Joan Alsina

Joan Alsina is the founder and Managing Partner of ACCESO Corporate Partners (Acceso CP), a Barcelona-area advisory firm he established in 2003. The firm operates across three service lines — Strategy Consulting (strategy plans, business-succession planning, board-of-directors services), Corporate Finance (M&A, fundraising, and business valuations), and People Management (executive search, talent management, and management audits). It is headquartered in Sant Cugat del Vallès, in the Barcelona metropolitan area.

He was trained as a Telecommunications Engineer at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and holds an MBA from IESE Business School; he also completed executive education at Harvard Business School (2018). Over nearly 30 years, his career has spanned the full range of business situations — from corporate turnarounds to investing in high-growth companies (venture capital) — and he has sat on more than 20 boards of directors.

Public professional records list prior roles and affiliations at Loxam Access, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ACG Spain (Association for Corporate Growth), and AMURA Corporate Finance, S.L., reflecting a background that bridges operating/turnaround work, corporate finance, and the M&A community in Spain. His self-described skill set centers on business strategy, corporate finance, venture capital, investments, and negotiation.

In the context of this profile he is classified as an angel investor writing seed-stage checks, backing early-stage high-growth companies — an activity that complements the corporate-finance and board advisory work at the core of Acceso CP.

• Invests personally at the seed stage, backing early-stage, high-growth companies (Acceso CP itself is an advisory firm rather than a pooled fund).
• Draws on a stated background that runs "from Corporate Turnaround to Investing in high-growth companies (Venture Capital)" — i.e., he brings hands-on operating and restructuring experience alongside capital.
• Value-add is heavily board-level and corporate-finance oriented: with 20+ directorships and a firm built around strategy, M&A, valuations and succession, his edge is governance, fundraising, and scaling advice rather than passive capital.
• Sector-agnostic and Spain-focused, most naturally aligned with Barcelona/Catalonia founders and established-SME or growth-stage situations.