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Maite Ventura Olóriz
Managing Director MENA, LaLiga
United Arab Emirates
Stadiums & Mega Events
Maite Ventura joined LALIGA in 2017 as part of LALIGA Global Network, a project to select young talent to grow LaLiga’s International image in which 13,000 candidates applied to represent the Spanish football league in 45 strategic countries.
Before being promoted to her current role, Maite was LALIGA Delegate for UAE, managing different institutional and social projects across the MENA region hoping to grow the business and using football as a developmental sport to achieve these goals.
Prior to LaLiga, she worked for the Trade & Investment office of Peru in UAE as a Trade Marketing Manager and previously, as a consultant for the global media group The Business Year in various projects in Colombia, Panama and UAE.