Speaker Bio
Founder and General Manager of Tecnalia Ventures, the oldest (11 years running) industrial deep tech venture builder in Europe where he has participated in the creation of over 20 spin-offs raising +200MM€ in funding with a valuation of portfolio companies in excess of 300M€. He holds an MBA from London Business School / Sloan MIT-Harvard Business School with a BA in Basque Country University (Spain) and Erasmus at ESC Reims (FR). Earlier in his career he worked fostering technological innovation in: Accenture (IRL); BNP Paribas (FR); Gilead (UK); The Parthenon Group-EY (UK) and Dubai Health Authority (UAE). He is Chairman in H2SITE and NED in 8 deep tech spin-offs; a Professor at Deusto Business School and Instituto de Empresa; an EIC Accelerator Jury member; a Board member of the TTO Circle (G-30 of European Tech Transfer Offices), leading the deep tech entrepreneurship Working Group; a BA Investor and cofounder of Gymchess. He is a regular speaker in conferences and part of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Universities lead “Knowledge Transfer Expert Group”.