Xavier Verdaguer

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Xavier Verdaguer is a serial entrepreneur from Barcelona who, in the past 14 years, has launched several technological innovation companies. Xavier has degrees in Information Systems Engineering and Technical Architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and has completed graduate studies at Stanford University in California. Xavier began his professional career as an IT Director for Consulting Taller de Ingenierías, SA and, at the age of 25, began his career as a serial entrepreneur.

In 1997, at the age of 25, he founded his first company under the brand TMT Factory and BCN Media, which offers Software Engineering and Multimedia Communication services. Xavier was CEO of TMT Factory for 11 years. Xavier has also been founder and CEO of Integra Interactive, an organization leader in dynamic communication through the screen. Xavier closed a round of investment totaling 1.5 million euros in the venture capital fund Symbiosis VC to develop the interactive television system Integra TV (now BeeBox) and the Digital Signage CMD-Integra software. Integra Interactive was honored by the county council of Barcelona as the best entrepreneurial initiative of 2006.

Some other projects led by Xavier Verdaguer have also been recognized, such as the "Möbius" Award for best Spaniard multimedia production in 1999, and in 2005, the Barcelona City Council Award for business cooperation with the Fundición Dúctil Benito in the joint development of Smartpoint, an innovative public information channel through displays in public ways.

Xavier Verdaguer currently resides in Palo Alto (California) where he founded Innovaley Inc. in 2010. Innovalley is a company that develops smart clothing merging creativity from Barcelona with the latest American technology. Innovalley has among its shareholders BConsulting engineering, the innovation studio Haiku, the textile firm Cooking Labs, and the Cetemmsa research center. Innovalley also conducts research with Stanford University and sells its products through the Web.

Xavier Verdaguer also founded in Silicon Valley a software development company called Seven4seven and Imagine Creativity Center. The main objectives of Imagine is to generate disruptive ideas to change the world and to change the lives of people involved in the creation of these ideas.

Xavier Verdaguer is also the promoter of Iniciador Silicon Valley, a monthly meeting event for entrepeneus and member of the San Francisco-Barcelona Sister City Committee, an initiative created to promote the connection between Barcelona and San Francisco through economic, academic, technological and cultural expertise.

Xavier Verdaguer is a professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the holder of several technology patents, the author of numerous research articles and has technology exchange agreements with several universities. Xavier's first invention was a pluviograph with which, at age 12, he won the TV3 television channel "Joc de Ciència" (Science Game) award. Xavier Verdaguer was named in the book Personajes de Cataluña (“Persons of Catalonia”) of 2009 and won the Creative Young Entrepreneur Award of 2010 by JCI.

One more thing: Xavi is also the promoter of Supertramps, a place on the net to share moments of happiness.