Julio co-founded Quantic Brains Technologies in 2021 and is responsible for the management, financial and planning part. He has more than 20 years in the audiovisual sector as CFO and CEO, having been the CFO of the first company listed on the MAB in Spain. He also has extensive international project management experience and brings market-reach capabilities to the project.
Passionate about technology, as a child I assembled computers piece by piece with my father, a professor of bioinformatics. I learned to read and write to be able to put commands in MS-DOS.
Self-taught to the core, at the age of 16 I started making web pages for companies, and since then I have been learning all the technologies that have fallen into my hands.
To broaden my knowledge, I did a master’s degree in video game design that gave me a foundation on all modeling and texturing programs to be able to interact more efficiently with designers.
I have also been interested in the way companies work, and for two years I lived by investing in the Spanish continuous market. And for another two I was inside a consulting firm, taking a closer look at its operation.
Now I have decided to jump into the pool and with my partners to set up what I hope will be a company that changes the future of the digital entertainment sector.
Manuel founded Quantic Brains in 2021 and is responsible for leading the technology and R&D strategy, sharing the company’s day-to-day operations.
Graduated in Computer Engineering at ICAI in Madrid, he has spent more than 20 years working as an AI researcher for different startups. He is also an NLP professor at Alcala University and EOI, teaching at AI Master’s Degree programs.
Santiago is a Project Manager in the Business Development and Innovation Department of Hachette Livre, in charge of the Spanish and Latin American territories. His responsibilities are mainly related to identifying new growth opportunities and supporting the development projects of the group’s publishing houses, while fostering an internal culture of innovation.
Beatrice Yong-in calls herself a professional Digital Content Specialist (DCS) with technology in heart and the demonstrated career for decades from the licensing, publishing, ed-tech and digital content distribution and security fields, whereas seven years engaged in audio book publishing, production, and distribution for the market of South Korea. As a co-founder and managing director at her company CO.MINT Inc. she is leading rights agency, consulting and digital content distribution of Korean language eBooks and audiobooks. From 2017 to 2022, she had led Storytel’s audio publishing business in South Korea.
As a content reviewer and judge, frequent speaker, lecturer, and writer for Korea’s Digital Book Association and KPIPA of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea on the topic of eBook, audiobook, digital content trends, and copyrights in digital environment, she has been invited to speak at global arenas.
She is studying at Ewha Womans University the Graduate School of Law for ‘the future of copyright in the era of the 4th industrial revolution’ as an extension of her bachelor’s degree of law, to solicit the conversation and movement towards the harmonious application of innovation technology and law for our future content industry.
Michele Cobb, a spoken word enthusiast, is Executive Director of both The Audio Publishers Association and The Podcast Academy. She is also a partner at Forte Business Consulting, which provides Business Development and Association Management services for the publishing industry.
Santos Palazzi is the Head of Mass Market and Digital at Grupo Planeta. In this role, he oversees Planeta’s children’s and young adult publishing division, science fiction, fantasy and graphic novel imprints, as well as pocket or paperback publishing division. For the past 12 years, he has led the digital development of the publishing division at Planeta. The main goals and achievements of the digital division are: to establish a consistent and extensive e-book and audiobook catalog, to secure agreements with local and international e-retailers, and to develop digital initiatives and tools to increase the findability and visibility of books and authors.
