María del Rocío Pillado López

Rocío joined Adara Ventures in 2013 after finishing her MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and became Partner in 2018. Previously, Rocío worked at Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SGCIB) within the Trading & Sales department, in the New York and Hong Kong offices. She worked as a project leader and software engineer, designing and building trading software. Earlier in her career, Rocío worked in France in the cybersecurity field. Rocío is also the cofounder of www.club-mba.com, the leading website in the Spanish language about MBA and other graduate programs.

Apart from her MBA, Rocío holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the french École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées and a MSc in Cryptology, Security and Information Coding from the Institut Fourier.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Partner, Adara Ventures, Spain, 2019 – Present

• Principal, Adara Ventures, Spain, 2016 – 2018

• Associate, Adara Ventures, Spain, 2013-2015

• Co-Founder & Director, club-mba.com, Spain, 2011 – Present

• Project Manager & Front Office Software Engineer, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking – SGCIB, Hong Kong, 2009 – 2011

• Front Office Software Engineer, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking – SGCIB, USA, New York, 2008 – 2009

• Consultant, Capgemini, France, 2008

• Research and Software Development Engineer, Trusted Logic, France, 2008

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Academic Director Advanced Venture Capital, IE University, Spain, 2021 – Present

• Adjunct Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, IE University, Spain, 2018 – Present

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• MBA, Master in Business Administration, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, USA, 2011 – 2013

• Master in Cryptology, Security and Information Coding, Institut Fourier, France, 2008

• Engineer, Computer Science and Mathematics, National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble, France, 2007

• Engineer, Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, 2006