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.

Dr. Osmar Zavaleta Vázquez is Associate Dean of Research of the Undergraduate Business School and EGADE Business School at Tecnologico de Monterrey. He also serves as Leader of the Research Group on Organizational Strategy and Industry Transformation. He has held diverse leadership roles throughout his career at Tecnológico de Monterrey. At Campus Monterrey, he was program director, area director, associate division director, and division director, at the undergraduate level, and, at EGADE Business School, interim dean, program director, department director, and site director.

He has participated as visiting professor at diverse universities in Latin America, such as Universidad Americana, in Managua (Nicaragua), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and Escuela Militar de Ingeniería, in La Paz (Bolivia). He served as National Director of Graduate Programs of the Mexican National Association of Accounting and Administration Faculties and Schools (ANFECA), and board member of the A. B. Freeman School of Business of Tulane University (USA).

Dr. Zavaleta Vázquez specializes in the fields of Mathematics for Finance, Statistics for Finance, Finance for Energy, Valuation of Derivative Instruments, and Investment Management. He has published academic research papers on a variety of finance-related topics in highly prestigious national and international journals, and has participated as a speaker at diverse academic and research conferences.

He holds a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics, a Master in Industrial Engineering and Master in Applied Statistics from Tecnológico de Monterrey, and a Master in Finance and Ph.D. in Finance from Tulane University.