Rocio Pillado Lopez

Partner

2019 - Current

Venture capital firm, managing €180 million in capital, and dedicated to investments in early-stage Deep Tech companies across Europe. Focus on European companies targeting the Digital Enterprise, particularly those that leverage the excellent and efficient engineering talent available in Spain, Portugal & UK.

Principal

2016 - 2018

Associate

2013 - 2015

Academic Director, Advanced Venture Capital

2021

Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship

2018

Co-Founder

2011

Leading online community about graduate programs in Spanish.

Project Manager & Front Office Software Engineer

2008 - 2011

Business: Equity Derivatives and Fixed Income sales & trading desks - Managed and worked on several trading and sales application projects for different business lines to drive revenue growth - Led project to handle mid/low frequency trading strategies, increasing trading frequency and daily trading volume while decreasing operational risk - Implemented processes in accordance with compliance standards to manage cash flow pricing, statistics and deals for sales in structured financial notes - Automated and improved trade reporting for non-electronic trades on listed options and stocks preventing rule violations, reporting failures and manual errors - Secured trading applications to prevent trading loss incidents due to rogue traders by redefining and implementing a new authentication architecture

Research and Software Development Engineer

2008 - 2008

Leading provider of open, secure software for smart cards, terminals and consumer devices

Security Engineer

2007 - 2007

Designed and implemented a security and monitoring system using free software (Internship)