High-tech Entrepreneurship

Ignacio Mas

Outside Director at Gojo & Company, Japan

Faculty Profile

Ignacio is a non-executive director at Gojo & Company in Japan and Humo Bank in Tajikistan, Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School's Council on Emerging Market Enterprises at Tufts University, and an independent consultant.

During 2015-2020, Ignacio was co-founder and executive director at the Digital Frontiers Institute, a not-for-profit that develops professional development training courses around digital money and payments. Previously, he was Deputy Director in the Financial Services for the Poor program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Senior Advisor at the Technology Program at CGAP. Ignacio has been Director of Global Business Strategy at Vodafone Group, Executive VP of Marketing and Account Management at DoCoMo interTouch, and Senior Manager responsible for telecoms investments in Europe for Intel Capital. Ignacio started his career as a financial economist at the World Bank.

He has undergraduate degrees in maths and economics from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard University, and has been Adjunct Professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Experience

Aug 2023 - Present
Independent non-executive Director
Humo Microfinance Deposit Organization
Mar 2023 - Present
Independent non-executive Director
Gojo & Company
Jan 2013 - Present
Senior Fellow, CEME
Fletcher School at Tufts University
Jul 2011 - Present
Independent Consultant
mobile money & financial inclusion
Jan 2016 – Dec 2020
Founder and Executive Director
Digital Frontiers Institute
Sep 2013 – Aug 2015
Senior Research Fellow
Saïd Business School, Oxford University
Jan 2009 – Jun 2011
Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor, BMGF
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) + Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (BMGF grantee)
Sep 2007 - Oct 2008
Senior Advisor, Technology Program, CGAP
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) + Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (BMGF grantee)
Jan 2006 – Apr 2007
Interim Executive VP for Marketing & Account Management
DoCoMo Intertouch
Board Member in Vodafone Portugal, Iusacell in Mexico and VF Greece
Vodafone Group
May 2004 - Apr 2005
Strategy Director for South Europe, Middle East & Africa
Vodafone Group
Oct 2003 – Apr 2004
Director of Business Innovation, Group R&D.
Vodafone Group
Oct 2002 – Sep 2003
General Manager, Business Solutions, Vodafone Australia.
Vodafone Group
Jan 2001 – Sep 2002
Director of Global Business Strategy
Vodafone Group
Oct 1998 – Feb 2000
Principal consultant; responsible for the Paris & Madrid offices.
Analysis Ltd
Mar 1996 – Oct 1998
Principal consultant
Analysis Ltd
Jan – Jun 1995
Assistant to the Managing Directors.
The World Bank (IBRD/IFC)
Mar 1991 – Dec 1993
Financial Officer, Treasury Dept
The World Bank (IBRD/IFC)
Jun 1988 – Feb 1991
Financial Economist, Research & Technical Depts.
The World Bank (IBRD/IFC)
Jul 2005 – Jan 2006
Strategy consultant
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jan – Aug 1994 and Aug – Dec 1995
Visiting Assistant Professor of International Business
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Mar 2020– Dec 2000
Senior Strategic Investments Manager
Intel Capital
Jul 1995– Sep 1995
Visiting Researcher
Banco de la República de Colombia
Jan-Jul 1987 and Feb-Mar 1988; La Paz, Bolivia: Jul – Aug 1986 and May 1988
Research Assistant
Harvard Institute for International Development