Academic Background
Enrique holds a Law Degree from the University of Barcelona. He obtained a Master's Degree (MA) in International and Comparative Business Law from the London Guildhall University (now London Metropolitan) (1993). He obtained a PDD (Management Development Program) from IESE (2002) and a Certificate from the IE Law School in Blockchain: Legal Implications (2018), a Certificate in the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Program of the Saïd Business School (University of Oxford ) (2018), a Certificate in Digital Currency from the University of Nicosia (2019), a Postgraduate in Blockchain by BITBCN (2019), has a Diploma FT Non- executive Directors (2017) and has completed leadership and transformation programs at Stanford and INSEAD.
Academic Experience
Enrique currently lectures on business ethics and blockchain in different programs at IE Law School. He also lectures at the Master in Compliance of ICAB (Barcelona Bar Association). He is a Professor at Lismullin Institute, Timoney Leadership Institute (Ireland) and Universidad del Valle (Guatemala). In the past, he was a visiting lecturer at IESE and at IAE (Argentina). He is a frequent speaker at conferences on ethics and compliance, law and culture transformation. Since May 2021, Enrique is Academic Director of the IE-Elecnor Observatory on Sustainable Corporate Cultures.
Corporate Experience
Enrique is a practicing lawyer in Spain and England and Wales and a compliance officer. He has developed a large part of his professional career in senior management positions in multinational companies in the telecommunications and technology industries (VimpelCom/ VEON, Millicom, Nokia Siemens
Networks, Tyco, Dell) and professional and legal services (Arthur Andersen, Price Waterhouse, Freshfields), paying special attention to the establishment of robust compliance programs and the prevention of risk, and the management of legal and corporate governance issues in complex environments. He has led cultural transformations based on values and has advised on new ways of managing business replacing the hierarchy of conventional administration with the power distributed throughout the organization.
He is a co-founder of RealFund, an asset tokenization project, admitted to the first cohort of the Spanish fintech sandbox. He is a member of CryptoPlaza, a blockchain ecosystem in Madrid and is President of the Madrid Chapter of Government Blockchain Association (GBA).