Team
With a shared track record of success, the Foundation has a first-rate, experienced, well-rounded team committed to the project.
Iván Nabalón is a social entrepreneur. After more than 20 years working as a consultant for multinational private companies, he left his job to devote himself to what he enjoys most: exploring how technology can help people live fulfilling lives in society. In 2013, he launched civitana.org, the first civic collaboration social network with self-sovereign digital identity. The project failed, but its patented technology created a new category on the internet for verifying people’s identities and legitimacy in online interactions, and is used daily by millions of people. The resulting company, renamed eID, became a technology standard and pioneered the drive for regulation worldwide. Operating in more than 50 countries, the company was sold to a Norwegian fund in 2021. This event and the experience gained led to the creation of Fundación Civitana, reviving the initiative’s original social purpose.
Carlos Sáez is a lawyer specialising in New Technologies Law, with more than twenty years’ experience advising multinational companies and public authorities on matters including information technology and telecommunications, electronic signatures, digital identity and the protection of fundamental rights. A founding partner of Trebia Abogados, he has participated in national and international projects in both the public and private sectors, working with leading consultancies in the technology and legal fields. His career has convinced him that, in a context in which representative democracy is showing growing limitations, emerging technologies are the key instrument for enabling genuine civic collaboration.
Mónica Pérez Núñez is an early years teacher and social entrepreneur. She is co-founder of Evolucriando, a family support community that offers training, educational resources and meeting spaces to help people approach parenting with greater confidence. Her professional experience focuses on children’s wellbeing and development, as well as strengthening families as an essential environment for learning. As a Trustee of Fundación Civitana, she contributes an educational and social perspective centred on people and their capacity to grow and participate actively in society.
An artificial intelligence specialist with more than 10 years’ experience in the digital signature and identity sector. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s in Computer Vision from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where he is pursuing a doctorate in Computer Vision. He led the computer vision and engineering teams at Electronic IDentification (now Signicat), after developing digital onboarding and document fraud detection solutions at IECISA and Inetum. Co-founder and CAIO – Chief Artificial Intelligencer of SuperSapiens, Civify and Jobs2live.com.
Paloma García has a strong track record spanning more than 20 years in finance, having built her career at leading international firms including AMS, CGI and BNP Paribas. She was Finance Director of Electronic Identification, a pioneering digital identity and qualified trust services platform now integrated into Signicat. She is currently Finance Director of the Civitana Foundation and, as a co-founder and CFO, drives the Jobs2live.com, Civify and SuperSapiens initiatives.
Cristina Romera Soto believes that the law fulfils its true purpose when it helps people move forward safely in times of change. Specialising in New Technologies Law, she has built her career supporting companies and innovative projects as they navigate the legal challenges arising from digital transformation, electronic identity, data protection and trust services. Her experience in pioneering electronic certification and digital identity initiatives has given her first-hand involvement in building mechanisms that foster trust in the digital environment. Her outlook, however, extends beyond technology. She believes that progress is only meaningful when it serves people, and when legal expertise is practised with attentiveness, sound judgement and empathy.
He graduated in Industrial Engineering, specialising in Electronics and Automation, from Universidad de Oviedo in 1992. He has more than 30 years’ experience in the IT sector, beginning his career at Universidad de Oviedo itself, in the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology.
He subsequently spent more than 20 years at CGI, a Canadian multinational IT services company, where he held a wide range of technical, architecture, consulting and management roles and took part in complex projects for major organisations.
In 2016, he founded Nubizzi, a company specialising in the adoption of advanced infrastructure, security, architecture and software development technologies. Through Nubizzi, he promotes solutions based on cloud-native applications, DevOps, containers, serverless computing, functional programming and data-oriented design.
In recent years, he has focused particularly on artificial intelligence development and integrating AI capabilities into business products and processes, helping organisations adopt these technologies in a practical and scalable way aligned with their business objectives.