Aquilino Pena

Aquilino Peña is the Co-Founder and Partner at Kibo Ventures since May 2011. Aquilino has been involved in the digital industry since the late 90s and has been involved in all areas of the Business, mainly ecommerce, online marketing and content. Aquilino has been an active Angel Investor and Advisor to a number of companies such as BaseKit (UK), Acierto.com, Matrix, Bodeboca, PayCo (Germany), Virtual Contenidos, Alice (US/España) amongst other relevant proyects. Aquilino's last corporate assignment was Chief Executive Officer of MediaEdge:cia for Spain and Portugal, the largest media buying agency of WPP in the region, which manages the marketing investment of over 500 clients in Spain and Portugal. Relevant clients include: Sony Ericsson, Chanel, Henkel, Visa, Paramount Pictures, Accenture, Toys R US. Before that, Aquilino ran all portal activities for Orange Spain, including e-care, E-shop and the large portal network managed by Orange in the Spanish language (up to 40 M monthly active users ). Aquilino started his career as a Consultant for The Bostron Consulting Group, wher he worked for the Madrid office and startedup the Sao Paulo office. Aquilino is well known and considered a key person in the European Internet arena. Aquilino has been Director and Member of the Board of the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA), Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB-Spain), Board Member of the Asociacion Española de Anunciantes (AEA) and Board Member of @adigital (formerly Spanish Ecommerce Association). Aquilino received an MBA from the Harvard Business School and holds a E-3 degree in Law and Business Administration from ICADE and is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Aquilino and Javier were classmates at ICADE and close friends since.