J. Albert Fernández Abillar

Albert is a C-level executive & Board advisor with deep global experience across Technology, Media, IT/Telecoms, and NewSpace. He has worked extensively across Corporate, Start-up/Scale-up and Public Sector and is passionate about emerging technologies in the Cloud, Space, IoT and AI. An over-arching theme within Albert’s career has been his entrepreneurial and strategic hands-on leadership skills. Albert builds and energizes high-performance teams fostering commitment, collaboration and integrity, and is results-oriented and customer driven with relentless focus on worldwide sales, governance, operational excellence and superior customer experience.

Albert joined Flytxt in 2020 and serves as Executive Partner supporting Strategy, Business development and Growth. Throughout his international career spanning more than two decades, Albert has worked at many global companies like Oracle, Lucent Technologies, Siemens, Tellabs, Tekelec and NBC Universal; executing numerous M&As and successful Exits. He founded TechMIV Ltd in 2017, an Executive Management, Board Advisory and Investment Consultancy for fast-growth and blue-chip companies and has partnered with companies including Iceye, RSMetrics, Adaptive Mobile, and Hulu on technology innovation, sales acceleration, digital transformation & business turn-around. Albert gained his MSc in Electrical Engineering and Telecoms from ETSETB, UPC Barcelona and Kaiserslautern University, has Postgraduate degrees in MPCS (Mobile Personal Communications Systems) and GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and a Global Executive MBA from the London Business School (UK) and Columbia University (NY- USA).

Albert is a dual Spanish / British national and speaks English, Spanish, Catalan and German. He lives in the Cotswolds in England and is married with two children. In his spare time, Albert enjoys competitive squash, skiing, sailing and motorcycling in the British countryside.