Jonathan Hayes

MEDIA, IT, MOBILE

ENTREPRENEURSHIP Jonathan is the creator and co-founder of Dinube - a realtime payment network in the cloud that started up in the MIT Media Lab. Dinube was the winner of several awards at MIT and later set up operations in Europe. Prior to that, Jonathan led the innovation strategy at TechIDEAS, an award -winning software innovation firm based in Barcelona, Spain. Jonathan was one of the founding members of the team that launched Sironta, the first fully inter-operable collaboration software suite available for Mac OS, Linux and PC.

INNOVATION is a way of life for Jonathan. He was one of the first to fly a hot-air balloon over volcanoes in Guatemala. He envisioned and led the development of a high-performance motor sports cluster in Barcelona and was first to launch a bid for an all-Spanish Formula One™ team, also developing the first proposal for Banco Santander's entry to Formula One™.

STRATEGY After working in senior management roles across EMEA regions and Central, South and North America, Jonathan returned to Spain to launch “Nuevos Valores”, the premier publication on Corporate Social Responsibility in Spain, of which he was founding editor. Jonathan has led programs on innovation, negotiation skills and entrepreneurship as a senior lecturer at several business schools.

Jonathan was born in Zimbabwe and grew up in Africa and Europe. He holds joint (Hons) degrees in Law from the Universities of Sheffield(UK) Salamanca(Spain) and earned an MBA in Innovation and Global Leadership from MIT Sloan School of Management (USA)