Salomé Valero — Co-Founder

Salomé Valero is a highly driven technical leader who has delivered award-winning innovative Data and AI solutions that have created new business value for customers. She is also a skilled entrepreneur who is passionate about developing human-centered innovations in collaboration with the open-source community, industry partners, and public institutions. Salomé has a Ph.D. in Engineering and extensive experience in IT research. She has won several innovation awards, including the 2024 Top100 Ideas Sustainability El Mundo, the 2022 Gold Edison Award in the Life-saving category, the 2021 Premi Muncunill, and the 2019 Call for Code Global Challenge. Throughout her career, Salomé has been at the forefront of state-of-the-art Cloud, Data and AI solutions and has gained invaluable insights from complex projects in customers. She combines her deep expertise in essential technical domains with the energy and ability to drive change. Salomé is a member of the INEC Board (Institut d'Enginyers de Catalunya) and serves on several boards, including Doctorates, Degrees, and awards, as well as events and round tables at universities and institutions. She is committed to helping her colleagues, clients, and ecosystem embrace this era of innovation and transformation and has consistently helped others develop their skills and careers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Data and AI solutions within the Healthcare and IT sectors.

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Experience: 27 yrs 6 mos

Career Highlights

Award-winning leader in Data and AI solutions.
Ph.D. in Engineering with extensive IT research experience.
Co-founder of innovative health technology for firefighters.

Work Experience

Kyndryl

Innovation Director (1 yr 11 mos)

Country Practice Leader (2 yrs 4 mos)

PROMETEO PLATFORM

CoFounder (6 yrs)

ITnow

Joint Venture Management (9 yrs 2 mos)

IBM Barcelona

Operations and Resource Management (6 yrs 2 mos)

Service Manager (8 yrs 10 mos)

France Telecom Spain

Gerente Sistemas de Información (4 yrs)

Grupo Unión Fenosa

Consultor IT (1 yr 3 mos)

Education

Board Member Program / Escuela de Consejeros at IESE Business School

Board at INEC Institut d'Enginyers de Catalunya

Board of Directors at AIDA User Group

Board Premi Doctor Josep M Sala by Escuelas Gimbernat at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Board PhDs at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Doctora en Ingeniería at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Máster Dirección de Tecnología at Universitat Ramon Llull

Ingeniería Industrial Superior at Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Salomé Valero

Co-Founder

Barcelona, Spain27 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Award-winning leader in Data and AI solutions.
Ph.D. in Engineering with extensive IT research experience.
Co-founder of innovative health technology for firefighters.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Data and AI solutions within the Healthcare and IT sectors.

Contact

salome.valero@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Acuerdo de nivel de servicioAdministración de las tecnologías de la informaciónAdministración y dirección de empresasBiblioteca de infraestructura de tecnologías de informaciónCertificación PMPDesarrollo de innovaciónDirección y desarrollo de equipos de trabajoEstrategia TIEstrategia empresarialGestión de proyectosGestión de proyectos de programas de softwareGestión de proyectos de softwareGestión de serviciosGestión de servicios TIIT Management

About

Experience

Kyndryl

2 roles

Innovation Director

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Driving innovation, leading the tech community of researchers, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to deliver cutting-edge technology services.

Country Practice Leader

Jan 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Applications, Data & AI in Spain and Portugal. Develop, review & execute plan of offerings, sales, solutioning and delivery about the practice in country.

Prometeo platform

CoFounder

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

Prometeo monitors firefighter toxin exposure.
As wildfires and other natural disasters become more prevalent around the world, Prometeo protects the health of firefighters with IoT, Data and AI.
Elements of this solution are now available as Pyrrha, an open source project you can get involved with today.

Itnow

Joint Venture Management

Nov 2012 – Jan 2022 · 9 yrs 2 mos · Barcelona

ITnow is managing the infrastructure technology budget of Caixabank in the largest IT outsourcing contract in Spain to date. In charge of services&projects as part as the delivery organization providing the full range of Infrastructure IT services to Caixabank.
Directora Gestión y Tranformación del Dato
Directora Canales Electrónicos Intranet, canal BPO y Call Center
Dirección proyectos Cloud
Gestión de procesos y provisión hw&sw

Ibm barcelona

2 roles

Operations and Resource Management

Promoted

Sep 2006 – Nov 2012 · 6 yrs 2 mos

Resource Management in SO Delivery (Outsourcing projects), IMT SPGIT (Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel and Turkey). Resouce Roadmap by quarter to get targets. Reporting to European Headquarters. Controlling more than 2.500 ftes (employees, subcontractors and global delivery centers resources).

Service Manager

Jan 2004 – Nov 2012 · 8 yrs 10 mos

Interlock with Clients, SLAs, outsourcing projects.
In charge of IT services for several IT Outsourcing projects for different companies/sectors. Service Management activities with focus on customer satisfaction, business development, operational efficiency and profitability.

France telecom spain

Gerente Sistemas de Información

Dec 1999 – Dec 2003 · 4 yrs

In charge of IT Helpdesk services (10.000 users, 300 sites).

Grupo unión fenosa

Consultor IT

Sep 1998 – Dec 1999 · 1 yr 3 mos

IT consultant
Application development (CRM, ERP and Billing services). Implementation start-up Telco (UTE Unión Fenosa y Telecom Italia / Amena). Business processes and Call Center services.