Cristóbal Cantos de Ibargüen

ICAI Industrial Engineering and MBA (Major in Finance) at the University of San Francisco. Cristobal teaches Corporate Finance in several MBA programs and Engineering Masters degrees in private and public institutions. He’s been the Head of Investment in a Private Equity European Fund specialized in the industrial sector. Previously he was CFO in the Zona Franca de Cádiz, he worked in Inversión y Gestión de Capital Riesgo en Andalucía S.A. as Managing Director of Promotion. Cristóbal has also been Chief Financial Officer in a Spanish multinational firm, and member of the board of directors in several companies in Spain. He was responsible for the initial funding – seed capital – of Job&Talent, which would later become a leading unicorn in Spain. In addition, he has developed his professional activity in the headquarters of emblematic entities within the financial sector as SEPI, as an investment analyst, as well as in BBVA, or at the headquarters of Vodafone.

Corporate Experience

• Professor at I.C.A.I. and I.C.A.D.E.—Universidad Pontificia Comillas (2015 – Present), I.E.— Instituto de Empresa (2022 – Present), E.O.I.—Escuela de Organización Industrial (2010 – Present) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2021 – Present), Madrid, Spain, 2010 – Present 

• Member of the Board in High Tech & Industrial Organizations, Madrid, 2020 – 2023

• Venture Capital Managing Director - Belmert Capital, Madrid, 2014 – 2016

• C.F.O. - Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain 2013 – 2014 

• Venture Capital Managing Director at “Inversión y Gestión de Capital Riesgo de Andalucía, S.A.” – Sevilla, Spain, 2005 – 2011 

• Corporate Venture’s start-up funding shareholder and member of the Board, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 2002 – 2011 

• Senior Venture Capital Analyst VP at SEPIDES, Madrid, Spain, 2003 – 2005 

• Banking Analyst at BBVA, Madrid, Spain, 2002 – 2033 

• Engineer—Red Acceso, “AIRTEL MÓVIL S.A.” (Vodafone), Madrid, Spain, 1999 – 2000  

Academic Experience

• Adjunct Professor of Economics and Business Administration, IE University, Spain, 2023 – Present

• Coordinator of Master in Fintech, Payments and Digital Banking, ICAI, Universidad Pontificia Comilla, Spain, 2024 – Present

• Professor of Corporate Finance, ICAI, Universidad Pontificia Comilla, Spain, 2015 – Present 

• Professor of Private Equity & Investments, ICAI-ICADE, Universidad Pontificia Comilla, Spain, 2019 – Present 

• Professor of Corporate Ethics, ICAI, Universidad Pontificia Comilla, Spain, 2019 – 2023 

• Visiting Professor of Finance, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, 2021 – Present 

• Adjunct Professor of Financial Management, EOI, Spain, 2010 – Present  

Academic Background

• MBA in Business Administration USF – University of San Francisco, CA, 2002

• Master and Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineer, ICAI, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain 1999