CEO of HI Iberia Ingeniería y Proyectos S.L., a Spanish technology company specialising in artificial intelligence, which he has led since 2002. A Naval and Ocean Engineer from the ETSI Navales de Madrid (1994) with an Executive MBA in e-Business from Instituto de Empresa (2002), he began his career as a researcher at CEHIPAR and Seaplace, working in naval engineering and offshore structures. He specialises in AI applied to defence and security, digital twins, new materials discovery and civil-military technology transfer. He has led national and European projects such as SEDA, a platform developed with the Ministry of Defence for AI-based satellite image analysis, as well as digital twins for the naval sector and for fusion (IFMIF-DONES). He is a founding partner of Smart Materials, a company dedicated to the AI-driven design of sustainable batteries and advanced materials for energy, aerospace and defence. He is involved in sector associations including AESMIDE, AMETIC and INEUSTAR.