Certified European Financial Analyst (CEFA) by the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS), Jacob Saldivar is the director of the Master in Business Analytics and the Graduate Degree in Digital Strategy. He is also a member of the Group of Strategic Research Focused on Finance and Economics, at EGADE Business School.
 
His outstanding career and global vision are based on his extensive academic background. He studied Mechatronic Engineering and graduated from the Master of Science in Quality Systems and Productivity, specialized in Optimization at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Also holds a Master in International Finance and a Data Analytics specialty from prestigious global institutions such as the Spanish Institute of Financial Analysts (IEAF-FEF, Madrid) and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
 
Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Business Administration at EGADE Business School, which reflects his everlasting passion for knowledge and research.

On a corporate level, Jacob has worked for Auric Consulting, Ternium, FEMSA Comercio (OXXO), MSCI, Afore InverCap and Púrpura Analytics, mostly in portfolio and risk management, strategic planning, data analytics, financial analysis and decision making. His areas of expertise also comprises other topics such as investment and operations management, valuation of derivative instruments, corporate sustainability and business analytics.

His research, articles and fields of interest are also focused on financial programming and modeling, data science, financial markets and corporate social responsibility.

In 2001, Gilberto Olavarrieta began his career as a university professor teaching business intelligence and organizational intelligence in postgraduate programs at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Prior to attaining his doctorate, he gave courses on administrative consulting and business intelligence, capital systems, systems and knowledge flow,strategic administration of corporate performance and business intelligence also at Tecnológico de Monterrey. 

Since 1996 he has worked as a consultant on more than 50 business intelligence projects for some of Mexico's largest corporates. He has designed and developed support systems for decision-making in the services, manufacturing, financial and insurance sectors.

Since 2002, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Ibero-American community of knowledge systems, a network of international experts in the fields of knowledge management and knowledge-based development. As a member of this community, he has participated in international events as a speaker in countries including Spain, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

As part of his doctoral research, Dr. Olavarrieta has published articles in indexed publications and various scientific journals on intelligence capital and the model of integral intelligence. He has participated in the leading international congresses around these themes including IFKAD (International Forum on Knowledge Assets Dynamics) in Italy, Finland and Australia; KCWS (Knowledge Cities World Summit) in Australia, Turkey and Brazil; KMAP (Knowledge Management in Asia).