Our team

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What we are

We are the most personalized and affordable English academy. We help our students learn English definitively, thanks to our natural method guaranteed by 50 years of experience and the constant follow up done by our native speaking teachers.

We are inspired by

The hope of an educational project that fosters English learning in the most comfortable, practical and fun way for our students.

Where we are going

We want to be the best English academy on the Internet.

Our mission

We want our students to learn English and be happy.

Where we are located

C/Travessera les Corts, 55 1-1 08028 Barcelona, Spain.


Who we are


Together, we have great experience in various fields: pedagogy, administration, communication and new technology. We are a team of over 50 people, representing countries such as the United States, England, Australia, Spain, Italy, France, Argentina and Mexico.

We work with the same innovative, creative, and enthusiastic mentality that has characterized us from the start.

nuestro_equipo Severo Figuerola
President
Severo is one of the most experienced English course creators in the world. For the last 30 years he has created courses and businesses around English. At 75 he continues with the same vitality as always.
 nuestro_equipo Nacho Giral
Chairman of the board
Industrial Engineer with a graduate degree in Business Direction, born in Barcelona. Founder of Atrapalo.com, his great passion is Formula 1 racing and any other sport that attracts masses. His other interests are sailing and the mountains.

nuestro_equipo Manuel Vidal Quadras
CEO
Studied Industrial Engineering in Barcelona and has an MBA in IESE. He is the father of two children, at the moment… His great passions are his children, languages, Internet, and doing sport outside; the mountains help him connect to nature.		 nuestro_equipo Nacho Rodés
Sales & Marketing Manager
Nacho has a degree in Administration and Business Direction from IQS-URL and he is responsible for ABA English Private Students. He loves travelling, technology and sport. If you can’t find him in the office, he is sure to be playing guitar in his band.

nuestro_equipo Victoria Capriles
Pedagogical Coordinator
Victoria has a degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and has been teaching English for 20 years. She loves teaching because it’s her great passion. She is the “#1 fan” of all her students. She’ll always make you smile with one of her anecdotes and there are only three things she loves more…her three children!		 nuestro_equipo Kiko Fábregas
Corporate Sales Manager
Kiko is an Industrial Engineer and in charge of ABA English Corporate. He is also the captain of the Spanish field hockey selection and has participated in the Olympics three times: Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Peking 2008 where his team won the silver medal.

nuestro_equipo Rosa Valls
COO
Rosa has a degree in Labor Relations and has been working in academic offices for over 10 years. She loves to travel to far away places and have long dinners with her friends. She is the mother of a beautiful 22-month-old girl and one of her latest accomplishments has been to successfully unite her professional and family lives. 		nuestro_equipo Leónidas Williams
CTO
With a degree in Information Management, he has more than 10 years of experience developing Internet projects. He is crazy about technology and everything related (from an early age he was already irresistibly attracted to all types of buttons, though he never knew exactly what the consequences of pressing them would be). His interests are sport, music and motorcycling.