Luis Jimenez-Tuñon

Luis Jimenez-Tuñon was appointed a Director of Pareteum Corporation on March 1, 2017. Mr. Jimenez-Tuñon is a distinguished telecommunications industry leader, and a highly accomplished senior executive with 15 years of success in telecommunications, mobile, technology, satellite, IoT and banking industries. In his executive career, he held leadership positions at Eutelsat EPA:ETL (Worldwide Executive Vice President); Red Queen Ventures (CEO); Vodafone Enabler Spain (CEO); Vodafone LON:VOD (Senior Vice President; previously VP Strategy; and before Executive for New Business); and INSA (Deputy Commercial Director), among others. He grew companies and teams from $0 to + $300m annual revenue consistently exceeding financial, commercial and operational goals across global B2B and B2C markets.

Mr. Jimenez-Tuñon served as CEO of Pareteum’s largest customer, Vodafone Enabler S.L. (“Vodafone Enabler”) from July 2011 to December 2016. As Chief executive of Vodafone Enabler, he pioneered the Company’s innovative business model and powered the launch of Vodafone Spain’s second brand Lowi.es which was awarded best Spanish MVNO in 2015 and 2016. As a start-up born within the Group in 2011, and under his leadership, Vodafone enabler boosted its revenue, profit and operational performance, and achieved internationalization. In addition to his role at Vodafone Enabler, during a decade at Vodafone, Mr. Jimenez-Tuñon also held leadership positions at Vodafone Spain where he was responsible for business development and strategy of the group’s Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), enablers, roaming services, international carriers and wholesale fixed broadband business lines, growing business to hundreds of millions of euros in yearly revenue.

Since November 2017, and as Group’s Worldwide Executive Vice President of Eutelsat – one of the leading satellite operators in the world with around 1.5 billion euro in yearly revenue-, Mr. Jimenez-Tuñon reports to its Group‘s Deputy CEO and leads its worldwide data business comprising satellite IoT, Corporate, Telecom and new data solutions; fixed data services, wholesale and NGO & humanitarian affairs. On the entrepreneurial front, Mr. Jimenez-Tuñon founded Red Queen Ventures (www.redqueen-ventures.com), a global high-tech advisory and Investment Company focused on early-stage technology, telecom, satellite and aerospace companies in hubs like Madrid, London, New York, Miami, Palo Alto and Los Angeles CA.

Mr. Jimenez-Tunon earned an Executive MBA from EOI Business School, a Master’s Degree in Satellite Communications from Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Zaragoza in cooperation with the Technical University of Denmark. He also completed the prestigious Executive Management Program (SEP) from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in California, of which he is lifetime alumni. Mr. Jimenez-Tuñon has served on boards and advisory councils, has won numerous awards and recognitions, and has participated as speaker in many business events and round tables.