Venture Associate, Finance & Accounting.
Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Business Economics, Assurance, Private Equity — CPA (Inactive), MBA, Virtual CFO, International, #web3

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Early Years

Grew up in Madrid, Dublin, and Geneva

Middle child with seven siblings

Son of a medical doctor and a packaging & logistics business owner

Fluent in Spanish and English, get by in French Ok

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School

Middle School
SEK International School
Madrid & Dublin

High School
Collège du Léman International School
Versoix, Geneva

BS in Finance, magna cum laude
Concentration: Financial Analysis and Investment Management
Scott College of Business
Indiana State University

BS in Accounting, BS in Economics
Concentration: Certificate in Public Accounting
W. A. Franke College of Business
Northen Arizona University

MBA
IE Business School
IE University

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Pre-Venture Associate Career

Indiana State University IT Department (three years): IT consultant, IT senior consultant, help desk, network management

Dba Roma Pizza Restaurants, Flagstaff, AZ (4 years): co-founder and co-owner , general management, food service management, lots of pizza making (sold)

Grant Thornton (1 year): assurance associate, financial auditor

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)(since 2009): Arizona Board of Accountancy, USA (non-active)

Eisner Amper (3 years): financial auditor, senior financial auditor, financial advisory, corporate finance associate

Family Office (4 years): financial controller, operations manager, real estate management, student-housing facilitator, hospitality & catering manager

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Back to school, IE Singapore Club 2011

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Dba Marte Martin Venture Associates

Venture Development X Financial Management

Started practice in 2014 managing the finance & accounting of a handful of new companies / startups. Since then, I have provided finance support to more than 20 companies in different industries, in Spain, UK and USA, often on an interim basis or on-demand (fractional) as a Virtual CFO -specialized in matching the finance function needs of new ventures, at martemartin.com/finance-services

Notable engagements include mundoestudio.es, soydata.net, thinkyoung.eu, monocle.com, kioskafe.com, startupguide.com, ciudadanos-cs.org, eu-startups.com, akora.com — priorly and as a CPA, engaged with dozens of companies in various industries while employed by firms Grant Thornton LLP and EisnerAmper LLP, mostly companies in the financial services sector in nyc

First Virtual CFO practice established in Spain and one of the first in Europe, with a focus in entrepreneurial finance

Financial models and unit-economics frameworks developed for numerous business-ventures that do work on the edge of product and business innovation

Assisted numerous companies with financing and fundraising, for both startups and investment-funds

Based in Madrid, and run pop-up bureaus in London and New York throughout the year

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Marte Martin Research and Articles

Guest writer and contributor for Think Young Think Tank, Startup Guide, EU Startups, HDMarte, and others (contact@martemartin.com for features)

Created applied market-research on hospitality & convenience retailing, publishing, data analytics talent, EU x youth talent, real estate tokenization, flexible living, and VR & sports

Provided with research and advisory on innovation & entrepreneurial ecosystems to various city halls and political campaigns in Madrid, included elected government to Madrid City Hall 2018 (current government)

Madrid, Spain