A bit older, but also a bit wiser.

We are the Piedmont Advisors team.
Your team.

Shall we talk?

Mario Álvarez Fernández

Managing Partner

Languages

He speaks fluently English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Experience

• 24-year experience in business strategy and management.
• Managing Director of Piedmont Advisors since 2013.
• He has hold executive positions at Inforsistem (Managing Director) and at Indra (BPO Division).
• Previously worked 11 years in strategy consulting, in 10+ countries and 15+ industries (2 years at Andersen Consulting; 9 years at Oliver Wyman).
• He currently lectures Strategy at ICADE (Madrid) and at UC Berkeley (EE.UU.).

Education

• In 2016 Mario earned a PhD (U. Pontificia Comillas – ICADE).
• B & Law degree (ICADE E3, 1994), and an MBA (Berkeley, US). He took a PDG (Exec) at IESE (2012).

Pedro Cózar Paniagua

Associate

Languages

He speaks fluently English and Spanish (native).

Experience

• 17-year experience in consulting and financial services.
• He has hold executive positions at Axesor. Previoulsy he worked for Santander and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
• Extensive experience in market and industry analysis, B-plan development and execution, investment analysis, and financial valuation.

Education

• Pedro Cózar holds a Business Administration degree (ICADE E2), and an Executive MBA (Instituto de Empresa).

Ana Isabel Labarta Fanlo

Advisor

Languages

She speaks fluently in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

Experience

• More than 15 years of experience in strategic and management consulting.
• Manager at Bain & Company (1996 – 2003).
• Project leadership at Ducker Intl in USA (2015), having managed the PMO (Program Management Office) for the transformation of a company, and led the development of the management control system.
• Between 2011 and 2015 participated in launching All for Padel (padel complements Company, under Adidas license).
• In 2003 she founded a sport clothing company.

Education

• Anabel holds a degree in Business Administration in Universidad de Zaragoza, and an MBA (IESE).

Ignacio Alarcón Lasarte

Asociado

Idiomas

Español
Inglés
Francés

Experiencia

• Más de 2 años de experiencia en consultoría estratégica y de dirección en Piedmont.
• Entre 2014 y 2015, creación y dirección de empresa de organización de eventos infantiles.

Formación

• Licenciado en CC. EE. y Derecho (E3). Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICADE.
• En 2017 cursó un semestre en Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) en Shanghai, China.
• En 2016 cursó un semestre en University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, en Estados Unidos.

José Manuel Cerezo Ortega

Associate

Languages

He speaks fluently English, French, Portuguese and Spanish (native).

Experience

• 26-year experience in business strategy and management.
• He has hold executive positions in Consorcio de Zona Canaria (General Manager) and at Indra.
• Prior to that he worked for 10 years in strategy and management consulting in US firms (Andersen Consulting; Oliver Wyman).
• He is currently Postgraduate programs Director at MBA Business School, and Director of the Instituto Canario de Turismo.

Education

• José Cerezo holds a Civil Engineer degree (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and París), and an MBA (INSEAD, France).

Juan Antonio Villegas

Data Scientist

Languages

He speaks fluently Spanish and English.

Experience

• 20 years of experience with Microsoft technologies as a programmer and trainer, working as a consultant and developing own applications in various sectors (automotive, food, health).
• Specialist in database management and data analysis.

Education

• Juan holds a Computer Engineer degree by the ETSII of Granada.
• Audiovisual Technician from the Instituto del Cine de Madrid.

Raúl Javier Fernández Jerez

Consultant

Languages

He speaks fluently Spanish and English.

Experience

• 2-year experience in business consulting, including more than 1 year at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Education

• Raúl holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICAI.
• He graduated with a double master's degree in Industrial Engineering + MBA from UP Comillas, ICAI-ICADE.
• In 2019, he studied for a year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA.

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