Catalina has 17 years of international consulting experience with McKinsey & Company, where she built a strong reputation for long lasting impact in large (often public) companies which she helped transform; her spike was in the media and transportation & logistics sectors. After McKinsey she gained 7 years entrepreneurial and executive experience with a start-up and with the Special Olympics European Eurasian Summer Games. She has a deep understanding of both corporate and entrepreneurial environments. For the last years she has been active as an angel investor in NY, as an advisor to start ups, and to corporates on their digital transformation. She recently launched programs with the government of Flanders and the EU to select and scale European start-ups in the US. She holds a degree in business engineering from the University of Brussels (VUB) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

‍