Francisco Hernandez Marcos

Born in Madrid, 1973. Francisco graduates as "Mechanical Technical Engineer" (1995) and as "Industrial Engineer" (1999) at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Also, Francisco gets 3 courses of Business Administration at the Open University of Spain (UNED). After fellowships at SAINCO-Abengoa (1998) and Microgénesis (1999) Francisco joins McKinsey&Company (2000) as consultant (Business Analysts), where he mainly enrols in projects related to the financial services industry.


To finance his studies abroad Francisco was awarded two scholarships: Caixa-British Council (2001) and Fundación Rafael del Pino (2003). In 2004 he graduates as MBA (Maj: Finance) at the London Business School, having exchanged a term at University of Chicago and having worked as Summer Intern at Dutch Bank ABN-AMRO (Investment Banking BU). Additionally, Francisco has been awarded with a PriceWaterhouseCoopers scholarship to course a master program in e-commerce at University of Navarra (declined) and a Fundación Caja Madrid scholarship to attend a seminar about European Finance and Banking at the London School of Economics.

After graduating Francisco founded Crisalia Servicios Financieros, a financial services broker for particulars specialised in mortgage products.

Francisco was elected student representative at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, co-chair of the Spanish Club at the London Business School, and representative of Fundación Rafael del Pino Scholars Association. Currently he spends part of his time interviewing candidates for the London Business School, managing a micro-loan program for immigrants (Caritas Madrid), and coordinating an entrepreneurship forum called suscipe.net.

In his free time, Francisco enjoys mountain-biking, supports Scudería Ferrari in F1, or watches good, independent movies, especially if they are Argentinean.

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