Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Shalion
Location Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Germán Loewe is a serial entrepreneur with a special instinct to scale tech startups into successful global businesses. Before founding Shalion, he founded and was the CEO of Netquest, a digital consumer-data company that employs over 350 people in more than 12 countries worldwide and that has been in business for more than 20 years. Netquest is
now part of the GfK group, a worldwide Market Research leader based in Germany.
He is currently also an investor in the digital & tech space, holding board positions in several European companies in the ed-tech and food-tech spheres, like Fiction Express and Mr. Noow. For 7 years he was also a member of the board of the fintech startup Credimarket, now part of the Bauer Media Group.
Also, Germán is a well-known professor in academic circles. He’s been the main lecturer in the Managerial Decision Sciences Department since 2010 at the IESE Business School. Previously he held academic positions at Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he taught Mathematics, Decision Theory, and Strategy. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the Universitat de Barcelona and a PADE from IESE Business School. His research interests are intertemporal decision theory, consumer data, and behavioral science.
