We are

A multidisciplinary team working for more than 12 years on an international platform for organizational sustainability revolving around businesses and sustainability.

Carmen Riestra

Arts, Culture & Sustainability projects

Carmen comes to Quiero from the culture and education sectors. She has led projects for and within Fundación Canal, Madrid Design Festival, Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa, ICO museum and PhotoEspaña festival. Carmen believes in the arts and culture’s potential for transforming society’s values.

 carmen.riestra@somosquiero.com

Sandra Pina

Director General

Sandra worked in marketing and innovation within multinational companies Kellogg´s and Danone. One day she decided she could be more useful to society, and thus she is now DG at Quiero. She is also the director in Madrid of global network Sustainable Brands, the worldwide authority on Sustainability and Business, as well as a member of its Advisory Board in Paris.

sandra.pina@somosquiero.com

Fabio Sechi

Director of Production
From the beginning of his career, Fabio has created spaces and events. Creating realities from nothing is his everyday challenge. He worked for the social work divisions of Caja Madrid, Kutxa and Caja Sur banks and he has also created events for brands such as Rolex, El País newspaper and Telefónica.

fabio.sechi@somosquiero.com

Luis Tamayo

Knowledge Director

Luis is a sociologist who developed his career in strategic research and marketing trends analysis. He facilitates companies’ transitions to the collaborative and digital economy, helping them build authentic brands and models integrating work with collaborative culture. He feels Quiero provides him with an ideal framework to accomplish his purpose.

luis.tamayo@somosquiero.com

Jose G.

Friend

Jose got acquainted with Quiero in 2010. He confesses that he has learned -and keeps learning- from the team how important it is to set daily goals in order to leave a better, more sustainable world to our children.

Raquel Lara

Project Manager

Graduated in law, she started her professional career as a lawyer until one day she left everything to give a 180 degree turn to her career and bet on social action and innovation. After 6 years in an NGO promoting equality between women and men, she comes to Quiero willing to continue impacting society by promoting youth employment and equal opportunities.

raquel.lara@somosquiero.com

Raquel Martín

RRII, Aliances and Client Service Director

Journalist by both training and passion, Raquel’s life took her to communication consultancies on both shores of the Atlantic, working in Spain and Argentina. She worked at Coca-Cola, Repsol YPF, UNICEF and Danone, and was a manager at Kimberly-Clark. Her purpose is to support and encourage sustainable, transparent and coherent companies for a better society.

raquel.martin@somosquiero.com

Elia Vela Laviña

Social Innovation

After she graduated in Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Elia focused on creating social projects that contribute to solving the world’s problems. She founded Libretas Aedra and her own genre-based publishing company, Ediciones Dorna. She worked at Social Enterprise Spain on research and training. Now at Quiero, she continues to help building a better world.

elia.vela@somosquiero.com

Jose Illana

Founding partner

Jose is the founding partner at Quiero: one fine day he realized he’d been thinking that things could be done differently for too long and risked becoming an empty loudmouth. Before establishing Quiero, he worked in communication at Wunderman, Grey, FCB and Humana. He is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Sustainable Brands’ network.

jose.illana@somosquiero.com

Paz Ugarte

Partner

An economist with a career in communication and marketing, Paz has been a senior partner at Quiero since its inception in 2008 as well as the director of Dialogues at La Granja think tank. She is an executive in BBVA Bank’s shareholder relations, corporate culture and Innovation Centre areas.

paz.ugarte@somosquiero.com

Vanessa Palomar

Brand Projects and Communication Director

In love with the common social welfare and nature in continuous movement, Vanessa comes to Quiero with a thousand and one desires to put all her experience in the fields of strategy, marketing and communication at the service of companies and organizations that want to do their bit to achieve a kinder, fairer and more sustainable world. Previously, she also worked in several multinationals, such as AmRest and Telefónica groups.

vanessa.palomar@somosquiero.com

Miriam Torres

Project Manager

Miriam trained in audiovisual communication and specialized in business communication. She began her professional career in a multinational company and joined Quiero when it was only 3 years old. Curious by nature, she came to the conclusion that her vocation was to manage exciting projects because they generate changes in society. After a stage of specialization in educational guidance and innovation, she collaborates with Quiero on a transformative project.

miriam.torres@somosquiero.com

Sergi Capell

Co-director Quiero Barcelona

He started in banking and directed “Obra Social Caja Madrid” in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands for 11 years. In 2013, he founded La Casa de Carlota, a design studio with creatives with intellectual disabilities. He is a join director of Quiero in Barcelona and responsible for Raimat_LAB at Fundació Raimat Lleida. His specialty is designing and implementing organizational innovation models and analyzing their impact. He enjoys good music, morning walks on the beach, and spending time with good people.

sergi.capell@somosquiero.com

Constanza Pedreira

Project Manager

In addition to theatre, I am passionate about driving positive impact since the beginning of my career as a graduate in International Relations and specialist in International Cooperation and Sustainable Finance. For more than 10 years I have supported entrepreneurs, companies, NGOs and Public Administration in managing their social sustainability projects towards the economic development of communities in Latin America and Spain .I joined Quiero to continue promoting social impact projects and guiding companies in their business transformation towards sustainability.

constanza.pedreira@somosquiero.com
  • Quiero is B-corp member.

  • European partner of Sustainable Brands and member of its global advisory board.

  • Promoter of the first ethical code of the Spanish Association of Marketing.

  • Founder and leader of the think tank “Dialogues at La Granja” with the support of IESE Business School.

  • Member of CEOE.

    Manifiesto

    We only work on projects that seek change and positive impact, putting people, society and the environment at the centre. We are convinced that sustainability makes us better: richer and more beloved companies, healthier and more fulfilled people, and more beautiful, plural and just societies.

    We believe in a better way of doing things. Our only principle: be proud of what you do and make everyone around you proud of the company where you work.

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