Carlos Serrano
Corporate Direction at Falabella Financiero | Global Shaper at WorldEconomicForum
ABOUT ME
Carlos Serrano is a results-driven business professional with experience in consulting, non-profit management and finance who undertakes complex projects, meets tight deadlines and delivers high-quality performance, always focusing on value creation. Carlos is passionate about exponential technologies, start-ups, innovation and adventure sports. Carlos honestly believes that besides his technical knowledge and experience, two things make him the ideal candidate for joining your team or project; they are persistence and adaptability. Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering; Master in European and International Business Management at Deusto Business School (Spain), Audencia (France) and Bradford School of Management (UK), and Executive programme in Project Finance at IE Business School. Member of the Global Shaper Community, an Initiative of the World Economic Forum, working in social projects to improve the city of Madrid.
T: +34 654 311 727 | E: carlos.serrano@globalshapersmadrid.org
MY MOTTO
Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth
Falabella Financiero
Corporate Direction
Aug 2018 – Present
Creation of the top corporate management department of MIS, Data Quality and Risk Projects. In addition to generating corporate frameworks, innovation and digital transformation projects have been carried out in different areas such as credit risk or debt recovery, which have made of the newly created department, a reference within the company.
Team leadership, management, and reference in the five countries where the business segments operate (Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina). Analysis of the different realities in each country and generation of added value at a regional level through the study of international risk regulations (IFRS9, Basel), without forgetting local regulations.
Examples of strategic projects have been the corporate risk data mart, which includes information of all risk areas (fraud, financial risk, portfolio, models, operational risk, debt recovery), as well as the implementation of decision-management platforms powered by real-time analytics and advanced decisioning logic to increase efficiency and automate the risk assessment flows (evaluation of the different credit bureau, financial system, fraud, etc.)
Several of the initiatives have been pioneering within the company, and sometimes at a regional level, using technologies based on cloud computing and AI solutions. Finally, highlight the participation in digital cells as Product Owner representing the corporate risk area and following agile work methodologies.
BNP Paribas
Project Manager
Feb 2017 – Jul 2018
Budget & Stress Testing Solution
BNPP Group has selected a Planning tool that is able to cover these business needs. The objective of implement this budget tool is to harmonize concepts and principles, guarantee data integrity, rationalize processes and architecture and increase efficiency gains. Budget planning and forecasts covering Liquidity, Profitability, Risk and Solvency indicators will be powered by an integrated platform. In addition, I am part of the team of experts in charge of supervising both the budgetary and allocation process related to expenses.
Santander Bank
Business Analyst
Sept 2015 – Feb 2017
Tracking system
Monitoring system which allows the user to visualize the E2E process of files issued by local entities to clients, being able to maintain control over them and to react, if necessary, in order to satisfy the clients’ needs.
Trade Banking Forex Exchange - Foreign exchange hedge
Definition of a new pricing model for foreign exchange hedge’s trading (spot, forward, American forward) for the buying process, advances, deferrals and defaults, by offering more competitive prices and according to each client’s needs.
Trade Banking Forex Exchange – Buying / selling currency
Definition of a new pricing model for the process of buying / selling currency banknotes between Banco Santander’s branches and Centralized Savings Banks.
Trade Banking Forex Exchange – AutoFX
Definition of a model which allows the transactional FX business to evolve in order to improve the service provided to customers, increase market share and make the internal management of operations more efficient, via the development of new services and optimization of current processes.
Global Shapers Community
Global Shaper @WorldEconomicForum & Madrid Hub Vice curator
Oct 2017 – Present
The Global Shapers Community (a World Economic Forum initiative) is a network of extraordinary individuals formed by more than 450 hubs all over the world and more than 5.5K shapers between 20 and 30 years of age. Shapers are highly committed to developing their leadership potential towards serving society, adhering to the highest standards of moral and intellectual integrity.
Trusted Translations
Translator EN - SP
Dec 2015 – Present
Leader in Translation and Interpretation Services
Trusted Translations, Inc. is an internationally recognized leader in multilingual translation and interpretation services with over 10,000 expert linguists and over 5,000 satisfied clients. Trusted Translations is the choice of Fortune 500 companies, top government agencies and non-profit organizations. With the ability to translate to and from over 200 languages, Trusted Translations is a full-service multilingual translation service provider. Trusted Translations has proven experience handling translation projects of all sizes and is a one-stop solution for any organization seeking superior translations at highly competitive rates.
Stealth Translations
Translator EN - SP / FR - SP / IT - SP
Jun 2016 – Present
As an international translation and interpreting company, Stealth Translations themselves on hiring the best employees, a stringent evaluation process, and an absolute necessity of professionalism. In this sense, I possess special expertise in such subjects as legislation, marketing, advertising and mass media, and I am also capable of translating technical documentation. The scope of my work includes:
Spanish Air Force
Internship
Aug 2013 – Sep 2013
Tasks accomplished during my stay at the Subdirectorate of Engineering were as follows:
Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Aerospace engineering fellowship
Sept 2013 – June 2014
I received a scholarship from the Chinese government and the UPM to carry out my master thesis "Pre-Design and Buckling Effect Analysis on a Fuselage with Honeycomb Sandwich and Aluminum Structure".
Higher Technical School of Aeronautical Engineers
Space Mission Analysis and Design specialist in meteorological satellite project
Feb 2013 – June 2013
Participation as Space Mission Analyst and Design Specialist (responsible for this subarea) in conducting a meteorological satellite in the subject Aircrafts and Space Vehicles II belonging to the 5th year of the Higher Technical School of Aeronautical Engineers. It consists in a teamwork new satellite development since its zero stage:
Volunteering experiences & Organisations
Generación del 78 Forum
May 2018 - Present
Generation of 78 Forum is an independent and plural association, composed of young professionals. It arises in 1999, with the desire of creating a meeting place for reflection and debate on political, economic, cultural and international issues that affect society in the 21st century. The objectives of the Generation of 78 Forum are defined by the will to spread the principles and values that underlie the 1978 Constitution. These values have been the pillars on which the society in which the youngsters of present-day Spain have grown up:
The UN Refugee Agency
July 2015
Volunteers provide critical support to UNHCR to carry out its mandate of providing protection, community services, durable solutions and implementing programmes that provide life-sustaining assistance to people who have been forced to flee. In addition, volunteers provide their services in areas such as refugee status determination, programme delivery and in administrative functions - information technology, logistics or communication. The UNHCR online volunteering service connects organizations working for the Sustainable Development Goals with volunteers eager to contribute to global progress using their time and skills online. Thousands of volunteers all around the world – professionals, students, retirees and expatriates – are working each day to advance development.
United Nations. Online volunteering
June 2014 - Feb 2015
I volunteer in the project ITdesk.info – project of computer e-education with open access and I contributed to the project, by translating following material:
The objective of the ITdesk.info project is, first of all, to provide a free computer education for everyone by means of modern knowledge transfer technologies, relating to fact that computer skills have become a fundamental necessity for modern businesses. Through the ITdesk.info project we aim to actively promote human rights to free access to information and education, to raise public awareness of the extension of the concept of literacy, which today includes the concept of digital literacy and to promote digital literacy.
TED Talks Translator
Sep 2016 - Present
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.
Projects
A selection of projects I have worked on
The mobile industry, coltan extraction and Congo. Are these companies socially responsible? How could their corporate responsibility be enhanced?
Coltan is mainly extracted in the DRC, possessing 80% of the worldwide reserves. Due to an atomized opaque supply chain, the mineral is highly revaluated and later sold all over the world. Instigated by the massive demand of multinational companies, armed conflicts arise frequently. In this connection, multinationals have implemented “DRC conflict free” Code of Conduct CSR programmes in an attempt to improve their corporate image and soothe the troubled situation in the African region. This mineral represents a key player in our technologically dependent lifestyles. Therefore, the purpose is to clarify and disclose information regarding coltan supply chain, focusing on mining and manufacturing industry players and coltan-related multinational companies, as well as their real CSR policies’ truthfulness.
Disrupt Spain
DISRUPT SPAIN is an initiative, which allows to bring the reality over of our country to young people through a bootcamp: a space where solutions and innovative points of view are generated to promote the well-being of the entire community.
With the development of this project, the Global Shapers Community born out of the World Economic Forum along with the non-profit foundation Soñar Despierto, seek to support society to build both a fairer world and future with equal opportunities for everyone.
The non-profit foundation collaborates in the social integration of minors and young people living in reception centres and care homes coming from marginal environments and dysfunctional families via an educational project.
First place LEEM UPM Engineering Competition
The students of the Aeronautical Schools of the Technical University of Madrid will be able to register in this competition, which begins with an introductory theoretical session to explain the basic concepts necessary for the manufacture and flight of this technology. Next, the participants will shape their ideas and build their devices. This first phase of introduction and manufacturing will take place during two work sessions of 4 hours each.
But the competition goes beyond the mere theory and the construction of the micro rocket, since the participants will put them into operation and check the parameters of their design in a specific mission. It will be then when they will move to the Illescas airfield for the launch phase.
The World is Wine
TheWorldIsWine is a series of practical events, based on mentoring and coaching, where other entrepreneurs and people who have already faced certain situations will shepherd people to guide and shape their future. In addition, all our events will be paired with the best wines of Spain.
Each event is an exclusive opportunity to talk about personal development, entrepreneurship, how to change your life or how to launch a project. Even if each event is one-off ceremony, they will always share the same objective; find your inspiration and your enrichment.
Speakers, from many fields, will tell us their experiences from their personal and unique point of views: StartUps, travelers, mass media employees, public figures, volunteers, etc. Always related to the main theme, all attendees can present their doubts, ideas, projects or experiences.
ReUse2Learn
Every year thousands of electronic devices from corporations in Spain are becoming obsolete and need to be replaced by newer ones. Unfortunately, the majority of the fully functioning devices are either thrown away or recycled, without being used again before the end of their life cycle.
On the other hand, many non-profit organisations are in need of such devices for their projects or operations but they might not always have connections to companies with spare devices that could be recuperated. The ReUse2Learn project aims to match the corporate donors and the non-profit organisations in order to increase awareness about e-waste and collect used electronic devices from companies to deliver them to schools and social institutions to favor the most needed.
The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative
The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) builds linkages between young leaders across the hemisphere. YLAI addresses the opportunity gap for youth, especially women, by empowering business and social entrepreneurs with the training, tools, networks and resources they need to transform their societies and contribute more fully to economic development and prosperity, security, human rights and good governance in the hemisphere.
CLOAER MapSat
The climatological study is a laborious task that must rely on models and calculations that help to predict the performance parameters of the different meteorological phenomena. The climatological models are grouped under different purposes depending on the object of the studies, being the most common those in which atmospheric factors or movement of the oceans are analyzed. These models are known as global climatic models (GCM), and their scientific interest is growing due to the incipient global awareness regarding climate change.
The tendency to obtain a reliable model followed in recent years for investigations of this type requires the use of Earth observation satellites. The CLOAER MapSat mission (CLOud & AERosol Mapping Satellite) has, as main objective, the collection of enough data for building a global climate model and to improve the understanding of the interactions between clouds and aerosols with solar radiation, in order to make models numerical weather forecasting.
CYBERSECURITY IN THE ENERGY SECTOR: An Introduction
The energy sector is globally recognized as an industry of special importance to the National Security since it preserves basic rights, freedoms, the social welfare system for all citizens and it ensures the provision of essential services and resources as well. The generation and distribution of energy is a crosscutting activity that affects the entire functioning of a country offering competitive advantages within global markets. Operators of these services and companies dedicated to developing solutions for their own protection believe that the greatest risk comes from the side of information security, because that is precisely the most vulnerable aspect of infrastructures.
Structural design is of critical importance to aircraft safety, costs and performance. The overall cost is related to the structural design in many complex ways, but typically aircraft end up costing between 350$ and 850$ per kg. In addition to its major and direct impact on cost, the aircraft structural weight affects performance. Every kg of aircraft structure means one less kg of fuel when the take‐off weight is specified.
Before the structure can be designed, the loads that will be imposed on the aircraft must be determined. Each part of the aircraft is subject to many different loads. In the final design of an aircraft structure, tens of thousands of loading conditions may be examined. In addition to the obvious load categories, such as wing bending moments due to aerodynamic lift, many other loads must be considered. These include items such as inertia relief (the inertial forces that tend to reduce wing bending moments), landing loads, pressurization cycles on the fuselage, etc.
This project analyses the pre‐design, linear static, modal and buckling effect analysis on a fuselage with honeycomb sandwich and aluminium structure in a specific flight case given by the flight envelope.
Education
IE Business School
Executive program in Project Finance
Bradford School of Management
European and International Business Management (2014-2015)
Deusto Business School
European and International Business Management (2014-2015)
Audencia Business School
European and International Business Management (2014-2015)
Technical University of Madrid
Aerospace Engineering (2007-2014)
Skills
Things I have picked up over the years
Public Speaking
Agile Project Management
Microsoft Office
Leadership
International Finance
Social Awareness
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