Board of Directors and Advisory Board

Founder

Sal­va­dor Mas de Xaxás
Founder

Graduate in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Barcelona.
Board member of Fundación Vicki Bernadet and the Association of Congenital Heart Diseases.

Board of Directors

Con­suelo Cas­ti­lla 
President

Graduate in Psychology and PADE (IESE).
Founder and president of AdQualis Human Results. People and talent management consultant and pioneer in executive search in Spain. Since November 2019, he has been a member of the Healthcare Chapter of IESE.

María Herrero
Vicepresident

Graduate in Economics and Business Administration (CUNEF). Entrepreneur Social Handknit. Member of the Advisory Board of the Círculo de Orellana Association and of the Foundation for the Social Action of Music.

Ángel Pérez Pardo de Vera
Secretary

Graduate in Law from Navarra University. Lawyer.Partner at Uría Menéndez.
General secretary of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation patronage and Paco de Lucía Foundation. Trustee at the Profesor Uría Foundation (from 2013 to 2022)

Joaquim Calaf
Member

Graduate and MBA in Business Administration and Management (ESADE) and PDG (IESE). COO (Chief Operating Officer) of BBDO & Proximity Spain. Academic Collaborator at ESADE

Compañía de Jesús Esteban Almirón
Member

Degree in Economics and Business Studies from ETEA. PLD from ESADE.
Director of Career Services at Loyola University. Director of Loyola Initiatives at Loyola University.

Escola Pia de Cata­lunya
Joan Prat Armadans
Member

Graduate in Philology, Theology, Postgraduate in Social Education and Undergraduate in Business Administration and Degree in Psychology (in progress). Social educator and provincial consultant of Escola Pia de Catalunya.

Francesc Fajula
Member

Graduate in telecommunications Engineer from UPC and MBA from ESADE, he completed his training at IESE, the Stanford School of Business and Harvard Business School.

He has held management positions in the digital and innovation field at Banco Sabadell, Grupo Santander, Terra (Grupo Telefónica) and Danone.

Pablo Foncillas Díaz-Plaja
Member

Trained at the Swiss School, he holds a degree in Law and an MBA from IESE Business School (University of Navarra) as well as a PhD in digital transformation from the same institution. He holds a Harvard Business School diploma in good corporate governance and effective boards of directors. He combines his life in academia and as a lecturer with positions on advisory boards, contributing to the growth of multinationals in various sectors.

Blanca Gómez
Member

Bachelor’s in Education Sciences and MBA. Director of Employability at Advantere School of Management (Comillas, Deusto & Georgetown). Previously, Director of Human Resources at Microsoft, Coca-Cola and L’Oréal. Trustee at Tomillo Foundation and Somos F5 Foundation.

Lucia Lafita
Member

Graduated in Economic and Business Sciences (CUNEF).Executive Education Graduate Harvard Business School. HBS Alumni.
Promociona Executive Program, women in top management. Esade Alumni.
Country Head of Equities in Spain and Portugal. Previously JP Morgan VP in London and Madrid.

Nora de Lichstenstein
Member

Degree in Political Science (Institut de Hautes Etudes et du Développement International, Geneva).
Board President of Foundation Active Education, Foundation Human Solidarity 
and member of the IOC (International Olympic Committee )

José Menéndez Cabrera
Member

Bachelor of Science in Information (Journalism). Diploma in Senior Management by ESADE.
International Education Advisor and member of the board of trustees of several social and knowledge foundations in Spain and Latin America.

Javier Nadal
Member

Telecommunications Engineer from the UPM and Graduate in Political Science and Sociology from the UCM.
He is a trustee of Fundación Telefónica and of Fundación de Amigos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. He has held management positions in the field of telecommunications in Spain and Latin America, both in the private sector and in the public and third sectors.

Eduardo Ortega Figueiral
Member

Graduate in Law from the University of Barcelona and Master in Labour and Social Security Law from the same University. Lawyer. Managing partner of the labour department of Ortega Condomines, lawyers. Author of numerous books on labour law and regular speaker at specialised forums in the field of human resources.

Advisory Board

María Herrero
Advisory Board's President
Hilario Albarracín
Ignacio Álvarez-Cedrón
Salvador Arenere
Elena de Carandini
Domènec Crosas
Leticia Espinosa de los Monteros
Ignacio Gil-Casares
Blanca Hernández
Fran­cisco Meso­nero
Rafael Miranda
Arturo Pinedo
Paula Tole­dano
Ana Vallés
Concha Yoldi