Invest In | EEC15

Investment In

Managed by: Andrés García (SiFdi)

Developing new strategies to attract investment is one of the challenges that different institutions, including local entities, have to face in today’s changing and competitive environment. Globalization, outsourcing, public-private collaborations and new investors in emerging economies have opened the door to different ways of approaching the investment market.

Investment Forum is a space for renowned experts and investors to resolve the problems that the people in charge of executing policies come up against when attracting investment. These professionals will study some of the best practices in the sector, using examples from their own professional experience. They will analyze key topics such as developing investment policies, measures to be implemented and others that haven’t been so promising, levels of collaboration between different institutions, obstacles to face or the situation in Spain, among others.

Speakers

Jesús Rodríguez

Investment Promotion Executive – Invest Hong Kong

Jesús Rodríguez is a specialist in Investment, International Business and Foreign Trade. He has more than 11 years of experience in International Management. Mainly focus on pan-European projects targeting with linkages to U.S, Asia and LATAM. Also his academic background is intensive in economics, politics, business and marketing.

His areas of AREAS OF EXPERTISE are: Investment Promotion, Business Development, and Project Management.

He currently works for InvestHK as the Investment Promotion Executive for the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in Brussels, and he has worked for eight years at the Confederation of Employers and Industries of Madrid (CEIM) International Department. In 2010 he worked for four months in Shanghai during the Expo as the Business Cooperation Coordinator and one year in 2008 the Spanish Embassy of Beijing as Investment Officer of the Investment Department of the Economic and Commercial Office. He also worked in ecommerce for Correos the Spanish State Owned Postal Service Entity.

Tontxu Campos

Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Deusto University

Tontxu Campos Granados has been the director of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Deusto since 2012. This is not the first position he has held at this renowned business center. Previously, he was the director of innovation and entrepreneurship and the assistant director of DeustoTech and the assistant dean of the Faculty of Engineering, as well as a member of the teaching staff.

Campos has also worked for the Basque Government, having been the Minister of Education, Universities and Research, the Representative for Innovation and Economic Advancement at the Regional Government of Biscay and the services director of the Department of Town Planning, Housing and the Environment. He also has experience as a marketing consultant and Basque language teacher.

After having conducted numerous research projects, this year Campos will touch down at the European Ecommerce Conference 2015.

Neha Manaktala

Co-founder & CEO – Deal Index

Neha is the co-founder and CEO of DealIndex, a data-driven deal exchange of online investment opportunities and part of the Grow VC Group.

Neha is an entrepreneur and finance professional with diverse experience, from investment banking, private equity and start-ups. She has a unique combination of fundraising experience from top tier financial institutions and has experience in co-founding, leading and running a previous start-up. She has global experience from London and Mumbai and has worked with teams, clients and investors across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Neha began her career in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley in Mumbai in the early 2000’s. In 2006, she was recruited as part of the core team to establish Lehman Brothers’ investment banking division in India. In 2010, Neha rejoined Morgan Stanley’s technology investment banking team in London, before joining the fundraising team at Actis Private Equity, the leading global pan-emerging markets firm. In 2012,

Neha co-founded and was COO at Vizibee, an aggregated quality mobile video platform, for original short video from Publishers, including the BBC.

Andrés Ubierna

Head of Studies and Communications – CDTI

Miguel Arias

COO – CartoDB

Miguel Arias, proud dad, entrepreneur, and angel investor, has over 12 years of experience in building technology-based startups with a global reach.

His role has covered a range of tasks and challenges, from the vision and strategy definition to product management, with special dedication to startup funding and investor relations.

COO at CartoDB, he is currently leading the sales, financial, and operational efforts from its Madrid and NY offices, directing the company’s growth and scaling-up.

He co-founded IMASTE, the leading virtual environments and webcasts platform in Europe, until its acquisition in June 2012 by ON24, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based multinational. He then managed the integration process between IMASTE and ON24, Inc., as EMEA Sales Director.

He also co-founded MULTIVENT, an innovative events agency with focus on university career fairs in Spain.

He loves to teach and share experiences as a startup mentor, advisor, and entrepreneurship professor at the IE Business School, Telefonica’s Wayra Academy, and Seedrocket.

Trying to enhance the Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem, he co-founded and presides over Chamberi Valley, the main Madrid-based networking initiative for startups with over 1 million € revenue or 1 million € in investment.

He is also a board member at the IE Businesss School Alumni Association. He writes his thoughts about entrepreneurship at http://emprenderagolpes.com.

Guillermo Dorronsoro

Dean – Deusto Business School

Guillermo Dorronsoro is the dean of Deusto Business School. With a PhD in engineering, he has held positions as a director and board member at global corporations, including Accenture, Iberdrola and Indra, as well as entities linked to science, technology and innovation such as Innobasque. These positions have always involved the strategy and promotion/management of new technology-based companies.

Dorronsoro is a member of the IAJBS Board (International Association of Jesuit Business Schools), Orkestra (Basque Institute of Competitiveness), the Basque Economic and Social Council, the UNESCO Center Basque Country and the ALBOAN Foundation, as well as the international advisory boards of MET (Women, Companies and Technology) and GICS (Global Jesuit Case Series).

Currently, Dorronsoro combines his teaching and management roles at the University of Deusto with various positions on the administrative and management boards of private companies and public-private entities in this area.

Nora Sarasola

Managing Director – Bilbao Ekintza

Andrés García Martín

Director – SIfdi

Andrés García is Director at SIfdi, an independent consulting company that provides services for foreign investment projects in Spain and support to local and international institutional agencies working on the foreign direct investment space.

Graduated in Telecommunications and Information Systems from the University of Valladolid, Spain, he spent his final year researching at the Institute for Biomedical Technologies in Dresden, Germany. Prior to his current position at SIfdi, he worked at Invest In Spain, dealing with foreign companies investing in the Information and Communications Technologies sector and managing the internal technology developments of the agency. Within the Telecom sector, he worked as a technology consultant at IBM Global Business Services in several projects for blue-chip clients, including Telefónica and France Telecom. Before that, he was in charge of the ICT department at the Spanish Trade Commission in Düsseldorf, Germany, and at the Foreign Affairs Office of the University of Valladolid.

Maria Corts

Head of Southern Europe & LATAM – London & Partners

Maria Corts heads the Southern Europe & LATAM desk at London & Partners, the official promotional agency for Greater London region, funded by the Mayor of London.

In her role, Maria works alongside her team supporting companies from these regions to establish a presence or grow their existing operations in London.

She was part of the former THINK LONDON agency and has over 10 years of experience advising companies from all over the world on their strategies and projects for inward investment into London and UK.

Maria works closely with clients, partners and London’s business community. She brings a wealth of trade and investment experience to assist companies expanding internationally.

Prior to joining London & Partners, she was a Trade Specialist at California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency in London where she worked for 3 years assisting California companies to expand their business into Europe.

Maria is native Spanish and fluent in other European languages, she holds a degree in Company Law and a Master in International Trade Management from the University of Valencia.

Bruno Fernández

CEO – Enisa

Bruno Fernández Scrimieri is the CEO of Enisa, a public company under the wing of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, specializing in financing SMEs through participation loans.

This is not the only position he has held in the Spanish administration. He has worked in the areas of commerce and institutional economic relationships as the executive advisor to the State Secretary of Tourism and Commerce, the executive advisor for International Affairs at the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce, and the secretary of the Supervisory Board at the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade (ICEX).

Economic advisor at the Spanish trade office in Casablanca between 2008 and 2012, and director of the Fashion, Habitat and Cultural Industries division at ICEX, Fernández studied economy at the London School of Economics, the IESE Business School and the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University. He will participate in the next edition of the European Ecommerce Conference.

Asier Basterretxea-Gómez

Corporate Director – SociosInversores

Asier Basterretxea-Gómez is the corporate director of SociosInversores, a leading company for collective investment in business projects located in 19 Spanish-speaking countries. In 2012 it was awarded Best Internet Company by the Spanish Senate and in 2013 Website of the Year.

This is not Basterretxea-Gómez’s first executive position. This industrial engineer has held managerial roles at several international companies, including PERA, Lloyd’s Register and Everis. In addition, he founded and directed the boutique strategic consulting firm Neuos.

Basterretxea-Gómez has also worked as an R&D&I engineer for Rolls Royce Aeroespacial, although he has spent most of his career in the world of Strategic Consulting, with a particular focus on Entrepreneurship and Innovation. This year he will participate in the European Ecommerce Conference 2015.

Iñaki Telletxea

Director of Business Promotion – SPRI

José Ignacio Tellechea Fernández is the director of business promotion and Invest Basque Country in SPRI’s international department. This is not the first management position that this Basque Country investment professional has held. He was also the director of the production engineering department at Caja Laboral Popular, head of production at K 2000 in Galdakao and Madrid, as well as general director of Forjas de Precisión de Legazpia.

With vast experience in the technology and industrial production sector, he has previously worked for companies such as Bedaux Española and General Motors. Before taking on the task of director of business promotion at SPRI Group, Tellechea had other roles at SPRI. He was the director of sectorial promotion and the general deputy director of internationalization. He was also the deputy advisor of industrial technology and development in the Basque Government’s Industrial Department.

This year Tellechea will be with us at the ninth edition of the European Ecommerce Conference, participating in the investment forum that will be held during the event.

Juan Tomás Hernani

Co-founder & CEO – Satlantis Microsats

Juan Tomás Hernani is the co-founder and CEO of Satlantis Microsats, a company specializing in the microsatellites launched by the University of Florida, the Elecnor Deimos Group and a team of professionals, including the ex-minister Garmendia.

This professor of Innovation Management at the University of Deusto is the non-executive chairman of Modalia, the biggest online shopping and fashion mall in Spain, founded by 3i, the Bertelsmann group and BBVA. Hernani is also a member of the Egile Group, a group of precision mechanics working for the aerospace business.

With over 30 years’ experience, this industrial engineer and economist has worked as the general secretary of Innovation and Industry at ESS, the European Spallation Source, a scientific infrastructure promoted by the Danish and Swedish governments with an investment of 1.8 billion dollars.

Similarly, he has assisted European regions together with the Commission as part of the S3 strategy and has also been general secretary of Innovation at the Ministry of Science and Innovation in Spain, as well as the president of the Center for Industrial Technology Development (CDTI) and the Genoma Foundation, not to mention vice president of the Spanish Foundation of Science and Technology (FECYT). This year he will be up on stage at the ninth edition of the European Ecommerce Conference.