Ricardo Forcano - BBVA – Speaker

Executive Director, Strategy & Corporate Development

Ricardo Forcano is Executive Director of Strategy and Corporate Development and Head of New Business Models at BBVA. From this position he is responsible of developing BBVA’s strategy to lead the transformation of the financial industry, including the execution of strategic alliances and M&A operations with innovative and technological firms. Previously, he was Director of Strategy and Development at Grupo Heraldo, Deputy Director of Corporate Strategy at Endesa, and member of the board of digital companies such as LINC, Inventa Digital e Iogenia Digital.

Ricardo is an Industrial Engineer by the Universidad de Zaragoza (extraordinary award on his final thesis) and holds a Master in Technology Policy and Management by MIT. Furthermore, he has collaborated as researcher and faculty with the University of Michigan, the Technical University of Denmark and Universidad San Jorge in Spain.