As Director for SASE, Comms & Secure Workplace Products for Telefonica Tech, Juan takes care of the marketing, product strategy and lifecycle of the cloud networking, cloud comms and the future of workplace portfolio. His team is pushing the evolution of B2B telco services such as SDWAN or IP Voice to the cloud and their convergence with the cybersecurity capabilities of Telefonica Tech.

Prior to this, Juan was the Connectivity Product Innovation Director in Telefonica, leading a team dedicated to build the next generation of products, services or digital experiences based on the next wave of network technologies: edge computing, 5G, network cloudification or future of media.

In 2012 he joined Telefonica Digital team as a Product Manager in IoT. He moved later to the M&A and Corporate Venture Capital team to contribute to the inorganic development of the company in the digital space in a critical transformation moment: cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, etc. through acquisitions, minority investments and JVs to support Telefonica’s growth effort. Before joining Telefonica, he was part of Accenture Strategy as a business consultant. He started his career in the trading room of Santander, one of the biggest European banks, in the middle of the 2007-2008 credit crunch that ended with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.

Juan has a double degree in economics and law from the Carlos III University of Madrid, studying part of those degrees in the University of Cologne, Germany, and Berkeley, California. He complemented his initial financial and management consulting skills with product marketing skills and the technical depth to lead multidisciplinary and distributed teams in high growth, high uncertainty environments.