Joan Solé
IT Manager, Father, and Consultant in Barcelona, Spain
Born in 1961 in Cervera (Catalonia) and linked to IT technologies since the early beginning. I became master in Telecoms and Electronics in 1984 by the UPC. After a 3 year stage at the European Space Agency (ESA) I leaded a small team of engineers to develop communications sw and protocols for ESA during more than 10 years. I managed a large unit for an international IT consultancy firm for about 8 years then, I had been CIO of the Servei Meteorologic de Catalonia starting up this organisation from scratch. Since 2011 I have been involved in several starts up companies being the last one WINPARF, a niche market software house. During my professional life I developed parallel activities as European Union and Spanish government Consultant, board member of several societies and lately as the dean of the Catalonia Society of Telecom engineers.