Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Securitize

Securitize's mission is to disrupt, improve and democratize access to the capital markets. Leveraging blockchain technology, Securitize is the only end-to-end solution enabling companies to tokenize assets, raise capital, compliantly onboard investors, manage shareholders, and enable liquidity, all on one digital platform. Securize's all-in-one platform is comprised of Securitize Transfer (the only of the top 10 stock transfer agents to tokenize shares), Securitize iD (an identify verification passport for digital assets), Securitize Markets (a registered broker-dealer and Alternative Trading System), and Securitize Capital (one of the first digital asset management firms and a registered investment advisor).

In addition to leading Securitize, Carlos is a co-founder and Managing Partner of SPiCE VC, the first truly liquid, inclusive and transparent tokenized venture capital firm on the blockchain. He is also the author of Everything You Wanted to Know About Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and 8/ockchain but Were Afraid to Ask. Carlos is a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from blockchain to digitization, Web3 to regulation and the long tail of more liquid capital markets.

Prior to co-founding Securitize, Carlos was Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer at Dubai-based telecom "du". Before that, he served as President and CEO of Research and Development, as well as CEO of New Business and Innovation, at the Spanish telecom Telefonica. He has also been CEO, CTO, or a board member at numerous additional tech startups in both the U.S. and Japan.

Carlos holds a PhD and Bachelor's Degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, a Master's Degree in computer science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and an Executive MBA from Stanford University.

Carlos speaks English, Spanish and Japanese and is based in Miami, Florida.