🙋‍♂️The Founders - Team

The founders engaged a senior management team with strong and diverse business, technology and investment experience. They have a combined experience in entrepreneurship and blockchain of over 40 years. THE FOUNDERS:

Luis Carbajo - CEO and co-founder - Linkedin

Before founding Vottun, Luis was the Global Head of User Experience at Amazon, becoming the company’s first Spanish director and working alongside Jeff Bezos teams. Following five years at Amazon, he joined Vistaprint as Head of Marketing and then served as CEO of SoloStocks, Spain’s leading online marketplace for SMEs.

Luis co-founded Vottun in 2018 and is considered a leading expert on blockchain technology, with deep knowledge of business aplications and scalability challenges and extensive technical experience regarding protocols, consensus algorithms and associated cryptography.

Luis holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Valencia (Spain) and an MBA in Business Administration from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan (USA).

Marta Valles - COO and co-founder - Linkedin

Prior to co-founding Vottun, Marta worked as a lawyer before founding Messless Distributions, a strategic consulting firm supporting companies entering new international markets and helping global brands such as Alibaba expand to new territories.

As a business leader, entrepreneur and blockchain enthusiast, Marta is passionate about increasing the participation and presence of women and girls in STEM subjects. As a member of WA4STEAM, the all-women angels investment group, and a board member of WStartupCommunity, an association that promotes equality policies that support female entrepreneurs, she advocates for female representation in the technology workforce.

Forbes has named Marta in the top ten women leading digital transformation, and she has also been named one of Spain’s top 100 female entrepreneurs. She holds a law degree from the Central European University of Budapest and a PDD from the IESE Business School.