Pau Sabria

Co-Founder and CEO

Pau Sabria and his co-founders created the world’s first earned content platform to help brands curate, activate, and analyze consumer photos and videos across all marketing and e-Commerce channels. Based in the company’s New York headquarters, Sabria oversees the company strategy and direction in the marketplace.  He is a graduate of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering, and conducted his thesis in distributed video coding at Purdue University in Indiana. He then joined The Boston Consulting Group, where he worked for three years and co-founded Olapic while completing his MBA at Columbia University in New York City. Sabria is extensively quoted in the media about visual social platforms such as Instagram, the future of e-commerce and how consumer-generated images will impact the way brands interact with customers.

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Luis Sanz

Co-Founder and COO

Based in Olapic’s New York headquarters, Sanz serves two roles as Chief Operating Officer and as head of technology and product development. Sanz’s deep technical background fueled the development of Olapic’s proprietary predictive algorithm, Photorank™ that analyzes dozens of different aspects of an image to determine its likelihood to trigger a purchase.  Raised in Zaragoza, Spain, Sanz earned a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from University of Zaragoza, completing a thesis in Active Noise Control using Machine Learning.  Sanz also holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York, where he co-founded Olapic in 2010.  Prior to founding Olapic, Sanz was a consultant for Accenture, working for aerospace/defense projects in Europe and also worked for Ericsson, responsible for all support teams for the Billing Gateway and Service Provisioning departments across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Sanz and his Olapic co-founders have been recognized by the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund at Columbia Business School and were recipients of the E-cademy Award. Sanz is sought after by media and conferences for his expertise in image recognition and digital imaging technologies.

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Jose De Cabo

Co-Founder and Head of EMEA

Based in Olapic’s European headquarters in London, Cabo is spearheading the company’s global expansion. Drawing on his extensive global consulting background, Cabo and his team successfully introduced Olapic’s earned content technology to the European market and have secured client partners including Asos, Desigual, Karen Millen, Pepe Jeans, Selfridges, Tag Heuer and Zalando. Born in Madrid, Cabo holds undergraduate degrees from Dublin City University and ICADE University and an MBA from the Columbia School of Business in New York City, where he and his co-founders received recognition and capital from the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund. He previously worked as a management consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, leading technology innovation, marketing and sales projects for large, multi-national corporations. Cabo has been featured extensively in the press and is frequently invited to present at trade conferences on the future of e-commerce.

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NAVEEN AKUNURI

VP of Product

Based in Olapic’s NYC headquarters, Naveen Akunuri oversees the Product Management team including the UX, research, and product marketing departments. He has 18 years of product development experience, most recently as the co-founder and CTO of Piqora, which was acquired by Olapic in 2016. Prior to his time at Piqora, Naveen co-founded Sheyna, a startup that enabled anyone to design jewelry on the web. Previous to founding his own companies, Naveen was the Director of Architecture for SendMe Mobile. An innovator in the finance space, Naveen also led the bill payments and funds transfer teams at Yodlee. Naveen has a Masters Degree from North Carolina State University, and a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai.

SEBASTIÁN ALVAREZ

VP of Engineering

Based in Olapic’s Argentinean office in Córdoba, Sebastián (Sebas) Alvarez leads the Engineering Team and overall operations in Argentina. Prior to his time at Olapic, Sebas worked as a freelancer for several Marketing companies and universities in Córdoba. A lifelong tech lover, Sebas has been writing code for as long as he can remember and is proud to say he was one of Olapic’s first employees.