The EADA Private University Foundation (Fundación Privada Universitaria EADA) is a non-profit making institution set up in Barcelona in 1984 that falls under the Generalitat de Catalunya Protectorate and gives continuity to the Executive Education project initiated in 1957 by Mr Arturo Alsina and Mrs Irene Vázquez founders of EADA Business School in Barcelona (Escuela de Alta Dirección y Administración).
Board of trustees of the EADA Foundation
The Board of trustees is the top governing body of the Foundation and represented on it are the different stakeholder groups that make up the EADA Business School community: entrepreneurs, managers of associated companies, business administration professionals, experts in management training, alumni from the Master-MBA Community, etc.
The Board of Trustees forms part of the Governing Bodies of the EADA Foundation. Its current members are:
Koke Pursals
President of EADA’s Board of Trustees
Spain
Immaculada Amat
President of the Board of Directors
Amat Immobiliaris
Alumni Dirección General - PDG - Senior Management Programme 1992
Alumni Senior Management Programme in Sustainability 2021
Pilar Conesa
CEO
anteverti
Previously: Barcelona City
CIO
Marc Gómez
Group CEO
Carles Grau
CEO & Founder
Grau Innovation Consulting
Previously: CEO Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Senior Executive at MICROSOFT, ACCENTURE and HP
Alumni Senior Management Programme in Sustainability 2021
Tobías Martínez
CEO / Board member / Leadership / Telecommunications
Previously: CEO Cellnex Telecom
Josep Maria Martorell
Associate Director
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Previously: General Director of Research GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA
Alexandra Mitjans
Planet & Climate Director
Ashoka
César Molins
CEO
AMES Group Sintering
Alumni Dirección General - PDG - Senior Management Programme 1981
Carmen Mur
Founder
MUR & PARTNERS
Previously: President and CEO MANPOWER GROUP
Alberto Ojinaga
General Director
Desigual
Previously: General Director of Caprabo
Luis Pardo
Director and Advisor to several companies
Previously: CEO of Sage
Alumni Executive MBA 1997
Marta Reynal-Querol
Research Professor, Professor of Economics, Dep.of Economics and Business, Dept. Economía, Director
ICREA
Research Professor
UPF
Professor of Economics, Dep.of Economics and Business
IPEG
Director
Previously: Economist at THE WORLD BANK, Washington D.C
John Rigau
Vice President and General Counsel
PepsiCo Western Europe
Vice President and General Counsel
Asociación de Bebidas Refrescantes - ANFABRA (Refreshing Drinks Association)
Vice President
Alumni Senior Management Programme in Sustainability 2021
Mario Rovirosa
CEO
Ferrer
Previously: General Manager, Chiesi Spain
Guayente Sanmartín
SVP and Division Head, Commercial Systems & Displays Solutions
HP
Pere Vallès
CEO
Exoticca
Secretaria (no miembro)
Susana Bleier
Lawyer
Secretary of EADA’s Board of Trustees (Secretary, non-member)
Secretary of the International Advisory Board
Spain
In gratitude to all the members of the EADA Board of Trustees since its inception as a foundation:
IRENE VÁZQUEZ
President 1984-2007
Honorary President 2007-2021
DAVID PARCERISAS
President 2007-2019
JORDI ALSINA
1984-1990
CARLA ARIMONT
2010-2012
ELSA ARTADI
2013-2013
SEBASTIÁN BENASCO
1997-2018
MARC BONAVIA
2015-2019
JOSEP LLUÍS BONET
1984-2019
JOSE LUÍS CARRATALA
1984-1991
MARGARET CHEN
2019-2025
JORDI CLOS
1999-2002
MARIA LUISA CRESPO
1984-2010
JOSE MARÍA DE ANZIZU
1985-2017
JUAN ECHEVARRIA
1990-1995
THÉRÈSE JAMAA
2023-2024
GUILLEM LÓPEZ-CASASNOVAS
2018-2020
THOMAS LUPTON
1990-2000
LUÍS MARTÍ
1984-1990
FRANCISCO MARTÍN FRIAS
2005-2011
HANS MEINKE
1997-2013
FRANCISCO PARCERISAS
1984-1997
ORIOL ROS
2015-2018
JUAN ROYO
1984-2008
CRISTIAN SALA
1990-1993
JOSÉ SANTIAGO SUÁREZ
1984-2012
EDUARDO VECINO
1984-2010
MONTSERRAT VENDRELL
2015-2019
CELESTÍ VENTURA
2004-2016
MIGUEL VICENTE
2017-2019