Juliana Garaizar is the Managing Director of Ifex Innovation Finance, based in France at Sophia Antipolis and has recently joined the Sophia Business Angels network in the capacity of Business Manager.

Previously, Mrs. Garaizar worked for 5 years in Singapore: first as an international trade consultant for the Trade Commission of Spain in a broad range of industry sectors and then as a Project Manager for the Asia Technology Office of Citigroup, leading projects both at national and international level. In the more recent past, Mrs. Garaizar has obtained an MBA at the London Business School, specializing in Entrepreneurship and in Venture Capital at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley California.

Earlier Mrs. Garaizar obtained a Bachelorīs degree in Business Administration at the Universidad Comercial de Deusto in Spain.