Gonzalo Navarro Ruiz

Gonzalo works as General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Portfolio Stock Exchange, a newly created stock exchange in Spain. He has an extensive experience advising in the areas of commercial, securities markets and digital law, having led and participated in important and pioneering projects related to the use and application of disruptive technologies such as Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. He also works as professor in IE Law School, teaching subjects related to innovation and law.

In his current professional stage, he has led and been responsible, from a legal point of view, for the creation of a new stock market in Spain, Portfolio Stock Exchange, which has born with the intention of revolutionizing the stock market sector in Spain.

Gonzalo has participated in international training stays in the United States, at Yale University, taking the “Behavioural Science of Management” program, and at Stanford University, taking the IE Law School “Legal Bridge to Silicon Valley” program, and he has also travelled to India (as part of his Executive MBA earned at IE Business School) to participate in the "Global Immersion Week".

He is passionate about traveling and getting to know new places, cultures, people, food, etc., and during his free time, he likes to practice sports (jogging and swimming), go to the cinema or watch a good series or movie at home, and spend time with friends and family.