Elena Rico Vilar

Telecommunications Engineer and MBA from Universidad de la Salle. She has more than 15 years of experience as an investor in companies with a high growth potential. In her first stage, she worked at Caixa Capital Risc, where she became the chief operation officer of the management company. Later, she left the banking group to promote the creation of a new impact investment manager, PEOPLE AND PLANET PARTNERS, to finance and support companies that use technology to solve one of the social and/or environmental problems defined in the SDGs. This experience led her to join IMPACT Partners as managing partner. She is also board member in Mutua de Propietarios and independent expert for the European Commission.