I advise organisations under regulatory, technological and reputational pressure — when compliance is not the problem, but deciding what compliance means.
Decision structure, board, oversight and accountability in complex regulatory environments. I design the layer where the difficult decisions are made — and my work ends when the board no longer needs me to make them again.
There is no effective compliance programme without a corporate culture to sustain it.
Compliance models, internal investigations, organisational culture and ESG frameworks that are operational — not aspirational. Institutional legitimacy begins in the board's decision matrix, not in the reports.
AI Act applicability and role classification, Article 50 transparency, readiness for high-risk systems and board-level AI governance. Tokenisation, legal structuring of DAOs and navigating regulatory sandboxes. Where the AI Act, MiCA and the DLT Pilot are still being written — and where every decision taken today shapes tomorrow's regulatory framework.
In Mapa de riesgos penales y prevención del delito en la empresa (eds. Pere Simón Castellano and Alfredo Abadías Selma). In Spanish.
→In Actualidad Compliance 2018 (ed. Juan Antonio Frago Amada), pp. 61-75. English version.
→Research, debates and content on corporate ethics and responsible innovation.
→ View allNearly three decades in senior executive positions at technology and telecoms multinationals — from Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse to Freshfields, Dell, Tyco International, Nokia Siemens Networks, Millicom and the Management Board of VimpelCom/VEON (NASDAQ, $13.5bn), until 2017.
Lawyer qualified in Spain and England & Wales. Professor at IE Law School and IE Business School. Academic Director of the IE-Elecnor Knowledge Hub on Ethical Business. Advanced training at Oxford Saïd, IESE, IE and Stanford. Certified in Generative AI for Business Professionals (IE University, 2024).
Co-founder of RealFund, the first Spanish real world asset tokenisation platform approved in the CNMV Fintech Sandbox. Co-Chair of the UK & European Digital Asset Task Force of the Digital Asset Regulatory Authority (DARA) and Regional Director for Europe of the Government Blockchain Association. Active adviser on tokenisation and AI projects in Spain, Europe and the Middle East. Partner and adviser at Voombu, a modular ESG platform for ESRS reporting, risk management and sustainable finance. The legal and compliance practice operates through Aznar Legal & Compliance.
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