Openbravo: Board of Directors
Bob Mann - Chairman of the Board

For the last six years Bob has led a portfolio career with Chairmanships within the portfolios of 3i, Advent Ventures, Amadeus Capital, Alliance Trust and Scottish Equity Partners. Currently, he is Executive Chairman of RelayWare which is a SaaS application company specialising in partner relationship management (PRM) software and he sits on the advisory boards of Scottish Equity Partners, the venture capital firm, and First Capital, a technology corporate finance company.
Manel Sarasa - Vice Chairman

Prior to Openbravo, Manel worked in DiamondCluster International (now Oliver Wyman) and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). At DiamondCluster Manel recurrently advised CEOs of newly established telecom operators during their startup and post startup phases in four different continents.
Manel has a BS in Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and did his postgraduate studies at Stanford University and the London School of Economics. Manel speaks Catalan, Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Paolo Juvara

Paolo joined Openbravo in 2007 leading the product development organization and assumed the CEO role in November 2010.
Prior to joining Openbravo, Paolo was based in Redwood Shores, California, working for Oracle Corporation for over fourteen years in applications development. Most recently he was a Senior Director leading the development of the Service product line. He also held a broad range of development and management roles within Oracle's Applications business, including positions in the Financials, Supply Chain Management, CRM and Business Intelligence development teams. Paolo also worked in Paris, France, as part of Oracle's Globalization team.
Originally Italian, Paolo graduated from Politecnico di Milano with a degree in Electronic Engineering and a specialization in Software Engineering.
Jesper Balser

Richard Anton - Amadeus

Richard also serves as Chairman of the BVCA.
Prior to Amadeus, Richard worked as a management consultant, a hands-on finance and business development executive and a turnaround manager. Entering venture capital in 1994 he joined Apax Partners, where he made a number of early stage investments, the best known of which was software company Autonomy. Richard subsequently became director of business development and finance at Autonomy.
Richard holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA and MA in Mathematics from Christ's College, Cambridge. He speaks French.
Steven Coppens - GIMV

He joined GIMV from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he worked as a Consultant. During this period he mainly worked on international SAP implementations. Prior to that, he started his career as a Business Analyst for United Technologies Corporation in Paris. Steven holds a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Leuven and a Master from ESC Montpellier (France).

