Xavier Ferràs

Xavier Ferràs holds a PhD in Business Management from UB, an MBA from ESADE and a Telecommunications Engineering Degree from UPC. He is a member of the Connociam Advisory Board

Xavier Ferràs holds a PhD in Business Management from UB, an MBA from ESADE and a Telecommunications Engineering Degree from UPC. He is a member of the Connociam Advisory Board

Associate professor of Operations Management, Innovation & Data Sciences at ESADE since 2002. Member of numerous boards and think-tanks, he is member of the advisory boards of AMEC, PIMEC, AMETIC, COTEC, and the Mobile World Capital, among others.
He has been Dean of the Faculty of Business and Communication at the University of Vic. Until 2012, he was Director of the ACC10 Centre for Business Innovation (Catalan Agency for Competitiveness), and was responsible for technology transfer policies, R&D and development of clusters in Catalonia. He has previously served as CIDEM Director of Business Development, Head of Innovation, Co-ordinator of the Technological Innovation Plan for Catalonia (2001-2004), and member of the committee drafting the Research and Innovation Plan (2005-2008). Among other executive positions related to technology and innovation, he has been a member of the boards of trustees and executive boards of BAIE (aerospace cluster), Biocat (biotechnology cluster), CTM technological centres (advanced materials), Barcelona Media (audio-visual), CTAE (Aerospace), LEITAT (manufacturing), the Microsoft Productivity Centre in Manresa, the Catalan Foundation for Research, the i-CERCA Foundation (Research Centre of the Catalan Government), Invertec (Venture Capital Company), and Creafutur.

He previously worked in the automobile industry and as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering. Author of ‘Innovación 6.0: el Fin de la Estrategia’ (Plataforma, 2010). Co-author of ‘Pasión por Innovar’ (Granica, 2006), ‘Tanto Creces, Tanto Vales’ (Granica, 2005), and ’50 Lecciones de Management’ (Granica, 2007).

Speaker at over 300 national and international conferences on strategy, innovation and technology management. Regular contributor at “La Vanguardia” and “Expansion”.