Lantern | Team

A city:

Donosti-San Sebastian

An object:

A comal, a Remedios Varo painting, and a good crystal wine glass.

A passion:

Eating, traveling, antique street markets

An experience:

Planting Cempasúchil flowers in Xochimilco’s Chinampas

A food:

A Spanish red shrimp or a freshly shucked oyster

María understands the world through food and what happens around the table. Born in the United States and raised in Mexico, this perspective led her to Spain to professionalize her passion and study Gastronomy and Culinary Arts at the Basque Culinary Center where she specialized in business model innovation. During this period, she developed product design projects, worked hand-in-hand on experience design with Michelin-starred restaurants like Arrea! and Hermanos Torres, and gained practical experience in kitchens in San Sebastián and A Coruña. In Mexico, she has been part of Food Design projects like Cenas Amarillas and worked at the Innovation Hub of Tecnológico de Monterrey, implementing a social action project with national impact. María brings a fresh perspective; her combination of technical training, cultural sensitivity, and innovation-oriented approach positions her to push established codes and generate new opportunities in the food and beverage sector.

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Jaime Martín, founding partner and CEO of Lantern, is a renowned guest speaker at various prestigious international forums. His presentations are inspiring, rigorous, engaging and visually powerful. In them, he addresses topics such as foresight on future consumption and business trends; social changes to understand how to build culturally relevant brands; the future of food and the food & beverage sector; and innovation levers to grow in complex times. These are some of the companies and organizations where he has been invited to speak:

- Companies seeking radical inspiration for their senior management events (e.g. Danish Crown, McDonald's, GB Foods, Merck etc.)
- Food Innovate Summit 2025 Madrid (event Chair)
- Food Tech Summit & Expo (Mexico)
- Vitafoods (Geneva)
- Food Live Matters (UK)
- Alimentaria (Barcelona)
- Food4Future (Bilbao)
- America Food Innovate (Chicago)
- AECOC
- Cluster Alimentación de Galicia
- Basque Food Cluster
- Global Dairy Congress
- IESE Business School
- FIAB

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María Lujambio

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