20th Family Business Seminar

This year, the collaboration between the Antonio Aranzábal Foundation and the University of Deusto’s Faculty of Economics and Business Studies  (Deusto Business School)  will celebrate its twentieth anniversary for its support to family businesses through the Family Business Chair promoted by both institutions. For this reason, both institutions will be celebrating the event on 5 November with a seminar entitled “Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses”, which can be followed via streaming on this link, with the participation of three first and second-generation entrepreneurs, such as:

-Javier Roquero. General Manager of Salto Systems. Since its inception in 2001, SALTO was created with the aim of devising a user-friendly and extremely efficient access control system. Today this global company of state-of-the-art access control technology distributes 97% of its sales abroad. Its 31 offices enable its products to reach a total of 90 countries.

-Xabier de la Maza. Co-founder and CEO of The Loaf, “real bread”. The project was born in 2012 as an experiment in containers. They set up the bakery in containers with glass windows, where passers-by could see how they kneaded and baked the bread. Today their bakery is in Astigarraga, and they have premises in Errenteria, Irún, Zarautz, and in Donostia (el Boulevard, Amara, Antiguo, Urbieta and Zurriola).

-Pilar Martinez-Cosentino (will participate via streaming). Cosentino’s Strategy Director. Born in 1979 as Marmoles Cosentino, the Cosentino Group is a global Spanish family business that produces and distributes innovative high-value surfaces. Operating in more than 80 countries, this company has pioneering and leading brands in their respective segments, such as Silestone, Dekon or Sensa by Cosentino.

Date: Thursday, 5 November
Time: 16:00-19:00 (It can be followed via streaming).
Venue: Ceremonial Hall, San Sebastian campus,  University of Deusto.