Francisco J. Lopez Lubian is a professor and Head of the area of finance at IE Business School and an expert in financial valuation and analysis. He combined this teaching career with an intense career in business as a financial analyst at Hewlett-Packard, controller for the Sarrio Group, financial director for Sarrio Tisu and general financial director for the Isolux Group. Professor Lopez Lubian regularly contributes to leading newspapers, including the Financial Times, and for the last five years has collaborated with Actualidad Economica journal and Expansion newspaper to publish the ranking of value creation for the shareholder.
Jose Esteves is Professor of Information Systems at IE Business School. He has a wealth of experience in the corporate world as an information systems analyst and consultant for companies such as Ciba-Geigy and Sonae Group and is chair of eGovernment Software AG- Alianza Sumaq. In addition to his research and teaching, Professor Esteves continues to act as a consultant to a number of companies saying: "Consulting provides fieldwork, data and results because, without examples, it's all just theory. So it's a cycle - consulting, research and then applying it in the classes."