Miguel Calero of Izertis, new member of Alastria's Board of Directors
Alastria is one of the world's largest public-permissioned, multi-sector blockchain platforms, bringing together companies, academia, and public administrations for a common purpose: the advancement of decentralised technologies.
It has been joined by our Head of Emerging Technologies, Miguel Calero, as a new member of its Board of Directors, who comes after more than 22 years of career in the engineering and technology sectors, excelling in fields such as autonomous digital identity, tokenisation, smart contracts and other blockchain/DLT applications, and products and technologies related to conversational AI.
Alastria is one of the world's largest public-permissioned, multi-sector blockchain platforms
Calero is also known for his role as a speaker, as well as being an advisor and mentor for technology companies and startups through initiatives such as UnoCeroUno, and through different business schools. In this line, he also highlights his entrepreneurial role, co-founding the company Wealize for digital products specialised in blockchain; the coSfera initiative, an organisation focused on innovation for coworking, which fosters the digital ecosystem, digital education for children and career change and corporate innovation.
Alastria Assembly
In Alastria, he will be accompanied by Coty de Monteverde (Banco Santander) and Luis Pastor (independent), who repeat as vice-chairmen of the Board of Directors, as well as Manuel Calderón (Inetum), Francisco Maroto (BBVA), who will also act as treasurer; Jesús Ruiz, (IN2), José Luis Núñez Díaz (Telefónica), Nuria Ávalos (Repsol), Luis Garvía (Universidad Pontificia Comillas), Carmen Chicharro (Metrovacesa), Antonio López (Silo), Juan Cumbrado (Mapfre), Almudena de la Mata (Blockchain Intelligence), Cristina Martín (Usyncro), Carlos Kuchkovsky (independent) and Wladimiro Navarro (Addalia). María González Gordon, managing partner of CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, will be the secretary of the Board of Directors.
The implementation of public-private partnerships in projects in Spain and the strengthening of Alastria's international position were two of the most important milestones in the management balance sheet that Alastria presented during this Ordinary General Assembly, which brought together a large number of its members at APD's headquarters and in hybrid mode.
Blockchain infrastructure project in Spain
A special emphasis was placed on one of the organisation's most ambitious projects, carried out jointly with SEDIA, the Community of Madrid, the Community of the Canary Islands and the Principality of Asturias for the project to build the blockchain infrastructure of Spain, ISBE, where production use cases can be deployed and which will be aligned with the European blockchain infrastructure. This project is one of the first 11 digital transformation flagship projects selected under the RETECH programme.
ISBE is one of the first 11 digital transformation flagship projects selected under the RETECH programme
Alastria has established itself as one of the world's largest public-permissioned, multi-sector blockchain platforms, focused on responsible, trusted and regulation-aligned blockchain development. It is made up of more than 500 partners of different sizes and sectors (47% of them SMEs and extended Ibex companies), the academic world (universities, business schools, training centres, technology and science parks) and public administrations. One of its main lines of work in the last two years has been the identification, promotion and boosting of productive use cases, supported by the level of technological maturity that blockchain has reached and the arrival of regulation around DLTs, with MiCA and the Pilot Regime in Europe and the Securities Market Act and the financial sandbox in Spain.