I grew up on a Mediterranean island - Irish and Canadian by family, Spanish by adoption - obsessed with flight since childhood. My favourite book, Reach for the Sky, pushed me toward engineering: aerospace at École Centrale de Paris, then a Master's at MIT's Gas Turbine Lab, where at twenty I ran an experimental rig on turbo-pump flow and learned to fly gliders out of Boston, a habit I've kept ever since.

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After MIT: Andersen Consulting in Paris, an MBA at INSEAD, then eight years at Monitor Company in Madrid, making partner and helping build its European practice. On the side, in 1997, I founded CityHop, an urban logistics startup - my first payroll, first hire, and first real failure, which pushed me into venture. In 2000 I founded NETfractal, an early-stage fund that lived through the dotcom crash. In 2002 I met Alberto, and together we spotted the gap: Spain had strong engineering talent and no early-stage capital built with a technology lens. That became Adara.

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Outside the office: 38 years and 1,000+ hours flying, including my Yak 52 ("Blue Devil"), aerobatics, and time on the farm or kite-surfing with my wife.

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