Our team

  • Dave Darsch

    Dave Darsch, Strategic Business Advisor, has more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and managing executive of technology companies. With a strong trans-Atlantic and pan-European focus, Dave has active clients in both the US and Europe. He mentors entrepreneurs and helps them develop business plans that accelerate revenue growth and/or external infusion of capital. Dave has been involved in more than 10 transactions involving the purchase, sale, merger, or infusion of capital into companies. He has assisted in trans-Atlantic expansion initiatives, including legal and accounting...

  • Lisa Macdonald

    Lisa Macdonald is co-founder of CEO-CF and is in charge of member services. She organizes and helps to lead all meetings and events, including CEO-CF forums, the CEO-CF Mid-Forum Connect ™, and the CEO-CF E-Forum™. She is the chief point of contact for all CEO-CF members and alumni. In addition, she provides leadership development and assessments to CEO-CF members and senior management teams. Her areas of specialization include biotech, healthcare finance, and information technology. With 20 years of experience in the healthcare field, including human resources, finance, and clinical care...

  • Austin Desautels

    Austin Desautels is originally from San Francisco, CA. He studied philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut where he wrote his thesis on education in language. Later, he returned to San Francisco to work as a paralegal at a Kirkland & Ellis representing Samsung in an IP litigation case regarding telecommunication technologies. After the close of this case, he moved to Barcelona and shortly thereafter became a part of the CEO-CF team. He enjoys backpacking and music production.

  • Allison Sparrow

    Allison Sparrow is from San Francisco, CA and moved to Barcelona as a child where she and her family lived for three years. Allison was recruited to the University of California San Diego (UCSD) for her abilities in track & field (pole-vault). Her third year of college, she returned to Barcelona and attended L’Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona for a year. Upon graduating UCSD with an economics major, Allison moved back to Barcelona and began working for CEO- CF. She is an avid reader of A More Intelligent Life magazine and venturehacks.com, and is an active participant in Surfrider...

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