Executive Director of Strategy and Business Development at Sainsel Sistemas Navales, a company within the state-owned SEPI Group, held through Navantia and Indra. Its business focuses on onboard consoles and command-and-control systems—precisely the point on a vessel where AI must either be integrated or left out.

He holds an MSc in Naval and Ocean Engineering and an MBA, and has more than twenty years of experience in defence programmes, serving in technical and business development roles for combat platforms such as frigates and submarines.

He has worked across the full lifecycle of naval programmes for the Spanish, Norwegian and Australian navies, as well as for clients in Latin America and Asia. With a background in classification and certification at ABS and Lloyd’s Register, and experience in negotiations with NATO, the UN, IMO and OECD, he has first-hand knowledge of one of the real bottlenecks facing military AI: certification, traceability and customer acceptance.

He also served as CEO of the Asian operations of a naval engineering company from Busan, giving him direct insight into how autonomy and digitalisation are being incorporated into naval programmes across Asia.