SANTIAGO JIMENEZ BARRULL - Global Business Entrepeneur (English)
Santiago
Jiménez Barrull
Global Business Entrepeneur and Venture Capitalist
maat
International Group
Founder and
Executive Chairman
Mr Jiménez is the
Chairman of maat International (www.maat-g.com), the holding company for one of
the most innovative and fast growing privately owned Corporate &
Technology& Infrastructure Professional Services (est. 1999). His
leadership and business experience accumulated both in Public and Private
Sector marked a change in the Corporate Strategy of Professional Services in
order to diversify maat International offering into the Corporate Services
(Multilateral Agencies, Investment Funds, Private Equities, Development
Funds,…); Property Development, Housing,
Energy, Transport Infrastructures, Agriculture and Trading industry in
Africa and LATAM and Research & Development in it the Cloud Computing
industry. He has been a venture capitalist in various companies and he is a
founding member of key Corporate Social Responsibility Programs and
Institutions (www.fundacionkaf.org) on a global basis related to Health, Education, Social
Development, and especially Children Empowerment in desfavourable living conditions
–orphans, poor, unstructured families,…-
Mr. Jiménez has
also developed strategic relationships within the field of mineral resource
exploration and trading resulting in his activity in Oil and other mineral
resources. One of Mr. Jiménez’s greatest challenges was his support in the
development of Latam & Sub-Saharian African´s with headquarters in South
Africa and having a strong relationship with a network of some key prominent
entrepreneurs and professionals from various African countries, including Prime
Ministers, Presidents and First Ladies of those countries. maat International
has also operations in MENA.
Mr. Jiménez’s
Vision: “To align Corporate Finance
with Infrastructures Development and Technology Services to promote Sustainable
Communities around the Globe. Promoting from Value Chains to Value Networks as
the key source of competitive advantage.”
maat International
Group (www.maat-g.com)
maat International Group is a Investment Banking, Infrastructure
& Technology, Professional Services and Corporate Turnaround Company
leading the deployment models of Infrastructures; Cloud Services & Business
Platform as a source of sustained competitive advantage. Maat International
subsidiaries has been awarded and
recognized internationally by key Research Centers –CERN; Geneva Trade
Fair; EU- EGEE;…) and Market Analyst –Gartner- as one of the leading companies
in ICT Platforms in the world.
maat International aligns Strategy, Technology and Corporate Finance
to guarantee the feasibility of new ventures, projects and public policies
establishing institutional ventures at country level to foster growth,
sustainable development and empoverment living conditions –in particular
children and desfavourable social class in undevelopment countries-.
maat International has established Strategic Partnerships
with key players around the world in the Energy, Infrastructures, Engineering
and Finance Sectors.
maat International´s subsidiary –maatG Nozzle- (www.nozzle.es) is
the first Spanish IT & Consultancy Cloud Services Provider offering a full
integrated portfolio of professional and technological solutions for Vertical
Markets -Banking, Government, Health, Media, SMEs,…- and SMART- sustainable
services for infrastructures –Smart Cities,..-Smart Metering.
maat International is leading on an international basis the
developing of Cloud infrastructure for IT Services partnering with some of the
key R&D Centers (CERN;…) and Universities across the world –Spain, Africa,
LATAM, -.
maat International has setting up maat Green as a engineering
and infrastructure subsidiary company to design and build up civil engineering
and environment projects and promote renewable energies in order to guarantee
the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainable development with
strong strategic alliances with leading affiliate companies in each field to
guarantee end-to-end solutions to its customers.
maat International support the Corporate transition towards Smart
& Clean Technologies Related Business Models, suggesting that concern
surrounding the information related strategies and environmental and climate
change initiatives are driving resources and top innovation attention from the top-management.
maat International services, infrastructure and projects are active
in important fields in the main categories of transport, media, energy and
environment, health and information
technologies, telecommunications.
maat International is based on a unique pool of leading academics,
business visionaries, entrepreneurs, media leaders and venture capitalists
providing their guidance and insights to assemble an impressive group of
Technology Pioneers as the "best practices" for Corporate Governance.
Other previous
professional experience –Public
& Private Sector
1995-1998
TELEFONICA Group
Managing Director
Mr. Jimenez was serving as Managing Director at TSAI the leading
Value Added Services Telefonica´s Group –one of the first Telcos Companies in
the world- leading the development of Internet infrastructure in Europe
(UNISOURCE) launching the firsts Value Added Services for Vertical
Industries at that time –Banking, Retailing, Health, SMEs,…- and horizontal
functions –Sales, Manufacturing, Finance, HR…-.
TSAI became the first ISP in Spain and the first VAN –Value Added
Network- offering EDI Services for the retail industry, financial sector and
other important Sectoral industries in Spain and Latinoamerica
1988 - 1995
Government of
Spain
Vice Deputy –Financing &
Investments Policy - Ministry of Industry UNED – Managing Director - Distance
Learning University
Different Senior Managing Directors positions at the Spanish Public
Administration connected with the formulation and implementation of IT policies
and strategies for the SME´s Innovation Policies, Regional Development and
Education.
1988 - 1995
KPMG Peat Marwick Senior Manager
Consultant
Different projects for the Spanish administration and top listed
Spanish companies – Energy, Banking, Transport, Retail and Real State-.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
APD – Asociación
para el Progreso de la Dirección – Board of Directors. ACE - Spanish
Certification Agency- . Member of the Board of Directors. VicePresident
CommerceNet Spain.
Member of the Board of Directors of the ¨Electronic Commerce Spanish
Association¨ Manager and member of differents Steerling Comittes formed between
ATT&Unisource, and Worldcom&MCI.
Member of the Board of Director and Public and Private Bodies
related to Venture Capital, Mutual Guaratees, and Corporate Financing –AXIX,
COFIDES, ENISA, CERSA,…-
ACADEMIA BACKGROUND
Harvard Business School
– Executive Programme
IMD (Laussane –
Switzerland) – Strategic Finance Program IESE (Barcelona – Spain) – Value
Network Program Economics, Engineering
Master in Telecommunication –
CENEI / Universidad Politécnica
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