Chief Operating Officer

• Jun 2021 - Present

Freelancer

• Jul 2020 - Jun 2021

Freelancer supporting the Start-up Rescue Instrument, a project within EIT’s Crisis Response Initiative, directly contributing to the European Union’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Aiming to support highly innovative ventures by increasing investor firepower and bridging the fundraising gap of start-ups in Series A, Series B and bridge-financing rounds, it has delivered 5,5 M euros in funding that were crucial to close >20 M in financing rounds of 11 healthcare startups within the Horizon 2020 framework.I am involved in both the onboarding and implementation of these health-related startup projects, including contracting, project plan development, implementation of payments, data collection & analysis and interaction with the startups and accelerator community.

Business Development

• Nov 2017 - Jul 2020

Onboarding Spanish tech companies and government regional institutions to the Israeli innovation ecosystem, coordinating and supervising meetings with Israeli investors, institutions and startups during the OurCrowd Global Investors Summit week for the past three years. This 2020 our Spanish delegation was the largest at the Summit with keynote speakers such as Barça.Started as an intern based in Madrid for OurCrowd Iberia in 2017:• Gathering and tracking of the Spanish venture capital ecosystem to build ties with OurCrowd. • Managing of investor relations in Spain. • Analysis and due diligence of startup applications for funding. I then had the opportunity to take these activities even further by extending my internship during the summer of 2018 at the Business Development Department in OurCrowd's offices in Herzliya, immersing fully in the Israeli innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. • Search, creation and follow up of deals with corporations and multinationals. • Salesforce CRM database creation.

Intern at the Spanish Permanent Representation to the EU

• Jun 2018 - Jul 2018

• Learning of the functioning and operations of the Council of the European Union in preparation for trialogues with the European Parliament. • Follow up of negotiations from the COREPER I (employment and social policy; transport, telecommunications and energy, competitiveness; agriculture and fisheries, environment; education and youth). • Analysis and study of dossiers and agreements on the Council’s different scopes of work. • Attending working groups from the Council and meetings of the COREPER I. • Assistance to the Mertens in the preparation of the COREPER weekly meetings.

Business Sales Manager

• Feb 2017 - Feb 2018

Promoter of international commercial communications for the selling of contemporary art works for Filomena Soares, a Lisbon based art gallery. Included understanding the artworks and projects exposed to convey them to the general public and art collectors. Among the represented artists were the outstanding Dan Graham, Carlos Motta, Peter Zimmermann and Helena Almeida.

Finance and Accounting Intern

• Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

• Daily computing of the company’s bank movements into their accounting system. • Preparation and supervision of cheques and invoices. • Making reports and analysis on budgeting and sources of funding. • Data computing of worldwide commodity shipping movements. • Surveillance of commercial transactions using Incoterms.

Sales Promoter

• 2014 - 2014

Practice on international commercial communications for the selling of Spanish contemporary artist's works at art fairs, including the world-renowned sculptor Eduardo Chillida, among others.