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Executive Summary

Product leader with a strong focus on business impact, portfolio rationalization and people management. Experienced in making difficult product decisions, including stopping underperforming initiatives, optimizing costs and reallocating resources to maximize company outcomes. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in complex, AI-driven environments, always prioritizing company strategy over individual product survival.

Product & Leadership Focus

Product portfolio evaluation and rationalization
Cost optimization and ROI-driven product decisions
People management: performance assessment, development and accountability
Strategic prioritization under financial and organizational constraints
AI-driven product strategy and execution
Alignment between business, technology and long-term company goals

Selected Product & Innovation Initiatives

GSAn - Research project

Led the development of an interactive web platform transforming high-throughput gene data into actionable insights. Focused on usability, scalability and decision-support rather than purely technical output.

EPPO Ontology - Research and Industry project

Contributed to the development of an internal ontology integrating regulatory and external biological data. Enabled more flexible data extraction, improved decision-making and reduced manual effort in crop-protection workflows.

AI Industry Solution

Led the evolution of an initial concept into a production-ready solution improving user adoption while generating operational cost efficiencies. Ensured integration with existing systems and alignment with quality and business standards.

Experience

Product Manager - BASF Digital Solutions S.L. (Spain)
2022 - Nowadays
- Own product strategy, roadmap and execution for AI-driven digital solutions in industrial and R&D contexts.
- Lead cross-functional teams of data scientists, business designers, software engineers and DevOps, with responsibility for delivery, cost control and team performance.
- Continuously evaluate the product portfolio to identify low-value or non-performing initiatives, recommending shutdowns, scope reductions or strategic pivots when required.
- Optimize product costs through prioritization, staffing decisions and resource reallocation toward higher-impact initiatives.
- Manage people performance, identifying high-potential talent and addressing low performance through clear accountability and improvement plans.
- Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, technical teams and leadership to ensure product decisions serve company-wide strategic objectives.
Ontology Lead - BASF Digital Solutions S.L. (Spain)
2021 - 2022
- Led a specialized team of ontology engineers and data scientists supporting agricultural and crop-protection use cases.
- Defined and executed ontology strategy aligned with both research and industrial business needs.
- Coordinated multiple stakeholders across R&D, digitalization teams and external partners.
- Owned prioritization, staffing optimization and delivery planning to ensure sustainable execution and long-term value creation.
Postdoc researcher - Umeå Plant Science Centre (Sweden)
2020 - 2021
- Led the development of AI-based methods combining semantic similarity and machine learning to improve gene prediction in complex biological systems.
- Delivered scalable computational solutions integrating data science, biology and advanced analytics.
Research engineer - Bordeaux University Hospital (France)
2019 - 2020
- Developed machine-learning models for viral DNA prediction to support early diagnosis and improved clinical decision-making.
Research engineer - LaBRI (France)
2015 - 2017
- Designed computational methods for synthetic gene set annotation using ontologies, semantic similarity and bioinformatics frameworks.

Education

Master of Artificial Intelligence - UNIR

2023-2024

PhD in Informatics - University of Bordeaux

2017-2019

Master of Bioinformatics - University of Murcia

2014-2015

Bachelor in Biochemistry - University of Murcia

2009-2013