Antonio Rivela Rodríguez

Currently IE Business School adjunct Professor, Phd in Finance and Industrial Engineer (ICAI) by training, he is also CEO and founder of NETVALUE FORENSIC SLP (www.netvalueforensic.com), a firm that focuses on litigation/arbitration disputes from a financial perspective. He is a also a partner of TREELOGIC SA (www.treelogic.com), an IT firm in the business of artificial intelligence and big data.  He is also the founder and partner of GIRASOLES FINANCE SL, an investment vehicle that invests in photovoltaic plants.

He has worked as investment banker banker and financial consultant since 1996: mostly derivatives, fixed income, debt capital markets and corporate finance in the following positions: Managing Director at UBS. European Co-Head of Fixed Income/DCM and Derivatives Sales, Director at Deutsche Bank. Responsible for derivatives structuring. Spain and Portugal, Analyst at Merrill Lynch. Mergers and Acquisitions, Analyst at Banco Santander. Derivatives valuation models.

Corporate Experience

• 2008 - Present: General Partner. NETVALUE financial advisors, Madrid (Spain)

• 2008 - Present: Head of Sales. BOSQUES SOLARES (Spain) – www.solaer.net

• 2005 - 2007: Managing Director. Co-head of Europe/Middle East/Africa fixed income coverage. UBS, London (UK)

• 2004 - 2005: Managing Director. Head of Iberia fixed income sales. UBS, London (UK)

• 1998 - 2004: Director. Head of Iberia RVG team within Global Markets (Relative Value Group). Deutsche Bank, London (UK)

• 1997 - 1998: Analyst. Corporate Finance and M&A. Spain/Portugal. Merrill Lynch, London, UK and New York (US)

• 1996 - 1997: Quant. Derivatives models. Santander (Spain)

Academic Background

• 2011: PhD of Quantitative Finance. Thesis on Normal Copula (CDO and credit derivatives models) Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (ICADE), Madrid (Spain)

• 1995 - 1997: Master Sc. in Industrial Management. Final thesis on Interest rate derivatives modeling (HJM 2 factor model) Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (ICAI), Madrid (Spain)

• 1989 - 1995: Industrial engineering. Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid (ICAI), Madrid (Spain)