Monica Mateu

Innovation Business Development Manager at Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Entrepreneurship/Disruptive Innovation. MBA/Master Professor. Fellow Faculty Excellence Award 2025 EU Business School BCB.

Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain

About

I’m driven by one simple idea: innovation only matters when it creates real impact. Over the past 35 years, I’ve worked with leading organizations — from HP, Deloitte, and GB Foods to Barcelona City Council, EIT InnoEnergy, and Mobile World Capital — helping them design strategies, build ecosystems, and bring bold ideas to life. Today, as Director of Innovation & Business Development at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), I connect the worlds of AI, quantum, and supercomputing with companies and investors ready to scale breakthrough technologies. I lead programs that transform research into spin-offs, partnerships, and sustainable business opportunities. I also teach at EU Business School, where I guide MBA and Master’s students through hands-on innovation and entrepreneurship labs — helping them turn their ideas into ventures that matter. My international background — with an MBA from SDA Bocconi and a B.A. in Economics from UCLA — has shaped my belief that innovation happens where purpose, people, and technology meet. I love building bridges between academia, industry, and startups to turn science and creativity into value for society.

Experience

  • Innovation Business Development Manager at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    Reporting to the BSC Innovation and Business Development director, the Business Development coordinator supports activities mainly focused on building the BSC strong and positive relationships with clients and business partners, as well as managing the business development team that works to close agreements with high-level/multinational companies as BSC customers.

  • Entrepreneurship/Innovation MBA/ Master/ Derby Undergrad Programs Professor at EU Business School
    Mar 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Entrepreneurship, Innovation Master in Innovation and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship & Business Development. Bachelor of Business Administration.

  • Business Development at S2 Xpeed
    Apr 2024 - Feb 2025 · 11 mos

  • Business Development at 3xP Global
    Nov 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Bcorp certified Portuguese VC. Portuguese Independent Asset Management Firm, registered and supervised by CMVM. Connecting investors with Iberian and European deeptech health and impact ecosystems.

  • Business Development Manager at Troostwijk Auctions
    Sep 2022 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Troostwijk Auctions undertakes online industrial asset auctions throughout Europe from both insolvency and corporate closure. Wide offering of machinery and equipment.