Araceli García Cuartango

Araceli Garcia is Ingeniero Superior de Telecomunicaciones, by Universidad Politecnica at Madrid (Spain). She worked in the R&D center of Ericsson at Madrid for 5 years, in the development of GSM mobile system. She joined Vodafone to launch their mobile telephony service in Spain where she occupied different leadership positions within the Technology area such as Network Director and CIO; she was also member of the Group IT committee driving the globalization across the different countries. In 2012 Araceli joined Telefonica as Global Cloud Services Director where she defined and launched the operations of their Tier IV data center as well as the operations of their internal cloud, providing services to all the companies of the group. In 2016 she joined IAG to lead Group IT services in Iberia and to support the transformation to a global and distributed organization with an important plan ahead to modernize and digitalize their business. Since Feb’22 Araceli is CEO of AXION and LINEOX, that are telco companies owned by the private equity Asterion Industrial Partners.

Araceli’s key areas of expertise are technology management and IT transformation with strong experience in leading multinational organizations and multicultural teams. She is currently Academic Director of the Master in Computer Science and Business Technology at HSC IE in Madrid and Non Executive Director at the Board of Banco Inversis. Araceli is actively engaged in different forums and associations to foster gender diversity in STEM careers and in technical managerial positions.