An American in Madrid

I love Vincent Minnelli’s films. And I always have in mind films like Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Bad and the Beautiful, and An American in Paris…Doing this short video “An American in Madrid” with Professor of Managerial Economics, Gayle Allard, is the smallest hommage I could pay to such a great film director. In the process of preparing the video I also discovered a fine car we make here in Spain: The Hurtan Albaycin. Just beautiful.

Globe-trotting

When the idea of doing a video of Dean Iniguez occured to me I instantly thought of the book  When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh because the guy, the Dean, is always going.

In particular, I thought of one of the essays in the book, “Globe-trotting”, which begins randomly in Aden, then runs through the Zanzibar coast and down into the Congo. This is what Dean Iniguez does. He is always on the go, ready to spread education around the world. In this video you’ ll have the opportunity to see him in China and also in Segovia flying in a balloon, which as he puts it,  is “a metaphysical experience”.

Boxing for finance

I met Prof. Inigo Colomo at a Financieros sin Fronteras (FsF) event which, to be honest, I wasn’t pleased to attend because I had had a long day. When we shook hands nothing particularly struck me about him. Then, I had a second look to him when I happened to sit in front of him just before the conference began.  Something about his physique and the way he held himself revealed  that there was more to him than at first glance. So, we begun to talk…and the way things go, we ended up shooting this video. He is the most unassuming, charming person on earth. He’s also an amateur boxer. And he takes amazing photos.

As he says in the video, if you think boxing is hard, try raising capital for a social endeavor.  FsF wants foster micro productivity activities by supporting companies that aim to create sustainable value for companies and their environment in developing countries.

At the speed of the orange Skualo

This is a personally very touching video for me, because Roberto Puyol, who made the Skualo, is the nephew of a very close friend of mine, Juan Manuel Samper, who recently passed away. The Skualo is a race car. Marketing Prof. Martin Boehm talks about the launching of a new product using the Skualo as an example.