
Barcelona Internet Marketing, Director
Barcelona Area, Spain

Barcelona Internet Marketing, Director
Barcelona Area, Spain
A self-starter with proven entrepreneurial skills. Highly competent CTO with technical and commercial experience in several successful start-ups. Enjoys using awareness, problem-solving, consultancy, and analytical skills to identify the optimal solution, then co-ordinating and steering the efforts of self and others to get the solution in place.
All technology and internet marketing aspects of launching web start-ups: usability, technology platforms, project management using agile methodologies, web application development, search engine optimisation, social media platforms, content management systems, pay-per-click advertising. Experienced at evaluating and negotiating partnerships, joint ventures, and acquisitions.
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Yabadoo! is a community site targeting the Spanish e-gaming market.
(Internet industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Provides consultancy services on Internet technologies, e-commerce strategies, SEO, and Internet marketing.
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
October 2002 — May 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Consumer-facing portal for hotel reservations.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
January 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 7 months)
Active Hotels was sold in Sept 2004 to priceline.com Inc for £90M, at which point it was turning over $300m in booking value across 5,000 hotels in 11 countries. After joining the Priceline family, Active merged with Bookings BV in July 2005, creating Booking.com, which in 2007 booked 20 million room-nights, turning over $2.4Bn across >40,000 hotels in 63 countries.
I was responsible for all technical aspects of Active Hotels, including the technical roadmap, product development, design process and management, project scheduling, liaising with internal and external clients, IT support, recruitment, the production environment, and advising the board of directors on all technical matters.
1989 — 1993