Juan Martinez-Barea

• Juan is the Founder and Executive President of Universal Diagnostics, a biomedicine start-up, with the mission to develop and make globally available a simple and accurate blood test for the early detection of cancer.
• After working in world-class companies like Abengoa and McKinsey, Juan was founder and CEO of "$50K", one of the first high-tech new venture accelerators in Europe, launched in collaboration with the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. He has participated directly in launching more than 100 high-tech start-ups, and has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs.
• Following his work in entrepreneurship he later launched Fundacion Eduarda Justo, a non-profit foundation of the Cosentino Group to identify, educate and inspire young leaders, with the aim of developing the leaders that will build the future of the South.
• Juan holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), a Master in Economics from Ecole Centrale Paris (France) and a MS and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). He graduated in Exponential Technologies at Singularity University, located at NASA Ames Park, California.

Companies

• Venture Board Member Ashoka (2015)
• Founder and Executive President Universal Diagnostics SL (2012)
• Managing Director Fundacion Eduarda Justo. Grupo Cosentino (2007)
• Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Instituto Internacional San Telmo (2000)
• Ambassador for Spain NASA - Singularity University (2011 — 2015)
• Founder and CEO Call to Innovation (2011 — 2015)
• Founder and CEO MIT $50K Spain (1999 — 2005)
• Summer Associate McKinsey & Company (1997 — 1997)

Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA), Innovation and Entrepreneurship MIT Sloan School of Management (1996 - 1998)
• Graduate Studies NASA - Singularity University (2010 — 2010)
• Master in Economics Ecole centrale de Paris (1990 — 1991)
• MS and BS in Industrial Engineering Universidad de Sevilla (1984 — 1990)