Ricardo De Vicente is a Freelance Consultant advising startups in the fields of Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship. He has worked as a Senior Consultant in Transactions Advisory Services – Corporate Finance in an international renowned consultancy firm. He also worked in Sales & Strategy for BMW Group, as Management Associate in its Global Leader Development Programme, both in BMW’s Headquarters in Munich and in its Spanish Sales Company in Madrid.

Prior to that, he worked in Shanghai for IAESTE, negotiating contracts and partnerships with companies, associations, Consulates, Embassies and Chambers of Commerce in China Ricardo studied Aeronautical Engineer in Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universität Stuttgart, and has a Master of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Being fully engaged in the startup ecosystem, he has been involved in the development of many of them, he has been awarded two full scholarships by the European Institute for Entrepreneurship and the Founder Institute, and has been constantly progressing through entrepreneurship experience and formal coursework.

His experience and specialties include: strategy definition, planning and implementation, business and marketing plan modelling, sales and financial projections, business intelligence, market research and identification of opportunities, competitors analysis, fund raising, operational alignment, compensation and incentive plans, performance and general management. Among other side projects and achievements, he is mentor at AMCES (Spanish Association of Mentoring and Consultancy in Entrepreneurship, Startups and Social Economy), he has been selected as Talent in Asociación Celera (Fundación Rafael del Pino), he co-developed an award-winning business plan at “Actúa UPM” Start-up Competition, member in different Commissions of the Model European Parliament in Spain and Slovenia, member of the Airbus’ Aircraft Design Competition winning team and presentation at Airbus Future Project Offices in Hamburg.