ARTURO BENITO

CEO and Co-founder, Impact Bridge

Arturo is the CEO and Co-founder of Impact Bridge. He is an ESG and Impact Investing Associate Professor at IE University. The majority of Arturo’s professional career has centered on managing ethical and sustainable funds.

In 2013, he started to co-manage a sustainable agriculture multi-asset fund In 2016, he supported the launch of an impact investment program through various private debt, private equity and listed equity funds. Arturo started his career in 2006 at Boston Consulting Group as an intern in the Energy team (Oil and Gas). Later, he worked at Morgan Stanley as an investment analyst in London.

In 2010, Arturo moved to Cambodia to work as a volunteer for over a year. There, he founded Karuna Education Center, providing computer and English training for the vulnerable. In 2011, he joined the Equilibria Capital Management Hedge Funds investment team and then became a Portfolio Manager at Santalucía Asset Management. In 2018, he founded Impact Bridge.

Arturo teaches financial modelling on the Financial Markets Master’s degree at CUNEF Business School. He is a Telecommunications Engineer and completed a PLD at Harvard Business School. Arturo received a Citywire A rating in 2018, assigned to managers in the top 15% of their relevant category.