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 – Proverbio africano  

Equipo BrightGate Capital, SGIIC

Bertrand de Montauzon

Managing Partner / Fund Management

Bertrand de Montauzon is part of the founding team that started BrightGate Capital in 2008. Before founding the company, Bertrand worked in Private Banking in various multi-national companies, such as Merrill Lynch (1992 to 2003) and Credit Suisse (2003 to 2006).

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Bertrand holds a degree in Business Administration from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jacobo Arteaga

Managing Partner / Fund Management

Jacobo Arteaga is, together with Bertrand de Montauzon, one of the founding members of BrightGate Capital.

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Jacobo holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from Universidad San Pablo CEU in Madrid. Before joining BrightGate Capital, he worked in various financial institutions, such as JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse.

Jaime Gortázar

Managing Partner / Head of Distribution and Business Development

Before joining BrightGate, Jaime worked in different areas of investment banking divisions of various top-level, multi-national financial companies such as Merrill Lynch (M&A), UBS Warburg (Equity Research) and Citigroup (Equity Research).

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In 2011 he founded Dicania Investment Partners AV, an Investment Firm dedicated to the distribution of international funds in the Iberian market. Dicania distributed the funds of Capital Group. With AUM of $1.2 trillion, Capital Group was one of the most important management companies in the fund industry.

As an analyst, Jaime accomplished international recognition by being named “Best Analyst of the Spanish stock market” on several occasions and by taking his team to the “Top 3” for almost a decade (Extel & Institutional Investor).

Jaime holds a degree in Economics and Business from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE).

Marta Medina

Managing Partner / Administration and Operations

Marta’s career path goes back to 1998, date when she started to work as Client Service Officer in Merrill Lynch Private Banking. In 2003 she joined Credit Suisse, where she continued to work as Client Service Officer within the Private Banking department.

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Since the foundation of BrightGate Capital in 2008, Marta has been the Director of Administration and Operations.

Marta holds a degree in Law from Universidad Complutense in Madrid.

Javier López Bernardo 

Fund Management

Javier López Bernardo holds a Bachelor in Business Administration (major in finance) by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Master in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking by the IEB and a Master in Economics by Kingston University, where he also earned a Ph.D. in Economics.

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His academic research on equity markets and growth theory has been published in leading international journals.

Additionally, he has been a full-scholarship holder for two years by the Ramón Areces Foundation and he is a CFA charterholder. He is a lecturer for the CFA program and he also regularly delivers lectures in commodities, value investing and behavioral finance.

Team BrightGate Advisory, EAFI

Javier Herreros de Tejada

Managing partner – Investment director

Javier has spent 29 years in the financial sector, and has ample experience in M&A, private equity, risk management, credit, derivatives and real estate.

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Before joining BrightGate, Javier was CIO at Skipper Capital EAFI, advising institutional clients. Between 1999 and 2004 he was responsible of Citibank’s Private Bank business in Spain. Before that, he worked at Citibank San Francisco in the Wealth Management division, managing more than 800 million in risk, and the Real Estate division, restructuring NPL’s portfolio. Between 1991 and 1994, he was the director of big enterprises in Citibank Corporate Bank. From 1988 to 1989 he worked as an analyst and junior transactor in M&A at Citibank Madrid.

Javier holds a degree in Corporate Law from ICADE and an MBA from IESE.

Juan Colás de Casso

Corporate Risk Manager

Juan Colás de Casso has 25 years of experience in the origination and distribution of Risk and Asset Management products for businesses and institutional investors, both in Europe and Latin America.

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Between 2003 and 2014, Juan took on various leadership positions in the treasury of Santander Bank as Global Director of Sales, Global Director of derivatives & structuring, and Director of Sales at Santander Brazil.

Prior to that, he worked for Citibank for 14 years in numerous locations: Madrid, Buenos Aires and New York, where he was responsible for sales for Latin America.

Juan holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, an MBA from the University of San Diego, and an Executive MBA from IESE.

Luisa Álvarez

Risks & Administration

Luisa Álvarez worked for more than twenty years as Client Service Officer at Merrill Lynch Private Banking in Madrid (primarily) and in Barcelona.

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Later she spent two years at Active International – an American company focused on corporate trade. Luisa formed part of the team that developed the project in Spain, working there as Office Manager.

Luisa has been a member of the BrightGate Team – more specifically as part of BrightGate Advisory EAFI – since the beginning of 2015, where she works as responsible of Administration and Risk.

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C/ Génova, 11 4º Izda.
28004, Madrid. Spain.
Phone: +34 91 441 00 11