Our professionals
In Bespoke, we have a team of more than 100 high-level
professionals specialized in each of our areas of interest.
Corporate Finance
Tomás Núñez
Tomás has more than 20 years of experience working as a Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and as a consultant for various leading venture capital and private equity firms. He has advised many leading multinationals and important medium and small sized companies on how to improve their business strategies and reduce their structural costs in Spain, France, Portugal, Colombia and the United Kingdom. Tomás has worked in many industries including, Automotive, Food, FMCG, Telecom, Agriculture, Pharmaceutical, Banking, Information Technology and Aerospace industries.
Tomás is an Industrial Engineer from the University of Valladolid and he has an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Tomas also has been a guest lecturer in the field of strategy, finance and business administration at several prestigious business schools for over 20 years.
Tomás Núñez
Roberto Savina
COORDINADOR
Roberto has more than 20 years of experience in the financial sector. He has different executive positions and responsibilities in the areas of Treasury and Risk Management at Intesa Sanpaolo, AIS Financial Decisions, CaixaBank Consumer Finance, G.E. Insurance, Genworth Mortgage Insurance and he is currently working at AmTrust Financial.
Roberto holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Turin, completed the Advanced Program in Risk Management at CEU Business School and has the FRM®certification. As a teacher, he has designed and taught training at Deusto BS, IEB, CEU, Univ. Alcalá (Spain), SAA, ABI Formazione (Italy) and LBFS (United Kingdom). He is the Director of the Spanish Chapter of GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals).
Roberto Savina
COORDINADOR
Luigi Lubelli
Luigi cuenta con una dilatada carrera en el sector Financiero Internacional, donde ha formado parte de la Alta Dirección de instituciones como Grupo Generali en Trieste o AllfundsBanc en Madrid, donde ocupó el cargo de CFO en ambos casos, o Mapfre en Madrid, donde además de CRO fue Director General Adjunto y Responsable de la Relación con Inversores. Anteriormente fue Vicepresidente de Crédito y Rating en Morgan Stanley y Vicepresidente de Rating en CITI, en Londres, y en Banco Exterior de España en Nueva York, donde comenzó su carrera profesional en 1992. Actualmente está dedicado a la formación y la consultoría en el Sector Financiero.
Luigi es Licenciado en Economía por la Universidad Comercial Luigi Bocconi en Italia, cuenta con la Certificación FRM de GARP y la Certificación de Gestión de Riesgos de Entidades Aseguradoras GREA. Adicionalmente cuenta con publicaciones especializadas en materia de Solvencia II para el negocio Asegurador.
Luigi Lubelli
Julián Romero
Julián Romero es actualmente Presidente del Observatorio español de la Financiación Sostenible. Su carrera se ha desarrollado a través de diferentes entidades y diferentes actividades de banca de inversión.Tras su paso por las áreas de banca de inversión de Dresdner Bank, y Banco Exterior de España se incorpora al área de Trading en BBVA. En 2005, se convierte en responsable para Europa de Sindicación de bonos. En 2017, crea el grupo de Bonos Sostenibles en dicho Banco. Testigo del nacimiento y evolución de los mercados de bonos verdes, ha sido el representante de su entidad en los Green Bond Principles desde 2014.
Es licenciado en Ciencias Económicas por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Posee un master en Banca Responsable por el IEB y un curso en Desarrollo Sostenible por la Universidad de Columbia.
Julián Romero
José Antonio Gil
José Antonio has more than 25 years of experience in Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity Investments, Corporate Development. He has worked in positions of responsibility at Alpha Corporate (Deloitte Corporate Finance), M & A International Inc, and Ahorro Corporación. He is currently working for VibeCapital and give financial and strategic advice to its clients.
He holds a degree in Business Administration (BBA) with a specialty in Finance from the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University. He also has an MBA from IESIDE and has a specialization in Corporate Finance from IE.
José Antonio Gil
Javier Ruiz
COORDINADOR
Senior executive with more than 15 years of experience in managing organizations and teams, accustomed to work for objectives, with extensive experience in the financial field and in corporate governance and institutional relations.
More than 10 years of experience teaching management and finance in business schools and in-company programs.
Javier Ruiz
COORDINADOR
Itziar Letamendi
Itziar gained more than 18 years of experience in credit, financing and banking at PwC, BBVA and Santander. She is currently Managing Director at Banco Santander where she is responsible for debt financing products in Continental Europe, including Bonds, Syndicated Loans, Acquisition Finance and Structured Finance. She has very strong analytical skills, proactive, creative, with a proven ability to coordinate international teams and manage complex situations. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Loan Market Association (LMA).
She has a degree in Business Administration, Industry and Logistics from the University of Deusto and Mannheim with post-graduate studies in Investment Banking. She also lectures on finance and she has several publications.
Itziar Letamendi
Itziar Gómez
Itziar has more than 17 years of experience in the Banking sector and 15 in the field of Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Origination and Syndication, Credit Analysis and Portfolio Management. She has worked in both in the private corporations in the public sector. She has worked for ICO, Caja España, Banesto, and the European Bank of Finance. She is currently the Director for debt solutions at Ahorro Corporación.
She has Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas. She combines her professional activities with financial training at ICADE and the ICADE Graduate Business School in the area of financial markets, portfolio management and international finance.
Itziar Gómez
Gonzalo Ávila
COORDINADOR
Gonzalo has nearly 20 years of experience in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking. He has held management responsibilities at Accenture, Sacyr, Ahorro Corporación, KPMG and Ferrovial, in the field of investment and corporate and project financing. He is currently the Managing Director of Bibium Capital Partners.
Gonzalo has an economics degree from the UAM, an Executive MBA from IE, a Master in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking from the IEB, and a Master's Degree in Management and Financing of Infrastructures and Public Services from the College of Civil Engineers and the UPM. He has extensive teaching experience teaching finance at universities and business schools of reference.
Gonzalo Ávila
COORDINADOR
Francisco «Patxi» Barceló
Francisco es licenciado en Derecho y en Empresariales con Especialidad en Dirección Financiera (E·) de ICADE de La Universidad de Comillas, es PDD del IESE de la Universidad de Navarra y en la actualidad cursa el grado de Psicología en la UNED.
Cuenta con más de 26 años de experiencia en el sector financiero. Ha desarrollado su carrera profesional especialmente en el Grupo Banco Santander, donde ha llegado a ocupar cargos de responsabilidad en las áreas de Riesgos y en los últimos años como Director de metodologías y Big Data. En la actualidad preside el Consejo de Innovación y Buen Gobierno y compagina su actividad profesional con la docencia y la consultoría especialmente en proyectos de innovación relacionados con la gestión del Big Data.
Desde el punto de vista docente, Francisco tiene experiencia impartiendo clases en el diversas escuelas de negocio de prestigio, y ha participado en programas de formación a medida especializados.
Francisco «Patxi» Barceló
Fernando Martín
Fernando es licenciado en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Master por el Instituto de Empresa, graduado en Alta Dirección (PADE) por el Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE). Ha realizado estudios sobre el entorno económico y educación y tecnología en la Universidad de Harvard y ha sido miembro del Comité de Expertos del Parlamento Europeo en Sistemas de Pago Internacionales.
Ha desempeñado puestos de responsabilidad en distintas entidades financieras, en áreas de negocio, estrategia, finanzas, riesgos e inversiones.
En la actualidad es senior advisor en banca de inversión, miembro del consejo de administración de JB Capital Markets, Consejero independiente de Sociedad de Tasación. S.A.
Es profesor universitario en reputadas Instituciones Académicas, profesor titular y ponente habitual en programas de formación de directivos en materia de Estrategia, Negociación, Finanzas, Fusiones y Adquisiciones, Gestión Comercial y Habilidades Directivas.
Fernando Martín
Fernando Lacadena
COORDINADOR
Fernando is a highly esteemed executive with more than 39 years of financial experience at large multinational corporations. He is started his professional career at the audit firm, Arthur Andersen and he became the financial director of Dragados Servicios y Concesiones (ACS Group) for 10 years. He then moved to become the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Sacyr for 7 years before becoming the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Testa. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Merlin Properties.
Fernando has a degree in Economics and Business Administration and a Law Degree from ICADE (Specialty E-3) in Madrid and he is a guest lecturer at several prestigious business schools.
Fernando Lacadena
COORDINADOR
Esther Martín
Esther has more than 20 years of experience in the Financial Markets, especially in Equity markets, holding positions of responsibility in corporations such as Banco Cooperativo Español, Ahorro Corporación, Dexia Equities Spain and Intermoney Valores. She was head of international sales and then later, head of research at Intermoney Valores. She specialized in construction companies, concessions companies and mid & small caps companies in the diversified industrials sector.
Esther is currently working as Director of Corporate Finance at Bibium Capital, a consulting financial services firm with corporate Tier I clients, She advises clients on their economic, business and financial future strategies. Esther holds a degree in Economics and a Doctorate in Finance from the UAM. She has taught at prestigious Universities and Business Schools.
Esther Martín
David Martín
David cuenta con más de 12 años de experiencia en el sector financiero, con diferentes responsabilidades en las áreas de Gestión de Riesgos, Planificación Financiera y Banca de Inversión en BBVA.
David es Ingeniero Industrial por la ETSI-ICAI (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas), tiene estudios de Economía. Máster en Finanzas Cuantitativas por AFI y tiene la certificación FRM® que otorga GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals).
Como docente, ha diseñado e impartido formación financiera en instituciones como IEB, CIFF y Universidad de Alcalá.
David Martín
Carlos Garachana
Carlos cuenta con más de 30 años de experiencia en el negocio bancario, fundamentalmente en la gestión de los riesgos en cualquiera de sus ciclos (admisión, gestión y recuperación) y en todos los niveles (sucursal, territorial, nacional y corporación). Inició su actividad profesional en Banco Guipuzcoano y luego desde 1994 desarrolló su carrera en Banco Santander hasta 2020, donde llegó a ocupar cargos de responsabilidad en el área de Riesgos, como la Dirección de Recuperaciones, posición que desempeñó en los últimos 8 años. Ha liderado múltiples equipos y ha tenido una posición de relevancia en la integración de Banif, Banesto y Banco Popular.
Carlos es Licenciado en Empresariales por CUNEF y Master en Finanzas por la Universidad de Deusto. Ha sido ponente y profesor en diferentes instituciones académicas.
Carlos Garachana
Borja Zamorano
COORDINADOR
Borja Zamorano is an investment banker with over 25 years of professional experience international capital markets. He has worked for many important financial institutions including BBVA and ABN AMRO. Borja is currently the capital market’s Managing Director at Mizuho in the EMEA area.
Professor Zamorano has a Degree in Law and Economic and Business Sciences (E-3) from ICADE and Master in Portfolio Management from Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB). Professor Zamorano extensive academic experience in ICADE, IEB and the University of Navarra. Borja is the coordinator of the Financial Markets area of Bespoke School of Finance and the coauthor of the “Manual of Corporate Finance and Investment Banking” edited by Delta Publications. He is also Member of the Financial Forum of the Chamber of Commerce of London and the founding partner of Humanitas and of First Class Learning Spain.
Borja Zamorano
COORDINADOR
Antonio Uguina
Licenciado en Derecho y en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, (Madrid).
Actualmente desempeña el cargo de Director de Riesgos de España que incluye tanto actividades minoristas como mayoristas. Asimismo es responsable del área de recuperaciones.
Su trayectoria profesional se inicia en el Continental Illinois Bank, si bien la mayor parte de la misma se ha desarrollado dentro del Grupo BBVA asumiendo distintas responsabilidades, entre otras : Director de Mercado de Capitales, Presidente Ejecutivo de BBVA Puerto Rico, Director de Banca Corporativa España y Portugal y Director de Banca de Empresas y Corporaciones España y Portugal.
Entre otras actividades profesionales destaca como colaborador en la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas impartiendo a lo largo del tiempo distintos cursos como “Fuentes de Financiación”, “Análisis Financiero” y actualmente “Financial Markets”.
Antonio Uguina
Aitor Lizarralde
Aitor has had a long career advising companies in the area of Corporate Finance and Strategic Consulting. He has worked in the both in banking and corporate consulting. He has developed his professional career in positions of responsibility in CaixaBank, Montfort Producciones, Videntia and Norgestión. He is currently a Managing Director of Contenidos y Projectos Isliz.
He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Deusto and an Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa. He has combined his professional activity with teaching in schools of recognized prestige such as IE, IEB, EAE or CEF.
Aitor Lizarralde
Aitor Elustondo
COORDINADOR
Aitor worked for Banco Santander as the Global Responsible for Syndicated Loans, Insurance and Distribution. He has also worked for BBVA and Savia Financing. During his professional career, he has managed large loan books (€750 million) and bond portfolios (€300 million). He has gained extensive experience in major debt restructurings during the financial crisis. He was also an advisor to the LMA (Loan Markets Association) for 9 years.
Aitor has a Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad del País Vasco and has a Master in Financial Markets from the Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid. He has extensive experience coordinating academic programs and has been providing financial training for 15 years. He is a Coach for the EEC and a volunteer with Africa Directo.
Aitor Elustondo
COORDINADOR