Javier Agüera

I created and currently direct the Venture Lab program, an accelerator for student and alumni venture modeled after IE's own, one of the world's most successful academic entrepreneurship programs

I design and teach the core course on Complex Problem Solving and Decision Making for the Masters in Management program at IENYC, the sister US college of IE, one of Europe's leading business schools and modern universities.

Helping run and facilitate workshops on human-centered design, product ideation and leadership for executives and graduate students. Programs taught under MIT's new flagship Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program.

Barbara IoT simplifies the execution of artificial intelligence in millions of machines. The Barbara Industrial Edge platform provides a fast, secure, and scalable way to automate critical processes using real time distributed data analysis. When cloud falls short, join the Industrial Edge revolution!

Boutique practice from which I invest in pre-seed to Series A start-ups, as well as provide advisory services. Currently paused as I build my next venture. Past engagements include: - CEYLON Skincare on manufacturing and go-to-market - Bowhead Health on go-to-market strategy and EU compliance - ComGo on social impact strategic initiatives - REPSOL (BK) on large scale corporate R&D transformation

Pandora’s Way is building the modern compass for major life transitions, addressing the significant gap created by the erosion of traditional rites-of-passage. We're beginning where the need is most urgent—adolescence. Incubated at Harvard, MIT and Sesame Workshop, our digital platform transforms anxiety around milestones like a child's first phone, AI, or social media account into personalized, real-world "quests" completed by families individually or with peers.

Sandbox is an eclectic community of nomads, entrepreneurs, journalists, academics, politicians, artists, and indomitable misfits from over 100 countries. Members seek to develop their authentic selves, form meaningful relationships, discover resources to live fulfilling lives, and lead significant impact on the world.

Exploring new paradigms to reboot the social contract between parents, (pre)teenagers, and technology - while incubating a new venture to tackle this issue. The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress toward addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

Exploring new paradigms to reboot the social contract between parents, (pre)teenagers, and technology - while incubating a new venture to tackle this issue. The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress toward addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

eyeWitness to Atrocities believes in a world where the perpetrators of the worst international crimes are held accountable for their actions. With this vision in mind, we seek to bring to justice individuals who commit atrocity crimes, by providing human rights defenders, journalists, and ordinary citizens with a mobile app that can capture verifiable footage related to these crimes. eyeWitness is a registered charity in the United Kingdom and is a project initiated and funded by the International Bar Association (IBA), with the support of Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional.

Teaching fellow for 24.133 Experiential Ethics, one of MIT's core offerings in ethics training for undergraduates across all majors. Led two sections of students end-to-end through the curriculum and weekly discussions.

Performing research and developing novel educational approaches under the new cross-cutting initiative of Socio-Etical Responsiilities of Computing at MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing.

Snips is the leading provider of on-device voice recognition technology, enabling any company to integrate natural language assistants into their product, with privacy by design. • First business hire after COO, and US-based employee • Built an ecosystem of over 60 partners, including tier-1 semiconductor, OEM/ODM and integration companies • Advised C-Suite on hardware-related matters and go-to-market strategy during company pivots

With presence in Los Angeles and Madrid, Future Lighthouse is a leading content studio producing virtual reality stories and pushing VR technologies beyond their current creative boundaries.

Neupic provided a first-of-its-kind technology platform for content acquisition, focused on improving the operating conditions of journalists, photographers, and videographers in conflict areas. With a network of over 3,000 professionals across the globe, it served near real-time content to tier-1 clients like EFE, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Notimex. - Led the product conception and engineering team setup, later transitioned to part-time oversight as a member of the board. - Successfully achieved seed stage funding and Series A, however, the company failed to sustain the required growth to reach Series B financing.

Silent Circle is a global supplier of secure communication solutions, both software and hardware. Its clients include Fortune 500 companies, UN, governments, NGOs and individuals across all geographies. - Joined as Chief Scientist of the Devices division, after its acquisition of Blackphone SA. - Oversaw the ideation, design and manufacturing of the firm's most successful smartphone, Blackphone 2. - Drove a major technology platform shift from nVidia Tegra to Qualcomm Snapdragon, as well as alliances with new strategic supply chain partners (LC, Corning Gorilla Glass, BORQS) for the Blackphone 2. - Drove the introduction into Asia Pacific of the Blackphone 2, with launches by the flagship carrier in Hong Kong (CSL/PCCW) and key distribution agreements across Hong Kong, Malaysia and South Korea.

Blackphone is the world's first smartphone to put privacy and control back in the hands of the user. It is headquartered in Geneva as a Joint Venture between Silent Circle, a leading encrypted communications provider, and Geeksphone, an innovative smartphone maker. Achieved extraordinary international recognition, with awards such as: - Fast Company's World Top 10 Innovative Companies of 2015 - TIME Magazine's Best 25 Inventions of 2014 - Popular Science's Best of What's New 2014 - Best of MWC 2014 Award by PC Magazine - Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014 by MIT Technology Review - Red Herring Top 100 Europe

Geeksphone began as a pioneering consumer electronics company, becoming one of the first Spanish smartphone manufacturers and introducing several innovations in the global industry. Later it grew to become one of the key players in the mobile landscape, notably with the launch of its JV with Silent Circle, Blackphone. - Co-founded the company at age 15 and bootstrapped with partner’s capital until acquisition. Managed key hiring in sales, engineering and supply chain. - Led product strategy, designing and launching 5 smartphones in total, including 1st European Android phone (2009) and 1st worldwide Firefox phone (2013). - Established JV with Silent Circle with a later acquisition, generating a 500-fold investment return in 15 months. - Formed strategic alliances with industry incumbents Foxconn, Intel, Telefónica, Mozilla, Telenor, VIVO, etc.

Selected as one of a group of young entrepreneurs from around Europe to regularly advise and inform the Commissioner and her staff on issues pertaining to the implementation of and engagement around the Digital Agenda for Europe. Invited to Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 at European Parliament Shared speech with Ms. Kroes at Mobile World Congress 2013 (Ministerial Programme)

TabSolutions offers tailor-made hardware and software solutions based on Mobile Internet Devices (Tablets), for industry, e-health, fashion and educational organisations/enterprises.