Alberto Gómez

PhD. Economics and Business Administration

  Alberto Gómez has over 30 years’ experience as Business Manager, International Consultant, Coach and Trainer on Private Sector development, with expertise and experience on: 

• SME Innovation and Competitiveness
• Entrepreneurship and start-up ecosystems
• Technology-based SMEs and Digitalization
• Regional and Local development,
• Vocational Training and Human Capital
• Business Planning, Strategic Planning and Business Management
• Commercialization, Marketing and Sales. 
• Clustering Development                                                                                                                                                                    
• Mr Gomez holds a B Sc. in Business Administration by ESCE University, Alicante; a Sc. in Economics and Business Administration by ICADE, Business School, ICAI- ICADE Comillas University Madrid, Spain; and a PhD in Business and Economics by the Atlantic International University, USA.
• He started and for over 14 years developed his professional career in leading worldwide multinational companies for over a decade, such as Gillette, McCann-Ericsson, Kraft Foods or Phillip Morris, where he held senior management positions such as marketing director for Spain and Portugal.
•  In the last 20 years he has developed a career as Economic Development and Private Sector International Consultant, Manager and Trainer, working with the key International Financial Institutions such as the European Union, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and National Institutions like Municipalities, Chambers of Commerce and Trade, Investment Promotion Agencies, Regional Development Agencies, Multinational clients.

• Extensive Expertise as Team Leader and Key Expert in designing and managing complex multi-stakeholder projects involving national and local governments, independent institutions, and other civil society organizations, in over 20 countries.
• Experience in multi-stakeholders EU and other international Donors funded projects in the Balkans, with Ministries, RDAs, Chambers of Trade and Commerce, on SME innovation and competitiveness, RIS3 Regional development, Start-up and Entrepreneurship ecosystems, Digitalization , E-Learning, Human Capital capacity building among others.

 He is a member of the following professional organizations:

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing of the United Kingdom. 
• Member of the Association of Professionals of International Projects. Spain Chapter 
• Member of the European Charter of the International Association of Innovation Professionals

Mr. Gomez´s passions include the personal and professional continuous improvement, which involve transferring and exchanging knowledge and experiences with individuals for human capital improvement, individual freedom and society development. He enjoys keeping-up with the professional literature and advances in his fields of practice and well as enjoying family life, reading, films and sports, particularly golf and football.

Mr. Gomez is fluent in Spanish and English and has professional proficiency in Portuguese and French.