Jeffrey: Welcome to the supportersfund ask an investor I’m your host Jeffrey potvin let’s please welcome Jordi Ferrer investment director at ship 2B Ventures as our investor for today welcome to Jordi it’s a real pleasure having you join us.

Ferrer: Hi Jeffrey it’s my pleasure being here.

Jeffrey: well you know we’re I’m very excited to have this discussion with you today and I’m sure there’s a million reasons but if I Define it down to two things one you’re an ex-founder that sold their company and two you’re heavy into sales and you’re also on a lot of boards so maybe that’s three things so there’s a lot of cool things that come out of this because there’s a lot of good information that Founders and other investors can learn from so we’re excited to jump into this and the way we like to kind of start our show off with is we want you to share a little bit about your background so you can dive all the way back to your your Deloitte Bank days uh Deutsche Bank days all the way through to everything you’re doing today and then one thing about you that nobody would know.

Ferrer: okay good so I I mean I’m I’m I’ll try to be uh humble a bit about it I’m always I think there’s a lot to learn and I always feel like I’m kind of in the beginning of something much much bigger but uh just to start about about me I I’m an economist by training and then I did an MBA and I ended up doing a a course about value-based Healthcare at HBS I started my professional career as a Financial Consultant I did do an internship at Deutsche Bank but my main experience was four years at Deloitte in that transition advisory services and the m a um departments which was good uh analytically I think I’m I’m strong and I was comfortable with it but I needed some extra action so I uh found by chance an opportunity within the Pharma industry in corporate development in a Spanish Pharma company which got me into the life’s life science sector uh was an outstanding experience I got to meet outstanding people outstanding researchers and I ended up in a spin-off from that from that company and managing the also corporate development but also specially managing the relationships with the us we were able to create a joint venture with a U.S company there we were able to raise the company from zero sales to five million sales and ultimately selling it to uh to a large Japanese group then I moved into my next venture I joined an IBD company and animator Diagnostics company in Italy so I was able to move to to Italy and basically doing the same business environmental corporate development that moved me to headquarters of that same company working in Boston which to me was a life-changing experience in in my life but I got to get very much in touch with what we call digital Therapeutics or digital Health um I it’s I did my course in in value-based healthcare there too and I tried to and start my own thing there too so it was basically it was a CBT accounting behavioral behavioral therapy for um type 2 pre-diabetic patients which was an outstanding experience I started together with a partner unfortunately it didn’t it didn’t fly it didn’t fly through what I have done though in parallel is I’ve always had my kind of my my side businesses when I was actually at Deloitte out of a deal and that that we made I was able to open a couple of franchise franchises of a chocolate brand which was an interesting interesting experience I I owned that business for three years and I was able to sell it afterwards which was also a really good experience you know what the video does a full-time entrepreneur but as an investor uh it felt great uh first first of all generating the business and generating the idea added value and then of course after the sale generating that the value for me was very rewarding with that I was also able to invest in a small uh hotel in Lisbon as a partner together with with three other people so I was only in 25 of it and I just which I just got out actually a couple of months ago so it has been also uh really really good experience and I think based on my uh curiosity and and my passion for the healthcare and and value-based Healthcare I I just knew that I wanted to become a professional investor not do it meet on the side and not doing it in in things that might not add real value to the society but I wanted to be a real professional investor in life sciences and potentially in digital Health um so with my family and I my wife and I we moved back to Barcelona after leaving abroad or for a few years and I was very lucky to meet the partners of ship to the adventures which is the fun I’m currently working at they were looking for someone in their Healthcare vertical and the
way they were looking at it and the impact they wanted to provide was 100 aligned with the vision I had with validate value-based health care so so far I’ve been now a year and a half with with City Ventures but it’s been an outstanding experience we’ve already invested in six early stage companies and we are seeing a very very good Horizon in front of us

Jeffrey: Ah that’s an amazing story and so much uh Insight shared there just along the startup line and being able to jump in and build your own company and and I like the side hustles that turned into exits as well so that that’s uh obviously uh very well done and exciting to be able to share that as well.

Ferrer: Absolutely I mean happy happy to you know if you want me to speak more about any of these experiences I’m happy to to expand.

Jeffrey: Oh for sure we’re gonna dive back into that so you mentioned earlier on that when you started to work and you were working as an analyst uh back in the Deloitte days um can you share a little bit about kind of the experience you had like because I know that a lot of people start off when they leave school they start off as consultants and they usually do jump into the big conglomerates and when you’re working on M A I think it just gives you a totally different perspective of how businesses operate it’s more financial based it’s going through plowing through the numbers and understanding what they’re trying to do what they’ve achieved what’s good what’s bad is there some kind of signs that you’ve carried forward to today