Iker Goikoextea Mendoza

Iker Goikoetxea Mendoza graduated in Business Administration and Management and holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Management from the University of Deusto, and a Senior Management Programme from the IESE Business School (University of Navarra). He is the managing director of Centro Kursaal S.A., the company that manages the Kursaal Conference Centre and Auditorium and the Miramar Palace in San Sebastian since the beginning of 2008, and between 2011 and 2015 he was a director of the International Association of Conference Centres (AIPC). He is also president of the Spanish Association of Conference Centres (APCE) since 2020.
His work experience includes companies such as Marie Brizard (Miami, USA) and L’Oreal (Madrid) and prior to joining the Kursaal Centre he was European Marketing Director of SMC, a Japanese multinational on design, manufacture and sale of pneumatic components for automation