Carmen Sánchez Avendaño

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About Carmen

Carmen Sánchez Avendaño is an operator based in San Francisco. She joined The Exponential Fellowship after roles in investing and consulting at Samaipata and Boston Consulting Group. Through TEF, she made the move to the Bay Area and now works on operations at krea.ai. Her focus sits at the intersection of execution, systems, and scaling early-stage teams.

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Previous experience

01Samaipata
02Boston Consulting Group
03MCH Private Equity

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Business Administration

ICADE

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About Carmen

Related Fellows

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Originally from Barcelona and now based in San Francisco, Félix Gil is a designer and creative building at Krea — the GenAI creative platform for image, video, and 3D generation. Before Krea, Félix led design and creative projects for some of the world's most recognizable brands, including Nike, Adidas, New Balance, G-Shock, EA FIFA, and Real Madrid. He's now bringing that taste for craft and brand to the frontier of generative tools for creators.

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Iker García-Ferrero is an AI Engineer at Krea AI, a position he secured through the Exponential Fellowship. He completed his PhD in Natural Language Processing at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, focusing on multilingual NLP and developing deep learning models for low-resource languages. His research includes data-transfer methods for automatic annotation generation and model-transfer techniques to enhance zero-shot cross-lingual performance. Notably, he contributed to the development of GoLLIE, a 34-billion-parameter large language model for zero-shot information extraction, and MedicalMT5, the first open-source text-to-text multilingual model for the medical domain. Previously, he interned as an Applied Scientist at Amazon in Barcelona and was a visiting associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Cognitive Computation Group.