AI-First Transformation · Operator-Proven at Scale

Álvaro de Nicolás

Interim CTO / CIO · Board Advisor — board-level AI strategy, governance and agentic delivery.

AI ambition is cheap. Operating it isn't.

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€8B+

Platform revenue (TTV)

1B+

Requests / day at peak

1,400+

Applications migrated

How I Work — Issue · Impact · Solution

AI is stuck in pilots.

Impact — Spend keeps rising, but nothing moves the P&L.

Solution — AI Strategy → Execution: a governance model, SDLC guardrails and a 30·60·90 plan that ships measurable profit, not slideware.

AI is being shipped without controls.

Impact — Cost, security and vendor lock-in become a board-level risk.

Solution — AI Governance & Agentic Delivery: board assurance plus an agentic SDLC that lifts developer output while keeping risk and cost contained.

The platform can't carry the ambition.

Impact — AI outruns the operating layer underneath it.

Solution — The Foundation: cloud modernisation, carve-out / post-merger integration and operating-model redesign for an AI-first organisation.

Proof — What Operating It Looks Like

€20M+

Annual savings — insurance & travel mandates

+40%

Delivery throughput improvement

€330M

Technology investment managed

1,400

Applications migrated to cloud — Lloyds Banking Group

1,500+

Technology professionals led

eNPS >95%

Sustained for 6 consecutive quarters

Signature Mandates

Hotelbeds Group
Scaled from 10K to 1Bn requests/day supporting €8Bn TTV (gross bookings); led €20M carve-out from TUI; cut cost per booking 50%.
Lloyds Banking Group
Closed 12 datacentres, migrated 1,400 apps to cloud, drove nine-figure recurrent savings.
Awaze / Platinum Equity
Led €12M technology carve-out from TUI across 5 European locations; tech due diligence on 4 acquisitions.
WebBeds · Mapfre · Zurich
AI-enabled operating models and agentic delivery — €20M+ saved through operating-model redesign.

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