From German-Colombian Origin, Yatan grew up between Latin America and Europe. He studied in Manchester, UK and Maastricht, NL and worked for United Nations in Asia, a Bank in Spain and an NGO in India till 2008. Since then he has taught at University founded a few startups and a hardware accelerator. Currently he is actively involved in Hardware.co Accelerator and The Food Assembly, trying to marry his two passions: food and technology.