Daniel Sanchez is a General Partner at Nauta and is based in Barcelona.

He is the Operations Partner at Nauta, taking responsibility for finance, operations (M&A), internal management and special situations.

He has served at the Board of several portfolio companies and has been directly involved in the sale of several portfolio companies including Privalia and Social Point.

Daniel has been a member of the Board of Directors at the European Venture Capital Association (today InvestEurope). He was also a member of the board at Ascri, the Spanish VC&PE association.

Before co-founding Nauta, he acquired broad experience in M&A as well as in the management of consumer electronics firms.

For 10 years, he was also a M&A consultant at Alpha Corporate (a firm that currently belongs to Deloitte & Touche), where he provided consultancy services to multinationals on mergers, acquisitions and strategy. Following that, he was Deputy Managing Director of Taurus, a consumer electronics firm engaged in small electrical appliances.

He has worked as an assistant professor and collaborator at ESADE in the areas of Finance and Internationalisation of companies.

Daniel holds a degree in Business Sciences and an MBA from ESADE as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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