About Us
FriquiFund is funded through its members and corporate partners. We currently are 167 members, working or tightly involved in IT, engineering and science sectors and with a strong attachment to Barcelona.See below our Members and Corporate Partners.
Leadership
Hugo Zaragoza Ballester
Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon
Nathalie Vento
Head of Marketing at HOORYA
Pau Agulló
Entrepreneur
Oleguer Sagarra
Co-founder & co-CEO at DRIBIA: Data Research in Business Intel. Analytics
Xavier Amatriain
Leading AI Products at Google
David Bofill
Data Science Manager at PepsiCo
Elisenda Bou
Co-Founder and CTO at Vilynx, now Head of Apple Media Knowledge
Ferran Marqués Acosta
Professor at UPC
Andreu Mayo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PepsiCo
Mario Cavero
Senior Software Engineer at eterlast
Joan Capdevila Pujol
Data Science Manager in Health & Nutrition Science
Members
Roi Blanco González
Principal Scientist at Amazon
Giuseppe Attardi
Deep Learning for Natural Language Understanding, GARR Federated Cloud Computing Platform
Maria Simi
Professor at University of Pisa
Sai Kopuri
Head of Technology, Prime Video X-Ray Live Sports at Amazon
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Director of Research, Institute for Experiential AI @ Northeastern University
Jordi Atserias Batalla
Sr Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Javier Romero
Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs
Liannet Reyes Hernandez
Sr Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Marta-Gaia Zanchi
Investing in health technology @ nina
Marc Castells Olivella
CEO at Basetis
Carlos López Ullod
CEO – Aplicaciones en Informática Avanzada
Marc Torrent Moreno
Head of Data & Analytics at Bon Preu S.A.U.
Pau Rué
VP of Artificial Intelligence at Infermedica
Josep M. (Pep) Martorell
Associate Director at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Cristina Bellido
Directora de Negocio y Analytics en VidaCaixa
Hannes Felix Mueller
Tenured Researcher (IAE - CSIC), Program Director M.Sc. Data Science for Decision Making (BSE)
Paula Batlle
Sr manager, Product Manager tech at Amazon
Eduard Gimenez Funes
AI & Data Analytics at Basetis
Ferran Carrascosa Mallafrè
Lead Data Scientist in Risk Analytics
Alex Escala
Marketing Data Scientist at Bandai Namco Mobile
David Poblador i Garcia
Senior Director – Principal Engineer at Spotify
Cristina Rata
Head of Data & Analytics at Zurich
Mihalis Markakis
Associate Professor at IESE Business School
Eloy Sasot
Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Richemont
Oriol Nieto
Senior Research Engineer at Adobe
Marcos Alonso
Human Interface Designer, Apple Design Team
Fernando Amat
Senior Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer
Josep M. Pujol
Chief of Search at Brave Software
Bernat Garcia Larrosa
Data & Analytics Manager
Josep Marc Mingot
Senior Director of Product at CoverWallet
Roger Frigola
Machine Learning • Racing • Optimization
Ruben Mejias
CTO at SCRM – Lidl International Hub
Lluís Garcia Pueyo
Director of Engineering at Meta
Anna Sáez de Tejada
Assistant Professor at IESE Business School
Alberto Mancheño
Freelance - ML & Data EngineerFreelance
Daniel Villatoro Segura
Chief Data Scientist at Openbank
Bernat Puig Camps
Applied Machine Learning @ Microsoft
Victor Martínez de Albéniz
Professor and entrepreneur
Miquel Camprodon
Lead Data Scientist at Bonpreu
Anna Saumell Mendiola
Analytics development manager at Caixabank
Roberto Sanchis Ojeda
Senior ML Engineering Manager at Spotify
Juanjo Rodriguez
Founder, The Hotels Network
Marc Ollé
Associate Director - Data science at BCG
Miguel Ángel Barja Yáñez
Director CFIS at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Eva Romero Beneyto
Director of Quantitative Analysis Unit at Banco Sabadell
Joan Vendrell
CEO & Co-Founder at Singularly
Anna Schlegel
Vice-President @ Procore.
Oriol Vinyals
Principal Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Alberto Moreno Hoyo
Data Scientist (Q-Commerce) at Glovo
Sandra Garcia-Esparza
Staff Data Scientist at Adevinta (before Schibsted Media Group)
Tiago Henriques
Technical Leader in Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing at Google Cloud
Jaume Albaigès
ICT & NonProfits. SinergiaCRM cofounder. Birdwatcher.
Pol Oliva Martí
Director of Data & Advanced Analytics at MANGO
Màrius Boada Pla
Director de l’Oficina Municipal de Dades – CDO en Ajuntament de Barcelona
Joan Fernández Bessa
Senior manager at Adamo Telecom
Ruben Marias
Applied Scientist @ Microsoft
Daniel Rodrigo López
Senior Data Scientist at Volotea
Jose-Miguel Pulido Villaverde
Engineer and Entrepreneur
Enric Spagnolo
Software Engineer & Data Scientist at Capchase
Antonio Calvo
Head Retail & CPG at SAS
Martí Mayo Casademont
Lead Data Scientist BCG X
Germán García
Data Strategy Consultant @ BCG
Miguel Picallo Cruz
Deployment Strategist - Data Scientist/Engineer
Andreu Lazaro
Associate Director at BCG GAMMA
Diego Gruber
Senior Product Manager at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Ramon Pujol
Co-Founder & CEO @ FISHHotels
Patrick Aloy
ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Emiliano Carluccio
VP of Analytics International at Prima Assicurazioni
Riste Gjorgjiev
Data Science Manager at Accenture Applied Intelligence
Albert Pujol Torras
VP Data Science at The Hotels Network
Albert Sagarra
EMEA Strategic Sales Leader, IBM Services
Luis de Quadras Gambus
Senior Data Scientist at BCG GAMMA
Carles Fontanals
Founder en ESBRINA
Bernat Agulló
Senior BI Developer and Partner at Esbrina
Xavier Verdaguer
Founder at Imagine Creativity Center
Albert Diaz Guilera
Catedrático @ University of Barcelona
Adria Recasens Continente
Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind
Ernest Artiaga
CTO at ALBORA
Carlos Garcia Marquez
Sr. Software Engineer at Onna
Marc Gratacós
Managing Partner at TradeHeader
Winslow Robertson
PhD Candidate at IESE Business School
Léonce ANO
PhD Candidate in AI and decision-making
Joan Fontanals Martínez
Head of Engineering at Jina AI
Zsofia Polai
Scientific coworker at Biotest Hungaria Ltd
Jordi Maristany
Attorney and Managing Partner of MARISTANY - Business Law Professor
Ricard Huguet Gali
Managing Director at ROBOTIX® Hands-on Learning
Jaume Muntsant Soria
Senior Data Scientist at BCG X
Xavier Giró i Nieto
Applied Scientist at Amazon Science Barcelona.
Matías Larre Borges
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Alejandro Fernández Piqué
Senior Data Scientist at BCG X
Marçal Molins Alonso
Associate Director, Data Science en BCG GAMMA
Roger Forcada Margarit
Principal, Data Science, BCG X
Amelie Baud
Research group leader at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
Miquel Larsson
Senior Data Scientist at Glovo
Toni Moreno
Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
Maria Fernandez Ruiz
Lead Data Scientist at BCG GAMMA
Jordi Nin
Assistant Professor @ ESADE, Academic Director Executive Master in Business Analytics (EMIBA)
Raúl García
CEO & Senior Partner at Cognodata - Customer Science - Digital Sales - Fintech - Marketing Automation - CRM
Joshua Mora
Large scale machine learning at Intel
Derick Leony
Senior Manager, Analytics at Criteo
Arnau Llovera Aparicio
Data Scientist at BCG X | PSPO and PSM
Alex Martin Alay
Data Science Manager -- Advanced Analytics Commercial at PepsiCo
Marta Villegas
Head of Language Technologies Unit at BSC
Pau Minoves
C-Level Leader | Technologist | Investor | Advisor
Xavier Spagnolo
Senior Software Engineer en Google
Jordi Torres
Professor at UPC Barcelona Tech | Senior Researcher at BSC | Expert Advisor in HPC & AI at BSC
Jose Ballester
Software Engineer at REVER
Llorenç Mitjavila
Managing Director and Senior Partner at BCG X
Salvador Garcia Ruiz
Senior Executive & Advisor
Ricard Ferrer
Data Scientist at PepsiCo
Nacho Lafuente Botella
Managing Director at Klarrio
Jordi Plana
Founder & Investor on Sabbatical
Joan Sanfeliu
Industrial engineer
Borja Elizalde Masia
Lead Data Scientist @ BCG X
Ramon Morote Ribas
Senior Lecturer Data Governance IE Business School
Pasqual Batalla
COO at Socialpoint
Josep Salom
Data, Engineering & IT Operations executive • Digital Transformation • Business Strategy
Vladimir Estivill Castro
Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Gaston Besanson
VP, Global Head of Data Science @ PepsiCo
Joel Montoy
CEO Aquiles Solutions
Sampsa Samila
Professor at IESE Business School
Enric Delgado Samper
Director of the IBM Client Engineering Team in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel
Carlos Florensa
Research Scientist at Covariant
Simon Allen
Full-Stack Engineering Excellence / Mastering Data Science
Jose Luis Florez
Intelligences created by and for humans. New businesses, services, and experiences enabled by AI.
Leonardo Giacomet
Product & Data Strategy @ Restb.ai | IESE MBA
Marc Bonavia
Formerly Founder. Now helping a Government Agency to champion the country's business growth through innovation. Transformational Leader.
Yannis Kalantidis
Research Scientist at NAVER LABS Europe
Monica de Mier
Accelerating chemicals innovation | CEO at Nextmol.com
Joren Gijsbrechts
Assistant Professor at Esade
Gemma Comellas
Data Scientist at Amazon | PhD
Pau Garcia-Mila
Linkedin Top Voice 2022. Founderz Business School Co-founder
Natalia Subirana
Research Assistant at IESE | Mathematics at the University of Barcelona
Hector Fornes Martinez
Manager at Vueling Airlines | Air Transport Management Lecturer @ UPC | MIT alumn
Lledó Esquerra Ortells
Sr. Research Scientist at Amazon
Marta Regina Cano Jiménez
Business Intelligence Director en Grupo Caja de Ingenieros
Marc Fuster Rullan
Senior Data Scientist @PepsiCo
Pere Mayol
Constructing intelligent machines
Rafael Giménez
Data & AI Lead at Quantion
Pol Blasco Moreno
Data Science Manager at Scopely
Alireza Mahmoodzadeh
PhD Candidate, ESADE
Issey Masuda Mora
Head of Apple Media Knowledge
Valeria Tereshchenko
MLOps at PepsiCo
Miquel Casas
CTO @ Discogs.com
Jaume Archidona
CEO at Freightol
Ana García del Molino
Associate Principal AI Engineer at AstraZeneca
Irene Font Peradejordi
Asst Director Responsible AI @ Liberty Mutual, Ex-Twitter
Ali Parsa
Healthcare Entrepreneur, Founder of Quadrivia, Babylon and Circle
Albert Mercadé Blasco
Data Analytics & Engineering
Yikai Qiu
Machine Learning Engineer @ Shoptimus AI
Carlos Pérez Ricardo
Data Scientist - Aerospace Engineer
Enrique Alcantara-Garcia
CEO and Founder at Stay U-nique
Arantxa Sanz
Executive Director - Strategy for Research and Innovation
Corporate Partners
