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Eduardo Brunet
Founder & CEO
Eduardo Brunet has more than 25 years of experience in the sector of corporate finance, the stock market and the renewable energies sector, both from a transactional perspective, and in public and regulatory matters.
From his executive positions, first at Banesto, then at the Santander Group, and lastly as the General Secretary of GE Capital Bank, he has carried out intense international finance activity, opened up markets, structures and financial products and led global units in Compliance and Corporate Social Responsibility.
He has also served as the General Counsel of Iberdrola Renewables USA, supporting the development of the company in the United States and since 2010, in Spain, he advised the treasury and finance division especially on its capital market transactions and the issuance of Green Bonds.
He has also founded and been the CEO of several non-profit organisations in the fields of human rights and third world development and has been Director and President of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee of Bonsucro, the global platform for the sustainability of the sugar cane industry.
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Fernando de Roda
Founder & Managing Partner
Over a professional career of more than 25 years, Fernando has worked in the field of engineering and consulting, both in strategic consultancy and investment banking, in Financial Management and Global Operations.
He has been involved in different sectors (real estate, energy, banking, Internet), and has held executive positions working for international corporations such as GE, Accenture, Santander, Endesa and Enel in Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and Poland.
Fernando has served as Executive Assistant to Enel’s CEO for the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, with a special emphasis on sustainability issues and climate change with the European Commission and other Supranational Institutions.
More recently, in his position as Head of the Real Estate department at Endesa, Fernando has managed an important portfolio of assets and managed very significant real estate operations. Among other projects, he has designed and implemented a complete plan for the portfolio optimisation of offices.
Since 2017, he has been Adjunct Professor in Corporate Real Estate at IE University.
Fernando is an Industrial Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and holds a degree from the Executive Management Program (PADE) of the IESE.
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Estanislao de Aranzadi
Partner
Estanislao de Aranzadi has more than 25 years of experience in Investment Banking and direct investment. He developed his career in Investment Banking over 18 years at Banco Santander, in different management positions such as Managing Director, leading and implementing mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, takeovers, asset restructuring, issues of ordinary capital and debt, and regulatory capital, in different countries in Europe and Latin America. In recent years, he has been an investor in start-ups in different sectors, mainly social and environmental impact, essentially through Creas, a pioneer and leader in Spain in Impact Investment, where he is a Partner and member of the Advisory Board; he has also served as a Director of Creas, as well as Vice-President of the sustainable investment forum in Spain, Spainsif. He holds a degree in Economics and Business from the Complutense University of Madrid and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France).
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Ignacio López-Perea
Partner
An expert in the world of business and finance with almost 30 years of experience. At present he is a director and adviser of innovative companies and start-ups.
He worked at BBVA for 28 years. In recent years he has devoted his time to boosting the digital transformation of B2B business, the digitalisation of business models and client management, and the design of digital transformation plans of the B2B Units of the entire Group. Previously, he had acquired extensive experience in capital markets, client coverage, financial planning, relationships with investors, business development, strategy and internationalisation.
During this time, he has led teams, both local and global, of hundreds of people and small and agile high-performance collaborative teams.
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Juan Páramo
Partner. Corporate Affairs & Communication
Juan Páramo Sanz holds a Law Degree from the Complutense University (Madrid). He carried out a Masters degree in Business Administration from the MBS- University of Houston and a Higher Programme on Lobby & Advocacy from the IE Business School. He has developed his career holding management roles in the marketing departments of Unilever, British American Tobacco, Kuoni and Azeler and he was Director General of the Tobacco Manufacturers Association, ADELTA and President of the Mesa del Tabaco (Tobacco Round Table). On the other hand, he serves as teacher on the Management Program of Public Affairs of Comillas Pontifical University & MAS Consulting and he has been a member of the Board of the Down Syndrome Foundation of Madrid.
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Alvaro Rengifo Abbad
Partner
Member of the highest Corp of Civil Servants in the economic departments of Government, has a public and private career that expands over 35 years. For the Ministry of Economy he has served various senior offices in Spain (President of CESCE, General Manager for commercial policy and investments, Senior Advisor for the Treasury) and abroad (Embassy commercial attache in Ivory Coast and Marroco and Executive Director at the IADB in Washington).
In the private sector, Alvaro has been President for Bombardier (Spain and Portugal) and International Managing Director for Grupo Pascual and Corsan/Isolux .
He has served as Independent Board Director for Bankia (2012-2017), Board Director for Banco Exterior de España, ICO and other public companies. He is President of the Amref Foundation in Spain (distinguished with the 2018 Princess of Asturias Award) and Board member to the Créate Foundation.
Holds a Buisness Ba from CUNEF University, a Master form SAIS Johns Hopkins University and a senior executive programme at the Singularity University. Bilingual in spanish, french and English, has lived 15 years abroad (Colombia, Canada, USA, Ivory Coast and Marrocco).
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María Segimón
General Secretary of the Board
María Segimón de Manzanos holds a degree in Law and a Degree in Business Management and Administration from Comillas Pontifical University- ICADE), and she undertook a program in Senior Management at the IESE. Up until June 2019 she was an independent director of Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios Socimi, S.A., President of its Appointments and Remuneration Committee and a member of its Executive Committee and its Audit and Control Committee. She is a director of Moove Cars S.L. She was an independent director of Axiare Patrimonio Socimi SA and chaired its Appointments and Remuneration Committee. She was a member of the Advisory Board of CBRE in Spain, a member of the Board and the general secretary of the board of directors of CBRE Global Investors, a member of its steering committee and General Counsel y compliance officer of this management committee for Spain and Portugal. She was head of corporate legal consultancy for Ferrovial, a member of the board of directors of the Polish listed company Budimex and the board of directors of Habitat Inmobiliaria. She has been a corporate partner of Clifford Chance and DLA Piper in Spain, specialising in M&A in capital markets, offering a cross-cutting vision in the infrastructure, energy, real estate and industrial sectors.
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Juan Carlos Villalonga
Strategy & Finance Manager | Board Member
Juan Carlos is an experienced management consulting and finance professional. Prior to joining Greenward, Juan Carlos worked at Oliver Wyman, where he had the chance to work on multiple strategic engagements across Spain and the UK, advising leading clients in the private equity, telecommunications, banking, retail, catering, insurance and social sectors. Juan Carlos has also held roles in investment banking (M&A), with Deutsche Bank, and in engineering, with Acerinox (stainless steel manufacturer) and Dragados UK (civil engineering company). Juan Carlos holds a Master of Industrial Technology & Operations from Illinois Institute of Technology, a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas – ICAI, and a B.Sc. in Electromechanical Engineering from the same university, including a one-year exchange program at Johns Hopkins University.