The Sensing Tex Team
Bringing out the best in each other!
The company was founded by a team of multidisciplinary professionals with diverse tech backgrounds having developed their careers at top level positions (in technology, management and business development) in different companies. Sensing Tex is committed to provide high value advice and cutting-edge products to the customers, assisting them throughout the process of creating successful final solutions. At Sensing Tex we know that to be the best we need the best in each specialty. As a result, this is our team.
Miguel Ridao
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Ridao founded the company and became Chief Executive Officer in 2010. He served as the co-founder of three companies in the field of engineering and technology. Holding over seventeen years of experience in the business of textile and electronic technology, Mr. Ridao is an inventor, holds some patents, has lectured worldwide, published several articles, and has won several awards at both technology and business level. On top of Mr. Ridao’s achievement of receiving many high degrees Pre-PhD (UPC, Barcelona Spain 2006); Master Physics (UB, Barcelona Spain 2003); Master Textile Engineering (FH Reutlingen Germany 1999); (UPC, Barcelona Spain 1998), he has acquired academic training completed specifically within the field of entrepreneurship, leadership, and management. This training was done at the business schools of IESE Business School (Learning to Grow Executive Program) and La Salle Business School (Start Up Catalonia Program)
LUIS GOMEZ
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Gomez founded the company and was appointed the Chief Technical Officer in 2010. He holds Bachelor Degrees in Textile Science and Computer Science. He joined the R&D Department of ENTEC in 2007, where he participated in various R&D projects in the textile sector. In 2005, Mr. Gomez served as CTO to Punto Roma Group, a company dedicated to production tracking. Before serving as CTO, Mr. Gomez joined the Department of Programming and Technical Assistance; he created and directed the department of training and development of new products based on a new Knitted Seamless Technology. He remained in the company for five years starting his professional career in 2000.
JOSE BLASCO
Board Member and Attorney Advisor
Mr..Blasco is the Secretary of the Board. He has a degree in law; completed by academic training which he has taken with various courses and masters from the UOC, UB and ESADE. Mr. Blasco is an expert in commercial law and his professional experience is extensive. Since 1991 he worked at Starlux S.A., Spain Nestlé, S.A. Osborne Clarke and Europe, among others, since 1999 is Shareholder and Member on Board of Castejón and Blasco that merged with NET CRAMAN in 2014.
JOSE MANUEL ABEL
Chief Strategy Officer
Mr. Abel is our Chief Strategy Officer and a member of the board. Mr. Abel holds a Master of Economics and MBA by IESE Business School.
His professional experience is focused on business strategy and corporate finance. For more than 25 years he was president and CEO of the textile group (TIPSA), he has been founder, partner and administrator of Corporates and mentor in different companies.
FRANCISCO RIVAS
Director of Textiles
Mr. Rivas holds a Bachelor Science of Textiles by UPC (1996). Mr. .Rivas spent over the last 21 years of his professional career involved in manufacturing and production of all kind of products within the textile industry. He has received parallel training in Project Management, Quality Control and Production Methods. Actually he is Director of Textiles in Sensing Tex developing and in charge of production of Sensing Mats Design, simulation, production and assembly processes.
MARTIN PIQUERAS
Director of Software
Mr. Piqueras is a highly experienced Computer Science Engineer with over 7 years of expertise in developing cutting-edge tech solutions, including Apps, Gaming, and Web development. With a versatile skill set in Full Stack development and Cloud solutions, he has successfully wrapped all aspects of the development process. Additionally, Mr. Piqueras has worked on projects involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), showcasing his proficiency in these domains. He demonstrates a keen interest in adopting emerging technologies and constantly seeks to leverage them in his work. He excels as a tech lead, effectively managing projects, overseeing teams, and delivering high-quality solutions on time. Notably, he has developed proprietary projects that have amassed over 500,000 downloads.
VERON STANLEY ALBAYEROS
AI Software Developer
Mr. Stanley is a Computer Vision Engineer with more than 10 years in the Industry. He is skilled in data science, AI, Machine Learning and he was involved as a developer of the OpenCV group, the biggest open software solution of computer vision.
JORGE RUBIO
Business Developer
Mr. Rubio is a Telecommunications Engineer, over 35 years experience in selling both hardware and software technology, after being involved in Global Companies such as Toshiba Europe for 18 years he moved as a freelancer representing during 20 years different Tech companies (more than 10) as a partner and sales agent from hardware to software solutions. He finally joined Sensing Tex 6 months ago a 100% as a Business Developer
JALIL MURUE
Office Manager
Mr. Murue has a Entreprenurialship and Business Administration Bachelor degree (2015, ITESM, México), and a Master degree in Innovation and Finance (2023, UPF, Spain). Mr. Murue has a reallly good track background in operations, sales and he also was working as a Key Account Manager with a german company (Henkel) where he develop the sales strategy. He has skills in business development, sales estrategy and sales analysis.
ELKIN DÍAZ
Director of Research & Development
Mr. Diaz is an Electronics Engineer with high level of expertise in circuit design from different abstraction levels, going from high level complex circuits down to electronic component design. Elkin studied the Engineering in the Universidad de los Andes Colombia (2007), he holds Msc on Nano and Microelectronics by UAB of Barcelona (2010) and he holds PhD in Microelectronics and Microelectronic Systems by UAB of Barcelona (2013). His PhD research was focused in the characterization of inkjet printed microelectronic circuits. He participated in the CI-Brazil Program (2008), in the Analog and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit design course. Actually, he is Research and Development Director in Sensing Tex, modeling of Pressure Sensing for the Mat Platform and developing the hardware and firmware for the data acquisition systems of Sensing Mats. His research interest are related with Printed Electronics and Microelectronics circuit design.