Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to break the cycle of poverty and vulnerability in USA, UK, Spain, Colombia, Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Kuala Lumpur.

The current uncertainty situation requires to address the identification of new futures for social policies. Through reflection, local experimentation and evidence production, Gipuzkoa's Think Tank goes deep into citizens' needs and demands, with the ultimate goal of guaranteeing people's wellbeing by reducing inequalities and improving life quality.

The European Software Institute is a private technological centre and a non-profit foundation created in 1993 by the European Commission with the support of the Basque Government.ESI's mission is to contribute to the development of the Information Society and increase industry competitiveness, by means of knowledge, innovation, continuous improvement and the promotion and dissemination of Information Technology.

Tecnalia Research & Innovation is the greater Research, Development and Innovation private group in Spain and one of the biggest in Europe, with 1,400 employees and a turnover of 125 million euros. Tecnalia’s Innovation Strategies' Division is focused on getting a good idea become an excellent business, by helping businesses and governments identify and develop business opportunities that strengthen their technology base competitiveness.Along with representatives of the Basque Government, Regional Councils, Public University, Trade Associations and key companies, my mission as a Member of the Board is to give advice on the Division’s strategic deployment.

Digital transformation.Identification and development of new business opportunities.Diversification into new markets. Building alliances with key partners. Defining sales, marketing and business strategies.Innovation in products, processes and customer knowledge.Leading the Systems & Technology Development Team.

Digital Vasca, publishing company of diariovasco.com, diariovasco.tv and DVBus, is part of Vocento's El Diario Vasco regional multimedia group. Reporting to company's CEO, I take responsibility for a local internet portal (diariovasco.com), an online tv channel (diariovasco.tv) and one content/ads distribution mobile brand called DVBus. Within my tasks are product development, business and strategy development, commercial development, and teams creation. I'm a member of the group's directors board.

I lecture to postgraduate students on interactive marketing and digital ecosystems. I try both to foster their entrepreneurship skills, and make them consider technology not only as a tool but specially as a key driver of change in behaviours, consumption habits and business and society transformation.

I lecture to postgraduate students, both executives from different industries and entrepreneurs, on companies' transformation to adapt to digital ecosystems. ISDI is an institution created by a group of professionals and companies of reference in the digital arena, aimed to accelerate the shift towards a new, more competitive and efficient economic model.

The International Digital Citizenship Conference (www.congresociudadaniadigital.com) aims to serve as a yearly meeting point focussing on the cybercitizen concept in its widest sense; a place at which to discuss, reflect on, learn about and address the new situations brought to us by the network-society, in the company of leading world-class experts. From design of a new model of education to redefinition of the participative democracy concept, looking at the global prevention of IT risks, each edition of the Conference on Digital Citizenship will endeavour to throw light on strategic subjects for defining the society of the future.

Moda Made in Spain was a venture aimed at promoting the Spanish fashion industry through a print+online magazine distributed in strategic transit points of an international audience. Moda Made in Spain was also an IT consulting firm aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the spanish fashion sector through the adoption of technological tools and new approaches to the global market. Starting up thanks to seed capital from several private investment funds, I was one of the members of the Board.

Reporting to company's General Manager, I took responsibility for creating a new division called Saremedia, launching Vocento's (at that time Grupo Correo) first network of online newspapers, creating the work team from scratch, and devoloping customers' portfolio outside the corporation (working for Telecinco, Jumpy Italy and Iberdrola among others)

Reporting to the General Manager, I created and dynamized the first version of diariovasco.com, implemented the sales strategy, and developed content and product ventures through partnership agreements with other companies.

Arista is today an innovative technology-based agency with a team of over 230 professionals in 4 offices. With a customer-oriented model based on the integration of specialists, advertising, public relations, branding, mobile marketing, internet, retail, user experience, events, direct marketing, Arista is a digital native agency for clients of the digital age.In the first steps of Arista, I took responsibility on sales and on educating companies to evolve from traditional paper-based marketing and communication tools to multimedia CD-ROM interactive apps. We also were one of the first companies in Spain to include websites as part of our customers' marketing and communication strategies.