Team
Professionals with backgrounds in investment management, investment banking and capital markets, dedicated to connecting research and education.
Leadership and research
Academic Advisor
Ignasi Viladesau, CFA
Academic Advisor at IAAFI® and professor of Capital Markets Foundations: Equity and Fixed Income, the program IAAFI® delivers in collaboration with Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja.
His academic background combines engineering and management: he holds degrees in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and in Aeronautical Engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO, completed an MBA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is a CFA charterholder.
In the classroom he brings more than 15 years of experience managing investment portfolios for institutional and private clients, built at BlackRock, PIMCO, McKinsey & Company and J.P. Morgan. He is currently Chief Investment Officer at MyInvestor.
Director of Research
Pablo Ortega, MBA
Pablo Ortega, MBA, has more than 20 years of experience at leading companies in the financial sector, in investment banking and in the management of private equity and real estate funds in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, the United States and the United Kingdom. He is Director of Research at IAAFI® and, since August 2026, has served as Vice President at Terra Capital Partners S.A.S., an investment banking boutique focused mainly on infrastructure projects.
Over his career he has worked in investment banking and private equity, having previously been with J.P. Morgan, Credicorp Capital, GBS Finance, Nexus Banca de Inversión and Nexus Capital Partners (now Patria Investments).
He is an economist from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and holds an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Faculty
Professors of Capital Markets Foundations: Equity and Fixed Income. Capital Markets Foundations
Professor, Capital Markets Foundations
Ignasi Viladesau, CFA
Professor, Capital Markets Foundations
Jordi Sebastià Tomàs, CFA, CEFA
He has more than 10 years of experience managing equity portfolios. He currently works at Solventis and is an adjunct professor at CFA Society Spain. He previously worked at European asset managers such as Gesiuris.
He holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, a master's degree in Finance from the Institut d'Estudis Financers (IEF) and a master's degree in Financial Markets from the Universitat de Barcelona. He earned the CFA designation in 2022 and holds the Certified European Financial Analyst (CEFA) and European Financial Advisor (EFPA) certifications.
LinkedIn profile — Jordi Sebastià Tomàs (opens in a new tab)
Business development
Head of Business Development
Edwin Mauricio Sánchez
Edwin drives the development of IAAFI® partnerships with universities, institutions and professionals in the financial sector. His work focuses on identifying collaboration opportunities, connecting academic teams with new partners and extending the reach of investment education programs across Latin America.
Do you represent an institution or have a collaboration proposal? Let's talk about how to develop a joint initiative.
Phone and WhatsApp
+593 99 329 9510
References to professional and academic backgrounds describe individual past or current experience. They do not imply any relationship with, sponsorship by or endorsement of IAAFI® by the organizations mentioned.