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.