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Experience & Background
Javier leads the business development and growth efforts at The Climate Board across Europe. He has over 20 years of experience developing markets. He spent the majority of his professional career at CEB, a best practice research firm now part of Gartner, where he advised executive teams in finance, human resources, technology, operations, and sales. At CEB, he was the first executive in EMEA awarded a full MBA scholarship as part of the high potential program to promote future Managing Directors and General Managers. More recently, he has led the business development efforts across Southern Europe for Miller Heiman, now part of Korn Ferry. Javier is a firm believer in the environmental impact firms can make on future generations and is passionate about the transformational role corporate leaders in this area.
Javier received his bachelor's degree in economics from Universidad de Deusto-La Comercial and has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.