Vincent Rosso, an Industrial Engineer from the ESME. - Paris, with an MS grade in SJSU (Silicon Valley) in 1994.  Co-Founder & Country Manager-Spain of BlaBlaCar. With over 15 years of experience in the field of IT, he launched his first startup in 2006 after being selected by the NETI Program of the IE Business School. In 2009, two years later he launched BlaBlaCar in Spain. The (objectives) vision of this startup is to promote a more efficient use of the private car, and at the same time, fill a need for more economic and sustainable mobility. Business Angles and Advisor of multiples Startups of the Sharing Economy since 2015

Helena Torras, Independent Board Director and Managing Partner at PaoCapital. Helena is a seasoned CEO and investor, connecting the dots between the ecosystem, startup-corporate-investor, promoting the tech startup mindset to society.

Having been half of their life in the corporate world and the other half on the tech world, and having being 3 times CEO, Helena understands well both mindsets bringing the best from each world.

Serial entrepreneur, involved on several startups as co-founder or member of the entrepreneur team, she has established operations in US, UK & Spain and been Board Director both in Spain and at the US.

Her passion for tech startups led her to invest on more than a dozen. She has also been Board Director/Advisory Board in some promising startups. She is serving on two boards as independent board director.

Eager and committed, Helena is always willing to share and contribute. She belongs to the Governing Board of BarcelonaTechCity, and the Board of the Advertising association of Catalonia, and Collider and is speaker in tech events. Moreover, she is committed with diversity, which has led her to belong to Governing Bodies of associations with this mission.

Helena's great passion is to connect people, opportunities and business to generate as much impact and growth as possible. Impossible is simply not in her vocabulary. Positive, she considers that there is always a creative solution to reduce/neutralize the potential impact of any issue.

Among other recognitions, she has been named, EUTop50 investor Award, Investor of the year by D+I, one of the 100 leaders of digitalization in Spain by Invertia, Top100 influence women in Spain or the 30 tech spanish people to follow on Twitter by Business Insider.

Ingrid Verschuren is Deputy Head of Professional Information Business and Senior Vice President, Data Strategy at Dow Jones. She is based in Barcelona.

Ms. Verschuren is responsible for continuously developing and growing the Professional Information Business (PIB), while also overseeing all of Dow Jones’ licensed content and proprietary data collections. There are currently four core PIB product sets – Factiva, Newswires, Private Equity and Venture Capital, and Risk and Compliance.

Previously, Ms. Verschuren was the Managing Editor of Dow Jones Risk and Compliance, where she was instrumental in evolving the Risk & Compliance data sets as well as leading the expansion of the global research team. She has also held numerous roles within Factiva, where she focused on global content strategy and operations.

She started her career in the information industry when she joined Reuters as a news indexer in 1998. Ms. Verschuren holds an M.A. in Latin American Languages and Cultures from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

CMO & co-founder at MarsBased, and Regional Director at Startup Grind for Southern EU.

MarsBased is a full-remote development consultancy from Barcelona specialised in web and mobile applications developed with Ruby on Rails, AngularJS and Ionic. Àlex runs the sales/marketing area and is in charge of communications & growth of the company.

In barely 2 years, he's done:

- 5-digit contracts within weeks of having launched the company.

- 6-digit contracts eight months after the creation of the company.

- Grown the company (LLC) to 10 full-time employees & 5 freelancers.

- International clients from three different continents, hailing from USA, Germany, Spain, Abu Dhabi, France, UK, Singapore and Finland.

- Providers for development of the core product for some of their clients.

- Featured in press for some of their outstanding projects like the Barcelona Startup Map, among others.

In 2015, Àlex became responsible for the expansion of the Startup Grind brand in Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland) 

His background in consulting & development (ex-Deloitte, ex-VASS) and his international profile helps him with the technical and the business perspective.

After graduating from the IQS University of Barcelona, Carlos Pierre started his professional career as an auditor at the prestigious PriceWaterHouseCoopers. Then one day, he decided to leave his job and become an entrepreneur. At only 25 years old, he identified one of the main issues facing our society today. In September 2015, he launched a platform that connects supply with demand, enabling people to find their perfect flatmate.

Founder and CEO of SocialCar, the first platform in Spain for P2P car rental. Mar, is a benchmark in sharing economy, sustainable mobility and legality. Founding member of Sharing España and board member of ADigital. Mar supports Barcelona's tech ventures as a member of BCN Tech City's board of directors. She is also a promoter of innovation as part of the Creafutur advisory board. Graduated in Law and PDD by IESE, she began her professional career at Cuatrecasas Abogados and her social entrepreneurship interest began at Grameen Bank with Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.