Internet Entrepreneur, Product Strategist and Tech Specialist
Barcelona Area, Spain
- Current
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- Founder and CEO at ExperienceOn Ventures
- VP of Products / Member of the Board of Advisors at tractis.com
- Past
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- Chief Technology Officer / VP of Products at tractis.com
- Chief Security Officer at netfocus
- Technical Director at netfocus
- Software Architecture Department Manager / Information Security Manager at e-xtendforce
- Software Architect at e-xtendnow
- Software Engineer at Instituto de Automática y Fabricación / Manufacturing and Automatics Institute
- Education
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- Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Universidad de León
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Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas’s Summary
Carlos is a Spanish internet entrepreneur with eight years of experience in technology, mainly in the internet and information security fields.
He has worked in many different areas, including product management (from the inception to the commercialization), technical direction and architecture (for mission-critical infrastructures and services), project and program management, general management (several CXO positions). He also works (formally or informally) with some companies as an adviser.
He has a strong technical background and is very fluent developing in many languages, frameworks and architectures.
Carlos is a natural leader and has good facing and communication abilities, being able to speak at all levels, from senior management to technical teams.
Interested in entrepreneurial opportunities to create the next big thing.
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas’s Specialties:
Technology, technology management, product management, business strategy management, coaching, leadership, deal-making.
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas’s Experience
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Founder and CEO
ExperienceOn Ventures
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
ExperienceOn is our incubator for intellectual property and a starting point for many ideas before they're started as businesses. We're currently developing a tech infrastructure that will allow to build tomorrow's web, including technologies like information retrieval, natural language analysis, knowledge representation and engineering, machine learning, recommendation engines (and some more AI techniques), parallel computing, next-generation business intelligence, distributed storage, cluster management and information security.
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VP of Products / Member of the Board of Advisors
tractis.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Helping the CEO to define the product strategy and product road-map.
I've also joined the advisory board of the company, composed of several top-notch executives and former executives. -
Chief Technology Officer / VP of Products
tractis.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)
My responsibilities included defining technology strategy, product planning and overseeing product technical design and development, and also defining the product road-map and product marketing strategy. I've personally developed the electronic signature processing back-end.
I participated in the board of directors and in several advisory committees, and also supported the CEO negotiating deals with major accounts. -
Chief Security Officer
netfocus
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2006 — November 2006 (11 months)
Managed the information security product suite of netfocus, include one of the world's most-advanced digital signature management infraestructures. Member of the board of directors, reporting directly to the CEO, collaborated to the strategy definition and execution. Supported the account management and deal-making activities for blue-chip companies and public organizations, being a key part in securing 3MM€ in contracts. Represented the company in major public events, including security and general technology ones.
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Technical Director
netfocus
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year)
Architected and directed the development of the netfocus' NES information security product suite, currently one of the world's most advanced digital signature management suites. Managed the deployment of large-scale NES-based infrastructures in key accounts, supporting critical operations mainly in the financial and e-government sectors. Collaborated intensely in the product suite planning, marketing and launch activities. Successfully managed a team of 20 software engineers and team/project managers.
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Software Architecture Department Manager / Information Security Manager
e-xtendforce
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — June 2004 (1 year)
Managed the software architecture department, composed of several senior software and systems architects, in charge of the design and deployment of mission-critical solutions, like Public-Key Infrastructures, Identity Management Infrastructures, transaction-processing infrastructures in the financial sector, business messaging infrastructures like eInvoicing gateways (EDI) and platforms. Involved in planning and architecture activities and frequently also in the development of specially critical or complex parts of the infrastructures.
Today, these platforms are running more than 150 million e-Banking transactions per year and managing millions of electronic invoices. -
Software Architect
e-xtendnow
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 5 months)
Designed, architected and managed the project for the DirecTrust PKI (http://www.directrust.com), including the design, implementation and deployment of the technical infrastructure and also the design, creation and deployment of the certificate policies (CP), certification practices statement (CPS) and concrete procedures and security policies. Today this PKI is being used by thousands of users in the financial services and public sectors.
Architected and co-developed Bank Sabadell's e-Invoicing platform, leader in Spain as of today, and used by many blue-chip companies in Spain. -
Software Engineer
Instituto de Automática y Fabricación / Manufacturing and Automatics Institute
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2000 — June 2001 (9 months)
Worked in the design and implementation of a distributed-agent system based on FIPA-compliant, Java-based, distributed agent platform JADE, to create a knowledge adquisition and management system for one of the biggest mining companies in Spain.
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas’s Education
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Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya
Ph.D., 2004 — 2008 (expected)
Specialization in global, massively scalable security, digital signature and identity management infrastructures.
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Degree in International Commerce, 2002 — 2003
Trained in many relevant aspects of commerce (physical and electronic) in an international environment, including legal, business and operational considerations. Included a commercial mission to several countries of Latin America.
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Master in International e-Business, 2002 — 2003
Focused in commerce conducted by electronic means. Specialized in e-Commerce in Internet, including business, legal, financial and operational issues, among others. Sucessfully created a business plan for an e-commerce company as the final assignment, and defended it succesfully under a commitee composed by VCs, entrepreneurs, general managers / CEOs and management professors.
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Universidad de León
Master's Degree in Computer Science, 1997 — 2001
Strongly specialized in scientific aspects, like numerical computation, security, language processing, artificial vision and distributed computing, among others.
Graduated with honors, with the dissertation "Advanced Transport Systems for Medium and High Quality Multimedia Content".
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Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas’s Interests:
Business and community-related interests: Entrepreneurship, politics, coaching, innovation, technology in its widest expression. Spare-time interests: Table-tennis, DJing, movies.
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas’s Groups:
Voting member at the OASIS Digital Signature Services Technical Commitee (DSS TC) [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dss]
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas’s Honors:
Graduated with honors in the Master's Degree in Computer Science, with the dissertation "Advanced Transport Systems for Medium and High Quality Multimedia Content".
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