| Bernardo Hernández González | |
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| Born | 1970 Salamanca, Castilla y León Spain Europe |
| Residence | San Francisco, California |
| Nationality | Spanish, European |
| Alma mater | Pontifical University of Comillas Boston College |
| Occupation |
Managing Director, Zagat[1] |
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Bernardo Hernández González (born 1970) is a Spanish tech entrepreneur and business angel who also holds the title of Director of Product Management at Google and Managing Director at Zagat. He has started, alone or with other partners, some of the most successful internet companies in Spain, such as Idealista.com, FloresFrescas.com or 11870.com. He has been an early investor in Tuenti, a leading social network in Spain where he served as President of the Board until the sale to Telefonica in the summer of 2010. He is also a Board member of the first internet company in Spain to go public, bodaclick.com
He is founder and president of StepOne, a company that helps Spanish tech companies in their Internationalization. From this company he has started the first Computer Science talent exchange program between Spain and the Silicon Valley, Jóvenes con Futuro [3].
In 2009 he was recognized as the Tech Entrepreneur of the Year by the Banesto Foundation. In 2010 he received, together with Nicholas Negroponte, a Honorary Degree in Architecture and Systems by Universidad Camilo José Cela (Spanish University). In 2011 he received the Successful Career Award by the ICADE Asociación[4]. Bernardo Hernández has been included in the list of the 25 most influential Spanish internet people by El Mundo.[5] for 6 consecutive years now.
He is member of the Board of Directors at FUNDESO,[6] a Non-for-profit Organization managing more than €3 MM in projects in Developing countries.
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He graduated from ICADE, Pontifical University of Comillas, a top Business School in Madrid (Spain) in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from Boston College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
At the age of 29, after five years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companies like Fidelity Investments, BBVA and Putnam Investments, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain, Tuenti. He is a member of the board of bodaclick.com the first Spanish internet company to go public in the secondary market.
His latest venture is StepOne, a company that helps Spanish businesses to get established in the US.
Bernardo joined Google in 2005 and is currently Director of Product Management, based in Mountain View, California, where he is currently living.
In May 2011, he was appointed jury of the Prince of Asturias Awards of Science and Technology[7]
Bernardo has participated in several companies, most of them through his own funding company Solón Inversiones: