1st Entrepreneurs Forum in Barcelona
Published on January 30, 2009
Filed under Entrepreneurs Forum, Entrepreneurs Forum in BCN |
Last 22 January took place the First ENTREPRENEURS FORUM IN BARCELONA. The forum, organized by the Rafael del Pino Alumni Association, had Josep Sanfeliu, as guest. Joseph is the founder of Ysios Capital Partners, one of the first independent private equity firms in Spain which provides financing to young, early-stage and mid-stage companies, in the human health and biotechnology sectors (see complete Biography below).
During the event, that took place at the Círculo Ecuestre, Sanfeliu talked about his entrepreneurial experience, the evolution of the bio-pharmaceutical sector in the current Spanish society and the investments and private equity in the human health sector with a group of ex-scholars of the Rafael del Pino, “la Caixa“ , Fulbright, March, Caja Madrid, Ramón Areces and Barriè de la Maza foundations, as well as with ex-postgraduate alumni of MIT, Stanford University, London Business School, Wharton, Columbia y University of Chicago.
JOSEP SANFELIU’s BIOGRAPHY
Josep Sanfeliu, obtained his Law degree at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, did a LL.M at Michigan University in U.S.A. with a focus on patents, copyright and trademarks and later on, when his professional career had already started he graduated Global Executive MBA at IESE. He began his professional career at Cuatrecasas in the mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property departments working for the pharmaceutical and technological sectors. After working at KPMG and Eurohold Corporate in mergers and acquisitions and providing legal advice in private equity in the innovative sector (biotech, hospital oriented product, software, etc.) he joined the pharmaceutical sector at Almirall creating the Corporate Development Department as Financial Corporate Development Manager. After Almirall he initiated Ysios Capital Partners being at the same time in charge of the operative general management f a company of the the health sector Grupo SAR. During these years Josep, at a personal level, has worked with entrepreneurs not only as legal and financial advisor but also as co-founder partner and investor of companies such as Vlex, Netquest or Isuno in the innovation sector. Josep collaborates with IESE in the evaluation of projects in the health sciences and sanitary technology sectors and he is a member of Círculo de Economía and of Círculo Ecuestre.
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