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CV/Resumé



Here's some semblance of a CV, if that's useful? Things look prettier on paper, as you know.


Formal Education
MSc. Integrated Design, Engineering & Management – MIT
BSc. Telematics Engineering – ICAI (Madrid)
Many graduate credits – Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
Many undergraduate credits – Santa Clara University



Other academic affairs
Fellow, Berkman Klein Center – Harvard Law School
Wellbeing By Design Fellow – JGCC / Sesame Workshop
Headstream Fellow – SecondMuse
LaCaixa Scholar – LaCaixa Foundation


Teaching
Analytics, Problem Solving & Decision Making (as Adjunct Prof.) – IE New York College
Executive & Graduate Education Workshops (as SME) – MIT
Experiential Ethics (as Teaching Fellow) – MIT
Training: Teaching Certificate – MIT Teaching + Learning Lab


Start-ups I co-founded (**exited)
Pandora's Way (CEO & Co-founder)
Reeve (CEO & Co-founder)
Neupic (Co-founder)
Blackphone** (Chief Scientist & Co-founder)
TabSolutions (Co-founder)
Geeksphone** (COO, then CEO & Co-founder)


Orgs I worked for
Snips.AI, acq. SONOS (VP Strategic Partnerships)
Silent Circle (Chief Scientist, Devices)


Orgs I advised
Barbara IoT (Board Director)
ComGo (Board Advisor)
Ceylon Skincare (Advisor)
Bowhead Health (Consultant)
Sandbox Community (Board Trustee)
WEF Global Shapers Community (Hub Curator)
World Economic Forum (Expert Network)
EyeWitness / American Bar Association (Board Advisor)
Fairphone (Advisor)
EU European Commission (Advisor to VP Neelie Kroes)
REPSOL (Consultant)


Awards & Recognitions
HRH Princess of Girona Award
WEF Davos 50
Forbes 30 Under 30 Global, Europe and Spain
TIME Top Inventions of the Year (Blackphone)
MIT Top 10 Technology Breakthroughs of the Year (Blackphone)
Choiseul 100 Economic Leaders of Tomorrow (Ranked #1, Spain)
OpenIDEO Innovation Challenge (Pandora's Way)
MIT IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge (Pandora's Way)

MIT TR35 Innovators Under 35, Spain
C|Net Top 20 Most Influential Latinos in Technology
UNLEASH Young Innovation Award


Artistic training
Music/performance under Tod Machover, Peter Whincop, Ian Hattwick
Visual arts under Pedro Carrasco, Zach Lieberman


Selected Artwork
B.L.I.S.S. (as pop-up)
B.L.I.S.S. (as immersive concert)
S.C.I.S.E. (installation)
Semi-Secret Bedtime Story Society (performance)
DJ Heart (performance)
Casino Casa de la Rumba (immersive theater)
Lumatwist (object)
FaMLE MIT Laptop Ensemble (performance)
Team Mayday: Escape (FPS videogame demo)
The 5th Element (RPG videogame demo)