Cristian Abelló
Managing Partner
Cristian Abelló is a Managing Partner of Firmum Capital. He takes an active part in both the management of the firm, dealing with partners and key investors, and in the investment committees and portfolio management.
Cristian has over twenty years’ experience in finance, analysis and investment in public and private-sector companies, as well as on the Boards of Directors and management committees of some of these.
As Corporate Director in Torreal, one of Spain’s leading investment firms and one of the best known in Europe, he oversaw more than fifty transactions, including take-overs, capital investments, recapitalisations of companies and purchases of loan portfolios, for sums of over EUR 1.7 billion.
Cristian continues to sit on Torreal’s Board of Directors. Prior to that he had a seat on the Board of Directors and the management committee of Saba Infraestructuras, one of Spain’s leading companies in car parks and real estate logistics. Similarly, he has been a member of the board on companies such as Aston Martin, Talgo, CIE Automotive, Famosa and Banca Leonardo, and a member of Rothschild FAPI’s investment committee.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Suffolk University (Boston) and an MBA from IE (Instituto de Empresa, Madrid). Cristian was Associate Director in Inversiones Ibersuizas and an analyst with GBS Finanzas, SBC Warburg and UBS Securities.
Bernardino Díaz-Andreu
Managing Partner
Bernardino Díaz-Andreu is a Managing Partner de Firmum Capital. He takes an active part in the management of the firm and in the private capital portfolio investment and management committees.
Díaz-Andreu has over twenty years’ experience investing in private firms in a range of sectors, including car parks, logistics, automotive industry, fashion, toys, the audiovisual industry, retail, finance and services. He was head of the corporate investment department in Torreal, where he worked for nearly 13 years. From that position he led the execution of transactions worth more than EUR 1.7 billion, achieving very attractive returns.
In the same capacity he was a member of the Boards of Directors of a wide range of private companies in different sectors such as Saba Infraestructuras, Pepe Jeans, Hackett, CIE Automotive, Autometal, INSSEC and Famosa.
He has a degree in Business Administration from the Autonomous University of Madrid and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and is a member of YPO Madrid. Previously he was a consultant with McKinsey, and held down positions in the investment divisions of 3i Group and Merrill Lynch.
Fernando Pire Abarca
Managing Partner
Fernando Pire is a Managing Partner of Firmum Capital. He takes an active part in both the management of the firm and in the investment and management of the infrastructure area, particularly car parks, which he manages through APK Gestión de Aparcamientos.
Fernando has nearly thirty years of experience in senior management positions in the infrastructure and energy sectors. During this time, he has been directly involved in financing, managing and bringing to fruition projects in Spain and abroad, as well as running day-to-day operations.
He has held the posts of Business Development Director and General Manager of the car park division in Isolux Corsán, which he managed and developed to become one of the most important sector players in Spain, with over 50 establishments and 27,500 parking spaces in total.
He has a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Oviedo and an MBA from Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile. Before his time with Isolux Corsán he was the General Manager of Energy in Radiotronica for ten years, heavily involved in LatAm business development (Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Puerto Rico) and Portugal. He is a member of the management board of the Spanish Car parks & Garages Association (ASESGA).
INFRASTRUCTURE
Dolores Viejo Gonzalez
Operations Director
Dolores Viejo has been Car Park Operations Director since July 2015. She has 20 years of experience managing and operating this type of infrastructure and has worked for some of the best-known managing and operating firms in the sector, Metropark, Acciona and Isolux Corsán, where she has always hadresponsibility over car park management and operations.
Dolores Viejo has a technical civil engineering degree, specialising in transport, traffic and urban services, from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, UPM.
Raúl Vera Martínez
Finance & Administration Director
Raúl Vera has been Finance & Administration Director since July 2015. He has close to 20 years of experience in administration, financial and cost control, structured project and treasury financing, in companies with links to infrastructure businesses, combined heat and power generation, industrial plant and car park concessions.
Prior to joining APK Gestión de Aparcamientos, which belongs to the funds managed by Firmum Capital, he spent most of his professional career in leading administration and control positions in sectors such as concessions, energy and infrastructures in Isolux Corsán, where he oversaw finance and administration in the car park concession business.
He has a degree in Business Administration and an Executive Master in Finance from IE Business School.
Nuria Corcuera Alday
Quality Director
Nuria Corcuera has been Director for Quality & the Environment since the beginning of 2016. She has 20 years of experience in sales roles, business expansion as well as responsibility for quality, the environment and occupational risk prevention.
Currently she works closely with APK Gestión de Aparcamientos’ business development department, in negotiating and analysing the special investments of this company that belongs to the funds managed by Firmum Capital.
Nuria has spent most of her professional career in positions with links to environmental, concession and infrastructure businesses in SVAT, a subsidiary of FCC, and in TMMA, a company that markets environmental equipment. After this she moved to Isolux Corsán in that firm’s infrastructure and concessions areas. In Isolux Corsán car parks division she headed up quality control, environment and occupational risk prevention.
Nuria studied law at Madrid’s Complutense University.
INVESTMENTS
Estanislao Jasinski
Investment Director
Estanislao Jasinski has been Investment Director of Firmum Capital since 2015. He has over 15 years’ experience in the financial sector, having spent some of that time in London, where he worked in the investment banking division of UBS for 5 years.
Before joining Firmum Capital he occupied the position of Executive Director in charge of UBS’ Corporate and Real Estate advisory team in Spain and was also a member of their Global Transaction Approval Committee.
With a degree in European Business Administration from Pontificia de Comillas University (ICADE–E4), Estanislao Jasinski is a specialist in corporate and financing operations, with significant exposure to assets in the infrastructure and real estate sectors.
Carl Söderberg Cuenca
Associate to the Investment Director
Carl Söderberg has been an Associate in Firmum Capital since the end of 2015. He has 5 years of experience in the areas of shareholder disclosure and reporting to investors. In Firmum Capital he also prepares investments, cash flow analysis, portfolio assessment and analysis of new opportunities.
With a degree in Law and Business Administration from Pontificia de Comillas University (ICADE-E3), before joining Firmum Capital, Söderberg worked in the M&A boutique Sigrun Partners.
