About me: Marte Martin |
Venture Associate, Finance & Accounting. Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Business Economics, Assurance, Private Equity – Virtual CFO, International Interim
Early Years
Grew up in Madrid, Dublin, and Geneva
Middle child with seven siblings
Son of a medical doctor and a packaging & logistics business owner
Fluent in Spanish and English, get by in French Ok
School
Middle School SEK International School Madrid - Dublin
High School Collège du Léman International School Versoix, Geneva
BS in Finance, magna cum laude Concentration: Financial Analysis and Investment Management Scott College of Business Indiana State University
BS in Accounting BS in Economics Concentration: Public Accounting W. A. Franke College of Business Northen Arizona University
MBA IE Business School IE University Madrid
Pre Venture-Associate Career
Indiana State University IT Department (three years): IT consultant, IT senior consultant, help desk, network management
Dba Roma Pizza Restaurants, Flagstaff, AZ (4 years): co-founder and co-owner , general management, food service management, lots of pizza making (sold)
Grant Thornton (1 year): assurance associate, financial auditor
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)(since 2009): Arizona Board of Accountancy, USA (non-active)
Eisner Amper (3 years): financial auditor, senior financial auditor, financial advisory, corporate finance associate
Family Office (4 years): financial controller, operations manager, real estate management, student-housing facilitator, hospitality & catering general manager
Dba Marte Martin Venture Associates
Started practice in 2014 managing the finance & accounting of a handful of new companies / startups. Since then, I have provided financial-management support to more than 20 companies in different industries, in Spain, UK and USA, often on an interim basis or on-demand (fractional) as a Virtual CFO -specialized in matching the finance function needs of new ventures, at martemartin.com/finance-services
Notable engagements include mundoestudio.es, soydata.net, thinkyoung.eu, monocle.com, kioskafe.com, startupguide.com, ciudadanos-cs.org, eu-startups.com, akora.com. Priorly and as a CPA, engaged with dozens of companies in various industries while employed by firms Grant Thornton LLP and EisnerAmper LLP, mostly companies in the financial services sector in nyc
First Virtual CFO practice established in Spain and one of the first in Europe, with a focus in entrepreneurial finance
Financial models and unit-economics frameworks developed for numerous business-ventures that do work on the edge of product and business innovation
Assisted numerous companies with financing and fundraising, for both startups and investment-funds
Based in Madrid, and run pop-up bureaus in London and New York throughout the year
Marte Martin Research and Articles
Guest writer and contributor for Think Young Think Tank, Startup Guide, EU Startups, HDMarte, and others (contact@martemartin.com for features)
Created applied market-research on hospitality & convenience retailing, publishing, data analytics talent, EU x youth talent, real estate tokenization, flexible living, and VR & sports
Provided with research and advisory on innovation & entrepreneurial ecosystems to various city halls and political campaigns in Madrid, included elected government to Madrid City Hall 2018
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