ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, MARKETING, AND STRATEGY

Alvaro Navarro earned his Bachelor in Economics cum laude from the University of Rochester, in New York, U.S.A., and his Executive MBA from the IE Business School in Madrid. He is founder and Managing Director at Chiefs, S.L., a chain of online and off-line fashion stores. He is also founder of Otraguerra, Sl, which under the brand Mata-Mua runs a chain of telephony and technology stores. For 14 years he was an executive in several industrial and distribution companies, and he currently sits at the Board of Directors of Capelhi, S.A., a fashion distribution company. Professor Navarro is an angel investor in several startups such as Nestpot, a wifi-app company. Professor Navarro teaches Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at IE University and IE Business School since 2010.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, STRATEGY

Alberto Gómez Gómez (Segovia, 1990) is Senior Vice President at Creαdor Private Equity. Alberto is part of Creador+, a strategy and operational team that supports and creates value across Creador’s investments. Alberto works closely and cooperatively with the respective entrepreneurs and management teams of the portfolio companies to conduct extensive analysis, ferret out insights and develop strategies to further improve growth and profitability. Besides Creador, he is Adjunct Professor of Strategy at IE, teaching management and strategy courses for Business Administration and Data & Business Analytics Degrees.

CEO & Founder, Entrepreneur & Investor, Senior Executive with 15+ years of experience in Digital Transformation, Business Strategy, and strategic consulting. Entrepreneurship & Innovation Professor at IE University and VentureLab Mentor at IE Business School. Rafael has wide experience leading challenges in different sectors (Telecom, Technology, Banking, Insurance, Industry and Public Sector), managing clients and global projects in Europe and LatAm. With key executive skills such as strategic definition, commercial development, negotiation, leadership, digital transformation, new business development, customer orientation, revenue growth and teamwork.

Ph.D. in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES), M.Sc. in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES), B.Sc. in Econometrics, Université Paris 1- ENS Ulm (FR), B.A. in Hispanic Studies, Université Paris 3 (FR). Maud Pindard-Lejarraga joined IE in 2010 after completing her undergraduate studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris Sciences et Lettres in France and getting her Master and Ph.D. in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES). Before joining IE, she occupied two visiting researcher positions at HEC Paris and Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto).

Leticia Ponce is passionate about entrepreneurship.  She was lucky to have studied entrepreneurship at Kellogg School of Management’s first course of entrepreneurship in 1993.  After running her own business for 8 years, she started teaching at IE University the year the university was founded in 2009.  She quickly realized the potential of her students and created the Startup Lab at IE University to help the undergrad students develop their business models.

Harsh is a Ph.D. Strategy candidate and a part-time faculty member in the management department at IE University. His doctoral research focuses on the Complementor Strategies within a Platform Ecosystem. Specifically, he explores complementors’ entry choice decisions and expansion strategies. He takes a multidisciplinary focus that encompasses the fields of strategy, entrepreneurship, platform markets, innovation, and government regulations.

Tarsicio Merino graduated in Business Administration at the California State University, USA, and obtained his Executive MBA at IE Business School in Madrid in 2007. During his first 15 years of career, he held management positions in large European and Asian multinational companies, working intensively in international projects in different sectors, such as energy, industrial plant and IT. Today he is a shareholder and Board Member in different companies, has participated in the development of a number of ventures and he is founder, among others, of Almanor International, a company specialized in the expansion into international markets.

Danilo is currently working as Post-Doc in Business Administration and Management at Bocconi University, where he took his Ph.D.  (cum laude) in the same field. He came to his doctoral program with a master’s degree in Theoretical Physics and a specialization degree in Mathematical Finance (cum laude), both at the University of Bologna, and some experience as consultant for Bain & Company, and as risk analyst for a top tier bank.