Borja Breña Lajas Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

• Board observer at Last.app (since 2023)• Board observer at airfocus (since 2023)• Board observer at StockAgile (since 2022)• Board observer at Loyal Guru (since 2022)• Board observer at TrustWorks fka QueryLayer (since 2021)• Board observer at Weecover (since 2022)• Board observer at ifeelonline (since 2021)• Board observer at Cledara (since 2020)• Board observer at Smart Protection (2019-2020)• Board observer at World Mastery (from 2019 until administration in 2021)• Board observer at Emjoy (from 2019 until stopping operations in 2023)• Board observer at Hosco (since 2018)• Board observer at Landbot.io (since 2018)• Board observer at Geoblink (from 2018 until the sale to MyTraffic in 2023)• Board observer at Holded (from 2018 until the sale to Visma in 2021)• Also, a small-time supporter of Nextail (since 2019) and Onna (in 2019)

London, England, Gb

Madrid, Es

• Sonar Ventures, a Spanish tech venture builder (www.sonarventures.com).• TARTESIA, a Spanish contemporary jewellery brand (www.tartesia.com).• LanguageStays, language education and training agency (www.LanguageStays.com).• Nacho Quiroga Dressage, a horse riding school in Madrid, Spain (www.AulaEcuestre.com).

Worldwide, Oo

Madrid, Es

Madrid, Es

• Co-managed the investment portfolio of its startup accelerator Wayra (€30M), fund of funds (€90M), and corporate VC TEF Ventures (€70M).• Led the team responsible for investment sourcing, analysis, presentations to C-level committees, and deal negotiation and closing, as well as ongoing portfolio reporting, startup showrooms and investor meetings.• Selected investments in early-stage: Pixoneye, Swipii, NFWare, CinePapaya, Trocafone, Kubo Financiero, Qudini, Proradis; and late-stage companies: 4iQ (now Constella Intelligence), Satlantis, Sigfox.• Hired as a member of Telefónica’s 1st MBA Graduate Programme.

London, London, Gb

Growth VC fund with $600M AUM.• Performed deep-dive and due diligence of +3k companies in B2B sectors: enterprise, fintech, cloud-based/XaaS, big data, mobile, e-commerce, social, etc.• Assisted in the analysis and due diligence of potential investments, including Trademob.• Introduced an efficient screening process and led the implementation of a new CRM system.• Helped CFO prepare calculations for the biannual report and the fundraising materials.

New York, Ny, Us

• Assisted Fixed Income Credit desk by producing profit and loss and risk control reports as well as weekly update presentations for a portfolio exceeding £1bn in sales.• Managed and reconciled trading books, performed valuation tasks for FX hedging and reserves, price testing, risk control reporting.• Devised and implemented system efficiency projects (16 daily man-hours saving).

Worldwide, Oo

• Trained with Deloitte for ICAEW's ACA.• Managed IT and financial audit for clients including Vodafone, AOL UK, WPP, Paypoint, British Land and Itochu Europe, reporting directly to the audit partners.• Acted as the liaison between the UK and Spanish firms (across all levels up to partner) in relation to Santander Bank’s UK audit engagements (revenue in excess of £1m).• Designed operational procedures framework for Barclays' Global Retail Banking.• Secured partner buy-in to set up and manage the Deloitte UK Spain & Latam Group, involving the coordination of conferences, language buddy schemes, newsletters, and social events.

Gb

• Assisted in the development of the Nexagent System (multi-environment IP-VPN software)• Produced the support website, the system user manual and training documentation

• As part of the Department of Engineering Systems and Automation, designed and built a pneumatic-levitation positioning system, to remotely control the height of a ball suspended in a stream of air with advanced strategies of automated control.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Aca, Accounting, Business

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Telecommunications Engineering

B.U.P., Spanish Baccalaureate