David Manzano-Macho

I head up Artificial Intelligence to transform data into business value and drive AI-related business change. I hold a PhD in AI with 20 years of experience leading innovation, product development, artificial intelligence and data strategy in different roles and industries. Since I started my professional career, I have been working on the application of AI technologies to different business sectors in many use cases, ranging from automation, knowledge acquisition, mobility patterns and personalization. I have extensive background on defining the scalable technology strategy and software development procedures that help in the digital transformation journey to any of our customers to become truly AI driven organizations. Actually, I am leading the development of the AI cloud technologies and solutions for retail, fashion stores customers, insurance companies and finance, leading an organization composed of skilled data sciences, data scientists, full stack developers and cloud experts. Besides, I have a proven record on scaling up teams, even in international locations and coordinating their activity to achieve best performance possible for the business targets. I am a self-motivated and self-driven professional, proactive, result oriented, innovative, and able to drive any activity from the use cases definition to their final demonstration and presentation to customers or key stakeholders. I’m able to analyze complex problems and provide viable solutions to them, define requirements and, exploring continuous innovations on any area that may bring value for our businesses.