ESADE Alumni appoints new Executive Board
ESADE Alumni has appointed a new Executive Board, chaired by Joaquín Uriach, that includes five new ESADE graduates who will draw on their experience in the business world to continue to strengthen the association.
The new board members are Miguel Torres, General Manager of Bodegas Torres; Ginés Alarcón, President of NAE, Magda Malé; Change Management Director at Coca-Cola Iberian Partners; Josep Salvatella, founder and CEO of RocaSalvatella; and Pedro Parada, Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Strategy and General Management at ESADE.
With the addition of these new board members, ESADE Alumni continues along a new course that was set last September with the appointment of Joaquín Uriach as the association’s president and the launch of the 2015-2018 Strategic Plan. The incoming members will strengthen the Executive Board by drawing on their professional experience to support the lines set out in the Strategic Plan with regard to personalisation, digitisation, globalisation, and the links between society and the business world.
With 56,000 alumni and nearly 18,000 members distributed throughout more than 100 countries, ESADE Alumni works relentlessly to expand its international network. The association’s business angels network, ESADE BAN, is another source of remarkable figures: by allocating €4.7 million in funds to 33 start-ups over the past year, the group has doubled its annual investment figure. In recognition of its accomplishments, ESADE BAN was named the country’s best business angels network by the Spanish Business Angels Association. Additionally, in keeping with our values of solidarity and support for society, ESADE Alumni has been organising Alumni Giving Back since 2007. As part of this project – the first of its kind in Europe – more than 1,500 alumni have voluntarily contributed their talent, experience and management skills to 170 third-sector companies.
More information about the new members of the ESADE Alumni Executive Board:
Miguel Torres Maczassek (Lic&MBA ‘98, ESADE) has been the General Manager of Bodegas Torres since 2012. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from ESADE and from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flager Business School (USA). He also studied oenology at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona. He has worked at various consumer goods multinationals and also in the perfume industry. For three years, he worked as Perfume Brand Director for Carolina Herrera New York, which is owned by the Barcelona-based firm Antonio Puig. He joined the family business in 2001, serving in various capacities before reaching his current position.
Ginés Alarcón (PL ‘10, ESADE) is the President of NAE, a consulting firm, and the President of the ESADE Alumni Digital Business & ICT Club. He is also a board member of Círculo de Economía. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). He has been involved with ICTs at every stage of his career, having served as Managing Director of Mobile World Capital Barcelona, CEO of T-Systems Iberia, Vice-President of the Lavinia Group and General Manager of Colt Telecom in Barcelona.
Magda Malé Alòs (Lic&MBA ‘98, ESADE) is the Change Management Director at Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and will soon be joining the Business Transformation Office team. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and an MBA from ESADE and has extensive experience managing change in the areas of organisation, management and team development both in Spain and abroad. Before joining Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, she was a Managing Partner at Zavala Civitas in Madrid, São Paulo and Mexico City, where she successfully developed the firm’s human resources area. She specialises in the selection and development of multinational teams. Early in her career, she worked in the same field as a consultant at Accenture.
Josep Salvatella (EMBA ‘04, ESADE) is the founder and CEO of RocaSalvatella. As an entrepreneur, he actively participates in the creation of new business projects. He holds an Executive MBA from ESADE and is now an Academic Assistant in the Department of Strategy and General Management, where he oversees new business projects. He has 25 years of experience in business management in the retail, higher education, content and start-up sectors.
Dr. Pedro Parada (PhD ‘03, ESADE) is an Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Strategy and General Management at ESADE Business and Law School, where he is also the Director of the Georgetown University–ESADE Global Executive MBA. He has also been a Visiting Professor at HEC School of Management in Paris and at SDA Bocconi in Milan. He has written various articles, case studies and book chapters on corporate strategy, international business and change leadership.
