Eduard Viladesau
Eduard is a first-year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is building WaveWater to bring off-grid, wave-energy-powered desalination systems to developing countries with water scarcity.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Website: | http://www.wavewater.net |
| Industries: | Cleantech |
| Skills: | Business, Engineering, Entrepreneurship |
| Location: | Boston, MA |
| Groups: | Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) |
| Interested in: | Finding business partners, Finding mentors, Getting press, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback |
| Tags: | clean tech, south africa, water, Wave Energy |
| Schools: | Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausees, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluna |
FEATURED STARTUP
WaveWater
WaveWater
WaveWater builds cost-effective, localized, scalable desalinization systems powered by wave energy for installation in developing countries, making it profitable to create fresh water where it is critically needed.
- Startup type: Competition Entry
- Status: Active
- Stage: Prototyping
FULL BIO
Eduard is a first-year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He pursues his interest in entrepreneurship as a member of Sloan’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. Prior to Sloan, Eduard was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, where he forged his strategic, financial and communication toolbox. He did strategy and implementation with clients in energy, private equity, real estate, and retail and private banking. Previously, Eduard led a a civil engineering team specializing in port facility and coastal engineering projects, gaining technical knowledge in these areas. Eduard holds an MSc in Civil Engineering from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Family Solar Plant, Valencia, Spain |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | • Turned my family’s unprofitable orange grove into a solar farm yielding $50k/year
• Sought and found an investor who would rent our terrain, install the solar panels, and sell the electricity to the grid |
| Employer: | The Boston Consulting Group, Barcelona, Spain |
| Position: | Associate Consultant (selected clients) |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Energy
• Shaped retail strategy for gas incumbent utility facing liberalization of Spanish gas market • Achieved 10% improvement in retail client retention and share of wallet Private Equity • Conducted due diligence of a Spanish electrical wholesaler targeted by Private Equity firm • Identified growth and market concentration initiatives to double EBITDA in 3 years Real Estate • Proposed a $200M international diversification plan for a Spanish real estate developer facing the looming crisis, while optimizing liquidity requirements • Built a $1,600M, 10-year business plan for the starting real estate division of a Spanish theme park evolving into an integrated resort operator Private and Personal Banking • Designed the international growth strategy of an Andorran Private Bank, targeting +$7B AuMs and +$60M profits in 5 years through acquisitions and increases in share-of-wallet • Implemented the Personal Banking channel in a Spanish savings bank, resulting in +25% actively managed assets within existing client base |
| Employer: | Europrincipia, Consultores Asociados, Barcelona, Spain |
| Position: | Structural and Geotechnics Engineer |
| Time period: | December 2003 - November 2006 |
| Description: | Spanish civil engineering firm, specializing in design and calculation of infrastructures and port facilities
• Participated in wind tower design projects and in port facility design and construction projects • Hired and trained a team of 3 to draft tunnel projects, building this new capacity for the company • Enabled my firm’s soil-testing lab to enter the foundation design market, by providing foundation calculations to the test results initially provided by the lab • Proposed and calculated a new structural solution for a multi-modal transportation station in Spain, increasing the project’s profitability by +$6M |
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2010 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluna |
| Time period: | 1998 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Civil Engineering, MSc |
| University: | Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausees |
| Time period: | 2001 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Civil Engineering, MSc |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Federated Volleyball team captain, played for 14 years |
| Clubs: | VP Entrepreneurship, Energy & Environment Club; VP Events, Venture Capital Club |
| Awards: | Gold Medal in Spanish Physics Olympiad and Chemistry Olympiad; Bronze Medal in Mathematics Olympiad
MIT 100k Executive Summary Contest track winner with WaveWater, a cleantech-water company |
Eduard's Startups (2)
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WaveWater
WaveWater builds cost-effective, localized, scalable desalinization systems powered by wave energy for installation in developing countries, making it profitable to create fresh water where it is critically needed.
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WaveWater
WaveWater builds cost-effective, localized, scalable desalinization systems powered by wave energy for installation in developing countries, making it profitable to create fresh water where it is critically needed.
