The continued need for cybersecurity – roundtable

Gradutated with a bachelor’s degree of Law and specialist in Administrative Law, he is a Board Member of Evolutio and Warpcom.

He began his professional career in 1984 in the spanish public sector, moving from State attorney to General Director of Taxes and Property of the Government of the Canary Islands and then to State Attorney before the Supreme Court of Justice.

From 1989 to 2021, he held various positions in the commercial sector, from Secretary of the Board of Directors and Director of the Legal Department of EBRO, Compañía de Azúcares y Alimentación and its subsidiaries, to Secretary of the Board of Directors and Director of the Legal Department of ERESMÁS INTERACTIVA S.A., in 2000, and as Secretary of the Board of Directors of CODERE S.A, between 2014 and 2021.

He is currently the Secretary of the Board of Directors and Director of the Legal Department of Evolutio.

He has held positions in teaching institutes and associations, of which his position as a Member of the Spanish State Lawyers Association stands out.

Responsible for Professional and Support Services.

He has held several positions within the services industry since 1989, having participated in the development of services in new technological areas for different companies: Alcatel Comunicação de Empresa, NextiraOne and Dimension Data.

In 2001 he became the Operations Director, being responsible for the Professional and Support Services areas.

He completed a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and later participated in advanced courses on Investment and Business Management Decision Support.

Responsible for the financial management of the company.

He began his professional journey in 1991 working for Alcatel Portugal, where he held positions within factory cost control, capital control and reporting areas.

From 1993 to 1998, he held positions as Financial Controller of Alcatel Comunicação de Empresas, later he became responsible for the Planning and Reporting Department of Alcatel Portugal.

In 2000 he became the Financial Controller of Alcatel Comunicação de Empresas, which was later acquired by NextiraOne. He held this position until 2014, when he was appointed as the Financial Manager after the acquisition of the latter by Dimension Data Portugal.

He completed a degree in Business Management at Universidade de Évora.

Responsible for the definition and execution of the technology and innovation strategy.

More than 20 years of professional experience leading presales and business development teams in the ICT market, with engineering and network of large dimensions design roles in operators and business networks.

He has worked as Systems Engineer at Alcatel Portugal and Convex / Satec Group having the technical responsibility of IP and Security network projects.

At Vodafone Portugal he was a member of the Network Design team, participating in several major projects, namely: the evaluation of the worldwide network performance to centralize services and the design and migration of the TDM network to the IP / MPLS network which supported all operator services (voice, video, SMS).

He held product management and business development roles in the Security and Data Center areas at NextiraOne. In 2013, already at Dimension Data, he took the lead of the pre-sales team, designing solutions and services for the Network, Collaboration, Security and Data Center areas.

At the same time, he was a professor at the Atlantic University in Computer Systems Management, teaching Computer Networking and Cisco Academy.

He holds a degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the Setúbal Polytechnic Institute of Technology, holds a Digital Marketing Management program from Universidade Católica and attends the Executive Master in Management with a specialization in Leadership at Católica Lisbon – School of Business and Economics.

With more than 20 years’ experience in the information technology sector and a vast knowledge of the national market, he has worked in important companies in the sector.

Passionate about business and technology, he has been with Warpcom since its inception, where he took on the role of Sales Director in 2021 after several years as Senior Client Manager.

He spent time at Dimension Data, always linked to the sales department and client relations, which he had since NextiraOne, where he joined in 2012.

Before that, he worked at Ikon ID and Telindus as an Account Manager, which allowed him to develop skills and long-lasting relationships with his clients.

His already extensive professional career began in the early 2000’s at HP in a Pre-Sales role.

Laura Calvo holds the position of CFO at Evolutio since April 2020, leading the areas of Accounting, Invoicing, Tax, Finance, Treasury and Control. Before Evolutio, she worked as CFO for a private equity Swedish company in the energy sector for 3 years.

With vast professional experience over 20 years, he has worked at Deloitte, several multinationals (Mazda, Atento) and listed companies (Enagas), where she participated in M&A projects, IPO and high yield bond issues.

Jacinto Cavestany is the CEO of Evolutio, leading the global strategy of a team of over 1,000 professionals. He was previously Commercial Director and Customer Service Director at BT Spain.

Previously he worked for Getronics as Managed Services Business Director and for Olivetti Solutions as Marketing Director.

Jacinto Cavestany is a Telecommunications Engineer, specialized in data transmission and digital signal from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, with an MBA from IESE and Dartmouth University.

With more than 20 years of professional experience in executive offices in Portugal and abroad, he was the Executive Manager of PT SGPS and PT Comunicações/TMN/MEO, being responsible for the Business areas (Corporate e SMEs).

He was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of PT Sistemas de Informação and Executive Manager of PT Prime, positions he accumulated with those of CEO of Tradecom, Vice-Chairman of Caixanet and CEO of the General Assembly of INESC.

Previously, he had been the CEO of Oni Telecom and Administrator of Comunitel (Spain), a position he took after leaving his position as CEO of EDS in Spain and Portugal.

He also held various positions at IBM, including that of Head of IBM Global Services (Portugal).

He completed a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, a post-graduate degree in Welding Engineering and a Master’s degree in Marketing Management and Sales, as well as several courses at the London Business School, IESE and Universidade Católica.

With a vast experience within the technology sector in Portugal and abroad, having taken up prominent positions in several multinational companies.

He was the Chairman of the Board of Administration of Dimension Data Portugal e Espanha until 2016, having taken up the position after serving as Chairman of the Board of Administration of Alcatel Comunicação Empresa S.A. Portugal and as CEO of Alcatel Comunicaciones Empresa S.A. Espanha.

Previously, he had already been the Chairperson of the Board of Administration of Nextiraone S.A. Espanha e Portugal, and later CEO of S.A. Espanha e Portugal and Board Member of Nextiraone Europa.

He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from ISEL (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa). He completed several post-graduate degrees at Insead, namely: International Management Course, Strategy Program and Advanced Management Course in Finance. He completed the Executive Advanced Management Program at IESE, Madrid.