TEAM

Since 2009 we are organizing TEDxBarcelona events on a non-profit basis. Our goal is to use the TED platform to leverage, at a local and international level, projects and ideas related to the city. Do you want to support us? We continuously need sponsors and volunteers for our events. If you want to help us, please contact us.

Team of permanent volunteers

	José Cruset – Founder/host (content and sponsoring) Born in Germany, living since 2000 in Barcelona. Entrepreneur and hard-worker in the tech-field creating internet and mobile solutions. Since 2009 passionate license holder and organizer of TEDxBarcelona, TEDxBarcelonaSalon and TEDxBarcelonaLive, three non-profit events. His goal is to build a TEDx community in Barcelona bringing together smart and creative minds.
	Catarina Soares – Logistics
	Catalina Maldonado – Management/Coaching
	Ruben Piñero – Finance Contable canario afincado en Barcelona. Preocupado por las desigualdades sociales, la educación y el cambio climático. Apasionado de las ideas como agente de cambio y amante de la innovación. Cree en la misión de TED como transmisor de ideas capaces de transformar la sociedad en la que vivimos.
	Gustavo Gomez – Organization
	Patricia Chimeno – Communication
	Andrea Castañar Esteban – Management/speakers
	Angèle Biette –
	Miguel Benavent Miguel Benavent de B. (Barcelona, 1960). Consultor de empresa, formador y emprendedor. Coach, conferenciante y escritor. Especializado en la creación, organización y gestión, lanzamiento y consolidación de nuevos negocios sostenibles y éticos, basados en nuevos paradigmas, para la creación de valor social, además de económico.

Equipo de asesores y apoyo institucional

Alessandro Manetti – Adviser Founder and Director of the Istituto Europeo di Design IED Barcelona, leading school in design, visual arts, fashion and management since 2002. Global supervisor and coach for IED Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil since June 2013. Sociologist, who has dedicated over 20 years to fields related to design, fashion, communications, management, creativity, new trends and contemporary societies changes applied to education, investigation and projects.

Teresa Roig i Sitjar – Advisor and mentor