Born in Madrid, Gloria Lorenzo graduated as a Computer Engineer at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She developed most of her professional career outside Spain.

She lived in Ireland, Italy and US where she worked at technology companies like Corel Corporation, Logos Italy, Lotus and Oracle Ireland. In 1999 she joined Siebel Systems Ireland where she was part of the founder's team that built the Globalization Engineering group. She moved back to Spain at the end of 2003 and joined Oracle again as part of the Siebel acquisition.

She has specialized in Internationalization and Localization in Software Design. She held senior positions in the areas of Engineering, QA, Performance Engineering and Project Management. Currently she is Director of Translation Architecture at Oracle managing an organization spread across Asia and Europe.

In 2009 she started the programme Oracle Women's Leadership (OWL) in Spain to foster leadership for women at Oracle. Several initiatives were launched under the umbrella of this program, including the innovative Cross-Company Mentoring between Oracle, Coca-Cola and American Express.

Up to June 2014 she was part of the Federation Board for Professional Women's Network Global, responsible of Executive Programs where she represented PWN in the creation of the Global Board Ready Women Database that identifies women from all over Europe that can access to Board positions. Last year she was appointed as Vice-Chair of the Spanish Delegation for the Global Summit of Women. In 2013 she received from The International Alliance for Women on the of the World of Difference Awards for her support in the advance and development of women.