Mario de Francisco Ruíz

Mario is co-founder and CEO of Anjana Data, takes part of the Management Board of DAMA Spain as Head of Institutional Relations and works as Adjunct Faculty at various Business Schools and Universities. Telecommunications Engineer by the University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain), MsC in Business Consulting by ICADE (Madrid, Spain) and Certified Data Management Professional (DAMA International).

His professional activity has always been linked from the beginning with entrepreneurship and the corporate world, putting the worlds of business and technology together. After a first entrepreneurial experience in the e-health sector, he gradually specialized in the field of Data Management within the world of strategic and business consulting, where he helped multinational organizations in turning data into a strategic asset. He is currently CEO of Anjana Data, a company which he founded in 2019 to launch a new Data Governance solution to the market based on an innovative, disruptive, and differential approach.

Passionate about people, data, business and technology, Mario is always trying to put them together to find innovative solutions for nowadays data management challenges and also sharing knowledge and experiences around the data community participating as a lecturer in different events and forums both at national and international level.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• R&D Engineer, Goodday Solutions, Spain, 2012 – 2014

• Business Development, Goodday Solutions, Spain, 2014 – 2015

• Strategy & Business Consultant, Management Solutions, Spain & Argentina, 2015 – 2019

• Business Development Manager, Pragsis Bidoop, Spain, 2019

• CEO, Anjana Data, Spain, 2019 – Present

• Coordinator of the Data Governance & Metadata Working Group & Committee, DAMA Spain, 2020 – 2022

• Member of the Management Board as Head of Institutional Relations, DAMA Spain, 2021 – Present

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor (Data Governance & Data Architecture – Data Management Fundamentals), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, 2021

• Adjunct Professor (Metadata Management – Master in Big Data & Business Analytics), Escuela de Organización Industrial, Spain, 2021 – Present

• Adjunct Professor, Data Management & Governance, IE University, 2021-Present

• Adjunct Professor ,Data Governance, IE University, 2021 – Present

• Adjunct Professor (Data Governance & Data Architecture – Data Management Fundamentals), IDESE Formación, Spain, 2022 – Present

• Adjunct Professor (Data Governance & Data Architecture – Curso Propio de Gobierno y Gestión de Datos), Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain, 2022 – Present