Ricardo brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic corporate advice and healthcare. In 2014, he co-founded Careventures where he is responsible for all aspects of investment management, from sourcing, evaluating and executing on investment opportunities to managing existing investments and investor relations.
Until late 2011, Ricardo held industry responsibility within the European investment banking arm of Daiwa Capital Markets (DC Advisory) as Managing Director. He was one of the founding partners of the predecessor of DC Advisory in Spain, Atlas Capital. Atlas Capital was a diversified financial services group that included a market leading mid-cap focused investment bank.
Ricardo has been a senior advisor or director to numerous companies in the healthcare space as well as in other sectors. Those include Labco, EY, Consorci de Salut i Social de Catalunya (public network of 360 health centers in Northeast Spain), among others.
Ricardo holds a MSc. (Hons.) in Industrial Engineering from UPC (Barcelona, Spain), an MBA from INSEAD (France) and has attended private equity training by Harvard Business School Executive Education (US).