As a global C-level executive and board member across multiple organizations, my career has been defined by a central purpose: leading complex transformations that generate sustainable growth and reinvent industries through technology and innovation. With over two decades of experience across multiple continents—from founding deep-tech startups to directing business units in Fortune 500 & Nasdaq-100  corporations—I have developed a unique approach that fuses strategic vision with relentless execution.

My specialty is orchestrating large-scale change environments, catalyzing digital and operational reinvention. As Chief Information & Innovation Officer at Ferrovial, I lead the technology and innovation strategy to diversify and expand our global business across energy, mobility, construction, airports, and concessions domains. My mandate is clear: drive the adoption of exponential technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and digital platforms to create new revenue streams and optimize efficiency at global scale.

Previously, as Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at LATAM Airlines, I led one of the most ambitious digital transformations in the Latin American aviation industry, directing a team of over 600 professionals distributed across 6 countries to build the continent's first 100% cloud-native airline. We achieved measurable business impact: over 30% increase in sales conversion, over 20% reduction in OPEX and CAPEX, and over 50% improvement in web performance. I managed and developed over 40 new digital products in just two years.

My trajectory is complemented by high-impact roles as Senior Advisor at McKinsey for the global Travel, Transport & Logistics practice, and as Senior Advisor to NASA's Chief Innovation Officer. I also held executive positions at Iberia, including VP of Customer Experience and Madrid-Barajas Airport Director, where I led teams of over 5,000 people.

This diversity of experiences, combined with a solid foundation in civil engineering and continuous executive education at institutions such as Harvard Business School, Stanford, ESADE, and IESE, has provided me with a deep understanding of how to scale innovation from conception to global implementation. I currently serve on boards and advisory councils of organisations, including Forbes Technology Council, WSJ CIO Network, CIONET, Executive Technology Board, Board of Innovation, Bankinter Future Trends Forum, etc.

My passion is building and leading high-performance teams that can convert disruption into tangible and sustainable opportunities.

Dimitris Bountolos

𝐂𝐮𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 #𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐑𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 #𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲.🏎️

It’s striking to see how many ultra-performance car brands were born and survived in such a small part of Northern Italy: #Ferrari,  #Lamboghini, Maserati, #Pagani, #Alfa_Romeo, #Bugatti, #Lancia...

In a hyper-competitive market, this density was not luck. It was the result of factors that reinforced each other over decades.

🔧 𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: 
Artisans, mechanics, leather experts, precision engineers. All within a few kilometers.

🎨 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐃𝐍𝐀 𝐚𝐫𝐭 + 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: 
Cars designed as moving sculptures, not just efficient machines.

🔥 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥: 
Constant comparison raised standards for everyone. Collective dissatisfaction became progress.

🏭 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: 
Long-term vision preserved relevance and scale beyond individual brands.

🏁 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐛: 
Win or lose on Sunday, improve on Monday. Continuous R&D before the term existed.

🧭 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬: 
Leaders embodied vision, values, and purpose. Brands had faces and character.

💎 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬: 
Exclusivity came from feeling, not showing.

📖 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲𝐭𝐡: 
Italy knows how to tell stories. And stories build aspiration.

🌍 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐭: 
Talent flows where ecosystems are strong. Geography still matters.

🏎️ 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞:
Cars were built to race first, to sell later.

This was not coincidence. It was cumulative causality: 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 + 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 + 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 + 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 + 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩.

Italy built brands with soul long before marketing named it. And in a world where technology keeps homogenizing everything, that emotional DNA remains a real competitive edge.

For any #country, #company, or #leadership team aiming to transform its value proposition, the question is simple:

💡 What do you bring?
💡 What already exists? 
💡 What can the ecosystem amplify?

🚀 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥. 𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬.

#Leadership #Innovation #Ecosystems #Strategy #BrandBuilding #DigitalTransformation #CompetitiveAdvantage

Not long ago, recreating the past meant rebuilding it physically.

📍 Months of preparation.
📍 Millions in budget.
📍 And a bit of luck.

Today, lying on the couch and multitasking thanks to AI, we can create scenes like the soldier in 1917 almost as easily as ordering a pizza. 🎬📱

When entry barriers disappear, the incentive changes. It stops being purely economic and becomes historical and social. The ability to recreate moments that many never saw or lived—but that changed the course of history—is no longer just entertainment.

It’s an educational and cultural legacy. We now have the tools to create: 🧠🌍  

🔵 Stories that teach.
🟡 Stories that help societies remember.
🟠 Stories that turn collective lessons into something tangible and shared.
🔴 Stories that inspire future generations to do better. 🚀

#Innovation #DigitalTransformation #Leadership #Technology #AI #Education #Storytelling #FutureOfWork

𝐇𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 🎯📊

Most change doesn’t feel dramatic. It feels small. Almost invisible.

That’s the real lesson behind habits: they work like compound interest. 📈 On any given day, the impact is barely noticeable. Over months and years, it’s decisive.

In digital transformation, this is easy to forget.
We chase big launches, bold strategies, shiny tech. But culture, execution, and results are built in much quieter ways.

🟡 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.
🟠 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭.
🔴 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧.
🔵 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝

None of this goes viral. All of it compounds.

You rarely feel the benefit of good habits early.
And you rarely feel the cost of bad ones… until it’s too late.

𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐲.

📍Small actions.
📍Repeated consistently.
📍Over time.

That’s where real advantage is built. 🚀

#Leadership #Management #DigitalTransformation #Innovation #Habits #Execution #Culture #LongTermThinking

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭? 🌑 🧑‍🚀 🚀 

I was born a decade too late to witness the Moon landing live. I’ve always felt a bit "orphaned" from that moment—arguably the last time the entire world stood still to watch a collective dream come true.

Recently, I took my daughters (5 and 8) to a space exhibition. I wasn't sure if it would resonate. But within seconds, they were captivated by the "Moonwalkers." They sat glued to the screens, teletransported back to Neil Armstrong’s first steps.

Watching them, I realized a sharp contrast:

The Apollo XI mission was a masterpiece of precision. It was a minute-by-minute script, designed to execute a rigid plan without error.

But as I watched my girls dream about a future I might not live to see, I struggled with a dilemma that applies as much to parenting as it does to leadership:

𝐃𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧? 𝐎𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭?

In management and transformation, we are obsessed with roadmaps, KPIs, and 5-year plans. We try to #Apollo everything.

But the next great leap—the one my daughters will take—won't come from a script. It will come from uncontained curiosity. It requires the safety to dream big and the agility to deviate from the plan.

Perhaps we need to stop worrying so much about the schedule and start worrying about the spark.

Maybe the astronauts of the future are today’s “lunatics.” The ones who explore without permission. Who question the map before drawing a new one. 

As leaders, parents, executives, maybe our real job isn’t to control milimetrically the trajectory. It’s to make sure curiosity survives long enough to find its own orbit.

🌕🚀 #Leadership #Innovation #Moonshot #CEOMindset #FutureOfLife

Cities behave like living systems. They move to a shared rhythm shaped by intention and by chance. 

From the rigid grids of old military camps, to the diagonal that cuts through Barcelona, to the bold freedom of Brasília, and now visions like The Line.

Urban form is memory in three dimensions. But it’s also a constraint — and an accelerator — for what comes next.

📍 Who we meet.
📍 How often we collide by accident.
📍 What feels convenient, possible, or distant.

Cities quietly shape our behavior, our networks, our growth. What’s changing now is our ability to see this clearly. With AI, we can easily simulate futures, stress-test ideas, and explore how design choices might heal or harm long before concrete is poured. 🤖🌱

The opportunity in front of us is to understand the environments that shape human potential — and to have the tools to evolve them with intent.

#Innovation #DigitalTransformation #AI #UrbanDesign #Cities #FutureOfWork

It was only a matter of time, and it seems it has happened. 

Satellite communications in LEO orbits are establishing themselves as the global architecture with the most deployment and progression. 

Uploading and downloading data today is no longer enough; in an economy driven by inference and increasingly tokenized, enabling the orchestration of model execution directly on satellites acting as moving data centers will turn low Earth orbits into a layer of intelligence, not just for transmission.



https://lnkd.in/eMQUp9kZ

Open article: China's tech firm deploys AI model in orbit, unveils massive space computing plan by global.chinadaily.com.cn

China's tech firm deploys AI model in orbit, unveils massive space computing plan

𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭. 🖥️ 

A few minutes ago, I hit a common roadblock. I needed to visualize a blueprint in my daily workflow. Traditionally, this would have triggered a tedious process: checking if I had the right licenses for that specific capability, or fighting through the ads and sign-up walls of "freemium" online viewers.

Instead, my reaction was instant and almost instinctive. I asked my AI agent using any of the Vive Coding tools: Lovable, Manus AI, Replit, Windsurf...    to create a web application capable of opening and editing #DXF and #DWG files.

The result? In barely two minutes, I had a fully functional application and the source code. But more importantly, I had a tailored asset I could immediately share with my team, turning a personal bottleneck into a collective resource.

This isn't just about coding. It’s about a fundamental shift in how we operate.
I have incorporated AI into my routine not just as a tool, but as an "exo-cortex." It allows me to:

📍 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: I demand more of myself, I doubt more, and I analyse faster.

📍 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲: I now execute tasks I used to have to orchestrate through others, making me more productive and effective.

📍 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 "𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞": Applications are no longer just products we buy; they are instant answers to immediate needs.

However, let’s be clear: this superpower requires #discipline, #method, and a refusal to settle.

To drive change at scale in a company like Ferrovial, we must exercise this muscle daily. We are moving toward a reality where the only defence for competitiveness is our ability to orchestrate this individual capability in a governed and managed collective competence. 

The software era, as it was understood, is over. 

#DigitalTransformation #AI #Innovation #Management #Leadership #Productivity #Ferrovial #GenAI

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤? 🥕🪵

It seems this age-old management and motivational dilemma now applies to Artificial Intelligence.

I’ve been reading fascinating studies suggesting that certain LLMs actually perform better depending on the "politeness level" of the prompt. Tipically the rudest the prompt is the better and more precise the outcome is.

It’s a strange feeling. It highlights a bit of our own human dysfunction mirrored back at us. In management, we often preach culture but unknowingly reward performance under pressure. We tolerate results achieved through friction.

But true high-performance teams—whether human or AI-augmented—shouldn't rely on external force. They thrive on self-imposed commitment, natural alignment, and yes, a framework of cordiality.

Being judicious, grateful, and polite isn't a sign of mediocrity. In a long-term learning relationship, it's actually a sign of excellence.

Here is the risk: If our reward and reinforced learning models teach AI that "𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲" is the goal, they will imitate that bad habit.

In the current "𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠" many seek extreme brevity. But we shouldn't sacrifice context and the nuance of conversation just to save a few words.

We have evolved very quickly from just "searching" the web to "ordering" an AI. Let’s make sure we don't lose our humanity in the process.

💡 Innovation isn’t just about smarter systems. It’s also about the values we encode — explicitly or not.

#Leadership #Innovation #ArtificialIntelligence #Management #DigitalTransformation #HumanCentricAI #Culture

A few years ago, we wouldn’t have been able to process this. 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. Dozens, maybe hundreds of them. Deployed across China in just a few months.

Inside, people fold clothes, open drawers, sort objects, and select parts. Students. Workers. Blue-collar jobs, paid by the hour. Teaching robots how to deal with the physical world.

There’s something deeply uncomfortable about it. Society educates and invests in a generation, only for their skills to become a shared dataset. A collective model. A fleet of humanoid robots trained to take over the very tasks those people could realistically aspire to.

What’s even more interesting is where this leads.

🟠 Training of the robots itself can be delocalized.
🟡 Supervision of the robots can be delocalized
🔴 All robots synchronize capabilities at the same time
🔵 24x7 shifts will be a reality

The future’s cheapest production might come from:
the cheapest possible training, done anywhere, powered by the most efficient compute and energy.

We’re not just automating work: We’re 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.

The next two years won’t be easy to manage. We’re entering a transition without precedent. The real question is not whether this will happen. It’s whether we are preparing #people, #organizations, and #systems for what comes after. 

𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞.𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐰𝐧 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲.

𝐂𝐄𝐒 2026 left us a clear message: robotics and embedded AI are accelerating fast. Humanoid prototypes everywhere, a flood of Chinese innovators… and then something that triggered a very different kind of reflection: Lego’s new Smart Play concept. 🧱 💡 

The idea is seductive. Bricks that sense their environment, react with lights and sounds, and adapt to the set. The first one comes with a Star Wars theme, which makes it even harder to resist.

I’ve admired the LEGO Group  for decades. Their ability to evolve without losing their soul is extraordinary. But this time, I’m conflicted.

I see the innovation. Yet I can’t ignore the thought that if a child needs a “smart brick” to imagine an X‑Wing, maybe the brick is doing the talking while the child becomes a little quieter.

Play is a form of active imagination. It’s motor creativity, sensory exploration, and the freedom to build worlds with no predefined limits.

When we package effects into a finite set of reactions, we also package the imagination that used to fill the space between them.

Maybe Smart Play will unlock new skills I don’t yet see. But I can’t avoid the sense that a 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭.

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𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝 🗺️

We’ve learned to understand cities through maps. 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧, 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

But cities don’t work like that. They change every minute. People move. Objects appear and disappear. Meanings shift. We often ask static questions to a dynamic reality. We look for intersections of ideas as if nothing was moving.

At the same time, cameras, images, and video are capturing cities almost in real time 📸 A dense digital layer, full of details, signals, and context.

That’s the insight behind 𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 connecting Large Vision Models with hundreds of thousands of images generated daily in a city like New York.

▶️ Try it:  https://searchable.city/
▶️ About:  https://lnkd.in/eyCjBwZm 

Search stops being about coordinates. It becomes about meaning:

🎨 Show me graffiti
 🏰 Gothic buildings
 🗑️ Trash bags on the street
 🛝 Where kids play
 🪧 Signs in Spanish
 🏗️ Scaffolding
 ❄️ Air conditioning units
 🪴 Plants on windows
 🚸 Student traffic signs
 🚛 Garbage trucks in motion

Each question scans reality, not a map. This changes everything. Semantic search becomes a new way to see the city. And it opens the door to AI agents watching, learning, and supporting public services 24/7 🤖🏙️

City digital twins won’t just model infrastructure. They will add a perception layer.

📍 Able to #sense.
📍 Able to #understand.
📍 Able to #anticipate.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

#Innovation #DigitalTransformation #AI #SmartCities #DigitalTwins #Leadership #FutureOfWork

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬: 𝐀 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩

A few days ago, both Europe and North America felt the same bite: a simultaneous Arctic blast that brought life to a standstill.

Technically, this happens when the Polar Vortex splits. Usually, cold air stays contained, spinning in a stable circle around the North Pole. But when the stratosphere experiences a #SSW Sudden Stratospheric Warming—often triggered by solar energy bursts—that stability breaks. High pressure pushes the vortex south, stretching it until it snaps.

Under this context, the predictable becomes chaotic. Local dynamics shift, and the "freeze" can impact everything from energy grids to harvests for months.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞: Strategic Resilience
In business, we often operate within our own "vortex"—a stable zone of predictable KPIs and steady growth. But we live in an era of constant "solar storms."

Whether it's a breakthrough in AI, a sudden shift in global trade, or a change in consumer behavior, external heat creates internal pressure. If your organization is too rigid, it doesn't just bend; it splits.

𝐌𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬:

📍𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞. Don't mistake a quiet quarter for a permanent trend. The "warmth" of disruption is always building in the upper layers of your industry.

📍𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥; Resiliency and agility. When the vortex splits, you can’t fight the cold. You have to adapt your operations to the new climate immediately.

📍𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞" 𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬. In management, this means identifying where bottlenecks are forming before they force a structural break.

Nature doesn't ask for permission to change the weather. Market forces won't ask for permission to change your industry.

Is your team built to survive the split, or are you waiting for the sun to come out while the ground is freezing?

#Management #Innovation #Leadership #DigitalTransformation #Resiliency #StrategicAgility

FAIN ASCENSORES

Diseño, fabricación, instalación, y mantenimiento de ascensores residenciales y comerciales. Empresa líder del rubro en España, y continuo crecimiento en Europa. Actualmente en plena expansión en Francia, Bélgica, Irlanda, y Suiza.

Director de aplicaciones de TI

GARCIA-CARRION

A family-owned 5th generation company, founded in 1890, at Jumilla (Murcia, Spain). Today, JGC is the #1 European winery and the #4 Worldwide. Exports to more than 150 countries, and it's the market leader in Spain. The most famous trademark, Don Simon, it's synonymous with the best orange juice, nectars, zumos, and several homemade foods.

Chief Information Officer

Prosegur

Director Global de TI  en PROSEGUR Alarmas

Mirgor

Grupo industrial dedicado a la producción de autopartes para la industria automotriz de LATAM; electrónica de consumo; y celulares

Director de Procesos de Negocio & IT

Tata Consultancy Services

Responsible for presales support; project design; staff recruiting; and project delivery, for SAP projects in Latinamerica

LATAM SAP Regional Delivery Head

My responsabilities included the leadership of LATAM SAP Delivery Office, managing and developing SAP projects across the región.

SAP Senior Manager

FIAT AUTO ARGENTINA SA

Automobile maker, subsidiary of Fiat Automobile Group (FGA, Italy), and with a strong commercial, industrial, and operational relationship with Fiat Automoveis SA (Brazil). 

SAPiens is a world FGA initiative to install SAP R/3 in all their subsidiaries, since beginning of 2006. I was the SAPiens PMO, in Argentina, reporting to CIO of Fiat Automoveis SA, and Global PMO SAPiens of FGA.

The first part of the Project began on May’07 and successfully started in production on February’08. My span of control were the installation of MM, FI/CO, PS, PM, y BW; and the definition, analysis, and testing, of almost 200 objects, among GAPs, interfaces, and conversions. The team was 78 members, including a 3rd part Integrator, a 3rd part Builder, and Full Time Key Users.

Project Manager Overall SAP

Techint

Mechanical and Industrial Engineer

Ternium SIDERAR

Fully integrated steel company specialized in flat and rolled steel products.  It is a subsidiary of TERNIUM Group, with facilities in Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, and USA (Net Sales USD8,200 millions; 11.0 millions tons annual capacity; 21,000 employees).
I was IT manager of NCA project (Nuevo Ciclo Activo), reporting to SIDERAR CEO, and TERNIUM Corporative CIO. The scope of the project was to replace a mix of several legacy support systems, in business processes as capacity planning, sales, production programming, shop floor operations, stock management, quality control, delivery, order tracking, and invoicing. Deployments took place in 9 industrial facilities, located in Buenos Aires and Santa Fe states, and commercial areas, in company headquarters, in Buenos Aires.
Project considered challenge activities as Change Management programs of almost 3,500 people across all facilities, including blue and white collars, technicians, managers, and directors.

IT Projects Manager

Project Manager

I was Functional manager of SIPCA project (Sistema Integrado de Producción, Comercialización, y Administración), reporting to SIDOR CEO, and TERNIUM Corporative CIO. My responsibility was leading Key Users in business processes definitions (commercial, production, supply chain, and administration); functional testing; Train the Trainers methodology; and functional support during Go Live process. The scope of the project was to replace a mainframe legacy support system of capacity planning, sales, production programming, stock management, quality control, delivery, order tracking and invoicing; in the main industrial facility, located in Puerto Ordaz; commercial area, in Caracas; and International offices, in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Houston (USA), Valencia (Spain), and Bergamo (Italy).

Functional IT Project Manager

I was the Order Tracking Team manager, reporting to Supply Chain director, with a team of 46 analysts, technicians, and administrative. Main responsibilities were:
•	Delivery fulfillment to SIDOR Clients, in Venezuela and for exports. Main activities were:
o	Technical specifications resolution; product configuration; and sales orders entry
o	Stock Management
o	Monthly exports delivery planning
o	Monthly shipments and trucks capacity planning
o	Daily delivery planning
o	Exports papers and permits elaboration
o	International Commercial office back office and commercial processes training
•	Functional Business process definitions for future SIPCA project
•	Definition and developing of BTB system for Venezuelan and International clients

Order Tracking Manager

I was the Commercial Logistics manager, reporting to Commercial director, with a team of 14 analysts. Main responsibilities were:
•	Marketing forecast planning
•	Stock Management
•	Monthly exports delivery planning
•	Monthly capacity planning
•	International Commercial office back office and commercial processes training
•	Definition and developing the first company commercial website
•	Definition and developing of Tracking Order Web, for Clients

Commercial Logistics Manager

Renault Argentina

Automobile maker, subsidiary of Renault France Group, and with a strong commercial, industrial, and operational relationship with Renault do Brazil.
I was CIO assistant, reporting to CIO and CFO. My main responsibilities were helping CIO in daily operations; developing IT projects; and monitoring EDS, in charge of IT outsourcing services.  Important activities of this period were:
•	BPR manager of commercial, administrative, financial, supplying, and logistics processes. In this project, several benchmarking were done mainly in different plants and headquarters of Renault (Curitiba, Brazil); GM (Nashville; Detroit, USA); and Toyota (San Francisco, USA). In these projects participated consultants of EDS and AT Kearney
•	Project manager of IT project, leading implantation of SAP R/3 MM, FI/CO, and SD. Origin of USA participated as Integrator, and EDS as IT supplier. This project was developed with the participation of Renault do Brazil, and Renault France, as functional advisors.

CIO Assistant

RENAULT

CIO | IT systems | Business Processes Reengineering Director
International Logistics Manager, and Business Administration 

Extensive professional experience exercising operational management responsibilities, and participation in many takeover and M&A processes, in international steel corporations, electronics, automotive, auto parts, and electronic product consumption, in LATAM; Central America; Mexico; United States; Spain; and Italy.
Client and business focused on optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of the OSS and BSS platforms.

My summarized responsibilities were:
• IT Director, leading Salesforce Marketing&Sales Cloud EMEA and LATAM implementation.
• CIO | IT Director and BPR, responsible for the design and development of business processes; and their support in industrial systems; financial administration; and management; for manufacturing industries.
• SAP Consulting Director for the definition; development; start up; warranty and post sales, project implementation, support, and/or upgrade in service companies, commercial, and industrial, in Latin America. 
• Logistics Manager, with responsibility for operational planning for commercial and industrial steel companies; including procurement of ships and trucks; export documentation; and billing. 
• Administrative and Management Control Manager International Sales Network, by design; selection; implementation, and management of the network of trade offices in several countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Mexico, the USA, Spain, and Italy. System Manager and Customer Satisfaction survey. 
• Project Manager in process reengineering in areas of logistics, commercial, and administrative; including recruitment, formation, and leadership, human functional groups, and technology to develop these projects in various Latin American countries

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