At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Catalonia based CFO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Jose Maria Hurtado
Group Chief Financial Officer of Mercator
Jose Maria Hurtado is the Chief Financial Officer at Accelya. where he is responsible for the financial management of the company and plays a key role in the definition and implementation of Accelya’s strategy. including mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Accelya in 2007. Jose Maria headed finance for Siemens VDO Automotive in Spain and France for more than 10 years. Jose Maria started his professional career at KPMG.
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About Accelya Solutions, Mercator: Mercator is a leading provider of software and tech-enabled outsourcing solutions to the global aviation industry.
Anna Daviau Toutain
CFO of Nauta Capital
Anna is Nauta Capital’s Chief Financial Officer, based in Barcelona. As part of her role, Anna oversees the Operations team which are in charge of the investment and divestment transactions and give financial and legal support to the portfolio companies. Additionally, Anna actively participates in the financial planning of the Group, as well as fundraising, investor relations, relationship with regulators (CNMV in Spain) and in the adoption of several measures to prevent money laundering. Prior to Nauta Capital, Anna worked for more than three years at Ernst & Young in the Transaction Advisory Services Department, in Paris. As a senior analyst, she carried out financial due diligence of mid-cap and small-cap companies for private-equity, venture capital and corporate clients. Anna graduated from ESSEC Business School Paris with a Master of Science in Management and a specialisation in corporate finance.
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About Nauta Capital: Nauta Capital is a pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in early stage technology companies.
Pau Fernandez
CFO of Factorial
Pau Fernandez is the Chief Financial Officer at Factorial HR. Previously held the CFO role at 5 other startups. He also crashed his own startup. Mr. Fernandez received a n EMBA from IESE
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About Factorial, Quipu, Zyfro: Factorial is a human resources software platform for small and medium companies that integrates vacation management and more.

Federico Bernades
Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of GreenPowerMonitor
Federico Bernades is the co-founder and chief financial officer at GreenPowerMonitor.
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About GreenPowerMonitor: GreenPowerMonitor provides monitoring, control and asset management solutions for renewable energy plants.
Alexander Kolev
Co-founder & CFO of HeleCloud
Alexander Kolev, Chief Financial Officer, has held a number of senior financial and operational roles at technology and telecom companies, including HP Bulgaria, Eurocom Cable, blizoo and the Chaos Group. He has also worked with Warburg Pincus and EQT for two big PE investments. Alexander supports the use of lean and agile methodologies and product thinking techniques for developing business solutions.
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About HeleCloud: HeleCloud provides strategic technology consultancy, engineering and managed cloud services on the AWS Platform
David Deprez
CFO & Head of Business Development of Worldsensing
David Deprez is an entrepreneur and advisor of fast-growing companies. His specialty is to transform vision into strategy, and raising the funding to execute it. He has led the raising of more than 20M€ of Venture capital over the past 10 years. He is currently CFO and Head of Business development of Worldsensing, a leader in end-to-end IoT solutions that is helping transform smart cities and operators of large remote infrastructures, such as mines, roads, bridges, tunnels, railways and power lines. After having accumulated experience as a technologist and strategist with Accenture in the UK and USA, he co-founded multiple companies including Infomesh and Gextech in the UK, and Chrysalis and Appically in Spain. David is also an angel investor and is fluent in 4 languages.
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About Worldsensing: Worldsensing is an IoT company specializing in sensing solutions for smart cities and industries with critical assets in remote locations.
Xavi Gonzalez
CFO and Co-Founder of Open Cloud Factory
Xavier is an IT engineer from the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona. After 16 years working on multiple IT projects, in 2011 Xavier began the project, founding Open Cloud Factory. Xavier is OCF’s CTO and leads the development team that is based, primarily, in Barcelona.
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About Open Cloud Factory: Open Cloud Factory is control solution, control and manage your enterprise network with a powerful solution.
Miquel Pintó
CFO of Padcelona SL
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About Padcelona SL: Padcelona – Event Tech Agency. We incorporate technology trends and shape them into emotions with innovative mobile solutions
Mercè Delgado
CEO & CFO of Fluendo
With extensive experience as CEO and CFO pertaining to the Management or Executive Committee. My experience as a member of the Steering Committee is to make strategic vision, business development and financial strategic decisions. My goal is to add value and thereby helping society to advance the business development an organization. I’m the CEO of Fluendo S.A, Spanish company leader in multimedia solutions and video analysis products based in the GStreamer framework. Before being General Director, I had already been Financial Director of the company, thanks to my experience in financial management and also in implementing strategic plans, both in multinational and family companies, I became CEO of Fluendo S.A on June 2015. Prior to this, I performed as CFO in leading international companies in industries like automotive, construction or textile industry, where I managed multidisciplinary teams. In this role, I was in charge of supervising financial areas ,business development, and maintenance of key business relationships with different investors located all over the world: Brazil, China, Italy, United States and France, among others. I majored in Business Studies by the Universitat of Barcelona and I have an extended experience in financial and business KPI management. In addition, I worked as a Finance Ops teacher in various public education institutions. Dynamic, with clear ideas and a great ability to work in teams, now I’m leading one of the biggest technology companies worldwide. In Fluendo, I’m in charge of a new phase characterized by encouraging intra-entrepreneurship and the development of new business lines. Taking care of people through my commitment with employee development, is the key of my leadership, which has materialized in a turnover of 3,3M euros , positive EBITDA of 32% and a team of 28 employees, that’s means 25% sales increase, 60% EBITDA increase.
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About : Fluendo creates software solutions using video as a tool and allows you to enhance your communication,
Vincent Jamier
CFO of Sens Solutions
Vincent Jamier is the chief financial officer at Sens Solutions.
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About Sens Solutions: Sens Solutions is an industrial comp[any that develops water and air monitoring systems.
Ricard Puigbo
CEO/CFO of Sailing Technologies
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About Sailing Technologies: Start up technological venture that creates & transfers high performance sailing technology to the consumer and industry markets