José Casado Suárez

He is Business Development Director at Fiera Capital Infrastructure Fund / Islalink, and a senior Digital Transformation Advisor to ITC Companies.

José joined Nokia’s Global Transformation Practice aiming Top Telcos and Webscale companies. He contributed from the Madrid office, with >30 years experience (27y of multinationals and 8y of senior advisory) in the ITC sector, where he got to manage hundreds of people and business of  x00 M€/year.

Supporting Nokia´s Account Team Heads for almost 5 years in pitching top Telco C-level the Transformation journey on: Business, Operations, and IT & Network. He worked close to Bell Labs Consulting.

Main expertise topics: E2E Consultancy and Telco Holistic approach, Digital Transformation, Automation & Analytics for Telco Monetization, Customer journeys, Cloud efficiency, Fixed and Mobile Convergence, Network Slicing, Legacy Decommissioning, NGN/FTTx economics, Edge Data Centers, etc.

José is passionate and helps Telcos transversally across all its business lines by being a valued business partner to customers in the telecom business transformation ecosystem. By always pursuing best practices, cutting edge solutions and processes in organization development to fit client / business needs, he plans to align organizational capabilities with the customer business objectives.

José´s worked for Telefonica, Vodafone, Philips, Lucent Technologies, Orange, Level(3) Communications, Hispasat, Lyntia, Du, STC, etc.

He´s also:

• Board Advisor to Technology Start-ups.
• Member of the Technical Advisory Staff to “Foundation for Finance Innovation and Digital Economy” FIFED.
• Member of the FIDE Think Tank (Law/Economy/Technology).
• Evaluator of European public calls for research.
• Consumer Arbitrator at Madrid Local Government.

MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE: Business Units management, including B2C and B2B, large teams, and complex program / project management. C-Level, and hands-on Executive Operational Experience. Strong analytical, organized, and methodic.

BUSINESS STRATEGIC VISION: key account management, profit/loss track-record, strategic planning, contracting / procurement experience, and institutional relations.

BUSINESS PROCUREMENT and Roll Out of new Firms (products and services). Specially in those business where technology competency is the core or a mean for the business itself.

TELECOM. OPERATIONAL EXPERTISE: Mobile and Fixed Networks, Business and Operation systems, etc.

BROAD ITC Information, Technology, Media, and Communications INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

Currently

• Business Dev. Director at Islalink (Fiera Infrastructure Fund)

• Adjunct Professor at IE (Schools of “Laws” and “Human Science & Technology”) and First Leader of its IE Impact Program

• Senior Consultant of inter/national companies in the field of ICT (Technology, Information and Communications) for: Business Strategy and Operations, Media, M&A, and Technology Start-ups

• Evaluator of European R&D Calls

• Consumer Arbitrator of the Autonomous Community of Madrid

• Member of the Technical Council of FIFED, Foundation for Financial Innovation and the Digital Economy

• Member of the Think Tank FIDE, Law, Economy, Technology

• Video-MOS Advisor/CEO www.video-mos.com

• Member of the Digital Transformation Group of Spanish Professional Association of Telecom Engineers

• Chief Strategist – Digital Transformation at Nokia. Worldwide, and CxO level, Digital Transformation Strategy in: Business, Networks, and Operations

• Deputy of CH2Mhill Spain. American company, world leader in turnkey ICT project and program engineering for the industrial, environmental, new energy, transport, telecommunications and IT sectors

• Managing Dtor Level (3) Communications. Incorporation of the Spanish company, management, budgets, commercial and product strategy, pricing policy, implementation of the technical infrastructure, etc. American company, leader in the marketing of bandwidth and IT services for international Internet traffic between operators

• Sales and Marketing Director of Hispasat. Commercialization of services and space capacity in satellites for audiovisual systems of Television, Digital Platforms, and Telecommunications Operators

• Managing Dtor Philips Digital Video Systems, Iberia. Turnkey commercialization of professional IT systems for the production of audiovisual content for Televisions, Digital Platforms, Cable Operators and Production Studios

• Managing Dtor Telecommunications Operators at Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T). Supplier of Telecommunications Systems for the Spanish Market of new entrants during the liberalisation of the sector

• Managing Dtor Philips Telecommunications. Management of the Business Unit: Results, Budgets, Commercial, Human Resources, etc. Direct interaction with international factories based on negotiated agreements on products and transfer prices

• First manager of Raynet Intl in Spain. American multinational pioneer in the world in the design and implementation of fiber optic systems for voice, video and data

• Head of Optical Communications of Radiotronica. Promoter of the Joint Venture between Radiotronica and Standard Telephone and Cable that involved the implementation of Nortel in Spain (now in Nokia).

• National coordinator of the training programs and contents in “New Technologies” of the Training Department of Telefónica. Project engineer at the Engineering Department of Telefónica Spain

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Technology and Innovation at University and Business Schools since 2000

• Speaker. Several papers at trade and Industry events in Spain and European forums

• Technology & Innovation: teacher at several institutions like IE University and others

• Instituto de Empresa University, IE Alumni

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Master in Telecommunication Engineering / Radiocommunication from Madrid University. Spain, 1987

• Bachelor in Telecommunication Engineering from Madrid University. Spain, 1983. Fifth Class Honor.

• Executive M.B.A. from Instituto de Empresa University, Spain. 1990.

• In company, Custom Executive Program M.B.A. Fontainebleau 1995.

• Master in Telecommunications Regulation & Laws from Cremades & Sanchez Pintado Lawyers. Spain, 1997