Oriol Bes

Oriol Bes is the current Director of Barcelona at the Founder Institute. Oriol has also previously worked as a transForma Partnering, Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship (AfCE), Currency Alliance, The Founder Institute, and Innovation for Food Related Companies. From June 2014 to September 2017, they were the Startups and Entrepreneurship Manager where they helped large corporations, such as Pepsico, Carrefour, Elior / Areas / Serunión, and Barilla, to innovate with startups and new technologies.

Oriol Bes has a PDD from IESE Business School in Executive Education from 2007, a degree in Business Administration and Management from Esade, and a Master's in Coaching & PNL from Institut Gestalt. Oriol is also certified from the Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship (AfCE) in Kickbox (Enterprise) Mentor, ACCIÓ in Consultor Acreditat Corporate venturing i Gestió de la innovació, and Scrum Alliance in Certified Scrum Product Owner.

They are on a team with Ayami Wanasinghe - Managing Director, Sri Lanka, Andrew Crawford - Head of Finance, and Sunil Sharma - Managing Director, Toronto & Waterloo. Their manager is Adeo Ressi, Co-Founder & CEO.