Senior Executive (COO GoCardless/CPO Skyscanner). Entrepreneur (Fogg, acq by Skyscanner). Angel Investor (20+ startups).
London, United Kingdom
Skyscanner
Chief Product Officer
September 2013 to Present
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Fogg
Founder and CEO
February 2008 to September 2013
Barcelona Area, Spain
Tractis
Interim CTO
November 2006 to June 2007
Barcelona Area, Spain
netfocus
Deputy CEO
July 2004 to November 2006
Barcelona Area, Spain
e-xtendnow
Software Architect
February 2002 to June 2004
Barcelona Area, Spain
What company does Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas work for?
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas works for Skyscanner
What is Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas's role at Skyscanner?
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is Chief Product Officer
What industry does Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas work in?
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas works in the Internet industry.
Who are Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas's colleagues?
Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas's colleagues are Cristian Greco, Daniela Petruzalek, Henri Huet, Catherine Birkett, Saman Harris, Lawrence Jones, Helen Taylor, Irfan D, Jindrich Slisik, and Mitchell Powers
📖 Summary
- Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Skyscanner. - Experienced internet entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Fogg, raised 3.5 million euros in financing and led the company to a successful acquisition by Skyscanner. - Very strong engineering, product and online marketing background. - Substantial M&A experience from both sides of the table. - Focus on high-quality, high-throughput execution at scale, with substantial experience in operations scalability and organisational design.Chief Product Officer @ Leading Skyscanner´s global product organisation. From September 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Edinburgh, United KingdomFounder and CEO @ Key achievements: - Led Fogg from its creation to a successful acquisition by Skyscanner. - Together with my team, we built one of the most advanced semantic search technologies applied to the travel sector and a very strong hotels metasearch engine which as of today powers Skyscanner´s hotels vertical. - Raised circa 3.5 million euros of financing. From February 2008 to September 2013 (5 years 8 months) Barcelona Area, SpainInterim CTO @ Key achievements as Tractis' first CTO: - Advised and helped the CEO on an interim basis in the initial steps of the company formation while preparing the business plan for Fogg. - Shipped its first product, Tractis Contracts, one of the first e-contract platforms in the world that enabled 100% electronic and legally binding contracts. - Personally built the e-identity/e-signature backend which is as of today still powering most of Tractis' services. From November 2006 to June 2007 (8 months) Barcelona Area, SpainDeputy CEO @ Key achievements: - Co-led the creation of the e-identity/e-signatures division, building the initial team and the initial products and reaching a multi-million revenue figure in under 2 years. - Shipped netfocus' NES electronic security platform, one of the most sophisticated e-identity/ e-signature management platforms in the world, that as of today manages a substantial volume of e-identity/e-signature transactions for governments and banks. - Successfully represented the company in the standards bodies, being one of the key contributors in the design of OASIS' Digital Signature Services (DSS) standard. - Part of the executive team that successfully conducted the sale of the business to HP. From July 2004 to November 2006 (2 years 5 months) Barcelona Area, SpainSoftware Architect @ Key achievements: - Architected and overseen the development of the first e-invoicing platform in Spain. The platform manages a high volume of e-invoices for hundreds of thousands of users. Last official figures for the platform published by Indra (its current owner/operator and one of the largest software companies in Spain) are 750.000 users and 17M e-invoices. From February 2002 to June 2004 (2 years 5 months) Barcelona Area, SpainMaster in International e-Business @ Universitat Pompeu Fabra From 2002 to 2003 Degree in International Commerce @ Universitat Pompeu Fabra From 2002 to 2003 Masters Degree in Computer Science @ Universidad de León From 1997 to 2001 Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is skilled in: Entrepreneurship, E-commerce, Software Development, Project Management, Management, Start-ups, SEO, Software Engineering, Business Intelligence, Leadership, Business Strategy, Analysis, PHP, Security, SaaS
Introversion (I), Sensing (S), Thinking (T), Perceiving (P)
2 year(s), 8 month(s)
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