Rosa Cañadas brings more than 25 years of experience in Capital Markets and M&A, specializing in global investment opportunities.
Her multilingual career spans Morocco, France, Portugal, Italy, the United States and Spain. It includes experience on the Capital Markets team at Crédit Agricole (one of France's leading financial groups, with more than €2.5bn in assets and around 54 million customers) and on the M&A team at Groupe Hachette (France's largest listed publishing group, with revenues of ca. €9.6bn and a valuation exceeding €1.5bn).
In addition, Rosa is Chairwoman of ACORFI (the Spanish Association of Corporate Finance Firms) and maintains a strong track record in social impact, most notably the founding, in 2006, of Fundación Tanja, a think tank that promotes opportunities for Spanish companies in Africa and the Mediterranean and fosters female entrepreneurship in the region.
Rosa holds a Master's in Markets and Financial Techniques and a degree in Economics and Business Administration, both from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP). She also holds a Master's in Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies from HarvardX.