Women in Technology

Emma Fernandez

Board Member

Sopra Steria

Emma has built a solid career in the technology field: she began working in the ICT sector for companies such as Alcatel and Telefónica and joined Indra in 1991. During her 20 years in Indra she held different managing positions with responsibilities over business and global corporate functions. She played a relevant role in the transformation of Indra from a small-cap to multinational, managing key intangible assets for this business: Strategy, M&A, Innovation and new offering development, Talent Management and Brand & Corporate Responsibility. From 2007 to 2015, as Talent, Innovation and Strategy Senior Executive Vice-President she was appointed member of the Executive Committee. Currently, Emma is using her experience to promote and advise technology start-ups. She is an independent director in the board of several listed companies in Spain and France, including Sopra Steria. Her advisory role ranges from robotics and aeronautical engineering to corporate strategy. Emma is very active in associations and initiatives that promote entrepreneurship and social development and women in leadership.

Cristina Aranda

CMO Intelygenz & Co-Founder/Director at Mujeres Tech

Intelygenz and Mujeres Tech

Cristina Aranda is Chief Marketing Officer at Intelygenz, a company dedicated to the development of agile and quality software with headquarters in Madrid and San Francisco. Cristina has more than 16 years of experience in marketing and digital transformation. She has collaborated with companies of the Ibex35 and Top500 and SMEs.
Cristina is also a co-founder of MujeresTech, a non-profit association whose aim is to promote initiatives to increase women's presence in the digital sector, and at the same time to establish ties with men willing to generate the same possibilities for female talent. Aranda is the Social Innovation Fellow of the Meridian Intl. Center and the US Embassy. In Madrid, member of the committee of Women Leaders of America and of the Committee of Experts of Technological-based Companies, Startups and Talent of the Community of Madrid. Cristina is passionate about applied linguistics. She holds a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from UAM and IUI. Ortega y Gasset, graduated in Hispanic Philology from the UAM and has a Master in Internet Business from ISDI. He soon hopes to be a Scrum Master.

Paloma Real

Business Development Director at Master Card

MasterCard

With over 15 years experience in the mobile phone industry and with a long expertise in emerging products and sales, Paloma Real was appointed Business Development and Innovation Director at Mastercard for Spain and Portugal in May 2014. Previously, she assumed the leadership of the innovation and e-commerce area in the Iberian market for Mastercard. Paloma Real is responsible for enhancing the growth and development of business opportunities with current and potential clients, with special focus on partnerships with non-traditional clients and new partners in the financial industry, to promote the deployment of the new payment solutions between clients, merchants and consumers and accelerate the technological evolution of the digital world market. Paloma has spent a large part of her career dedicated to the design, definition and launch of financial and payment products for mobile. Along her career she hold different high-responsibility positions in the area of Payment Systems, Electronic Commerce and Financial Services of France Telecom (previously Amena and Auna Group), in Strategy and Development area. She has been always linked to mobile payments, she participated in the launch and development of Mobipay, global pioneer in mobile payment. During those years she was responsible of different innovative projects implemented in collaboration with entities such as Banesto, Santander and Bankinter, launching the first NFC payment and transportation pilots in Spain. Paloma Real is Telecommunication Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Macarena Esteves

CEO & Founder

Conento

Macarena is an expert and deep enthusiast of data science and the future of data analytics. She has a remarkable ability to make others easily understand abstract and complex contents and their positive impact on business results. Macarena is the CEO and Founder of Conento, the leading Spanish firm specialized in analytical consulting through the application of mathematical models to business strategic decision making. She has raised and led an excellent team of 45 professionals from different disciplines to create a unique work environment based on common values such as responsibility, generosity, integrity, service orientation and customized work. Conento’s international network has grown to over 25 countries. Macarena sits on several professional advisory boards and is a professor at 8 top universities in Spain. She has an MBA and a PhD in Statistics and Econometrics.

Maria Carmen Fernandez Albertos

Head of Ecommerce/Online, Partner Business Solutions

Google

Maria has 15 years of experience in online advertising in France, Spain and UK.
She has worked in business development, with strong customer focus, high impact and results, from strategy to operational management of online projects. Her specialties are online advertising, branding, media platforms, international account management and sales.

María José Cantarino

Coordinator, Program of Partnership with Universities and the Data Transparency Lab

Telefonica

María José Cantarino joined Telefonica in 1997, developing her career in areas focused at the international development of Telefonica. In 2005, she joined the department of Global Corporate Social Responsibility where she managed technical projects with special focus on ICT innovation, digital inclusion and new technologies and youth’s online behaviour. She also led European funded projects under the framework of the European programs FP7 and Horizon 2020 aimed at promoting social inclusion and improving youth employability and entrepreneurship through new technologies as the tools for change. Last year she joined the Telefónica Chief Data Office where she is the coordinator of the Program of Partnership with Universities and the Data Transparency Lab. She took a Bachelor Degree in “Langues étrangères appliquées” at the University Lille III (France), and two postgraduate degrees in Management and Business Administration at the University of Valenciennes (France) and in Telecommunication Business at the University of Catalonia (Spain).

Teresa Ramos- Martin

Director, Technology & Innovation

IE University

For Teresa, coaching is a way of being in the world. It is a way of relating to others. She strongly believe in a type of coaching that helps clients discover their strengths, build on them to achieve their goals and create their own personal leadership style. Coaching is a way of leading oneself and leading others. In Teresa’s more than 23 years of management experience, she learnt the benefits of a coaching style when leading my own teams. Teresa was the champion of each and every one of her team members. Every one of them had enormous potential. Her task as a manager was to empower them to unleash their full potential and act as facilitator of their leadership journey. The results were always outstanding, both in terms of productivity and output as well as motivation and job satisfaction. This encouraged Teresa to take formal training in coaching, eventually leading to her becoming a professional executive coach. She works with senior executives, top managers, high potentials and international teams. She also conduct intercultural coaching. Her clients are based mainly in UK, Germany and Spain. Teresa’s clients say that besides her international management experience, they value her warm and empathetic style together with my structured and energetic approach.

Inés Huertas Freire

Co-Founder, Datatons & Co-ordinator of R-Ladies Madrid

Datatons and R-Ladies Madrid

Data Scientist and Co-Founder at Datatons, Ines has taken part in many analytics projects preparing data, designing models, searching for patterns and trends and even doing Big Data systems administration when the need arises. "A Data Dreamer in search of stories!", she currently organizes the Data Science Madrid Meetup group and R-Ladies Madrid with the goal of fostering a community that shares, cares and promotes the use of different technologies in Data Science and the role of women in the STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

Clarrisa Watson

Head of Marketing

Alto Data Analytics

Head of Marketing at Alto Data Analytics, Clarissa Watson, has developed her international career in advertising and digital marketing in Canada and Mexico, including a combine six years’ experience in McCANN, UK Trade Investment and Aeromexico. With her finger on the pulse of emerging data strategies, Clarissa is driven by a purpose to make brands data-driven and agile in the digital and machine age. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Royal Roads University and master’s in visual and digital media from IE School of Human Sciences and Technology.

Roosi Magi

Business Development / HANA & Analytics Solution Management

SAP

https://www.linkedin.com/in/magiroosi/

Roosi Magi, originally from Estonia, is an Alumni of the Master in Business Analytics and Big Data. She is currently working in the SAP Database & Analytics organisation where she is responsible for the Go-To-Market strategy across SAP's database, data warehouse and analytics product portfolio. Previously Roosi was the Regional Presales for Predictive Analytics & Machine Learning where she provided technical support and guidance to prospects and customers in the domains of data analytics, machine learning and agile data visualization. She speaks English, French, Estonian and a bit of Spanish and has a strong passion for travel, sports, and emerging technologies

Christina Stathopoulos

Expert Engineer in Project Development and Big Data, Nielsen

Nielsen

Christina Stathopoulos, originally from the USA, is an IE Ambassador and Alumni of the Master in Business Analytics and Big Data. She is currently working as a Project Development and Big Data Engineer at Nielsen- maintaining data quality in final client products, optimizing data processes and leading migration to Big Data technologies. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and also has a strong passion for travel, culture and the effects of globalization and emerging technologies on society

Borja Gonzalez del Regueral (Moderator)

Vice Dean, Business Transformation, Finance, Operations

IE School of Human Sciences and Technology

Borja is a Professor of Business Analytics & Technology at IE University in Madrid, Spain.
His work and interests focus on how data analytics and technology can be harnessed to drive sustainable competitive advantage in corporations. He also works at the intersection of leadership and innovation: applying behavioral science to leading and driving change in organizations that face strong pressures to maintain the status quo. Overall, his professional mission is to help companies instill a culture of disruptive innovation and educate a next generation of young professionals able to draw on innovation methodologies to be leaders in their chosen areas of work.
Prior to pursuing a career at IE University, Dr. Gonzalez del Regueral worked at British Petroleum (BP) where he led global operations transformation projects, developed innovation strategies in the areas of human capital and systems implementation. Prior to BP, he worked at Iberdrola in its international expansion, post-merger integrations, and in regulatory strategy for the electricity and natural gas markets. He also founded and managed a technology-based startup focusing on energy efficiency in the Spanish market.
Dr. Gonzalez del Regueral holds a Ph.D. in Thermoeconomics from Polytechnic University of Madrid and was awarded the best PhD thesis by the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain. He also holds Masters degrees in the Electric Power Industry (Comillas Pontifical University), Chemical Engineering (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and Mining Engineering (Polytechnic University of Madrid) and an Executive MBA (IE Business School). His academic work has led to a patented novel energy generation process, a book on Exergy & Thermoeconomics and publications in several scientific journals.”