About Oscar Villanueva
Goals
Entrepreneurship, Boost, Illusion, Enjoy, Have Fun, dealing with people and creating value
Looking for passion at work, fascinated by driving strategic innovation within the organizations & managing by doing
Profile and skills
• Founder & Board Member of ARRECIFE and NOWAVE
• Entrepreneur love thinking and creating new energy businesses and networking.
• 14 years in Oil & Gas managing productive plants and company assets, leading teams and managing P&L, taking strategic decisions and investments.
Professional Experience
• Participant at Cleantech Open NorthEast with ARRECIFE in Boston (MASS). 2017.
• Development ARRECIFE Project at Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) Boston (MASS). 2017.
• Business Angel from Technova's Entrepreneur Investor Exchange (EIX) network and INNOBAN Business Angel network. Since 2016.
• Startup Mentor collaborating with Lasalle Technova (Barcelona) being part of AMCES (Spanish mentoring association). Since 2016.
• Founding partner marine renewable energy startups: NOWAVE Engineering Solutions (Failed) and ARRECIFE Energy Systems (on track).
• REPSOL. Integrated International Gas Company.
PETRONOR. (Bilbao). January 2018-Now. New Ventures Manager. Creating the new strategy, team, ecosystem and innovative businesses to increase the profits and resilience of the company in the future.
Plant Manager. (Bilbao) .October 2016-July 2017. Managing the operations, human resources, CDR and investments of the plant with a budget of about 10MMEuro and 33 workforce. Focus on improving safety, promoting quality operations and improving the social climate, improving energy efficiency and the environment. Achievements: transition from ERE, incorporation 40% of new 2016-2017 template and incorporation of new logistic zones without accidents.
Plant Manager. (Saragossa). March 2012-October 2016. Managing the LPG packaging, storage and distribution operations in Aragón and areas of: Soria, Navarra and La Rioja. Achievements: Automotive Gas Storage in Aragón, Recovery of packaging of the competition, Training and collaboration with Firefighters and 112 on safety in case of emergency with gases. I managed the process of closing and deactivating the plant with an ERE in October 2016.
Chief Construction and Maintenance. (Bilbao). February 2009-2012. Leading and coordinating the Engineering and Maintenance of LPG facilities in the Basque Country, Cantabria, Navarra, La Rioja and Aragon. Achievements: implementation of LPG facilities in more than 30 towns, some with more than 1000 clients (Lekeitio, Urnieta, Benasque, Ampuero, Nájera).
Construction and Maintenance Engineer. (Barcelona-Tarragona). July 2005-2009. Coordinating in the field the construction works of LPG facilities in Catalonia. Some facilities: Vielha, Roses, València d'Àneu, Baquèira Beret, Camprodon.
• Pump System for Building, S.A. Company dedicated to civil works.
March 2005 - July 2005: Chief Engineer. Works: Water treatment plant and Prat Airport (T1).
• Codime Material Eléctrico, S.L. Distribution of electrical equipment.
May 2004 to March 2005: Sales Engineer. I’d expanded the customer base by 20%.
• Saktec Robotics, S.L. Industrial robots programming company.
July 2003 to May 2004: Industrial robots programming. VW (Seat Altea) & GM (Ford Focus).
Training
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Executive Education
Driving Strategic Innovation-Boston (Massachusetts). 2017.
• MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge Start Smart classes-Boston (Massachusetts). 2017.
• Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) - Boston (Massachusetts). 2017-2018.
• IESE's Management Development Program (PDD). 2014. Vice-president of the promotion.
• Executive MBA from the University of Barcelona. UB. 2009-2010.
• Superior Engineering on Industrial Organization. UPC. Terrassa. 2005-2009.
• Industrial Technical Engineering specialty in Electricity. UPC. Barcelona. 2001-2004.
Special Training
Business Angel training at EIX Technova de Lasalle
Derivatives: Futures and Options at Instituto Estudios Bursátiles IEB(24 hours).
Company Analyzing and Valuation.
Financial Instruments and Markets (16 hours).
Startup Rating and Launch (35 hours).
Strategic Analysis of the Environment at Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles IEB(16 hours).
Languages
Spanish, Catalan, French (B1), English (C1).
Hobbies
Volunteering: social & environmental impact projects. Startup Mentoring.
Mountain and snow. Underwater spearfishing. Motor racing. Golf. Gym.