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Francesc Riverola was born in Palo Alto, Stanford California back in 1967. Raised in Barcelona he has dual citizenship (American and Spanish) even though he feels Catalan and American.

He got a degree in Economics for the University of Barcelona and an executive training at IESE Business School (PDD 2000).

He got involved in the Forex internet world in 1997 as a webmaster of a Forex advisory firm and late 1999 He started FXstreet.com with the help of a designer, his wife, Miriam and a programmer, his friend Setxi, now his partners at FXstreet.com. The success of the site forced them to create the company FOREXSTREET SL a Barcelona-based company (Spain) founded in 2001, owns the largest Foreign Exchange (Forex) portal in the world, FXstreet.com. As its distinctive trademark, the portal has always been proud of its unyielding compromise to provide neutral and unbiased information and to enable its users to take better and more confident decisions. FXstreet.com has managed to gain the collaboration of the entire Forex industry, from individual professionals and small companies right up to Forex Brokers and Investment Banks. Currently he holds the position of CEO at FXstreet.com.

He also collabotares as a mentor for SeedRoket. It offers a complete Seed Funding Venture Program for Entrepreneurs with technology-based startups. Considered the best of its kind in Spain.

Presentation by Francesc Riverola here

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Verónica is a sociologist, with an MSc in Social Research and Development, and a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Technologies (University of Barcelona). Her first professional experience was in the resource industry in Chile for almost eight years. There, she participated and led change management and organizational development projects at both local and corporate level.

After this first-hand experience, she decided to come back to academy and understand how businesses can become more sustainable. She started researching eco-innovations, corporate social responsibility, community relations and territorial governance. Her PhD discussed how large scale mining productions mode, socio-environmental impacts and corporate social responsibility initiatives, all together, shape a "mining space". She then began her career as an academic, at the Adolfo Ibañez University Business School. She taught non-market strategies and started her research on B Corporations and regenerative businesses. She also became Director of the business sustainability specialty in the Master's in Strategy, and commenced teaching on the subject of sustainable business models.

Several years later, Veronica decided to return to Barcelona. She did a one-year academic visit at the ICTA (Environmental Sciences and Technologies Institute), UAB, to explore the potential synergies between regenerative business and postgrowth. Additionally, she became a member of the Board of B Academics, a global network which promotes teaching and research on B Corporations. As Chair of Global Outreach and Engagement, she is co-leading the first global experience of Local B Academics in Spain. Veronica is also a member of SEKN (Social Enterprise Knowledge Network), an Iberoamerican Business Schools network which develops teaching cases and research on social enterprises. She currently co-leads the SEKN's research project on regenerative business. At present, Veronica is a postdoc at ESADE, collaborating in a research project on regenerative agriculture in Spain.

Presentation by Verónica Devenín here