About the author

Enrique Teruel was born in March 1970 in Pamplona, Spain. He was the youngest son in a family of six children. Due to his father’s entrepreneurial spirit he was exposed to different business initiatives very early on in his life. He was able to participate and learn from several startups that in most of the cases introduced innovative products or services in the market. Although as a teenager he was inclined to start his own business, he was spurred by his parents and brothers to go to College to study Engineering. He obtained his degree in Industrial Engineering and started his career working in a large industrial family business. He worked as a sales Engineer developing new clients and products in different Countries. After several years he went on to work for a multinational American Company with operations in Spain, where he gained experience in Quality, Processes and Manufacturing. Finally he joined a startup in the Renewable Energy Sector, where he held different posts as Plant Manager, Industrial Director and Global Operations Director. Today he continues working actively in the same project leading the Company´s business unit in North America. In his spare time, he is actively studying and writing about entrepreneurship and innovation.

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