Governance Bodies

The association is governed by the following bodies:

 

  • The General Assembly: holds the maximum powers and has capacity of delegation.
  • The Executive Committee: the General Assembly delegates on the Executive Committee the management of the association.

Bios – Executive Committee Officers

Marta Huidobro

–  President

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Born in Madrid, Spain, Marta Huidobro is Economist and MBA. She worked in Spain and France in several multinational companies like Eon, Endesa, Xerox and Coopers & Lybrand. She has been responsible for Financial Controllingand Administration, Business Planning and Valuation and Interdepartmental Project Management.

 

Passionate by Environment and Sustainability, she studied Environmental Sciences and has a Master on Organisations Sustainable Transformation (2020-21). Marta was the special advisor to the Spanish Delegation to the OECD in these fields for three years. Later, she cofounded and managed a company on Energy Efficiency.

 

Very active Business Angel since 2017, both individually and through investors groups. In particular, she is cofounder and from 01/01/2022 president of WA4STEAM, a group of 130 Women Business Angels supporting startups led by women focused on STEAM projects. She is vicepresident of AEBAN, the Spanish Association of business Angels Network.

 

Member of the EBAN Board, she was previously member of the Advisory Board of Auara, a social company, and member of the Board of Directors of Electriciens Sans Frontières, a French NGO. In 2021-22, she obtained the International Accreditation of Board and Good Governance at IGE.

María Isabel Ortiz

–  Vicepresident

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Work in Progress

Sylvie Lemaire

– Vicesecretary

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Sylvie Lemaire is Vice-president of WA4STEAM since May 2018. She holds a Master in Management by the ESSCA – France . Mrs. Lemaire is an Executives’ Training and Business Development Consultant with 20 years expertise in Spain. She develops business cooperation for the Brittany region on the Spanish market with the Entrepreneurs Association Bretagne Commerce International”. A regular collaborator in the Master 2 Program of the Toulouse Business School – Barcelona Campus, she is a partner of klaxoon.com, a late stage startup (+200 employees) providing a disruptive digital tool to accelerate interaction and group intelligence at meetings and training sessions. She organizes “Learning Expeditions” for senior executives with a French consultant and is regularly invited to participate at round tables dealing with women entrepreneurship issues such as “The South Summit”.

Blanca Ochoa

–  Secretary

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Blanca Ochoa is the Secretary of WA4STEAM since May 2018. She holds a law degree by University of Barcelona. Blanca joined the multinational law firm of Clifford Chance on 1995 and she currently manages the Real Estate department at the Barcelona office. Blanca’s area of expertise is commercial real estate for international investors, including investments, financing and real estate security, joint ventures, leases and developments, having specific expertise in operations involving retail and leisure properties and hotels. In addition, Blanca has experience as a lecturer on real estate workshops from several universities in Barcelona, such as Esade, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) and ISDE. She has also participated in numerous conferences and seminars on a wide range of matters related to the real estate market and she has published several articles in specialised magazines.

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