Katharine is Canadian, and CEO at The Swala Institute and Swala Ventures, applied neuroscience for business and leadership. She served as the Academic Director of Executive MBA at Esade, and Senior Lecturer in Communication Strategy, Leadership & Applied Neuroscience at ESADE in Executive MBA, MBA, Emerging leaders, advanced management programs as well as in global governance and geopolitics She currently collaborates at IESE Business School, and as guest lecturer at Harvard Business School Executive Education.She is program lead in Corporate Programs in Microsoft Switzerland, Facebook & Amazon Pepsico, HP, Bayer, Hiberus, Agilent, Luxoft, Vanderlande, La Roche, SEAT, Novartis, REPSOL, FIA University Leadership Development and the EU Intellectual Property Office, summer program for Georgetown University, IESE & Hong Kong University, GB Foods, LEAR, among others.CORPORATE EXPERIENCEShe is a well-known program lead on Communication Strategy in Repsol Technology & Innovation Hub, La Caixa XXI, Barcelona Health Booster, Sant Juan de Deu, IDIBAPS D HEALTH, EIT Health Europe, Medtronic, EIT Innoenergy, Agilent, GMAT Europe, SME Instrument Horizon and in International Congresses such as The European Women in Technology, Lean In Network Barcelona, The STEM Women´s congress and The European Society of Women Engineers. She served as member of the Board of Directors at the ESADE Alumni Women Empowerment Club, and is member of the board of advisors at IS Global, Ejecon. She is a contributor to Forbes US, Harvard Deusto Magazine El Pais and Expansión.ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INVESTOR EXPERIENCEShe has vast experience as a Mentor in public speaking and deck pitch management. She has mentored more than 900 startups in the last 5 years. She is Mentor in-house for world class accelerators in Spain and the EU such as Conector, Nuclio, F10, La Caixa Premios XXI, Wayra SILO Innovation and Science,Ship2B ,Wayra SCALE Up Women, 5G The Thinx with the World Mobile Capital, & The IESE Women Bootcamp for Innovation in Health, Mentor at ESADE Business Angels Network, Mentor and Evaluator for EIT Health EU, IDIBAPS, CRAASH Barcelona Col.legi de Metges de Barcelona, Col.legi de Enginyers de Barcelona and Mentor with ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute. Speaker at STEM Women´s Congress and the European Society of Women Engineers, LeanIn network, and La Fundación Pascual Maragall. She is a Business Angel in tech start- ups at pre-seed and seed stages, raising +190 M € in public and private funds, bringing Neuroscience and Leadership to business.