About Ariel Jaduszliwer

Ariel is a Managing Partner at Brainstorm Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that invests US and Mexican startups and whose portfolio includes unicorns such as Zappos, OpenTable, KIO Networks, and more recently Turing. Ariel is a Kauffman Fellow and Mentor. He was the Vice President of Pacific Community Management, a pioneering growth equity impact investment firm, and still sits on the boards of several of its portfolio companies. Ariel also serves on the board of Defy Ventures, a nonprofit that provides entrepreneurship training to incarcerated people. Ariel is the co-owner of Palau Moxó, an 18th century palace in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter.

Previously, Ariel worked as a consultant at the Bridgespan Group, an affiliate of Bain & Company. He briefly led the United Nations Development Programme’s Growing Sustainable Business Initiative in Venezuela. Prior to business school, Ariel worked in various capacities at Intel Corporation.

Ariel received his MBA from Wharton and holds BS and MS degrees in industrial engineering from UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech, respectively. Ariel is a native Spanish speaker and New Yorker.