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Félix Antonio Barrio Juárez holds a master’s degree in Software and Systems Engineering and a University Expert Diploma in Management and Administration of Information and Technologies from the University of Alcalá and a doctorate from the University of Salamanca. He is also a CISM Cybersecurity Manager for ISACA. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO), and chairman of the UNE Subcommittee on Cybersecurity Technologies.

Luis Fernando Álvarez-Gascón Pérez holds a master degree in Aeronautical Engineering at UPM. He also took studies in Business Administration at Instituto de Empresa (Executive MBA) and IESE (PDG).

He has developed all his career at GMV, where he is General Manager of Secure eSolutions.

At AMETIC, Luis Fernando is Vicepresident, and President of the Innovation Commision, He is also President of Foro de Empresas Innovadoras.

Mr. Casal has founded and co-founded several successful startups with a total aggregated exit value of more than 1 Billion dollars. After working as Chief Security Officer of some of the first ISP in Spain: Medusa/ICL and Servicom/Retevision, he founded IP6 Seguridad in 1997, the first specialized cybersecurity company in Spain. In 2001 he was co-founder of IP Soluciones a security and software development company that was sold to Oesia 5 years later with more than 300 employees. 

In Mr. Casal co-founded AlienVault in 2007, relocated the headquartes in 2010 and was CEO until January 2012. AlienVault raised $110M from 12 Silicon Valley venture capitals including Kleiner Perkins, Intel Capital and Trident Capital and was sold in 2018 to AT&T as the core cloud security platform for enterprises. 

Mr. Casal co-founded in 2014 Constella were he serves as CTO, 4iQ is a pioneer Cyber Intelligence vendor working with top financial institutions and intelligence government units in the western world. 

He is an advisor and Limited Partner of several Venture Capital firms such as Forgepoint, Adara and Ballistic. He is a regular seed investor in Spanish and Hispanic entrepreneurs who want to become international and sell in the US. 
 

Dr. Joseph Williams is the partner in charge of the global cybersecurity practice at Infosys Consulting. Previously he was the Director of the Seattle Research Center for the National Security Directorate of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Joseph is a visiting fellow at the National Security Institute. In his recent past, Dr. Williams was the State of Washington’s economic development director for its tech industry and a policy advisor to Washington Governor Jay Inslee.

Jose Miguel Rosell is a founding partner and executive director of S2 Grupo, a company specialized in cybersecurity and cyberintelligence, which began as a start up almost 20 years ago, and has become today a large company, with more than 500 employees and a turnover of +25M€. He is co-responsible for the growth of the company, leader in the Spanish market, and its internationalization in Europe and Latin America, making it one of the benchmarks in the sector at a global level, working in more than 15 countries.

Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, MBA at INSEAD and visiting professor at the Anderson School at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He started his professional career in the world of engineering at Bechtel and later at GETINSA and DETEA, and in the telecommunications sector he was Director of Project Management at Airtel (later Vodafone) and Director of Institutional Relations at AUNA.

He has been National Secretary of New Technologies of the Partido Popular and was elected National Deputy for Zamora in November 2011. In the Public Administration he has been Undersecretary of the Ministry of Public Works, President of Correos y Telégrafos and Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society. He is currently General Director of DigitalES, the Spanish Association for Digitalisation.