Isaac de la Pena
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | English, French, Languages, Spanish |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Nokia |
| Position: | Senior Manager (Helsinki, Finland) |
| Time period: | October 2004 - Present |
| Description: | Headed strategic innovation activities for Nokia Enterprise Solutions, contributing to Nokia’s successful entry into the corporate market.
Orchestrated a portfolio of emerging businesses and technologies by combining in-house research, licensing, partnerships and selective acquisitions. Steered key innovative projects in the corporate space (e.g. Nokia’s mobile e-mail and workforce automation products). 06.2006: Relocation to Boston, USA Studied at MIT’s Sloan Fellows Program (mitsloan.mit.edu/fellows) while continuing to work for Nokia in the same capacity from the corporate office in Boston. |
| Employer: | MIT Sloan Fellows cohort, |
| Position: | Treasurer and fund-raiser |
| Description: | Treasurer and fund-raiser for the MIT Sloan Fellows cohort, obtaining in excess of $100,000 from personal and corporate donors to sponsor community activities |
| Employer: | MIT Global Startup Workshop 2007 and 2008 |
| Position: | Lead organizer |
| Time period: | January 2007 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Lead organizer of the MIT Global Startup Workshop 2007 (Trondheim, Norway) and 2008 (Madrid, Spain) securing the participation of reputed keynote speakers like billionaire Desh Deshpande, entrepreneur Dean Kamen and former president Jose Maria Figueres |
| Employer: | Nokia |
| Position: | Program Manager (Helsinki, Finland) |
| Time period: | June 2002 - October 2004 |
| Description: | Executed ownership, from inception to market rollout, over a multi-million portfolio of Lead Service Projects that leveraged the advanced capabilities of Nokia’s Smartphones.
Spearheaded the creation of Nokia’s first commercial mobile videophony solution. Championed the adoption of a unified Requirement Management Process that allowed the systematic capture, analysis and prioritization of customer needs and greatly improved product decision-making practices across the organization. |
| Employer: | Nokia |
| Position: | Project Manager (Barcelona, Spain) |
| Time period: | March 2000 - June 2002 |
| Description: | Oversaw the development of the services platform for the world’s first and widely successful Mobile Internet device, the Nokia 7110 (a.k.a. “The Matrix” movie phone) and the world’s first Java enabled device, the Nokia 3650.
Managed the activities of an engineering team through requirement specification, structural design, programming and testing in direct report to the Program Manager. Introduced in Nokia modern software development methodologies based on the Rational Unified Process plus the adoption of industry standards enforced by code reviews, and pioneered the internal adoption of open-source software. Sun certified Java Architect since 2001. Holding several patents in EU & USA (e.g. EU 39949, “IMS Subsystem Enhancement”) |
| Employer: | Area Digital (e-commerce start-up) |
| Position: | Co-founder and Software Architect (Barcelona, Spain) |
| Time period: | August 1998 - February 2000 |
| Description: | Built a complete e-commerce and banking platform in partnership with Nokia, Telefónica and Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya Argentaria (a leading Spanish bank).
Acquired wide expertise in web development languages, internet protocols, federated authentication systems and cryptographic techniques. |
| Employer: | BEEP (Spain’s leading ICT retail and training company) |
| Position: | Technical Instructor (Reus, Spain) |
| Time period: | January 1997 - July 1998 |
| Description: | Taught IT classes (e.g. database administration systems, programming languages) and developed new academic subjects for BEEP’s nation-wide “DataTraining” franchise. |
| Employer: | MIT VC & PE Conference 2008 (Boston, USA) |
| Position: | Co-organizer |
| Time period: | December 2008 |
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2006 - 2008 |
| Degree: | MIT Sloan Fellows Program with concentration in Finance, MBA |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | - Member of the MIT Innovation Team that developed the commercialization strategy for a low-cost CD-4T lymphocyte counting technology that dramatically improves standards of HIV care in developing countries while reducing costs of treatment.
- Member of the Mensa society for gifted individuals |
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Rebeca Hwang
Korean-Argentine finishing her PhD at Stanford. Addicted to startups and entrepreneurship. Life ADD & Loves travelling.
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Mohammad Asfour
Currently the Energy, Water and Environment Sector Lead at USAID's SABEQ Program. Previously served as an Advisor to HRH Princess Sumaya Bint El Hassan & founded the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship. Also worked as an advisor to the OECD
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Bob Goodson
British, working in San Francisco on startup YouNoodle. Runaway Oxford medievalist. Former Yelpee.
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Kirill Makharinsky
Entrepreneur and numbers guy. Co-founder of YouNoodle; previously studied metrics at Slide and mathematics at Oxford.