Professor Quepons has a 29-year professional career at Tecnológico de Monterrey, during which he has served as Director of the administrative department, a Program Director, and a Professor at the EGADE Business School, Monterrey site.

He is the Director of the Department of Strategy and Leadership at EGADE Business School. He was the Founding Director of the Master in Business Management at EGADE Business School and the National Coordinator of the Academy of Business Management of ITESM System, overseeing the design of the 2011 syllabus for the Bachelor in Business Management. Since 2007, he has been a visiting professor at the American University of Managua (UAM), Managua, Nicaragua, teaching strategic planning in the Master in Administration program at UAM-ITESM.

Professor Maraboto has broad experience in the areas of executive education and consulting, both in Mexico and abroad, teaching programs for companies such as Grupo ALFA, Cervecería Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma, General Motors Mexico, GRUMA, Realty World México, Grupo FEMSA, Mexican Hotel Association of Nuevo León, Grupo Prisma, Grupo Rebasa, Grupo Senda, Grupo Tigo (El Salvador, C.A.), Grupo Soriana, Seven Eleven, Hotel “El Panamá” (Panamá, C.A.); Volkswagen Mexico, Roche Laboratories, amongst others. In 2007, he was awarded the “Award for Teaching and Research Work.” In 2013, he was granted the Award “ERSKINE & LEENDERS” for the best-written case by the Latin American Association of Cases (ALAC, by its acronym in Spanish).

His research interests include social entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, service management, and negotiation strategies.

Professor Hernández Aramburo specializes in consulting in energy, financial innovation, portfolio management, risk management, and corporate funding.

Amongst Professor Hernandez’s professional activities are the leadership of Var Financiero, consulting in risk management, and balance management. He was also the Director of Funding and Risk Management of Global Markets at HSBC Mexico. He served in global banking as a Relationship Executive in Energy. He has served as vice president of structured finance at Citigroup in New York and sub-director of treasury and debt markets at Banamex. In the public sector, he has worked in the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit in the Direction of Financial Planning and the Office of Advisors of the Secretariat of Foreign Relations.

Professor Hernández has performed placements and operations with derived instruments for companies such as Pemex, CFE, Cemex, Banamex, Amovil, DaimlerChrysler, Compartamos, Aeromexico, Ferromex, and different municipalities. Several of these transactions have been acknowledged as deals of the year by the specialized press. 

In addition to his teaching activities at EGADE Business School, Professor Hernández has been a guest researcher at Bundesbank in Germany in Frankfurt.

He is also an Independent Advisor at CFE EPS I, an Independent Advisor Capitalization and Investment Fund of the Rural Sector, CKD EXI2, Chair of the Risk Committee of the Trust for Mining Promotion, and a member of the Board of the International Society for Mexico Energy (ISME).

Dr. Amorós Espinosa is Associate Dean of the Faculty of EGADE Business School and Leader of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Impact Research Group of the Tecnológico de Monterrey Business School.

In pursuit of both the interpretation and popularization research work, Dr. Amorós has written more than 40 academic articles which have been published in major international magazines, such as Small Business Economics, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, the Journal of Small Business Management, Technovation, the Journal of Business Research, the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal and Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, amongst others. In addition, he is associate editor of the Journal of Business Venturing Insights and of the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.  He is also co-author of more than 30 monographs on entrepreneurial dynamics, some in cooperation with key institutions such as the World Economic Forum. In addition, he is a member of the SNI (Sistema National de Invetigadores), Level I, Conacyt and National System of Researchers of a visiting professor in several Latin American and European universities.

Dr. Amorós has been a member of the Board of Directors of GEM Global and is part of the research committee of the same project. In his work within the GEM project, he has participated in the evaluation of pro-entrepreneurship public policies in a range of countries. He is Vice-President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, and member of the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of International Business and the International Council of Small Business.

He was Professor and Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship of the Universidad Del Desarrollo (Chile), researcher at the Entrepreneurship Center of the Adolfo Ibáñez Business School (Chile) and has been guest researcher at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) and projects associated with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank. 

Dr. Amorós also held the position of Director of the business administration degree and coordinator of the Entrepreneurship Program at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, San Luis Campus.
 

Félix Cárdenas is a Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he was Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He has also been a researcher and affiliate professor at Harvard University, the University of Columbia, IESE, and the University of Texas at Austin. 

He is a co-author of books such as “Comprar un Empresa Exitosa? El Search Fund como Modelo de Emprendimiento, y Open Innovation: Academic and Practical Perspectives on the Journey from Idea to Market, Oxford University Press. His research work has been presented at international congresses in San Francisco, Boston, Nueva York (USA), Geneva, Zurich (Switzerland), Istanbul (Turkey), and Nice (France).

He develops corporate venture capital strategies with corporates, impacting growth and profitability. He has been an advisor and has conducted research for companies such as Cisco, Nokia, Alcan, Logitech, General Electric, Cemex, FEMSA, Credit Suisse, Proeza, Heineken, and Nestle. 

Professor Cárdenas is a partner of the fund InnovaCamp Ventures. He was a partner at Vento Capital and director of greenTEK ventures in Switzerland. His research interests include private capital, entrepreneurial capital, innovation ecosystems, competitive strategy, innovation management, corporate entrepreneurship, value creation, and technology transfer. 

The broad teaching and research career of Professor Rajagopal has developed in the fields of marketing strategy, consumer behavior, technology and innovation management, international business management, service marketing, management of new products and brand management. His academic excellence has been acknowledged by the Government of Mexico for the premier executive program in innovation, technology, and competitivity, as well as for his top-level research.

He is a member of multiple international research associations, such as the Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (United Kingdom), the Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Operations Management, Academy of Marketing Science, Association of Consumer Research, the Latin American Chapter of the Business and Economics Society International, Marketing Science Institute, (USA), and the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics (India). He is also a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), Level III, Conacyt.

Professor Rajagopal has been part of the editorial board or the management of several journals such as Emerald Emerging Marketing Case Studies, International Journal of Leisure and Tourism Marketing, International Journal of Business Competition and Growth, International Journal of the Built Environment and Asset Management, Indore Management Journal, Journal of Marketing Analytics, Innovative Marketing, Journal of Tourism, and the Journal of Corporate Responsibility and Leadership.

In addition to his teaching activities at EGADE Business School, Professor Rajagopal serves as a professor at Metropolitan College of the University of Boston (USA). He has also been a professor in several Indian institutions such as the College of India and the National Institute of Agricultural Marketing, where he served as the Academic Director, the Institute of Rural Management, and the National Institute of Rural Development, where he was Assistant Director. Additionally, he taught courses and programs at the Indian Institute of Management, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Vigyana Jyoti Institute of Management, Institute of Public Enterprise and the International Management Institute.