Mariana Gajardo

Mariana Gajardo is the Chief of Staff at Mnemo. She brings more than 15 years of experience in operations, executive and project management with a specialization in business development, organization and change management. Mariana began her career in the investment banking sector as right hand of the CEO of the French investment bank ARJIL & Partners. She then joined the asset manager ACG Private Equity as Funds Administrator and was instrumental in the organic growth of the company, managing operations of the new group ACG Capital, following its merger. She later worked for several years as Director of Operations at the French subsidiary of Blue Stripe, a US firm which specializes in luxury student accommodations, where she managed a portfolio of +200 luxury apartments in Paris. In addition, Mariana created an independent management firm to help start-ups improve investor relations, foster major growth and scale that growth. Mariana attended Université Paris VII (Denis-Diderot Jussieu) where she studied specialized translation (life science, astronomy) and prior to that, she studied international business at Université Paris XII.