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
EADA Foundation
President of the Board of Trustees
Independent Board Member
Previously: EDV Packaging
Chairman & CEO
Alumni Senior Management Programme in Sustainability 2021
IMMACULADA AMAT
AMAT INMOBILIARIS
President of the Board of Directors
Alumni Dirección General - PDG - Senior Management Programme 1992
Alumni Senior Management Programme in Sustainability 2021
MARGARET CHEN
China Club Spain
Honorary President
OPTIMUS HORIZON
Founder
Previously:
Director Strategic Alliance TELEFÓNICA and CHINA UNICOM
PILAR CONESA
anteverti
CEO
Previously: Barcelona City
CIO
MARC GÓMEZ
Salto Wecosystem
Group CEO
Previously:
President and CEO ABB Spain and Portugal
Alumni Executive MBA 1997
AINHOA GRANDES
President of the MACBA Foundation
CEO
Alumni Senior Management Programme in Sustainability 2021
CARLOS GRAU
Grau Innovation Consulting
CEO & Founder
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
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Associate Director
Previously:
General Director of Research GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA
CÉSAR MOLINS
AMES Group Sintering
CEO
Alumni Dirección General - PDG - Senior Management Programme 1981
CARME MUR
MUR&PARTNERS
Founder
Previously:
President and CEO MANPOWER GROUP
ALBERTO OJINAGA
DESIGUAL
General Director
Previously:
General Director CAPRABO
MARTA REYNAL-QUEROL
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
PepsiCo Western Europe
Vice President and General Counsel
ASOCIACION DE BEBIDAS REFRESCANTES - ANFABRA (Refreshing Drinks Association)
Vice President
Alumni Senior Management Programme in Sustainability 2021
Mario Rovirosa
Ferrer
CEO
Previously:
General Manager, Chiesi Spain
GUAYENTE SANMARTIN
HP
SVP and Division Head, Commercial Systems & Displays Solutions
PERE VALLÈS
Exoticca
CEO
Secretary (non member)
SUSANA BLEIER
Secretary of EADA’s Board of Trustees
Lawyer
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
JORDI CLOS
1999-2002
MARIA LUISA CRESPO
1984-2010
JOSE MARÍA DE ANZIZU
1985-2017
JUAN ECHEVARRIA
1990-1995THÉRÈSE 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