JORGE LÓPEZ MORENO
Mr. López Moreno founded Liceo Capital Advisors after several years of experience as investor and management positions in London and Madrid, and having participated in investments and projects in UK, USA, UAE, Canada and Switzerland.
Prior to Liceo Capital Advisors, Mr. López Moreno was Investment Director and Partner at Poniente Capital Ventures, a Madrid-based mid-market investment platform, where he was in charge of sourcing investment opportunities, analysis, negotiation and execution of deals. He was also heavily involved in fundraising. Before Poniente Capital Ventures, Mr. López Moreno was an Investment Associate at GSP Capital, a London-based Family Office. He has also worked for global private equity funds such as H.I.G. Capital, with more than USD 30 bn. of assets under management, and collaborated with the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, with more than USD 350 bn of assets under management – CPPIB – on specific projects. He started his career as a process engineer at Nestlé in Switzerland. Mr. López Moreno has also assumed general management responsibilities, as interim CEO, at certain companies his funds invested in, and manage aggressive value creation plans for investors.
Mr. López Moreno is a graduate in Industrial Engineering from ICAI (Excellence diploma and scholarship from the city of Madrid), has a M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL (awarded the Zanelli prize for his Master thesis research work), and has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was appointed by the Finance Unit faculty as tutor for first year Finance students.
