Helena Torras
Business Administration and Management graduate with MBA from ESADE, Spain. Currently working at Abiquo as Interim Manager & Partner.
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Website: | http://www.abiquo.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Travel |
| Skills: | Business, English, French, Languages, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Sales, Spanish |
| Location: | Barcelona |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Employment opportunities, Finding team mates, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company |
| Tags: | advisory, barcelona, business, cloud computing, management, startup, team, technology, Travelling |
| Schools: | McGill University |
FEATURED STARTUP
Abiquo
Abiquo
Open Source platform to build and manage private and public clouds.
With Abiquo’s platform companies can unify their IT resources in a private cloud and connect it to cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), GoGrid, RackSpace…
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Professional accustomed to business administration and management with an analytic view, directed toward achieving results. Capable of designing and managing changes, defining new methodologies and work systems. I consider myself to be a flexible and efficient person who is used to working in a team and making the most of synergies.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Abiquo |
| Position: | Interim Manager & Partner |
| Time period: | December 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Sector: Technology. Start-up that develops products based on Cloud Computing.
Position: Interim Manager & Partner Design and coordination of the strategic plan and roadmap of the company, Focused on raising the next round of funding. Additionally, development of the commercial strategy of the product. |
| Employer: | SARDomus (SAR Group) |
| Position: | Various positions |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Sector: Public health. Subsidiary of the Residential / Hospital SAR Group, with 30 centres in Spain.
SARDomus is the home division which offers public health services to the health insurance sector and for the public sector with an annual turnover of 6 million Euros and over 300 employees. 2007-Present. Position: General Manager. Main duties: – Designing the company’s strategic plans. – Designing the commercial strategy and commercial management with main clients. – Developing the growth strategy by means of an implementation process in the main markets throughout the whole country. 2006-2007. Position: Director of Organization, Projects and Administration. Main duties: – Implementation of the company’s strategic plans. – Negotiating with clients and suppliers. – Managing a team of 30 people. – Redefining and standardization of the company’s processes. – Designing and drawing up the outline of the company’s annual budget. – Creating, defining developing tools in order to automate administrative tasks. – Designing and drawing up the economic and operative managerial staff as well as reports for clients. – Devising a pricing system for clients as well as a variable compensation system for direct staff. Achievements: – 10% yearly increase of organic invoicing. – Improvement of the EBITDA of sales of 9%. – Greater efficiency in the administrative department, reducing staff costs by 10%. – Redesigning the rewards system of the staff according to the company’s strategic aims (improvement of labour relations and staff efficiency). – Effective integration of one acquired company. – Development of new business lines complementary to the core business and discontinuation or restructuring of loss-making business line or those with little added value. – Improvement of the company’s operative circuits. – Integration of the family-based company into the professional business policy of the SAR Group. |
| Employer: | PR&G Group |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2000 - November 2006 |
| Description: | Sector: Strategic consultancy. Management consultancy with an annual turnover of 1 € Euros and 15 employees.
Position: Consultant, carrying out projects in different sectors and fields within the company. Kinds of projects I have taken part in: Redesigning processes: – Assessment of current situation and identification of areas of improvement. – Description, redesigning processes and carrying out functions manual. – Developing management indicators and sizing of human and technical resources. Sector: Textile, Pharmaceutical, Public Sector, Distribution of Household Appliances, Manufacture and Distribution of alcoholic beverages. Achievements: – Reduction of delivery date from 6 to 2-3 days. – Increase of warehouse space by 16% due to reorganization of the physical distribution. – 30% stock reduction. – Time release equivalent to 3 workers by carrying out functions of added value. – Reduction of administrative incidents by 20% and administrative time per order by 44%, with the subsequent release of resources in order to put towards other functions. Revision and redesigning business plan: Analysis of competitive position, market tendencies and designing different future strategies. Designing an action plan and follow-up of its implementation. Sector: Hotels, Celebration of events, Cold storage, large-scale consumption. Achievements: – Definition and separation of business areas. – Re-approach of the initial client business plan with consequent cost savings. – Definition of the requirements of the product range for a channel of sales. Interim management I spent two years carrying out management support tasks in a company dedicated to distributing household appliances, with annual sales of 150 million Euros, a chain of 80 own shops and 150 franchises. The main functions I developed were the following: Head of Sales Planning: Coordination of the operative functions of the sales department made up of 8 employees. – Development of the planning strategy of the sales department. ⋅ Defining optimal levels and structure of stock. ⋅ Establishing a policy of stock rationalization. – Development of planning tools. ⋅ Rationalization of range and objective positioning. ⋅ Development of tools, indicators and management reports. ⋅ Manual of staff functions within the department. ⋅ Order tracking process. ⋅ Coordination of interdepartmental meetings (purchases / sales). Achievements: – Reduction of stock levels by 20% in three months and reduction of stock breakage by 40%. – Improvement of stock rotation and reduction of obsolete stock by 10%. – Reduction of supplier delivery lead-time from 23 days to 8 days. |
| Employer: | KPMG, Barcelona |
| Position: | Senior Auditor (Head of work teams) |
| Time period: | December 1997 - November 2001 |
| Description: | Sector: Financial Auditing
Cargo: Senior Auditor (Head of work teams) Carrying out financial audits and optimization of administrative and logistic processes for business in several sectors, such as multimedia, internet, computing, technology, distribution and large-scale consumption. Development and improvement of internal processes. |
EDUCATION
| University: | McGill University |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | international travel, digital photography, golf, cinema, reading novels
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| Memberships: | Vice-President of the CNI (New Initiatives Committee) Circle Ecuestre de Barcelona, plus a member of the Entrepreneurs Committee. |
Helena's Startups (1)
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Abiquo
Open Source platform to build and manage private and public clouds. With Abiquo’s platform companies can unify their IT resources in a private cloud and connect it to cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), GoGrid, RackSpace…
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3Tera
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Enomaly Inc
Enomaly provides the world's most widely-used enterprise cloud computing platform. Over 15000 companies use Enomaly ECP to operate a private enterprise cloud, and seamlessly bridge computing tasks between the datacenter and public cloud providers.
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Opinno, Open Innovation
Opinno is a business accelerator based in Madrid, Boston and San Francisco. We bridge technologies from seed to series A funding, providing the following services: Business plan definition, IP protection, CEO sourcing, and VC roadshows