Leadership Team

Nachdem er mit seinem Bruder eine Flasche Whiskey geleert hatte, fasste Jordi im Jahr 1997 den Beschluss, seine Unternehmerkarriere zu starten. Gemeinsam gründeten die beiden in Barcelona das Beratungsunternehmen SBD, welches im Jahr 2004 bereits auf über 200 Berater gewachsen war und vom französischen Unternehmen Alten Technologies übernommen wurde.

Im Jahr 2005 gründete Jordi dann Inbenta. Sein Ziel war seine Kunden, unter der Verwendung revolutionärer Technologien wie künstlicher Intelligenz und Natural-Language-Processing, bei der Verbesserung ihrer Online-Kommunikation zu unterstützen. Die erste Beta-Version der semantischen Suchmaschine von Inbenta wurde im Jahr 2010 dank eines tollen Teams an Linguisten, Software-Architekten und Kundenservice-Spezialisten herausgebracht. Im Jahr 2012 übersiedelte Jordi nach Kalifornien, um dort weiter am Wachstum von Inbenta zu arbeiten.

…mittlerweile trinkt Jordi keinen Whiskey mehr.

Julio spazierte gerade gemütlich die Straße hinunter, als ihm plötzlich jemand aus einem vorbeifahrenden Auto „Was giiiiiiiibts?” nachrief. Es war sein ehemaliger Boss aus seiner ersten Arbeit: Herr Torras. Nach ein paar Tagen beschlossen Julio und Jordi bei einem gemeinsamen Mittagessen, an einem neuen Start-up namens Inbenta zusammenzuarbeiten. Heute ist Julio der Country Manager von Inbenta in Spanien.

Julio spielt übrigens freitags gerne Fußball mit einer Gruppe Opis (er glaubt wahrscheinlich, dass das die einzige Möglichkeit ist, um bei etwas hervorzustechen). Er ist außerdem ein großer Fan aller Dinge, die mit dem Wort „Star” beginnen: Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Gate, Starbucks…

Nach 8 Jahren als Inbentas CTO, übernimmt Ferran nun die Rolle des COO im Unternehmen. Zu Ferrans Aufgaben gehören: Qualitätskontrolle der Produktentwicklungsprozesse, Pre-sales Engineering, interner Support, Rekrutierung und Einschlung des technischen Teams, Evaluierung und Priorisierung der Forschung und Entwicklung, Entwurf und Überwachung des Produktionsumfelds. Wenn Ferran nicht gerade arbeitet, kann man ihn wahrscheinlich beim Headbanging zum Sound progressiver Metal Bands antreffen.

Nachdem Caterina ihr Studium abgeschlossen hatte, begann sie als Sprachlehrerin zu arbeiten. Kurz darauf hatte sie es aber satt, lärmenden Menschen Sprachen beizubringen, also beschloss sie, stattdessen Computer zu unterrichten. Im Jahr 2006 wurde sie dann zufällig bei Inbenta als Computerlinguistin angestellt. Mittlerweile leitet sie das Linguisten-Team im Unternehmen und ist zudem aktives Mitglied von Inbentas Party-Komitee. Ihre Freizeit verbringt sie damit ihre Freunde mit Kroketten zu füttern, Filme zu verschlingen und an subversiven kulturellen Aktivitäten teilzunehmen. 

Luc joined the Catalan Rebel Alliance, aka Inbenta, in Barcelona in 2009. After 2 years of Jedi training below Yodi Torras, Luc finally discovered how to master the Force and started his own adventure in France. Luc went to Toulouse where he raised the French Rebel Alliance, Inbenta France in March of 2012. With a handful of Jedi, his main objective now is for Inbenta to become the leader in customer self-care and assistance solutions in the banking and insurance sector. He thinks that may put the Galactic Empire in a very difficult position.

When not devoting time to his quest at Inbenta, Luc is teaching e-business and e-marketing among different MBAs, DBAs and Masters in the whole galaxy, including France and Spain. He’s also improving his swimming skills every week to beat Jar Jar Binks, making some loops with the Millennium Falcon on his PS3 and visiting (too often) the Cantina with his friends Han and Chewie.

PS: my Dark Father made me build a serious resume on LinkedIn so please visit it before he spanks me with his lightsaber!

Àngel studied computer science at UAB University. Later, while working, he realized the importance of applying technology to business and earned an MBA with a concentration in marketing at ESADE Business School. Throughout his career, he has worked with different companies focusing on communication and technology. In 2010, he moved to Brazil where he is currently responsible for Inbenta’s growth within that country. He hates having to call into call centers and that’s why he loves his work at Inbenta, helping others not waste their time on the phone. An online self-service solution is a better experience for customers. When Àngel is not working, you’ll find him with his family or maybe practicing Aikido.

José Luis, otherwise known as JL, has more than 30 years of experience in the management of projects and services obtained from his work in various companies and clients of all kinds and sectors. He met and collaborated with Jordi Torras a long time ago in SBD, a professional services firm in Barcelona. He joined Inbenta in 2017 as Head of Services.
He’s an enthusiast of technology and customer service. He appreciates order and suffers from chaos. He is also a cinephile and fan of the “scientific documentaries” and loves to surround himself with his family and friends in front of a good meal / table.

Born in Barcelona and trained long ago in the misteries of multimedia engineering, Noel joined the company in december of 2012. After many years as an R+D developer and leading small teams, he is now in charge of the Platform Chapter. You can find him jabberwocking about code and technical “things” while time travelling between one meeting to another, organizing the work of the different platform tribes and helping them to develop new features for the “core” of our software. In his wild life, he spends most of the time playing, music and videogames, watching tv shows, taking photos or doing other 21st century hobbies.

Sofia comes from large companies operating in banking, automotive and infrastructure sectors worldwide. Before joining Inbenta, Artificial Intelligence sounded more like a Sci-Fi book rather than something she’d be helping create every day. She can now proudly say she knows what NLP, APIs, Webhooks and SDKs are. She studied Economics in Zaragoza, finished her degree in the Netherlands, got her Master’s degree in Barcelona and lived for a year in the US. Now in Madrid and with a 3-year-old, she reads everything she can find about positive discipline, nonviolent communication and Montessori pedagogy.

Genís studied Telecommunication Engineering at UAB University while working on various projects as a freelancer and collaborating with the Open Source community. Maintaining, updating, securing and improving cloud infrastructures, networking, dbas and all unix-like OS related items since 2006. He joined Inbenta in 2015. Genís’s goal in DevOps is to debunk complicated software systems, automate as much as possible and just try to make things more sensible through great Development & Operations processes, whether that be by using tools or implementing a new process. Outside of work, Genís is a keen guitarrist and sportsman. When he’s not at the office, you can probably find him doing mountain biking, trail running or hiking.