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.
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.comLuis 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.comJose 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.
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.comJournalist 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.comAfter 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.comJose 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.comAn 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.comIn 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.comMiriam 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.comHe 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.comIn 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.
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