Aquilino Peña has been involved in the digital industry since the late 90s across all areas of the business, mainly ecommerce, online marketing and content, as entrepreneur, operator, investor and advisor to a number of Spanish and European companies.

He is the cofounder of Kibo Ventures. With over $500M assets under management, Kibo Ventures is one of the most active Spanish Venture Capital firms in the digital space. Having made more than 75 investments, Kibo Ventures invests in companies with high growth potential and helps entrepreneurs with global ambition, a technology differentiation and scalable business models, where they can leverage on Kibo Ventures’ network. Kibo Ventures has invested in prominent companies of the Spanish tech ecosystem such as Flywire, Job and Talent, Devo, Onum, Theker, Clarity, Cala or Zynap. Kibo Ventures has a very international profile, with companies based in Spain, US, UK and Germany and 45+ tier 1 US/European co-investors.

His last corporate assignment was CEO of MediaEdge:cia for Spain and Portugal, the largest media buying agency of WPP in the region, managing marketing investments for 500+ clients in Spain and Portugal. Relevant clients included: Sony Ericsson, Chanel, Henkel, Visa, Paramount Pictures, Accenture, Toys R US… Before that, he ran all portal activities for Orange Spain, including E-care, E-shop and the large portal network managed by Orange in the Spanish language (up to 40 M monthly active users). As entrepreneur Aquilino launched Submarino.com in Spain in the late 90s. Submarino (IPO Bovespa 2004) was a pioneer ecommerce player in Latam and Spain,. He started his career as a consultant for The Boston Consulting Group, where he worked for the Madrid office and started up the Sao Paulo office.

Aquilino is well known and considered a key person in the European investor community. He has been Director and member of the board of the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA), Chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB-Spain), board member of the Spanish Advertisers Association (AEA), board member of @adigital (formerly Spanish Ecommerce Association) and board member of the Spanish Venture capital and Private Equity Association (Spain Cap) where he played a key role in the negotiations of the Spanish Startup Law

Aquilino holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a dual degree in Law and Business Administration from ICADE (Madrid).