Dr. Garcia-Coria started his professional career in one of the world’s largest consulting firm in 1993 where he collaborated in the implementation of computer systems as a Senior Consultant in the area of Financial Services for different banks. In 1998, he started his own company focused on international trade and wholesale of IT products and services where he had the opportunity to deal with Asian and European companies. In 2007, he joined INSA, Ingeniería de Software Avanzado SA, now Viewnext, an IBM subsidiary, to lead the setup of the Innovation Center of Salamanca that now has 600 professionals are carrying out activities related with IT application management and development and IT infrastructures services for large companies in the energy, telecommunications, banking and distribution sectors. Since 2016, he complements his position as Director of Communication of the 8 Innovation Centers that the company has in Spain.

Dr. Garcia-Coria is a PhD in Computer Science and Automation from the University of Salamanca (SPAIN). He is also Master of Engineering in Telecommunications from EFREI School of Engineers (Paris-FRANCE); Master in Business Administration from ESLSCA Business School (Paris-FRANCE); Master in Intelligent Systems from the University of Salamanca (SPAIN); Final year of Master of Engineering at the University of Bristol (UK); Project Management Mastery from Stanford University (USA); Executive Development Program in Communication and Corporate Branding from Aden Business School and University of California at Irvine – Extension (USA).

In his doctorate, he was involved in research related with software components reuse with semi-automatic reuse of web services with semantic descriptions on multi-agent system and cloud computing environment, leading to business process composition.

He is also teaching Project Management and IT governance at the University of Salamanca (Spain), at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain), at EFREI School of Engineers (Paris- France), at EAE Business school (Madrid-Spain).

Dr. Garcia-Coria is Member of the board of the professorship Viewnext-University of Salamanca in agile methodologies and also Member of the Advisory Committee Member of BASES Foundation for Entrepreneurship”