TECHNOLOGY, DATA & CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT

OVERVIEW

Led by Chief Information Officer, Paula Felstead, the function is made up of the Technology team, who make the magic happen across the business and who keep our systems and data well protected, the Data CoE who build, run and optimise all our data under one roof, the Corporate Development team who are responsible for driving the inorganic growth of HBX.

The team led by Miguel Ángel Royano is responsible for the execution of HBX's inorganic strategy, through actions such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and strategic partnerships. Its purpose is to capture upside opportunities and accelerate growth beyond the existing business plan, while supporting the company's long-term objectives and ensuring close alignment with the technological strategy.

Head of M&A

Jakub Joachim Dymarkowski

Senior M&A Analyst

Guillem Vercher

CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT (M&A)

OVERVIEW

SECURITY

OVERVIEW

Led by Andrés Llamas, the Cyber Security team is responsible for protecting the company's digital assets, systems and data, by identifying and stopping threats, responding to security incidents, managing risks and putting strong security measures in place. Their motto is 'better safe than sorry'!

Ensure the maintenance and functionality of the SIEM system while coordinating with the red and blue teams.
Asses potential security incidents to determine their validity and impact.
Oversee the identification and implementation of necessary security patches.
Manage security tickets, ensuring proper tracking and timely response.
Oversee the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of security infrastructure.
Develop and implement comprehensive cybersecurity training programs for staff.

Operations Cybersecurity

Jorge Carlos Guerrero Martinez

Identify vulnerabilities within systems and test the effectiveness of security measures.
Conduct investigations into potential attack types and assess their likelihood.
Define and execute source code analysis to identify potential security vulnerabilities.
Analyze system logs, network traffic, and other data sources to detect and mitigate security threats

Cybersecurity Red & Blue

Antonio Sanchez Arago

This team encourages and supports agility and the lean application within the organisation at all levels, helping promote Lean-Agile practices.
It applies continuous improvement methodologies.

Agile Chapter Lead

Roberto Cano

This team develops the CRM vision, strategy and roadmap in alignment with overall business objectives and goals
It scans and manages vendors evaluating new features, services and solutions that align with organisational objectives.

Head of Salesforce

Marta Comadevall

The Data Lab builds new data solutions (ML, AI, Analytics) to support business needs.
It hands over products & solutions to Data Delivery when scale or 24/7 continuity is needed.

Head of Data Lab

Angus Urquhart

DATA

OVERVIEW

Led by the Group Data Director, Sam Desormonts, this Centre of Excellence builds on the existing structure of the Data Lab, the Data Architecture Quality & Governance (Tech) and the Data Delivery (Tech) teams all working together alongside the Salesforce & Agile Chapter teams to continue our journey towards being a data centric company, fully leveraging AI and digitalisation.

Our HolidayTaxis Tech team develops, manages and maintains the Holiday Taxis Transfers Booking Platform, which allows for the creation and management of transfers bookings, including the distribution/fulfilment of transfer bookings from MITRA. The platform consists of multiple applications, including Webservics 2.0, Supplier Connect, CheckPickup, Agent & Supplier Portals and Admin.

HolidayTaxis

Caleb Hale

Looking after our Carnect business unit, this team is responsible for developing new features based on the needs and requirements of its stakeholders.
They continuously improve the platform and fix any issues to ensure it functions smoothly, and works to keep the platform running as close to 100% as possible.
The teams also manages technical debt, identifying opportunities to address and resolve it from past developments.

Carnect

Marek Stachura

The CTO Office project manages all of the key technology initiatives, applying standards, planning, control, budget, risks and issue management. It promotes and leverages technology communication both externally and internally (among tech teams and other business areas).

CTO Office

Joan Company

Looking after our EasyMarket business unit, this teams is responsible for software development, ie the building and maintenance of the sales platform, along with related products and components.
It is also responsible for systems and security management, overseeing systems, platforms and security across all environments.
And it also offers Corporate IT and Operations Support to the Unit.

Easy Market

Manuele Bastianelli

Technology Operations monitors our tech platform 24x7 and manages issues and/or requests 365 days per year to keep our systems and offices as healthy as possible with minimum impact on the business.

Technology Operations

Roberto Calvo

The Technology Platform team manages the infrastructure and cloud functionalities on which all the Group applications and services run always focusing on automation, resilience, reliability and efficiency. This focus means they can provide great applications to teams not just across Technology but also to the wider business and ultimately to our customers and partners.

Technology Platform

Eric Janz

The Data Delivery team is responsible for all aspects of our critical external data solutions and for maintaining our Golden Data Assets (e.g., Frodo, Encore) ensuring the ongoing operation and scalability of our key data analytics systems.

Data Delivery

David Macho

The Development team acts as the builder of technology, creating, testing and maintaining software programmes and applications. They convert abstract concepts and / or concrete needs into functional technological solutions that enhance how we work on a day to to day basis.

Development

Miguel Ángel Martínez

The Enterprise Architecture and Governance team is in charge of creating and maintaining the Enterprise architecture framework, which includes all Architecture landscape from business processes (Business Architecture) to technologies (Application and Technology Architecture) and rules and guides to govern them with the right level of quality and standardisation.They build and develop necessary tools to manage it. They also participate in main delivery initiatives assessing impact analysis, strategic advisory and addressing solution to the right direction in accordance with governance rules defined in the framework.

Enterprise Architecture & Governance

Carlos Nadal

The key roles of the Solution Architecture team are to lead application architecture references in function of the Enterprise / technology strategy and business roadmaps, to design the solution architecture and identify opportunity to reduce technical debt during projects analysis and to support the delivery teams during the implementations.

Solution Architecture

Davy Lespagnol

Corporate IT provides and maintains all our internal technology systems, tools and connectivities which enable us to carry out our day to day work in compliance with our security, data protection and finance rules and policies.

Corporate IT

Braulio Villalobos

The Technology team, led by Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Frédéric Delhalle, is made up of all the teams involved in the governance, delivery and operational life cycle of both Corporate and Production IT assets. The team is formed across 7 engineering pillars (Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Solution Delivery, Data Delivery, Platform, IT Operations and Corporate IT) who all support every business unit and function across the Group.

TECHNOLOGY

OVERVIEW

Data

Samuel Desormonts

Security

Andrés Angel Llamas

Corp. Dev. (M&A)

Miguel Angel Royano

Technology

Frédéric Delhalle