Equipe

Jordi started his entrepreneurial career in 1997, after drinking half a bottle whiskey with his brother (who drank the other half).
Together they founded SBD in Barcelona, a professional services firm who had over 200 consultants by 2004 and was acquired by the French firm Alten Technologies.
Jordi founded Inbenta in 2005 to help customers improve online relationships with their customers using revolutionary technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.
The first beta version of Inbenta Semantic Search Engine was released in 2010, thanks to an awesome team composed of linguists, software architects and customer care specialists.
Since 2012 Jordi lives in California, …and he stopped drinking whiskey.

After several years researching quantum phenomena at the Low Temperature Physics Lab of UAM, Jeronimo embraced the software business world in 1993. In 2000, he joined Ydilo to develop a natural language speech recognition platform. He met Julio Prada and David Fernandez in 2012, and finally joined Inbenta in 2014. Jeronimo thinks that Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: a space oddissey” is the best movie ever; and Inbenta’s technology makes HAL 9000 closer.

Neus believes that individuality consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution so she declines the invitation to talk about herself.
Insted of her bio, she will make use of the space for SEO purposes: “I’m bored of my old vices: BBM, GTA, Playstation, the IPAD, and hardcore porn. I need a personal assistant to talk about X-Men, the Planet of the Apes, the hobbit, Captain America, Spider-Man, Godzilla, Robocop and Lego :)”

Na metade de 2013, Albert começou a trabalhar como programador de desenvolvimento de assistentes virtuais na Inbenta. Atualmente, seu objetivo é executar as demandas dos clientes espanhóis e o gerenciamento/manutenção dos assistentes deles. Fora do escritório, você poderá encontrá-lo, sempre com um sorriso, em algum lugar de Barcelona ou na sua maravilhosa vila em Costa Brava.

Jone moved from her rainy homeland to sunny Barcelona in 2008. One year later, inbenta needed urgently a Basque speaking person for some project nobody would ever use in this language. She got the job, as she was not blonde, she had eyelashes and she was not born under the sign of Scorpio.
Ever since, she works mainly as a computer linguist trying to make it exotic with Basque and Russian projects, and devotes part of her workday to refilling the water machine and serving coffes in the coffee break.
In her free time you can find her dancing any kind of dance practically, anywhere.

Born in Madrid and Real Madrid fan, David met Jordi in 2009. Until then, he had worked as a programmer and analyst in other Products of ‘Enterprise Search’, but from the beginning, the challenge to ‘Inbenta’ was in charge of Madrid office.
Triathlon-enthusiastic, between training and training, he spend time managing relationships with customers and new deals.
Lately it has taken time to get certified in PMP and make a Master of Digital Marketing

Eduard started his career at Inbenta in 2007 working in external .NET projects. After 2 or 3 years, he came back to the headquarters and reconverted to PHP programmer to work in Backstage and interfaces. Currently he is in charge of Backstage and ISSE customizations and other tasks such as performing Darth Vader at Inbenta presentations. Out of the office, you may see Eduard in some theatre plays, short movies and soon in a long movie. You may see him too, if you’re freak enough, in Minesweeper World Rankings. In a google search you will find him as the best beer dispatcher in Spain, but that’s another Eduard Cros…

Maria entered the Dark Side of linguistics in 2007 and since then she is part of the linguists’ team of Inbenta. She works as a computational linguist in Spanish and Portuguese projects.
When she is not working at Inbenta she’s taking care of her dogs and playing with them.

When Irene joined Inbenta in June 2006 it wasn’t to be a linguist but to become the first girl programmer in the team. After some time, she started to work in external projects and 2 years later she came back to Inbenta. She was in charge of several projects related with CMS at the beginning but, since last year, she has focused her work in Ticketing applications and how Inbenta manages the security of the information. If you are in the office maybe you can find her humming (sometimes louder than she wanted) a song. Outside of the office, she is a crazy mom!

When Caterina finished her studies, she started working as a language teacher. But she soon got tired of teaching languages to noisy human beings, so she decided to teach them to computers and was coincidentially hired as a computational linguist at Inbenta. That was back in 2006.
She is currently the head of the linguistic team in the company and is an active member of Inbenta’s Festivities Comittee. The rest of her time is spent feeding friends with croquettes, eating films and carrying out subversive cultural activities.

After 8 years as Inbenta CTO, Ferran is now playing the COO role inside the company.
Ferran is in charge of: quality control of the product development process, presales engineering, internal support, recruiting and training the technical team, evaluating and prioritizing R&D developments, and designing and monitoring the production environment.
When not working, you’ll probably find Ferran headbanging with the sound of some progressive metal band.

Philippe is a veteran Business Development Executive who spent his entire career in the software industry. He started working in Europe in the early 80s and moved to the US in 1991. He joined Inbenta in 2012 to help launch our North American operations. When Philippe is not closing new deals or managing relationships with Customers and Partners, he attends rock concerts, rides his Harley or entertains friends and family in his house outside of Pittsburgh PA.

Julio was walking down the street peacefully and suddenly someone shouted aloud “-What’s uuuuuuuup!!!” from a car. It was the former boss from his first job: Mr Torras. After a few days, while having lunch together, they agreed to collaborate on Inbenta’s startup project, eventually. Nowadays he is doing his best as the Country Manager in Spain. What does a Country Manager do? Who cares… 

Alfonso is a Galician guy who one day decided to leave the green and rainy paradise to move to Barcelona to start a new stage in his life. He joined inbenta in the summer of 2013 to develop new virtual assistants and to maintain existing ones… Alfonso is a climbing passionate and in his free time you can find him scaling any of the spectacular crags in Catalonia.

Lu(ke) joined the Catalan Rebel Alliance, inbenta, in Barcelona in 2009. After 2 years of Jedi training below Yodi Torras, Luke finally learnt how to master the Force and started his own adventure back to France in Toulouse where he raised in March 2012, the French Rebel Alliance, inbenta France. With a handfuls of young Jedis, his main objective is now to become the leader company in customer self-care and assistance solutions in the Banking and Insurance Sector, the only way he thinks that may put the Galactic Empire in a very difficult position..

When not devoting time to his quest at inbenta, Luke 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 every week his swimming skills to beat Jar Jar Binks, making some loops with the Millennium Falcon on his PS3 and visiting (too often) the Cantina with his fellows 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!

Cassiano joined the new episode of Star Wars in 2013 to manage brazilian chalenges after developing his battle skills in several other businesses. He learnt a lot with Jedi masters from retail, sales, consulting, IT, customer relationship and others after his Production Engeneering graduation. In his free time, different from most of Brazilian people, he could be found leading and playing in an amateur soccer team. Also supporting another passion that is his club SC Internacional from Porto Alegre. His watchword is “think out of the box” in all of life areas and this is helping him to face the chalenges easily.

Àngel studied computer science at UAB University. Later, while working, he realized the importance of applying technology to business, so he earned his 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 having to waste their time on the phone but rather online, is a better experience for customers. When Àngel is not working, you’ll find him with his family or maybe practicing Aikido.

After a first experience as web developer in a pure player of web sites monetization, Sandra joined Inbenta Spain in 2011. A few months later, she followed Luc to the south of France to take part of the beginning of Inbenta France’s adventure. She started by leading all the technical subjects for French Key Accounts in the banking and insurance sector in order to create added value through Inbenta solutions. Regarding the growth of Inbenta France, Sandra is currently the Technical Manager in charge of a growing team of 2 developers and ensuring a high value consultancy and delivery of Inbenta Solutions.
During her free time, she is a shopping enthusiast and a US tv shows addict. She spends more time to try to complete her infinite shoes collection than going to the gym … and for your info, she goes to a Zumba class 3 times a week.

Céline joined the Inbentors tribe as an intern in 2013 while she was passing her Masters’ degree in Natural Language Processing. Once she proved herself during her internship by managing a project and working on linguistics matters, she officially was sacred as an Inbentor. Her initiation rite? Drink Champomy, eat Manon’s fabulous cake and swallow sweets. Her role in her tribe? Help lost internet users through the FAQ by maintaining the good work of ISSE and enriching the database thanks to linguistic analysis and developments. Now that she’s a part of the Inbenta tribe, Céline tries to win over the courts by joining a second tribe, a badminton team. She loves smashing in a shuttlecock, especially when she has worked hard on a matching problem all day long!

Cléo Diegues has a degree in Portuguese-Spanish Translation from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. After graduation, she participated in research on morphophonology, text linguistics and terminology. In 2013, she obtained her Master Degree in the ​​Linguistic Variation. Cléo then began working with computational linguistics. Besides her appreciation for technology, in her spare time, Cléo loves astronomy and admires the stars. Not coincidentally, she loves the Star Wars movies and believes that Yoda is a great teacher for everyday life!

Irma joined Inbenta in the begining of 2011, after a crazy Xmas dinner, as all inbenta’s dinners, to try and bring order with payments of invoices, bills, payrolls, and others boring tasks. She’s still trying and when not working… she loves that.

Maribel joined Inbenta in October 2006 and she’s been working as a Computational Linguist since then. With a baby to take care of, she’s changed noisy bars for the peace and quiet of the sofa to enjoy her beers.

With a Master’s degree in computational linguistics and professional experience in the world of virtual agents, Manon began working at Inbenta in 2012. As a linguistics engineer, she handles key account customers and works primarily on French linguistics. She is also head of the linguistics team based in France. What does she like about her job? Inbenta’s incredible capacity for innovation, and the feeling that everyone in the company plays an important role!
A highly active person outside of work, Manon is involved in a number of social and athletic organizations. She also enjoys Kizomba, a popular genre of dance from Angola.

Laurie joined Inbenta in 2014. She graduated in Natural Language Processing in Toulouse and was very happy to find out sunny days and clean subways still existed there (which she highly doubted after two years in Paris…). As humans are chatty animals she naturally studied language sciences and chose Natural Language Processing (NLP) specialization to meet more geek friends. She’s currently learning how to use NLP to analyze user questions, so that she can improve their access to information through FAQs and be an Inbentora worthy of the name. In her free time you can find her near Japanese food… She might also be climbing, if she eventually faces her fear of heights.

My entrepreneurial, sales & business development, technology, and management experience has shaped my passion for the business world and the solutions that empower it. As a leader in strategic revenue planning and execution, I make growth the Number One priority. Providing highly effective strategies and implementation plans, I create product demand and boost revenue. My technical background and comprehension of application development technologies give me a deeper understanding of my customer’s technology needs, infrastructure and ecosystem, allowing for the best alignment of the cloud and mobile solutions I am responsible for. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I now live with my wife in the Peninsula. I love family, business & technology, sports, and am involved in the Church.

With a MA in TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language), and a background in teaching, Elizabeth joined Inbenta as a Computational Linguist in 2015 after reluctantly returning to the Bay Area from working in Spain and Germany. Always a language junkie, she concurrently completed the work for a MA in Linguistics. Though some wondered why anyone would want to take extra courses…it paid off and Inbenta thought so too! Although she has studied French, Japanese and Amharic, and is well versed in the swear words of many other languages, she can only speak Spanish (bilingual) and a very poor German, but will attempt to pick up Catalan by osmosis. In her spare time she needs to be outdoors, watches too many horror movies and spends way too much time plotting the many ways to live abroad. 

Erin joins Inbenta after spending the last few years working as an ESL teacher. After finishing a master’s in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), she spent a year working in southeastern Turkey, where she spent most of her time eating baklava and exploring ancient ruins. After a few years in the classroom, Erin wanted to transition into a career in tech and was thrilled to find one that would allow her to continue utilizing her knowledge of the English language. Working at Inbenta presents new and interesting challenges every day and Erin is loving every minute of it. While not working, Erin can be found wandering around San Francisco or planning her next adventure… unless it’s baseball season. In that case, you’ll find her at a baseball game, loudly cheering for the Oakland A’s.

Ferran earned a bachelor’s in business with the hope of landing a job at a Big Four Firm. He realized this goal and spent nine years at Accenture in the role as Internal Controller. This led to in-depth experience on many domestic and international projects across numerous verticals and industries. Ferran continued his career in the role of controller at T-System in 2006. He later decided to leave his multinational career path to join a startup in Barcelona as CFO. Since his youth, Ferran has had an entrepreneurial spirit but is now more interested in working with startups. When not at work, he enjoys time with his family and cooking for friends at home. One day he hopes to change his flat for a house with garden, barbecue and swimming pool.

David decided to leave his beloved hometown, el Catllar, to earn a linguistics degree in Barcelona. In early 2015 he exchanged his books for computers to join Inbenta. He does not speak any exotic languages, but he would like to spend some time with an indigenous tribe documenting its language. Aside from being a linguistics freak, he is equally enthusiastic about football and many other things that we will not get into in the interest of saving much time and space.

Aaliyah entrou na Inbenta em 2015. Colou grau em Bacharel em Neurociência Cognitiva com especialização em educação na Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley em 2014 enquanto trabalhava como assistente de pesquisa no Laboratório de Linguagem e Cognição no campus. A Ciência Cognitiva é o estudo científico interdisciplinar da mente e do seu processo incluindo inteligência artificial e linguagem natural  humana . Aaliyah está muito feliz por fazer parte da equipe Inbenta onde ela pode investir todo o conhecimento trabalhando como linguista computacional . Quando morava no Hawaí, ela usava seu tempo livre com idas à praia e gostava de praticar bodyboard e nadar sob o sol havaiano. Nadar com uma tartaruga marinha era uma atividade muito especial para ela. Aaliyah tem paixão por dança latina e agora, após se mudar para a região da Baía, ela usa a maior parte do seu tempo livre dançando Salsa, Bachata, Rueda, etc.

João joined Inbenta France in june 2015. With a Master’s degree in NLP Engineering, he works on FAQ system optimization, project management and customer support. He is driven by an untamed passion for linguistics, which made him quit his hometown Rio de Janeiro to fully dedicate his life studying it. In his free time, you can find him working out in some hardcore basement gym. He also loves to read about forensic criminalistics and to play guitar, from classical to black metal.

Raphaël joined Inbenta as a Web Developer and immediately felt at home among his colleagues. In addition to his interest in new technologies and digital entertainment he enjoys spending his weekends trekking, either on foot or on his mountain bike. He consequently spends most of his free time alternately in front of his computer or in the middle of the Pyrénées.

During her English studies, Chloé found out she was a linguistics nerd. Therefore, she naturally turned to French Linguistics and got a Master degree in NLP. Eventually, she joined Inbenta in 2016 where her passion for language will be useful to people. Outside work, Chloé likes to play… in many various ways! She plays role-play games, video games, board games and she plays in an amateur drama troupe. Maybe some day she will play the bass guitar, who knows?