After graduating in Law from the University of Navarra, Ricardo began his career at Cuatrecasas working on the M&A and litigation practices in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao and Buenos Aires. After completing his MBA at IESE Business School, he worked as investment manager at the BBVA Microfinance and later as Head of Asset Management at Globalvia. Prior to founding Sastrería Financiera in early 2014, he was Director of the Madrid´s office at Crea Inversión. Ricardo is a chartered Financial Risk Manager, lecturer at Deusto Business School and has been ranked twice as one of the top 100 spanish economic leaders by the Choiseul Institute.
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Corporate finance entrepreneur with 15+ years of expertise advising deals
Ricardo
Olabarri
CORPORATE FINANCE ENTREPRENEUR + - + - + - +- + - + - + -
EDUCATION & CAREER PATH
1997-2001
Bachelor of Laws - LLB
Universidad de Navarra
2001-2003
Junior Associate (M&A, Taxation, Arbitration - PPAI Program)
Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira
Rotational program in the departments of M&A (Barcelona), Taxation (Bilbao), Litigation (Madrid) and corporate law and arbitration (Buenos Aires)
2005-2006
Senior Consultant - Start-Up Program
Cámara Navarra de Comercio, Industria y Servicios
Advising entrepreneurs on drafting business plans, raising capital and fulfilling legal and regulatory requirements
2006-2008
MBA - Business
IESE Business School - University of Navarra
2008-2010
Investment Manager - Expansion Corporativa
BBVA Microfinanzas
Reporting to the CFO, part of the investment team responsible of origination and closing of majority investments in rural banks in Latin America, including the transactions with Financiera Confianza (Perú) and Credicoop (Chile)
2008
Advanced Corporate Finance Program
London Business School
2010
FRM - Financial Risk Manager
Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
2010-2012
Head of Asset Management
Globalvia Infraestructuras
Reporting to Director of Asset Management, helped out in the design and execution of the divestment strategy for some non-strategic infrastructure assets. Board member of several subsidiary companies including Hospital de Son Espases, Hospital del Sureste, Marina de Laredo or OLIGSA.
2012-2014
Director
Crea Inversión
Director of the firm originating and managing corporate finance mandates and advisory services for venture capital players like Grupo Intercom, Softonic, Careesma or Ivoox being instrumental for the launch of Madrid’s practice of the firm
2014-Today
Founder
Sastrería Financiera
2016.2017
Ranked Top 100 Economic Leaders (2016, 2017)
Choiseul Institute
Ranked twice as economic leader.
2017-Today
Investor
Espaciodeco
Espacio Deco (ED) is the Spanish leader in online home deco with an offering of 35.000 decorated rooms, 35% of them tagged with 105.000 products visited 40.000 monthly by 13.000 users and up to Eur 1m invested to date.
2019-Today
Board Advisor
Emagister.com
With €15m revenues and € 2,5m EBITDA in 2019, emagister is the leading marketplace in the education industry in 14 countries advising millions of prospective students on their education decisions
2019-Today
Board member and Investor
IdocCar
Through process digitalization, iDocCar’s SaaS solution synchronizes automotive manufacturers with their distribution networks by automating sales and guarantees in real time.
2019
Bachelor of Science - BS. Psychology
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Started graduate studies of Psychology
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