Jordi Escalé Castelló

Member and full-time professor of the of Information Systems Management lDepartament of ESADE since 1995 exercising educational tasks and research, and being associate professot from the year 2000. Specialist in areas of strategic management and impact of new technologies in businesses, especially internet and multimedia technologies. Specialist in Business Intelligence's Systems.

Management and development of corporate services of Vilella Rahn Group (Finances, Administration, Information Systems, Audit and Controlling, Legal Issues and Human Resources). Participation in Corporate Councils and the different Business Units management meetings. Active participation in the strategy’s definition and development of such business units. Corporate finance deals, merge and acquisitions (8 Business Unit: Cars, Industrial Vehicles, Real State, Assurances, Sports, Distributions, etc.)

Creation and Management of Information Systems and Controlling services for Vilella Rahn Group (Turnover >300 Millions eur))

Person in charge of the offerings, product portfolio and customer management. Development of services (communication, organization, security) and contents (games, children, sports, finance, music, etc). Projects: New service of Telefonica Net mail and Terra mail , Music On-line, projects of development of web and mobile contents for Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, Project leader for all pay media models.Reporting to TerraLycos corporation and Telefonica (Turnover> 220 Millions eur)

Person in charge of projects developed for Telefonica of Spain (Telefonica Net email platform), Design ASP of payment platform solutions for Telefonica Group. Project Manager of the Virtual Forum of the event “Barcelona Forum of the Culturas 2004” with more than 30 web mobile and tv services. Creation of shops for HP, Samsung, Sony, Phillips, etc.. Driving new opportunities of business focused on growth and profitability and managing the whole product development cycle. (Turnover> 94 Millions eur).

Creator of complete platforms of direct sales and third-party products, services and contents. Development of “Soluciones ADSL comercio”, “Soluciones ADSL Intranet”, “Soluciones ADSL Web” all of them for the Telefonica’s General Manager for Businesses in Spain. Creation of shop platforms as well as shopping malls for third-party platforms (TdE, BBVA) Developer of a flexible and real-time payment platform and billing engine. Multifuntional team management. (Turnover >50 Millions eur)

Some projects : Shopping mall design, information architecture, product search engine. Usability test. development of own services such as charge Telefonica Movistar . Integration of third-party shops from multiple companies.Developer of a third-party control transaction system. Digital printing service with Print-at-Kodak. Multifuntional team management.

Member and full-time professor of the of Information Systems Management lDepartament of ESADE since 1995 exercising educational tasks and research.

Development of budget and planning processes reporting and decision support systems for a family business in the retail industry. Creation and implementation of an analytical accounting. Collaboration in the economic and financial strategy, accounting policies. More than 15 shop network around Catalonia. (Turnover > 9 Million eur)

Development of a new business unit of Couponing. Launching a promotion for Club Joventut de Badalona.

Internacional Intensification.