Jose Rivera

Jose started his former career in the Telco industry as an engineer at Telefonica, one of the world leaders integrated operators in the telecommunication sector.

In 2000 Jose entered into Travel industry joining Rumbo, the start-up that eventually became the Spanish leading online travel agency, with over two million customers and with a turnover 450 million euros in 2012.

After a period of 4 years as CIO, in 2006 Jose was appointed CEO of Rumbo, position that held for 6 years until the end of 2012 when the company merged with Bravofly in order to create Bravo Rumbo Group, the European leading online travel agency with over eight million customers, operating in more than in 25 countries, and a turnover of 1 billion euros. In 2013 Jose was appointed VP of Special projects and Industry affairs at Bravofly Rumbo Group.

In the last two years Jose worked for Amadeus IT Group as Strategic Consultant and Head of Travel Media, leading a global team developing Amadeus partnership with key customers in the Online Travel Media segment, including Meta Search like Kayak, Skyscanner and other Search Engines and B2C portals that want to develop a travel vertical.

Currently Jose holds the Managing Director Travel position at Carrefour. He is also is member of the Advisory Board at Minube, and Vice President & Shareholder of the travel-tech start-up Smartvel.

Jose holds an executive MBA from Instituto de Empresa (IE), and a bachelor degree in Computer Science from Universidad Politécnica (UPM) at Madrid.