Alban Sanchez is the Chief of Technology and Innovation Officer of LinkAmerica. He has a background in electronics engineering, research, and development for the telecommunications industry and, during the last decade, founded and became CEO of a company called Lantern Technologies - later acquired by LinkAmerica -. His company specialized in the development of Industry 4.0 software applications, the Internet of Things (IoT), data science, and artificial intelligence technologies. He has been a speaker in different national and international forums - including twice TEDx talk speeches - and has contributed technically and commercially to the creation of innovative technological products on industrial automation, smart agriculture, and smart cities.
For more than 20 years he also served in several positions on the Foreign Trade Promotion Agency of Costa Rica (PROCOMER), including being a board member and General Manager ai. He led strategic planning, innovation management, multiple technological projects, and several restructuring processes, which resulted in an evaluation and later recognition from the World Trade Organization WTO to PROCOMER as the best trade Promotion Agency in the world.
His combined experience in entrepreneurship, international trade, technical design, product development, and commercialization gives him an end-to-end and high-to-low-level view of the management processes involved in launching new products in the technological sector.
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