Mikel Urizarbarrena is the founder of Panda and the Honorary President. His intuition, vision of the market and sheer hard work have been fundamental in making Panda Spain's leading software company and bringing it to a position where it now disputes global leadership of technological innovation with the major players in the IT security sector. .

The project he set up twenty years ago is today a textbook case studied in business schools worldwide. Panda is now present in more than 50 countries through its network of subsidiaries and franchises and its consumer and corporate security solutions are sold in more than 200 countries.

Mikel Urizarbarrena graduated as an Engineer specialized in mechanical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Mondragón (Basque Country).

Kevin has 24 years' operating experience in the technology sector, including a total of 13 years operational experience in Paris, London and Dublin as an executive in the software industry and five years in Silicon Valley. Kevin served as Vice President, Microsoft EMEA and helped grow the regional business from $500 million in 1991 to $9.5 billion in 2004. At Microsoft, Kevin was a member of Microsoft EMEAs' senior management team responsible for various roles in Finance, Operations and Sales and Marketing. He supported and was jointly responsible for the formation of many new subsidiaries, functions and lines of business. This included working with local management in establishing financial, operational and customer functions in more than 20 subsidiaries.

Kevin established the European Operations Centre in Dublin, hiring up to 700 people and serving all of Microsoft’s customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East while becoming one of Ireland's top revenue generating companies. He was also responsible for building the operational infrastructure for the successful launch of Xbox as a new product and line of business within Europe. He led Microsoft's EMEA customer care, customer satisfaction, loyalty and related programs.

From 1985 through 1991, Kevin was an international tax advisor at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. In that capacity, he helped structure international growth, acquisitions and income repatriation planning for many leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to 1985, Kevin practiced law in South Africa, including serving as a Legal Officer in the South African Navy. He is a frequent industry speaker and was ICT Ireland Industry Person of the Year in 2001 and elected a fellow of the Irish Management Institute in 2000. He holds various degrees in Business, Finance, Taxation & Law and is an Attorney at Law, Certified Public Accountant and Certified Investment Manager.

Kevin is a director on the boards of Panda SL (where he is Chairman), PolarLake Ltd, Envivio Inc and GeoVector Inc. and sits as an observer on the boards of Acision BV and Conenza Inc.

Juan Santana has a strong track record in the business and finance world. Before joining Panda Security, he was Executive Manager of Telecommunications and IT Equipment at Lehman brothers, based in London from 1999-2003, and in Madrid, from 2003-2006. Prior to that, he held an executive post in the London-based company Robertson Stephens and was a executive at Vasconia bank, Spain.

Juan Santana graduated in Law from the University of Navarre and holds an MBA from the IESE in Barcelona.

Jorge Gil is an economist who has completed the Management Development Program (PDD) at the IESE business school and holds an International Master in Business Management from the IE. He has extensive experience in the new technologies market, having worked for Microsoft for the last 13 years, where he started in 1996 as corporate and channel director for MS Spain. After five years he became Director of Corporate Solution Sales in Europe, and in recent years he was the Global Director of Corporate Sales and Channel Distribution.

Ignacio Manrique de Lara joined Panda in 2006, where he has been in charge of Panda European Subsidiaries, working in both the Sales and Financial areas. He is currently in charge of Business Operations for the whole Group. 
He has extensive experience in management and has held a range of management posts in multinational companies in the IT and Media sectors, including the Prisa Group, where he was Assistant General Manager of Santillana Formación, and the Berltelsman Group where he was manager of Eurosoft and director of the Multimedia area of the Professional Information division.
Ignacio holds a degree in Business and Economic Science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has completed the Management Development Program (PDD) at the IESE business school.

Enrique Aguilera is the Online Business Director and is in charge of the Panda Security website. He is one of the most recent additions to Panda Security's management team. Born in Catalonia he has lived in the Basque Country for over 10 years, and has extensive experience in the online business sector.

Enrique witnessed the birth of the Internet as a platform for e-commerce in 1994, as he was finishing his university studies in the USA. Consequently, he became a leading light in the sector and took part in important projects such as the Internet Ozu portal and the Vueling airline, which currently sells 80% of its tickets online.

Enrique Aguilera obtained a bachelor’s degree in Computer Aviation Science in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida (1996).

His interest in IT security arose in 1988, designing and developing the first antivirus products for AmigaDos operating systems. In 1990, he founded the IT company Bitmap Multimedia, dedicated to developing medical software. In 1996, he joined Panda, working in software analysis and programming. He later managed software development teams until 1998, when he took charge of the R&D Division. In 2002, he became Chief Technology Officer at Panda, managing the research and innovation area, known as Panda Research.

Iñaki Urzay holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Deusto, Bilbao.

Rick Carlson oversees the operational activities and strategic direction in one of the company’s fastest growing markets as the new president of Panda Security USA. Carlson comes to Panda Security from AVG Technologies, where he served as managing director of North American operations, leading the AVG product line as well expanding the company’s consumer, SMB and OEM sales efforts in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to joining AVG, Carlson was CEO of anti-spyware company Aluria Software, which was acquired by EarthLink under his leadership.

M. Arantza de la Llosa joined Panda Security in May 2005 and worked as Deputy Director of the Solutions and Services Development area until July 2007, when she was appointed CIO of the company. Her experience in executive positions in the Information and Communications Technologies sector goes back to 1998. Prior to working for Panda, she was IT Systems Subdirector reporting directly to the Director of Operations at the Red.es public company, IT Systems Director at AOL Spain and Director of the Oracle Technology Center at Tecsidel.

M. Arantza de la Llosa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and holds a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering from the Deusto University (Spain). She also has a Postgraduate Degree in Human Resource Management from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Eduardo Cervantes has an MBA from Austin Texas University and has more than 20 years experience in the SaaS and consumer product markets. Before joining Panda Security, he was VP Marketing at NTRglobal. He also worked as executive vice-president at Amphire and was the co-founder of several companies which he successfully built up and sold, such as OnSale.com, Quartz and ClearPath Technologies.

María has more than 20 years experience in software development for businesses and the Internet.  She started out as a programmer at Symantec and then rose through various management positions at HP, CoCreate Software GmbH & and most recently at Yahoo as the Chief of Staff to the CTO. In December 2009, María joined Panda Security as CTO. Maria has extensive knowledge and experience in management and execution of large-scale projects, outsourcing, SaaS and search marketing systems. 

She has overall responsibility for all engineering, development and quality processes for all Panda products and solutions.

María holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from California State Polytechnic University, and a BSc in Information Technology Engineering from the Universidad Tecnologica, Valencia, Venezuela

With long experience in financing and budgeting positions, Juan Andrés García has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics by the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain). He was Media Director at Cofares from 2006, Finance Director at Grupo Empresarial Ence and Corporate Finance Director at the Prosegur security services company (2000-2005).

He ha also spent 8 years in the investment banking sector, as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at Warburg Dillon Read (UBS) for Spain and Portugal, where he acted as financial, tax and legal advisor until 1999 for the various units in the group, as well as evaluated new initiatives and projects, among other responsibilities.

In 2009, he joined Panda Security as CFO.