Miguel Ángel Domínguez, CEO of the SME Add4u, will become president of Alastria, the National Blockchain Association, tomorrow
Although the election will take place tomorrow, Miguel Ángel Domínguez is the president in pectore of the National Blockchain Association, Alastria.
For one simple fact: there is only one candidacy. And he is leading it.
The election is historic. Because it is the first time that a CEO of an SME such as Add4u, occupies this responsibility in this non-profit association, born in 2017, in which the main Spanish companies, banks and institutions are represented.
One of its priority objectives is to ensure that its members – especially SMEs – obtain projects from line 11 of the European Union’s Next Generation funds, aimed at the digitisation of our country.
These funds will bring between 20,880 and 40,600 million euros to digital transformation.
Public administrations will absorb a third more of this investment. Domínguez wants to channel much of this money through Alastria, by creating consortia of large companies and SMEs on equal terms.
Currently only just under 4 % of public tenders are accessed.
Alastria has 559 partners, including banks, telecoms providers, energy companies, universities, smart city organisations and developers, of which 11% are large companies, 42% institutions and 47% small and medium-sized enterprises.
The election of Domínguez has a double recognition: to the new president for his brilliant career as an expert in this field and to the sector he represents, the SMEs.
Domínguez succeeds María Parga, former director of innovation at BME-Bolsas y Mercados.
Alastria’s Board of Directors has two vice-presidents, Coty de Monteverde, from Banco Santander, and Luis Pastor, an independent.
The rest of the candidacy is made up of Nuria Ávalos Villamor, from Repsol; Francisco Maroto, from BBVA -as treasurer-; José Luis Núñez Díaz, from Telefónica; Jesús Ortiz, from IN2; Luis Garvía Vega, from ICADE; Carmen Chicharro, from Metrovacesa; Isidro Cucó Martín de Jorge, Mapfre; Moisés Menéndez, Garrigues -secretary-; Manuel Calderón, Inetum; Cristina Martín Lorenzo, E-Customs; Almudena de la Mata, Grant Thornton; Wladimiro Navarro, FinWeg: Antonio López López, from Silo; and Carlos Kuchkovsky, independent.
Domínguez is one of Spain’s leading blockchain experts.
His company, ADD4u, has digitised, with its own technology, more than 100 Spanish city councils, including those of León, Ávila, Huesca, Toledo and Cuenca, the Congress, the Senate, as well as the parliamentary groups of the PSOE and the PP, not to mention countless universities, professional associations and companies.
For 15 years Add4u has been working on automating, robotising all repetitive processes through technologies such as the aforementioned “Blockchain”, “Artificial Intelligence or ‘machine learning’ to ensure that “they are completely carried out by machines and that people should focus their time on those tasks that require reflection, creativity and human experience”.
