Manuel Jimenez

Manuel Jimenez has been an entrepreneur since 2005. He does not come from academia or a large consulting firm — he comes from the client’s side of the table. Educated at the Deutsche Schule Málaga, he studied Economics at the Universität zu Köln and CUNEF Madrid before launching his entrepreneurial career with a first technology exit that marked the beginning of a trajectory dedicated to building, acquiring, and transforming companies.

Over more than two decades he has founded, managed, and served on the boards of over 150 companies across Spain and the DACH region. He currently holds active board or directorship roles in over 80 companies and has led the restructuring of more than 50 businesses facing challenges ranging from uncontrolled growth to imminent insolvency. Throughout his career he has contributed to the preservation or creation of over 2,000 jobs.

That hands-on experience as a business owner is what led him to found BMC in 2010. After years of dealing with large firms that were not built for companies his size, and traditional advisors that lacked the technical depth his operations demanded, the conclusion was to build what did not exist.

The founding thesis of BMC was born from frustration: after years of dealing with large firms that were not built for companies his size, and traditional advisors that lacked the technical depth his operations demanded, the conclusion was to build what did not exist. A model where SMEs and mid-market companies receive the same standard of strategic, tax, and legal advisory as large corporations — without inflated structures, without rotating junior teams every quarter, and with a senior point of contact who knows the client’s business because they have been sitting at the same table since day one.

What Manuel learned, he did not learn in a classroom. He learned it by running his own companies — with all the tax, employment, and regulatory complexity that entails. That is the difference: the best consulting comes from having been on the client’s side, not from having studied it as a case exercise.

Today he leads a team of 30 professionals across five Spanish offices and remains directly involved in the firm’s most significant mandates: M&A transactions, restructurings, due diligence, and business valuations. He has participated in over 200 transactions throughout his career, many of them between German and Spanish companies — a corridor where his command of all three languages and his knowledge of both regulatory frameworks make him a natural counterpart.

He is a member of the German Chamber of Commerce for Spain (AHK), speaks at investment and business expansion forums, and has published on the valuation of family businesses and market entry strategies for the Iberian Peninsula.