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Julio has been driving innovation for more than 20 years in financial services firms.

He has spent 11 years in Santander, where he led R&D and the Blockchain practice for years and held several corporate leadership roles in Investment Banking, Consumer Finance, and IT & Operations. Prior to that he worked for 6 years at McKinsey & Co, where he advised many leading financial services firms in Europe and LatAm, and played a leadership role in the financial services practice. He started his career as a chip designer and system programmer.

He was the founding chairman of the EEA, the founding chairman of Alastria, a board member of WSBA and co-founder of the USC project.

Julio holds a MsC in Telecommunication Engineering from UPM, a PhD in CS/EE from UAM, and a MSc in Management of Technology from MIT-Sloan.