Graduated in law at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University and Executive Master in Business Administration at IE Business School, Antonio López de Ávila is the new President of Sociedad Estatal para la Gestión de la Innovación y las Tecnologías Turísticas, S.A (SEGITTUR)

Mr. Avi Biran is the CEO and a co-founder of Cyber Odysseys, an innovative Cyber Security company based in Israel. Prior to that, he worked for 25 years for the elite Technological Unit of Israel’s Intelligence Corps Special Forces, where he served as a senior commander in the Cyber Command. Through the years he has being acquired deep knowledge of Cyber Warfare, computer networks, special communication systems, satellite systems as well as complicated electronic systems.

Ander Michelena Llorente (Bilbao, 28 years): Graduated in Business Administration and Finance in the Universidad Pontifica de Comillas ICADE (Madrid). After one year in a exchange program in Marquette University (Wisconsin, EE.UU), he moved to London to work in Morgan Stanley, where he specialized in merger, acquisitions and IPOs of European financial institutions. In 2009 he decided to leave the bank to create Ticketbis.com, a market where fans can buy or sell tickets, with his partner Jon Uriarte. Ticketbis.com is present in 8 countries with more than 70 employees in 5 offices around the word. In 2011 ticketbis.com achieved revenues of 5.5m euros (500% more than in 2010).

Current CFO & Country CEO Spain at Cabify. He is responsible for coordinating business activities in Spain including fleet management, marketing & quality. Besides, he leads the finance function of the group, including budgeting, forecasting and control, investor relations, financing, accounting, consolidation, long-term planning, cash management, administration and providing analysis and insight for operating and commercial projects.

Alberto works with entrepreneurs from the early-stages of a company through their growth and expansion, helping with positioning, strategy, and organizational development. He is passionate about company building and likes to work towards large outcomes as well as building strong investor syndicates that help to accelerate growth. He is most interested in the cybersecurity, data analytics and cloud services sectors.

He has held different roles in the areas of Banking and Financial Services, Information Technologies, Corporate Consulting and Counselling, among others, in Wealth Management and Private Banking at HypoVereinsbank-Germany, Business Development Manager at Compaq Computer Europe and CRM-Change Manager at Hewlett Packard Iberia. Mark actively participates in supporting and investing in new technologically-based ventures through International Venture Consultants (IVC), where he is General Manager, and he has already invested and/or advised more than 40 start-ups in the past 5 years.

Maria Eugenia is Executive Director for IE Business School Premium and Prestige Business Observatory. Sponsored by Mastercard, the Observatory does applied research on luxury and premium consumption. She teaches “Premium, Luxury and Creative Venture entrepreneurship” at IE Business School. Maria E. Girón is an entrepreneur with over 18 years experience in luxury goods retailing. She has led and operated successfully business and brand turnaround and has advised numerous luxury companies on strategic development, expansion in Asia as well as brand building.

Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarria is co-founder of social fashion community Chicisimo.com, and a serial Internet entrepreneur.

Experto en el mundo del lujo, recientemente ha sido Director General del Salón Internacional de Relojería de Madrid

Founder and CTO of TouristEye, a travel mobile app with over 500.000 users that was bought by Lonely Planet. Right now, founder and CEO of Selltag.

Carlos, Associate at Axon Partners Group, is responsible for deal-flow coordination and screening of companies for India Opportunities Fund, an Indian growth capital fund for industrial or service SMEs in the ICT, Engineering, Cleantech or Healthcare sectors. Able to work equally in both Spanish and English-speaking environments, has been involved in several investment processes.
Markets analyzed include different verticals such as pharma, auto components, digital entertainment or online ticketing.

Joe Haslam a start-up guy, professor, mentor, commentator ,parent. His main job is as the Chairman of Hot Hotels. Hot is Europe´s leading last minute, mobile only, hotel booking App offering hotels in 54 countries & 320 cities. Also he works at IE Business School as the Executive Director of Owners & Entrepreneurs Management Program. Besides of teaching at the school and being one of the mentor startups in the Venture Lab.

Fernando Rimbas is founder and director of the monthly magazine GENTLEMAN, since its beginning in October, 2003. Dedicated from his beginnings in journalism to the illustrated magazines, he has worked in the most important Spanish publishing groups, where he has developed several journalistic projects, has collaborated with prestigious national and international publications, taught courses and seminars at universities, written prologues and books. Nowadays he is also working on digital projects.

Sam King is an American singer songwriter and multi instrumentalist from New York City. His music is a mix of Americana, soul, and folk rock. In late 2013, he released his debut EP, the "Dear Lucy Soundtrack” on iTunes and did his first tour of Germany and Holland. Now, with over a year of sold out shows in NYC, thousands of downloads, and an international tour under his belt, Sam is embarking on the next chapter of his career. In Summer, 2014. Sam moved to Berlin to spend a year writing, recording, and touring in Europe. A large part of the trip is being funded by fans around the globe.

Listen to Sam’s music, and find out about upcoming tours, releases, and updates at samkingtv.com

The new CEO of Porsche Cars North America , 44 years old , holds a degree in Law and a Masters in Business Administration from the Universidad San Pablo ( CEU ) , and he has a broad experience in the automotive sector .

Villén Thomas joined the PSA financial group in 1987 , and then assumed the development of fleets of Peugeot Spain . He was in charge of the management of the Smart Center in Madrid in 1998 and three years later he was appointed as the commercial director of Rover and Land Rover Spain , then owned by BMW group from which he was the Sales Director for Spain . In 2004 he agreed to dealing with the general direction of BMW Madrid for three years after joining the Volkswagen Group as the head of Seat Motor Spain .

So far he is the Director of the Magazine "Fuera de Serie" , which is a supplement which seeks to entertain and inform readers with the best way of life- distributed every Saturday with Expansion newspaper and Sunday with El Mundo. Previously , he was the director of the " Gaceta Universitaria ' for six years and the Chief Editor of ' Magazine ' and section chief Crónica supplement for two years.

Gay Oliver is the new CEO of Cartier Spain & Portugal. Oliver graduated from Paris' ESSEC (Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) and has worked for Cartier for 12 years in various global markets including Brazil, Russia, Morocco, South Africa and the Middle East. Gay Olivier represents the paradigm of authentic French elegance