Alberto Baselga Fernández de Piérola

As Chief Information & Product Officer at Northius, my mission is to lead the digital transformation of the company, reporting directly to the CEO, aligning our technology strategy to foster growth and innovation across our global education brands.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the Product Management function to create and scale innovative products aligned with the company’s vision.
• Overseeing Technology, Engineering, and Development teams, ensuring high performance and alignment with business objectives.
• Driving the adoption and implementation of Data Analytics & Engineering to foster a data-driven culture for decision-making and operational efficiencies.
• Championing the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across products and services to enhance user experiences and optimize internal processes.
• Ensuring the highest standards in Cybersecurity, safeguarding the organization’s infrastructure, data, and customer information.

Key Achievements:

• Developed a comprehensive tech and digital product strategy, contributing to significant business growth.
• Successfully implemented a Product Roadmap, creating a positive impact on EBITDA.
• Built and led a high-performing, autonomous, and talented digital team, driving innovation and efficiency across the organization.

My mission is to position Northius as a leader in the global education space by fully harnessing the power of technology to enable innovation, scalability, and continuous growth

Top experiences:

• IT/Tech M&A integration responsible after the acquisition
• Platform Product strategy for growth
• Data-driven decision making culture
• Long-term strategy and budgeting
• DevEx, Security and Infra
• Engineering Leadership

Helping to build the next-gen leader in Venture Capital (Venture Builder):

• Advisory Board Member
• Technology strategy
• Product development
• C-Level Coacher

Product & Tech Advisor and Investor

Scouting activities to open the IESE programs to top talented candidates.

Product & Tech Advisor

I was accountable for CoverWallet’s business technical reliability, leading the four pillars of CoverWallet’s Information Services:

• Data Systems
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Security
• IT

My main mission in CoverWallet was to enable business with the data products and cover the needs related to infrastructure in a cost-efficient, secure and reliable way. Therefore, I was leading five different teams that together handle the four IT components:

• Data Science
• Data Engineering
• Service Reliability Engineering (DevOps)
• Security
• Corporate IT

Technical Account Manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS), under the Enterprise Support Organisation, working with top AWS Enterprise customers helping them make the most out of AWS.

• Top AWS enterprise customers primary contact and customer ambassador in AWS.
• Direct technical support on AWS products and intergrations or engagement facilitator with AWS subject mater experts (SMEs).
• Business plans alignment facilitator between customer’s and AWS’s roadmaps.
• Finanacial, Security, Performance and Architectural customer implementations reviews and audit.
• AWS products presentations, demos and workshops.
• Bridge between AWS Partners and AWS Customers.
• C-level engamenents facilitator on business and operational issues.

Team Leader at Tuenti (Telefónica) managing the Continuous Engineering (DevOps) team under the Operations Area

• Multi-location (Spain & Israel) team composed of seven Senior DevOps Engineers.
• Implemented an Agile team way-of-working based on Scrum methodolgy.
• First contact for internal stakeholders relations to set expectations, internal selling and agree on business plans alignments.
• Focus on people development for individual and collective profesional growth.
• Team activity around a set of Telco B2C products, consisting on Mobile apps and Backend sw.
• Team responsability around the E2E deliverables life cycle, including QA, Deployment and Operation stages.

Technical Leader for Telefonica CCDO (Future Comms Area) at the Service Engineering (SEEN) department.

• Influencing stakeholders and other area teams on DevOps implementation and best practices in all life cycles stages; coding, testing, deploying, operating and measuring.
• Technical reference and hands-on resource on complex operational issues or project blockers.
• Program management responsable of the department roadmap, handling several projects in paralel with different teams in the orgazation.
• Product Owner in some of the department internal projects in the DevOps field.

Service Engineer for Telefonica CCDO (Future Comms Area) at the Service Engineering (SEEN) department.

• Reliability Engineer hat: Analyze service behavior, develop custom operational tools and lead technical task forces
• Technology Observatory Lead hat: Continuous researching on new engineering tools and methodologies to provide technical guidance to the Org.
• Project Manager hat: Lead development and deployment of internal projects and POCs.

Technical Service Manager for Telefónica Digital - GO&D leading the services operation, covering product operation design and management:

• Apply technical criteria to make the right technical decisions and production changes
• Prepare technical strategies to improve service performance and operation.
• Define technical operational requirements for Development, Architecture and Service Delivery.
• Problem Management and Task Forces Coordination.
• Define and Monitor (technical) operational KPIs.
• Develop or define Operating Tools and automatic operational procedures.
• Technical Service knowledge with E2E vision, to help support teams on crisis.

Consultant Engineer for Telefónica Digital under the L3 Support (G.O.D.) initiative, as Team Coordinator of several national and international projects.

• Linux systems administration.
• Problem management.
• Internal and external training courses.
• Project management.
• Staff Recruitment.