depth knowledge of the infrastructure and tourism sectors. He has extensive knowledge of pensions and personal insurance in the Spanish market and has led the implementation of international benefit-strategy programmes as well as merger and acquisition processes.

He holds a Bachelor in Actuarial and Financial Sciences from Carlos III University of Madrid. He completed the Programme for Management Development at Esade. He is also a qualified insurance mediator and is a member of the Institute of Spanish Actuaries.

Said Sawaf

Following an undergraduate degree in the United States, Said joined his family business group with a view of evolving it into the next generation. Having experienced the golden years of Dubai’s evolution between 2002 and 2007, he elected to join ESADE’s accelerated year-long MBA program. Since graduating, Said subsequently established two additional subsidiaries within his family’s Middle East, European and Latin American architectural lighting conglomerate.  Said is an entrepreneur who operates at the nexus of negotiating strategic partnerships, accessing new markets and propelling value creation by leveraging opportunities within the realms of lighting, architecture, construction and IoT.

Stefan Neville

Dynamic and challenging environments promote self-improvement which I am very passionate about and dedicated to. Combining my technical skills of analytical and innovative thinking with my interpersonal skills of leadership and communication have ensured exceptional results for both the company and my clients.

José Francisco Rodríguez

José Francisco is the president of Capital magazine. He collaborates on executive programmes at Esade and is passionate about photography, travel and innovation.

Mariano Rigau

Mariano holds a Bachelor in Philosophy and Educational Sciences and an MBA from Esade (1988). He collaborates with the Esade Challenge for Talent as a private individual (1,000 x 1,000 programme) and serves as Vice President of the Insurance Club.

Since 2006, he has been the CEO of Arag SE Spain, a member of the group’s executive committee and President of Arag Services Spain and Portugal.

Over the course of his career, he has served as General Manager of the Royal Automobile Club of Spain (RACE), a board member at ARC Transsistance, Operations Manager at the Royal Automobile Club of Catalonia (RACC), General Manager of Universal Asistencia (RACC Group), a member of the executive committee of RACC, Deputy General Manager of Sabadell Aseguradora, Deputy CEO of Banco de Europa and General Manager of Investment and Leasing for Europe at the Banco de Europa Group.

Helena Borbón

Helena has 20 years of professional experience in general management. She currently serves as Director General of the CARES Foundation and Administrator of Empresa d’Inserció CODEC, both of which are dedicated to outsourcing operational and logistical services, to people with disabilities and to people at risk of social exclusion, respectively.

She holds a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). She has also completed the Leadership and Social Innovation Programme at Esade and the General Management Programme at IESE.

José Luis Morales

José Luis has built his career in operations and supply-chain management in the multinational environment of the auxiliary automotive industry, at companies such as Ficosa, Sintermetal and Gestamp.

He specialises in improving value flow in operations and planning by means of lean manufacturing techniques, DMAIC 6-Sigma, QRQC, automated production and robotics.

Ricard Lascorz

Ricard holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor in Law from Esade (class of 2019). During his studies, he was involved in various academic activities, including the Esade Student Finance Society and the Esade debate team. After doing internships in the fields of corporate law (Uría Menéndez) and investment banking (Morgan Stanley), he decided to go to work for the family business. He currently serves as Business Development Manager at Plimon Global and is a member of the company’s board of directors. His primary responsibilities are management, growth and internationalisation.

Susana Sebastiá

Susana holds a Bachelor in Law from the University of Zaragoza. She completed the Programme for Management Development at Esade in 2008 and the General Management Programme at IESE Business School in 2019.

She has 20 years of experience in executive positions at major companies in the health and social-care sector.

Specialised in management, she has held operations management and division management positions. In this capacity, she has contributed to the growth and transformation of the sector, which today is a benchmark for economic growth and job creation.

Throughout her career, Susana has worked with government bodies on the implementation and development of various services, emerging as a strong advocate for public-private partnerships.

Since 2019, she has served as Asset Management Director at Healthcare Activos, an investment platform specialised in real-estate assets in the health and long-term-care industry.

Marguerite Chaignot

Using open-ended questions and specialised tools, I help coachees become aware of their potential and the changes they want to create. In particular, I can help you develop confidence/self-esteem, manage your emotions (fear, anger, sadness), better manage your interpersonal relationships, and make you more effective as a team leader and decision-maker in difficult contexts. 

Clients explore these new methods, perspectives and resources on their own, with the aim of developing their full potential, adopting new perspectives, better managing their personal or professional life, becoming happier and more efficient, and having a more positive impact on the world.

Specialities: 

• Positive intelligence coaching (managing saboteurs and strengthening the wise part of yourself)
• Self-esteem and decision-making coaching
• Career Orientation and Job Search Coaching Consulting
• Self-employed and business creation Consulting
• Team cohesion facilitation
• Collective Intelligence facilitation (co-development method)

Languages: Spanish, English, French

Certification: 

• Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), CTI
• Executive Coaching, Único model, Instituto de Comunicación
• Sikkhona relational model, Instituto de Comunicación
   

Berta Santos Rouco

I provide guidance to people who are undergoing professional transition processes; people in the legal and engineering sectors who are facing new challenges that require management and team-leading skills; and women who wish to strengthen their female leadership. 

Languages: Spanish 

Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coach Federation
 

Clàudia Cornella Durany

My specialty is guiding leaders through their personal and professional development in changing times and environments. The goal of this process is to help them develop influential and motivational leadership so that they can achieve their goals, increase their performance, improve their team’s results and, at the same time, help them live fuller and happier personal and professional lives. 
I do all this through change management, development of executive skills (soft skills), emotional intelligence, self-leadership and team leadership.

Coaching Languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, English

Certifications: 

• Associate Certified Coach (ACC) for International Coach Federation
• Associate Certified Coach (CAC) for Spanish Coaching Association (ASESCO)

Alex Duran

Engineer by education, supply chain manager by experience, and sportsman by passion, Alex has held different leadership positions in several multinational companies in Barcelona and Zürich. He co-founded Nexspares in 2018, a consultancy firm devoted to help aircraft operators source aircraft spares more efficiently.

In Switzerland since 2011, he loves riding his road bike, participates in the Zürich visual arts scene and enjoys discovering hidden places, bars and restaurants throughout the city

Teresa Nicolau

After spending more than a decade at PwC early in her career, Teresa has held executive posts at private enterprises and led public entities in a diverse range of industries, including automotive, IT, food, services and tourism.

She specialises in strategic financial management for sustainable business development in organisations. Among other posts, she currently sits on the board of a private-sector company and is the treasurer and a trustee of a private foundation.

In addition to participating as a speaker in Esade webinars, she serves as a mentor and actively collaborates with Esade Alumni Pro Bono Consultants.

Rodrigo Rama Dellepiane

Career Coaching for High Performance / Strengthening Women’s Leadership / Coaching Migrant Professionals and Native Returnees / Supporting Work-Life Balance / Guiding Brave Decisions

GH ‘86 / MBA ‘89

Coach, trainer and psychologist. Forty-two years of professional experience as a senior executive, trainer and entrepreneur.

I provide growth tools to individuals, teams and organisations.

Deep, disruptive, tenacious and passionate.

Languages: Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese

Certification: Coach certified by the International Coaching Federation

Maximiliano Ranftl

Graduado en Derecho en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) y del Máster de Especialización en Derecho de las TIC, Redes Sociales y Propiedad Intelectual por ESADE Business & Law School. 

Inició su trayectoria en Argentina como paralegal en el área de Derecho Societario del despacho ABBFP&W incorporándose posteriormente al despacho Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal donde completó el programa de Jóvenes Profesionales e integró el equipo de Propiedad Intelectual. Se incorporó entonces al departamento de Derecho Mercantil del despacho Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. En Barcelona, ha formado parte del equipo de contratos de Agilent Technologies y ahora está trabajando en el sector farmacéutico, como abogado corporativo de Farmaprojects. 

Su experiencia internacional en asesoramiento jurídico, redacción de contratos y análisis de normativa, junto con su enfoque orientado a negocio, le otorgan una visión integral del Derecho aplicado al capital intelectual y a las nuevas tecnologías. 

Esteban Mogas

Esteban is a Lecturer in the Department of Strategy and General Management at Esade. He has been the director of the Executive MBA for five years.

His main focus is on competitive strategy and entrepreneurship. He recently started developing a new area of interest related to values and strategic decision-making.

He enjoyed a long career in strategic marketing and sales at HP Inc. at the international level (Europe and United States). Previously, he worked as a consultant for KPMG in Spain and as a financial controller at Werfen Mexico.

Esteban serves on the board of trustees of two Jesuit foundations in Catalonia and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid.

Vanessa Daswani

I support executives and companies in their transformation and in achieving their personal, professional and business goals. I specialise in helping companies with sustainable and circular transformations and enabling managers and teams to achieve their goals.

Certifications: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation.

Manuel Ferrer

Como Consejero Externo Independiente, intervengo en dos Grupos Empresariales Familiares, con negocios diversificados y de ámbito internacional. Soy Consejero/Consultor en tres Fundaciones y profesor en el Máster de Estrategia y en el MBA de la Facultad de Economía de la Universitat de València.

Trabajé  durante mas de 35 años, como Consultor en Procesos de Dirección Estratégica, Organización y Dirección y Desarrollo de Personas y Talento, siendo socio de la firma de Servicios profesionales Deloitte en Valencia y Barcelona y como Director General de Grupo Audit y anteriormente, como Director General de la División Empresarial de Caixa Popular, en la que también ejercí durante 10 años como Presidente.

He participado activamente durante 25 años, como Director Técnico de los programas de Executive Education de ESADE-Deloitte en la Comunitat Valenciana.

Soy Licenciado y Doctor en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universitat de València.

Jaume Polo-Torné

CEO de Twilomedia, una agencia de comunicación y publicidad especializada en el sector hostelero, que ayuda a sus clientes con las técnicas más innovadoras. Con más de 10 años de experiencia en el mundo del marketing y el marketing digital, ha ayudado a empresas a crecer en el mundo digital multiplicando X2 sus ventas en menos de 3 años. Ahora tiene su propio videoblog en YouTube, donde habla de marketing, publicidad, ventas, negocios y el mundo digital.

Maria Cudeiro

Maria earned a Bachelor in Pharmacy at the University of Santiago de Compostela and began her career in the pharmaceutical industry 18 years ago, mainly in marketing and sales positions. She continued her studies at Esade, where she earned an MBA. She entered senior management at the age of 30 and continued her training at IESE, where she completed the General Management Programme. At age 35, she decided to embark on her greatest professional adventure yet: leading the implementation in Spain and Portugal of a leading Austrian multinational third-party manufacturer that decided to change its strategic direction and create its own brand. During this process, Maria had the good fortune to study at Esade once again, this time in the Promociona programme, where she gained a real understanding of the need for women to be united, to help each other, and most importantly, to not put up professional barriers to other women. Serving on the WE Club board is therefore, in some sense, a return to the origins of Maria’s career. She is thrilled to give something back to the Esade community, which helped her become the person she is.