Global Senior Management Program
Global Senior Management Program
Faculty
Faculty
Exceptional leadership requires exceptional mentors—voices capable of challenging perspectives, sharpening judgment and illuminating what others overlook.
Designed for accomplished C-suite leaders and senior executives, the Global Senior Management Program brings together a distinguished faculty recognized for their global insight and academic excellence.
Their expertise spans strategy, innovation, geopolitics, technology and the humanities, providing the depth required to navigate complexity at the highest level.
They challenge established thinking, open new lines of perspective and engage an accomplished cohort in meaningful, future-focused dialogue.
Through their guidance, leaders enhance their clarity, strategic foresight and ability to drive lasting transformation across industries and regions.
Academic Director
Academic Director
Over the last years, Borja has co-founded and developed three startups in the bioenergy field and the feed industry, failing, pivoting their business models, bringing on board strategic partners, raising private capital as well as leveraging public funds for R&D programs at both the national and European level. He has recently sold Camelina Company España, Europe's flagship company for the production of camelina to Global Clean Energy Holdings, a US based corporation devoted to the production of biofuels. Along the road Borja has launched various ventures in the pet food industry (Doxel Petcare) and the competing horse feed market (Excel Supplements Europe). Now Borja collaborates with the entrepreneurial ecosystem as mentor (EIT Food, SeedRocket) and early investor.
Prior to this startup experience, Borja worked for several years in a leading company in the aviation industry, where he gained extensive experience in managing teams in international projects. Therefore, Borja brings knowledge and experience in startup in the bioenergy, agriculture, animal feed, biofuels, and biomass industry, as well as experience in institutional fundraising and launching and managing innovative projects.
Based upon his multi-sectorial and international experience, he started his academic venture where he serves as Associate Professor of entrepreneurship at IE University and collaborates in corporate innovation projects in various Programs for IE and Headspring (a Financial Times and IE Learning Alliance).
Borja serves as Academic Director in several programs such as the EMBA IE & Brown University, the Global Executive MBA for BBVA and the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from IE Executive Education.
BORJA ALONSO DE LINAJE PÉREZ
BORJA ALONSO DE LINAJE PÉREZ
Academic Director and Professor of Entrepreneurship
Faculty
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