Ander Michelena graduated in Business & Administation in Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ICADE (Madrid), and an exchange year at Marquette University (Wisconsin, USA). He started his professional journey in Morgan Stanley in London, where he get specialized in M&A. In 2009, when he was 26 years hold, he left the company to found Ticketbis with Jon Uriarte.

Jon Uriarte also graduated in Business & Administration in Universidad de Deusto, where he after get a Master in Finance. He started his career in London as analyst in Merrill Lynch and in 2005 he get hired from Morgan Stanley in London, for the M&A department. In 2009 Jon decided to leave the company to be an entrepreneur with Ander Michelena.

During these years the two of them achieved to expand Ticketbis, a platform for buying and selling tickets, in 48 countries, with 400 employees and revenues for around 90 million dollars in 2015.