Ivan Alvarez

I grew up in the era of 70’s and 80’s gadgets, and I loved to play with anything that caught my eye, whether it was a new Casio digital watch, a radio-cassette, or a Nintendo's LCD videoconsole with only one (and cool) recurrent game ☺ At 11, I got my hands in a Commodore, then I learned a BASIC OS at 12 and a ZX Spectrum+ 64k with the money I had saved from tips from my parents and family.I still keep it in its original package as a relic, next to the B&W White-Westinghouse TV we had at home when I was born. With that background of course 80's music rules my life!

I got connected to BBS' in the US through direct international calls (don't ask me about phone bills), then to the baby Internet (remember Netscape?), founded two local ISPs in Spain, worked for a while as Tech Support for Coqui.net onsite in Puerto Rico, moved to the hardware biz at Adaptec while living in Barcelona, and then to the state of the art of IT, Intel which has been providing me a daily -and happy- learning experience within different roles over the past 19 years travelling from Madrid to many countries in Southern Europe and Africa.

I finished a Master in Marketing, CRM & Web 2.0 in 2013.

By July'24 I've been certified as successfully completed the AI Implications for Business Strategy course by MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

I like to endorse new tech projects on Indiegogo or Kickstarter

On the sports side, I'm a weekly runner (10k) and a practical shooting (IPSC) rookie.