Bernardo Hernández González

Bernardo Hernández González (born 1970) is a Spanish technology entrepreneur and business angel. He currently runs his own venture fund in Madrid, Spain. He was a General Partner with Headline (company) in Berlin. He has been also the head of Flickr at Yahoo until he left in April 2015. He had been Director of Product Management at Google and Managing Director at Zagat. He has started, alone or with other partners, several Internet companies in Spain, such as idealista, FloresFrescas.com or 11870.com. He was an early investor in Tuenti, a leading social network in Spain where he served as President of the Board until the sale to Telefonica in the summer of 2010. He was CEO and leading investor at verse app, a digital bank adquired by block in 2020.

He was the founder of StepOne, a company that helps Spanish technology companies in their internationalization. From this company he has started the first computer science talent exchange program between Spain and the Silicon Valley, Jóvenes con Futuro.

In 2009 he was recognized as the Tech Entrepreneur of the Year by the Banesto Foundation. In 2010 he received, together with Nicholas Negroponte, an Honorary Degree in Architecture and Systems by Universidad Camilo José Cela. In 2011 he received the Successful Career Award by the ICADE Asociación. Bernardo Hernández has been included in the list of the 25 most influential Spanish internet people by El Mundo. for 7 consecutive years now. In January 2013 he was named the number 1 most influential person in the American food industry by The Daily Meal. Provided by Wikipedia