Since January 2022, Adriana Tortajada Narváez has been the CEO and Managing Partner of the Twelve Hundred VC ("1200 VC") Fund, an early-stage investment platform that invests in fund managers and founders shaping the future of humanity. Its focus is on seeking transformative technologies and regional value creation, which will accelerate a positive impact on the planet and society.

From November 2018 to December 2021, Adriana was in charge of the Global Entrepreneurship business unit at Santander University of the Santander Group, where she assumed the leadership of integrating the first global network of entrepreneurship and innovation called "SantanderX," which supports entrepreneurs to connect with the three primary resources necessary for its scaling: talent, clients, and financing. In addition to articulating the programmatic offer for best-in-class entrepreneurship, she was in charge of connecting the ecosystem's actors of the 11 footprint countries and linking up with more than 1,200 universities around the world that are part of Santander Universities’ network. 

From July 2015 to November 2018, she was the head of the Venture Capital, Impact Investment, and Mezzanine team at the Mexican Fund of Funds, an area in charge of the investment strategy in the early stages of innovative funds/businesses seeking to scale in the region. Pioneer launched the first Impact Investment Fund of Funds in Latin America, counting Grupo Bimbo as an anchor investor. 

From February 2013 to June 2018, she was part of the founding team of the National Entrepreneurship Institute (INADEM) of the Ministry of Economy, like the head of the General Direction of Entrepreneurship and Financing Programs, an area in charge of strengthening the young ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation in Mexico. In 3 years, she managed to develop 45 new seed investment vehicles and 954 high-impact projects and expand the National System of Development Bank Guarantees goals, canalizing more than 400 million dollars. 

In 2004, she was a pioneer leader in the development of the first entrepreneurial seed/VC fund (CONACYT-NAFINSA Entrepreneurs Fund) with public resources for technological and scientific entrepreneurs, where she directed the negotiation and closing of 44 investments (20 million dollars) of seed and venture capital throughout Mexico. She worked at the National Development Bank- Nacional Financiera (2003 to 2013), promoting innovative programs to create the entrepreneurial capital ecosystem in the country, launching vehicles that co-invest public and private resources, compiling the best practices of the industry at an international level, to detonate the growth of investment in innovation. 

She has participated in the development of the first Binational Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council of Mexico and USA (MUSEIC), as a jury in the first call for VC Funds in Argentina and the first fund of the Pacific Alliance countries in conjunction with the IDB Innovation Lab (BID Lab). She is currently an independent member of the Investment Committee of the Fund of Funds of Peru and the chairperson of the Advisory Board at the Latam Impact Fund of Funds.

 Education. 

Adriana is a member of Class 16 of the Kauffman VC Fund Managers Program (Kauffman Fellows Program). KFP's mission is to develop the world's next Venture Capital leaders. She completed his Bachelor's Degree in Finance at the University of Guadalajara (1999) and his Master's in Public Administration at the Ortega y Gasset University Institute in Madrid, Spain (2002). In 2009, he completed the "Open Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship" program at the University of California, Berkeley Hass School of Business. In 2006, she was recognized as one of the 30 professional promises in her 30 years in Mexico, classified by the EXPANSIÓN business magazine ("30 promises in the 30"), and in 2017, she received the "Successful Trajectory Award" from the AMEXCAP (Mexican Private Equity Association). She was recognized as "The Scholar of the Year" of the MOB Scholarships, an association of recognized excellence that contributes to the development of Mexico through the support of postgraduate higher education and the promotion of its graduates. She has been a speaker, panelist, and jury member on entrepreneurship, innovation, impact, and investment initiatives in America, Europe, and Asia for almost two decades.