23
years in banking and institutions
Ibercaja, since 2003
Barcelona · Mediterranean Arc
Economics, innovation and ecosystems for those who decide in business and institutions.
Ibercaja · FCRi Board of Trustees · Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona · Club Innovación Comunidad Valenciana
23
years in banking and institutions
Ibercaja, since 2003
9
active boards, committees and commissions
at once, in Catalonia and the Valencian Community
12
documented talks
universities, chambers and congresses · 2014–2023
About me
I started out managing Ibercaja branches in Barcelona and Rubí. Since 2013 I have led the relationship with institutions across the Mediterranean Arc — Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community, Murcia, Albacete and Almería — and from there I work at the frontier of four worlds that almost never talk to each other: financial analysis, innovation models, business strategy and technology.
Outside the bank I sit on governance and advisory bodies: secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació since 2015, on the Advisory Commission on Entrepreneurship and Startups of the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona, on the board of Impuls Cat Sud, on the Digital Transformation Commission of the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and in the Club para la Innovación de la Comunidad Valenciana. Also in the ecosystem: 22@Network Barcelona, Tech Barcelona, and I represent Ibercaja at BIOVAL Clúster BIO Comunidad Valenciana.
Since 2024 I have been part of the team that drove the Barcelona Finance Cluster, invited by the Generalitat de Catalunya before it formally existed. Today I represent Ibercaja in its Sustainable Finance and Fintech working groups.
That leaves me in an unusual place: I see the same project from the company that pays for it, the institution that backs it and the researcher who signs it. Most of the time what fails is not the idea — it is the seam between the three.
“My life never lacks a book, a compass, the sea and a smile.”
Career
He leads the relationship with institutions across the Mediterranean Arc — Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, the Valencian Community, Murcia, Albacete and Almería — at the frontier between financial analysis, innovation models, business strategy and technology. From there he has built up a network of boards and commissions that today includes the FCRi, the Barcelona Finance Cluster and the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona.
Member of 22@Network Barcelona since 2016 and of Tech Barcelona since 2018; he represents Ibercaja at BIOVAL Clúster BIO Comunidad Valenciana since 2017, has been on the Digital Transformation Commission of the Valencia Chamber of Commerce since 2018 and on the board of Impuls Cat Sud since 2022.
He managed Ibercaja branches in Barcelona and Rubí (2003–2006) and then the Barcelona Main Office (2006–2013), leading a team of 11 people and two support teams, with institutional representation of the bank in the city — the management and institutional-relations base he now applies across the Mediterranean Arc.
Talks
Conferences and round tables documented between 2014 and 2023, at universities, chambers of commerce, business confederations and industry congresses — grouped by what they cover, not by date.
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Training
Training in banking management, e-business and financial advice, with professional certifications renewed over two decades.
I write about this
What a book about von Neumann teaches about why science takes root in some territories and emigrates from others.
About economics you can see in the bottom line, not just in the debate.
Why it demands patient capital and radical execution.
In the press
Digital Transformation interview, in the issue of CámaraInfo, the magazine of the Valencia Chamber of Commerce.
“Our value is to connect the company with resources, knowledge and opportunities it could not reach on its own.”
“When complementarities are well articulated and governance is sound, value emerges systemically.”
— José María Santos Figueroa, Head of Institutions for the Mediterranean Arc at Ibercaja, in CámaraInfo (Cámara Valencia), p. 29.
Institutions and ecosystem
Let's talk
Talks, round tables, interviews and editorial collaborations.
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