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Guzmán M. Garmendia Pérez

CIO for the Government – Director General Telecommunications and Digitalization

Former Member of the Parliament at Parliament of Navarra

Board Member of the Transparency Council

Open Government and New Technologies Consultant

Madrid native, born in 1974. Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, continuing their education in Universidad Complutense and Instituto de Empresa, both in Madrid. He has developed his entire professional career on the Internet, having created the Canal21.com portal towards the end of the 90s, going through PaginasAmarillas.es. At the same time, he founded his own company, ElPlacerdelPicante.com with a strong presence on the web. In 2007, Vocento relied on him to transfer his client’s traditional advertising to the advertising world of the Internet, becoming an expert in transitioning from the paper world to the online one. He has continued to perform this role for the past two years now for Grupo Heraldo and Grupo La Información, co-founding with them LINC, a leading company in Internet Communications. At the same time, he combines this activity with teaching courses or conducting workshops focused on new technologies as communication tools as well as presenting papers at round tables and conferences in Spain, Germany and the United States, in Spanish, English and German, a language he learned under the German discipline during the 16 years of his pre-university education at the private German school La Florida, in Madrid.
In the recent years, true to his entrepreneurial spirit and his leadership character, he co-founded Pacharán And Twitts, organized the first debate between two politicians on Twitter, known as the Twittdebate, launched and led the NASF movement for promoting entrepreneurship and developed the World Atlas Pedia, which claims to be a cartographic Wikipedia. Along the same line, he performed the role of a consultant during the birth of Twision, the first TV program based on Twitter, and since then he has performed production and consultancy for other programs in Communication Media whose main content is the Internet. He currently manages I=mc2, a postgraduate program on the Internet, marketing and communication 2.0. First Head of Open Government and New Technologies at Navarra Government, has worked for Oracle in Spain three years, as Member of the Parliament for four years at Parliament of Navarra, ando now is the CIO for the Government or Director General Telecommunications and Digitalization.

Divorced, with two sons, he lives by traveling between Pamplona, Madrid and the world.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Experience
August 2019 – now / Director General Telecommunications and Digitalization at Navarra Government
June 2015 – June 2019 / Member of the Parliament. Economic Development
Spokesperson and President of the European Delegation
December 2012 – August 2019 / ORACLE Public Sector Affairs for Spain and Portugal (Unpaid leave as Member of the Parliament and as Member of the Government since August 2019)
June 2011 – August 2012 / Government CIO for Navarra Government
June 2008 – June 2011 / Founder and CEO – LINC Grupo La información Heraldo
June 2007 – June 2008 / Internet Classified Advertising Director – Vocento
May 2000 – June 2007 / IT Marketing Manager – TPI Telefónica
April 1999 – May 2000 / Internet Content Manager – Retevisión Canal21.com
Entrepreneur
Geonip Coordinate S.L. (Geonip.com) founder and 50% stakeholder
El Placer del Picante S.L. (Pleasure of Spicy) founder and 50% stakeholder
Additional skills and achievements
 Speaker and lecturer of IT and Public Affairs: Universidad de Navarra, Foro
Europeo, IAB, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Administrations and Parties
 Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain, Digital Campaign Director (2014-15)
 Member of the Boards of Directors: Tracasa, Nasertic, Animsa and Open
Knowledge Foundation Spain OKFN
 Co-founder of the Entrepreneurs Movement NASF
 Selected for High-Potential for Future Manager Programme of Telefónica

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