Corporate governance

Born in Madrid in 1969. She has a Degree in Business Management from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Master’s in International Corporate Finance from the Autonomous University of Madrid, an Executive Master’s from IE and a PDG from IESE.

She has completed a number of specialist courses and programmes (Microcomputers and Information Technology, Harvard; Leadership Programme, scholarship from the Rafael del Pino Foundation; Executive Programme, Singularity University, San Francisco; Innovation Programme, Berkeley; Boards of Directors Programme, Spencer Stuart; and a Private Innovation Programme, Singularity University, San Francisco).

She has also acted as mentor on many specialist programmes (including teaching positions at IESE in New York and Madrid, international speaker; Mentor for women executives and entrepreneurs in Technology; Mentor at IE University; Mentor at IESE & Deusto Business School), mentor for entrepreneurs and investment panelist at Endeavor America and MassChallenge Boston.

She has been patron of the Jerusalem Foundation, Co-Founder of “Our Stem Journey” to encourage the presence of young women in STEM studies and has also received several awards, such as "Women to Watch" America.

She began her professional career in the derivates department at Banco Urquijo. Later, she was appointed Assistant Treasury Manager at Abbey National Bank; Director of Corporate Investments at Bank of New York in New York; and Business Strategy Director at Telefónica-Terra Lycos.

In 2004 she took up the position of Director of Google Business’s European Division. Later, she was Director of Product Monetisation for Google Maps & eCommerce in New York, and Director of Business and Strategy, Americas-Latin America, in Mexico.

She has been an independent director at both Banco Finterra (Latin America) and Evo Banco (Spain and Ireland) for Apollo Global Management.

She is member of the Advisory Board at Nazca Private Equity (Spain), and a member of the Advisory Board at Astara (with a presence in 17 countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia).