About Ironhack School

Born into a household of educators, Ariel has been passionate about innovation in education for over a decade. Ariel completed his undergrad at Harvard and his MBA at Wharton.

While doing his Wharton MBA, he learned about the growing tech skills gap. Since 2013 he's been obsessed with connecting students looking to break into the tech sector with their dream job in the most effective manner.

Maria gained extensive experience on running diligence and valuation processes with corporate and PE leading players in the US and Europe at PwC for 8 years. Passionate about corporate development and business financial improvement, she joined Ironhack in October 2018.

Matt brings extensive experience scaling businesses at both public and private companies. He is extremely passionate about digital marketing and analytics. Previously, he was Director of Marketing at Trilogy Education, where he helped oversee the company's explosive growth through acquisition for $750 Million.

After co-founding Ubersclub, an online shopping club, Alvaro decided to do an MBA at IE in 2014, and during that year he joined Ironhack. Passionate about changing education, Alvaro has been Ironhack’s Madrid general manager since 2016.

With a background in CS, he's been focused on applying Product Development best practices across multiple industries. Now in Ironhack, he's looking to empower the next generation of digital creators.

Claudia is a sales leader with more than 8 years of experience supporting the growth of start-ups, small, medium and large-sized businesses across the world to take them to the next level by combining sales management expertise with ambitious personal and team sales goals. 100% focused on digital transformation, supporting people and companies to boost their business growth.

With a background in international business, coaching and operations, Alex has always had a love for keeping people engaged with what they do. He now oversees People operations for Ironhack globally.

Álvaro worked previously in investment banking and venture capital, but he quit his job to teach in a remote school in Nepal. Upon returning, he joined Ironhack to become an active player in changing education. He started as the expansion lead in Amsterdam, and now he’s leading the Ironhack Lisbon campus.

After earning an MSc in finance at ESADE, Adrià went on to work in business operations and strategic positions at top e-commerce companies. He then launched his own start-up, and now Adrià has decided to join Ironhack to evolve the concept of education. Besides helping the Barcelona campus grow, he is a start-up mentor in some of Barcelona’s acceleration programs.

Lisa was born and raised in Buffalo, NY. After earning a degree in information technology from Syracuse University, Lisa went on to work in IT consulting and professional service sales. At Ironhack, Lisa has taken her career in a whole new direction by focusing on marketing. You’ll find Lisa bopping around the campus, planning events and collaborating with admissions to welcome future Ironhackers.

Manon started working at Ironhack in September 2017 to launch our campus in Mexico City. After the launch phase, she transitioned into Growth and has managed to position Ironhack as the top educational brand in the Mexican market, establishing key partnerships and developing the marketing strategy. She is now back in France and leading the Ironhack Paris campus.

Michael’s passion for tech start-ups and enabling people to excel at their career brought him to Ironhack. Previously, he co-founded the market research start-up POSpulse and gained his first experiences in the corporate world with Lufthansa. Besides Ironhack, Michael partners with start-up mentor programs such as Techstars.

Passionate about technology, he graduated in electrical engineering from Poli-USP and earned an MBA in business management from FGV. He started his career in multinational companies, but it was in start-ups that he consolidated his profile as a builder, entrepreneur and focused on people. He believes in the education revolution and in a new way of learning. If you don't find him at Ironhack in São Paulo, you can find him at USP's Olympic rowing lane practicing rowing very early in the morning.