I have never been particularly interested in defining a career by its titles alone.
For more than 25 years, I have built, transformed and grown businesses from different sides of the table — as an executive, entrepreneur, consultant, advisor and investor, across industries, countries and cultures.
Each has shaped the way I think and work today: the accountability that comes with running a business, the perspective gained from advising others, the judgement that comes with investing, and the curiosity to keep questioning what I think I know.
Together, they have shaped my instinct to turn possibility into something that actually works.
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The titles have changed. The underlying drive rather less.
This is the less chronological version of my CV. Probably the more accurate one.
- 25+
- Years
- Building, transforming and growing businesses.
- 8
- Industries
- Banking · Technology · Hospitality · Consumer · Energy · Industrial & Infrastructure · Public Sector · Startups
- 5
- Perspectives
- As an executive, entrepreneur, consultant, advisor and investor.
- 5
- Languages
- English · Spanish · French · German · Catalan
Across different levels of fluency.
- Working across borders
Based in Cyprus.
Working internationally.
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Built from the inside.
Before becoming an investor, I spent years being accountable for the result.
My career began in consulting and transformation, giving me the opportunity to look inside very different businesses and industries. Later came direct executive responsibility for businesses, teams and P&Ls.
That combination gave me two perspectives I still find invaluable: consulting taught me to step back, question assumptions and see the bigger picture; executive responsibility taught me what it means to own the decisions — and their consequences.
I have worked across strategy, transformation, digital and technology, operations, growth and risk — building businesses, leading teams and dealing with the rather less glamorous part of strategy: making it actually happen.
I like the big picture. I also know it has an inconvenient habit of depending on operational detail.
Strategy matters. Execution decides.
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From executive to entrepreneur.
Decisions feel different when the consequences are yours too.
Moving from executive roles into entrepreneurship changed my relationship with risk, uncertainty and ownership. Building businesses without the protection of a large organisation taught me to make decisions with incomplete information, adapt quickly and stay close to what customers, teams and numbers were actually saying.
That journey eventually brought me to private equity and to co-founding Medelion Partners, where we invest in established SMEs and family businesses ready for a new stage of development.
It also changed the way I invest and advise today. I understand both the ambition behind a business and the pressure that comes with being responsible for it.
Sometimes I am there as an investor and Board member. Sometimes as an advisor.
Either way, I still think like an operator.
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People behind the numbers.
Numbers tell part of the story. People usually tell the rest.
I believe in metrics, accountability and clear results. But the people closest to a business often know things the numbers have not revealed yet.
That is why I spend time listening — to founders, management teams and the people doing the work. Understanding what they see, what gets in their way and what they believe is possible often changes the diagnosis.
Transformation works better when people understand where they are going and have a meaningful role in getting there. The objective is not simply to change the business, but to strengthen its ability to keep moving once I am no longer involved.
And growth should not require leaving behind everything that made the business worth building in the first place.
Grow the business. Preserve what makes it worth growing.
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A career without very straight lines.
Some of the most important parts of my education happened outside a classroom — and outside a job description.
I was born in Germany into an Argentine family, later became Spanish and have lived in four countries. Moving between languages and cultures from an early age taught me that there is rarely only one way of seeing things — a lesson that has stayed with me throughout my professional life.
My career has not followed a perfectly straight line either. At one point, I stepped away from executive life for almost two years to raise my son. I studied at London Business School during that time, but the most important learning came from somewhere else: understanding that making room for what matters is also a choice.
Nurturing, to me, has never meant holding on.
That idea has shaped the way I work with people too. Through teaching, mentoring and six years working with international students at ESADE/CEMS, I learned that helping someone grow is not about becoming indispensable. The same applies to businesses.
I believe in nurturing potential, but not in creating dependence.
Curiosity has remained the other constant. It takes me into new industries, technologies, languages and places — sometimes professionally, sometimes simply by travelling slowly enough to pay attention.
These days, that can mean crossing a country by bicycle, learning another language or starting something in a field I do not yet fully understand. Remaining a beginner from time to time is good for perspective.
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Different ways of staying involved.
One common thread: helping good businesses, ideas and people move forward. Today, my work takes several forms. The role changes depending on what is needed; the underlying approach does not.
Through Medelion Partners, alongside my partners and other investors, backing established SMEs and family businesses through moments of growth, succession and transformation.
Explore Medelion PartnersWorking personally with founders, CEOs and Boards on growth, transformation and the decisions required to turn ambition into execution.
Explore AdvisoryDeveloping ideas of my own and remaining open to selected ventures, Board roles and collaborations where I believe I can genuinely contribute.
Explore VenturesSharing perspectives through conversations, panels and mentoring — while continuing to learn through people, cultures, travel and new ideas.
Explore the JournalDifferent roles. Different contexts.
The same instinct to see what matters, connect people and possibilities, and help turn them into something real.
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And the CV?
There is one, of course.
But after more than 25 years across different roles, industries and countries, I have come to believe that a career is better understood through what you have built, what you have learned and the people you have built it with than through a sequence of job titles.
- If you would still like the chronological version, you will find it on LinkedIn
- For what I am building and involved in today, Explore Ventures