- Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Skyscanner.
- Experienced internet entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Fogg, raised 3.5 million euros in financing and led the company to a successful acquisition by Skyscanner.
- Very strong engineering, product and online marketing background.
- Substantial M&A experience from both sides of the table.
- Focus on high-quality, high-throughput execution at scale, with substantial experience in operations scalability and organisational design.
Chief Product Officer @ Leading Skyscanner´s global product organisation. From September 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Edinburgh, United KingdomFounder and CEO @ Key achievements:
- Led Fogg from its creation to a successful acquisition by Skyscanner.
- Together with my team, we built one of the most advanced semantic search technologies applied to the travel sector and a very strong hotels metasearch engine which as of today powers Skyscanner´s hotels vertical.
- Raised circa 3.5 million euros of financing. From February 2008 to September 2013 (5 years 8 months) Barcelona Area, SpainInterim CTO @ Key achievements as Tractis' first CTO:
- Advised and helped the CEO on an interim basis in the initial steps of the company formation while preparing the business plan for Fogg.
- Shipped its first product, Tractis Contracts, one of the first e-contract platforms in the world that enabled 100% electronic and legally binding contracts.
- Personally built the e-identity/e-signature backend which is as of today still powering most of Tractis' services. From November 2006 to June 2007 (8 months) Barcelona Area, SpainDeputy CEO @ Key achievements:
- Co-led the creation of the e-identity/e-signatures division, building the initial team and the initial products and reaching a multi-million revenue figure in under 2 years.
- Shipped netfocus' NES electronic security platform, one of the most sophisticated e-identity/ e-signature management platforms in the world, that as of today manages a substantial volume of e-identity/e-signature transactions for governments and banks.
- Successfully represented the company in the standards bodies, being one of the key contributors in the design of OASIS' Digital Signature Services (DSS) standard.
- Part of the executive team that successfully conducted the sale of the business to HP. From July 2004 to November 2006 (2 years 5 months) Barcelona Area, SpainSoftware Architect @ Key achievements:
- Architected and overseen the development of the first e-invoicing platform in Spain. The platform manages a high volume of e-invoices for hundreds of thousands of users. Last official figures for the platform published by Indra (its current owner/operator and one of the largest software companies in Spain) are 750.000 users and 17M e-invoices. From February 2002 to June 2004 (2 years 5 months) Barcelona Area, Spain
Master in International e-Business @ Universitat Pompeu Fabra From 2002 to 2003 Degree in International Commerce @ Universitat Pompeu Fabra From 2002 to 2003 Masters Degree in Computer Science @ Universidad de León From 1997 to 2001 Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas is skilled in: Entrepreneurship, E-commerce, Software Development, Project Management, Management, Start-ups, SEO, Software Engineering, Business Intelligence, Leadership, Business Strategy, Analysis, PHP, Security, SaaS