Rebeca Minguela

Rebeca is Founder of Clarity, which tries to solve the problem of inefficient and unequal allocation of capital by developing a universal framework and building an automated tool to rate companies, projects, governments and NGOs.

Previously, she was defining and leading the Global Digital Transformation Program at Santander Bank (one of the largest banks in the World).

Rebeca was Founder & CEO of Blink Booking, the award winning last minute hotel booking mobile app leader in Europe, with more than 800,000 downloads, almost 3,000 hotels, available in 6 languages. Rebeca and Blink Booking have been featured widely in the press in several countries with features in publications including Forbes, The Economist, Financial Times, The Sun, The Daily Mirror, El Pais, El Mundo, Il Sole 24 Ore, and many others.

Blink was acquired by Groupon in Sept 2013, less than 1 and a half years after having launched the product. After the acquisition, Rebeca worked at Groupon, where she was Senior Director of Product and Operations and General Manager, leading one of the top priorities of the company.

She is also advisor at several startups, mostly focusing on early stage startup with huge potential to make a significant impact.

Prior to Blink, Rebeca worked as Sr Associate at Bain Capital Private Equity, management consultant at Boston Consulting Group and as engineer at German Aerospace Agency, Siemens and IBM. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, MSc in Telecommunication Engineering for Polytechnic University in Madrid and Stuttgart University (all of them with Distinction).

Key Words: entrepreneurship, mobile app, investing, early stage technology, mobile product, venture-backed, java, Objective C, native iOS, Android, iPhone, iPad, tablet, mobile, algorithm, data structure, design pattern, e-commerce, large scalable distributed software solutions, systems, operations, IT, testing, QA, travel, mobile UX/ UI