Sergio Gago

Sergio Gago is the Chief Technology Officer at Cloudera, where he leads the company’s technology vision and innovation strategy, aligning cutting-edge data and AI capabilities with enterprise needs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With over two decades of experience as a CTO, entrepreneur, and executive across startups, scaleups, and global enterprises, Sergio builds and scales high-impact technical teams that deliver real-world disruption.

Previously, he was the Managing Director of AI and Quantum Computing at Moody’s, and before that, led their Media Solutions unit, pioneering the use of machine learning for real-time decision-making from unstructured news data. Sergio's career spans leadership roles at Rakuten, Zinio, Tangelo, Naviga, and Ares Development driving digital transformation initiatives.

Sergio holds graduate degrees in Telecommunications Engineering, an MBA, and a postgraduate degree in Quantum Computing. Recognized by CDO Magazine as one of the "40 under 40" in data, he is the author of "The CTO Toolbox" and the Director of the Big Data and AI Master's Program at BTS/University of Barcelona, as well as an active angel investor backing frontier tech startups.

When not decoding the future of computing, he’s probably decoding Hendrix solos on his guitar.

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