Alex Collart

Alex is a Partner at Cartagena Capital, based in Barcelona, Spain. He has more than 15 years of international experience in the telecom, technology and media markets as venture capitalist, entrepreneur, senior executive and consultant.

Alex has been involved in setting up a venture fund focussed on technology and has led several investments for one of the largest media Spanish groups. He has also been raising funds for several emerging companies and has been involved in multiple M&A transactions.

As an entrepreneur, Alex has successfully started up or acted as a business angel in several companies, such as Management Consulting firm Valoris (sold to French Consulting Group Sopra) or Internet real estate search engine Nestoria.

Alex has been Managing Director of Grupo Planeta’s Direct Channels Unit, reporting to the Group CEO, being responsible for over €350m in revenues and co-leading acquisitions of digital media and e-commerce companies for over €200m.

Prior to this, Alex has developed his professional career at McKinsey, JP Morgan, Accenture, DiamondCluster (now OliverWyman) as investment banker and management consultant including assignments for companies such as BT, Orange, Lucent and Vodafone.

Alex holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña and an MBA from IESE Business School, Barcelona/Spain. He is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

alex (at) cartagena-capital.com