Luis Pardo

Luis is an executive and businessman who has been developing his activity in international companies linked to innovation for more than 30 years.

He graduated Summa Cum Laude BA from EU University. He holds an MBA from EADA, and an EMBA from IESE. As a long-life learner, he has also studied other masters and programmes in several topics, like the Executive Master in Internet from ISDI, Master in Board Directors from ESADE, IA Programme from MIT, Sustainability for Corporations Programme from Oxford, among others.

Luis has worked on the tech sector for 30 years in different companies. He has been the CEO of Sage Iberia, where he worked for 20 years. During this period, he strongly contributed to transform the company into the cloud market software leader for SMEs in Europe.

Luis is a Board member of the AMETIC Executive Committee, the EADA Business School Board of Trustees, is enrolled in the Advisory Council of Competitiveness at CEOE Association, and he has been the President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain until this year.

He has been recognized and received several awards for his work in the competitive transformation business and SMEs through innovation and technology, such as the Executive of the Year, awarded by Capital Magazine (2021), CEO of the Year (2020) from the CEO Club Spain, and has received the Gold Medal in Business Contribution from the European Association of Economy and Competitiveness (2018), was announced CEO of the year by the newspaper LaRazon (2017) and holds many other awards.