About Us
FriquiFund is funded through its members and corporate partners. We currently are 163 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.
Working Group
Hugo Zaragoza Ballester
Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon
Nathalie Vento
Digital Marketing Consultant
Pau Agulló
CEO at ShoptimusAI
Oleguer Sagarra
Co-founder & co-CEO at DRIBIA: Data Research in Business Intel. Analytics
Xavier Amatriain
Chief AI and Data Officer at Expedia Group | Former Google, Netflix, LinkedIn, Quora | Curai Health Co-founder
David Bofill
Data Science Manager at PepsiCo
Elisenda Bou
Co-founder & CEO @ Cala
Ferran Marqués Acosta
Professor at UPC
Pol Oliva Martí
Director of Data & Advanced Analytics at MANGO
Andreu Mayo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PepsiCo
Amelie Baud
Research group leader at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
Mario Cavero
Senior Software Engineer at Pickem
Joan Capdevila Pujol
Data Science @ Skyscanner Scaling decisions Ex-ZOE
Pol Gomà Deàs
Growth, marketing & CRM
Members
Hugo Zaragoza Ballester
Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon
Nathalie Vento
Digital Marketing Consultant
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
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Javier Romero
Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs
Liannet Reyes Hernandez
Sr Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Marta-Gaia Zanchi
Investing in health technology @ nina
Pau Agulló
CEO at ShoptimusAI
Marc Castells Olivella
CEO at Basetis
Carlos López Ullod
CEO at SCALAI
Marc Torrent Moreno
Head of Data & Analytics at Bon Preu S.A.U.
Pau Rué
Elna Health
Josep M. (Pep) Martorell
PARTNER AT IivivoIA
Oleguer Sagarra
Co-founder & co-CEO at DRIBIA: Data Research in Business Intel. Analytics
Xavier Amatriain
Chief AI and Data Officer at Expedia Group | Former Google, Netflix, LinkedIn, Quora | Curai Health Co-founder
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
Data Science & AI Leader UVE Solutions
Ferran Carrascosa Mallafrè
Lead Data Scientist in Digital Projects & Advanced Analytics CaixaBank
Alex Escala
Lead Data Scientist at ADP
David Poblador i Garcia
Founder All Tuner Labs
Cristina Rata
Data and Analytics Executive Sequra / WA4STEAM Associate Business Angel
Mihalis Markakis
Associate Professor at IESE Business School
Eloy Sasot
CDO at ASML
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 Dorna Sports
Josep Marc Mingot
Co-Founder Prosper AI
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
Global Head of Data & AI, Retail & Commercial Banking Santander
Bernat Puig Camps
Applied Machine Learning @ Microsoft
Victor Martínez de Albéniz
Professor at IESE Business School and entrepreneur
Miquel Camprodon
Lead Data Scientist at Bonpreu
Anna Saumell Mendiola
Analytics development manager at Caixabank
David Bofill
Data Science Manager at PepsiCo
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
Professor at the Department of Mathematics of UPC
Eva Romero Beneyto
Director of Quantitative Analysis Unit at Banco Sabadell
Elisenda Bou
Co-founder & CEO @ Cala
Joan Vendrell
NeuralTrust
Anna Schlegel
Vice-President @ Procore.
Oriol Vinyals
Principal Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Alberto Moreno Hoyo
Senior Data Scientist @ Ferrer
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.
Ferran Marqués Acosta
Professor at UPC
Pol Oliva Martí
Director of Data & Advanced Analytics at MANGO
Joan Fernández Bessa
Senior manager at Adamo Telecom
Mauricio Arnau
Director of Model Risk Management at CaixaBank
Ruben Marias
AI @ NVIDIA
Daniel Rodrigo López
Senior Data Scientist at Volotea
Jose-Miguel Pulido Villaverde
AI Networking at IBM
Enric Spagnolo
Conversational AI
Santiago Murillo
Data Products Director at CaixaBank
Antonio Calvo
Head Retail & CPG at SAS
Martí Mayo Casademont
Data Science Senior Manager MANGO
Germán García
Data Strategy Consultant @ BCG
Miguel Picallo Cruz
Head of AI & Control at Beebop.ai
Andreu Lazaro
Data Science & AI, PhD
Andreu Mayo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at PepsiCo
Ramon Pujol
Founder @ Banana.tech
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
Principal Data Scientist at @HP
Carles Fontanals
Founder en ESBRINA
Bernat Agulló
Senior BI Developer and Partner at Esbrina
Albert Diaz Guilera
Catedrático @ University of Barcelona
Adria Recasens Continente
Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind
Ernest Artiaga
Computer Scientist, Space Enthusiast, Avionics SoftwareEngineer
Carlos Garcia Marquez
Senior Software Engineer at Quantrue
Marc Gratacós
Managing Partner at TradeHeader
Winslow Robertson
Postdoctoral Fellow at EMLyon Business School’s STORM Research Center
Léonce ANO
Design & Implementation of Operational Excellence Tools Accurate Digital
Joan Fontanals Martínez
Principal Engineer at Redis
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 Chainlink Labs
Maria Fernandez Ruiz
Data Science Strategy Manager @ eDreams ODIGEO
Mario Cavero
Senior Software Engineer at Pickem
Raúl García
CEO & Senior Partner at Cognodata - Customer Science - Digital Sales - Fintech - Marketing Automation - CRM
Joshua Mora
Large Scale HPC & AI SYSTEM STACK
Derick Leony
Director of Analytics, EMEA at Criteo
Arnau Llovera Aparicio
Manager at Strategy& | Revenue Growth and Data Science
Marta Villegas
Head of Language Technologies Unit at BSC
Pau Minoves
Founder CTO at The Matter & Form Company
Xavier Spagnolo
Staff Software Engineer at Deepmind
Jordi Torres
Professor at UPC Barcelona Tech | Senior Researcher at BSC | Expert Advisor in HPC & AI at BSC
Jose Ballester
Software Engineer at REVER
Ariadna Font Llitjos
Building something new + Helping business leverage AI and ML responsibly | Speaker | Mentor
Salvador Garcia Ruiz
Chief Communications and Brand Officer at Telefónica
Andreu Dotti
CEO & Co-Founder at Innovamat
Ricard Ferrer
Data Scientist at PepsiCo
Nacho Lafuente Botella
Computer Science, Honest Software and Advice. Founder Luzernillo
Joan Sanfeliu
Industrial engineer
Ramon Morote Ribas
CEO at Gyrus DS
Pasqual Batalla
Chief Operating Officer at Sandsoft Games Associate professor CITM (UPC)
Vladimir Estivill Castro
Professor at University of Canterbury
Gaston Besanson
SVP, Global Head of Data Science
Joel Montoy
CEO Aquiles Solutions
Carlos Florensa
Research Scientist at OpenAI
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
Joan Capdevila Pujol
Data Science @ Skyscanner Scaling decisions Ex-ZOE
Pau Garcia-Mila
Linkedin Top Voice 2022. Founderz Business School Co-founder
Natalia Subirana
Senior Data Scientist at McKinsey & Company
Hector Fornes Martinez
Manager at Vueling Airlines | Air Transport Management Lecturer @ UPC | MIT alumn
Lledó Esquerra Ortells
Applied Science former Amazonian Graph Theory, Causal Inference and Signal Processing
Sergi Ortiz Rodriguez
CEO at Shimoku | Data & AI to empower individuals and teams
Marta Regina Cano Jiménez
Business Intelligence Director en Grupo Caja de Ingenieros
Marc Fuster Rullan
Senior Data Scientist @PepsiCo
Pere Mayol
Transforming AI and health data analytics at Avatar Cognition
Rafael Giménez
Data & AI Lead at Quantion Azure AI Engineer Associate
Issey Masuda Mora
Co-Founder & CTO @Cala
Valeria Tereshchenko
MLOps at PepsiCo
Miquel Casas
CTO @ KaveHome
Jaume Archidona
Co-founder & CEO @Joblanders
Ana García del Molino
Associate Principal AI Engineer at AstraZeneca
Irene Font Peradejordi
Director AI Product Manager @ Liberty Mutual, Ex-Twitter
Yikai Qiu
Machine Learning Engineer @ Shoptimus AI
Carlos Pérez Ricardo
Data Scientist - Aerospace Engineer
Enrique Alcantara-Garcia
CEO and Founder at Stay U-nique
Barbara Buades
Co-Founder & CEO at MEETOPTICS
Pol Gomà Deàs
Growth, marketing & CRM
Alexander Zhitlukhin
CTO @ Appodeal
Yago Flores
Director NTT Data
Jorge Alçada
Head of Engineering and Applied Science, Amazon
Laurentiu Petrea
Founder @ HolaGuest | AI Agents for hotel chains
Corporate Partners
