Gary Taylor
Joaquín Coronado
Joaquín has got over 30 years experience in business management, telecom and restructurings throughout Europe, Latinamerica, and the USA.
Joaquín has advised corporates and private equity in Spain, Portugal, USA, and Latinamerica in M&A, mergers, carve-outs, operational and financial restructuring, and business improvement for over USD 30 Bn in transaction value. He has got extensive industry experience in energy & utilities, telecom & technology, and infrastructure.
Joaquín stated his career at Dow Chemical, then for 13 years he worked at Abengoa where he led as CEO the technology (Telvent, Nasdaq) and bioenergy business, being 10 years member of executive committee of the company until 2002. He lived in Spain, Mexico and the USA during these years.
Then he joined EDP (Energía de Portugal) where he was managing director and CEO of Hidrocantábrico, vice-chairman of Naturgas, chairman of the renewable business, board member of Telecable and Retecal, and board member in the TSO REE and the whosale market OMIE.
Joaquín then moved in 2005 to become managing director of ONO where he led the integration of ONO and Auna to form the lead telecom cable business in Spain (sold to Vodafone in 20214).
From 2009 until 2015, Joaquín was deals partner at PwC Spain and for five years until 2015 he led the advisory business (deals & consulting), and was member of the EMEA leadership team, and board member of PwC Advisory Americas appointed by the US firm.
In the 2016 -2020 period Joaquín has been an entrepreneur, becoming CEO of Altán Redes (Mexican 4G telecom company), and CEO of Taiyo (investment fund in solar PV in Japan), and CEO of Podo (lead retailer of electricity, gas, and home services in Spain), being founder of all these companies.
Vikas Bhatia
Vikas Bhatia is Head of Product for Azure Confidential Computing (ACC). Prior to ACC, Vikas led the Product team for Project Rome in the Windows Developer Platform team. He has also done stints on Cloud Game Streaming, Xbox One and the C++ Compiler in DevDiv.
