About us | Team

The team behind the platform

Nearby Computing is driven by the engineers who built the platform and the operators who bring it to market. Talent from more than 10 nationalities, with business and academic backgrounds, turns innovation into real-world deployments.

Based in Barcelona. Proudly European. Operating worldwide.

Executive team

Josep Martí
CEO and Co-Founder
Josep co-founded Nearby Computing in 2018 and leads strategy, global coordination and investor relations. A telecommunications engineer (UPC), he previously co-founded two other companies and spent nearly a decade in senior roles in Catalan public administration, including Director General of Interdepartmental Coordination in the Government of Catalonia, where he led planning and supervision of public policies across a €35B budget. He began his career building and managing telecom infrastructure for the Port of Barcelona's logistics area.
David Carrera
CTO and Co-Founder
David is the chief architect of NearbyOne and leads product strategy and technical direction. He co-founded Nearby Computing as a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where he headed the Data-Centric Computing research group, and is an associate professor of computer architecture at UPC, currently on extended leave. His research on data centre optimisation and workload orchestration has produced more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, an ERC Starting Grant, and the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering's Agustín de Betancourt medal for young researchers in 2018. He has led industrial collaborations with IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco, and was a Visiting Research Scholar at IBM Watson.
Georgina Parés
Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing
Georgina leads global sales, marketing and the partner ecosystem, and joined Nearby Computing in May 2025. She brings more than 20 years of experience building scalable, high-growth revenue organisations for B2B software companies across EMEA and worldwide, across five scale-up journeys that contributed to three acquisitions, one IPO and a Series D round. Prior roles include Vice President of Sales International at Red Points, Global Vice President of Sales at WebCargo by Freightos and Vice President of Sales SEMEA at Clarabridge. She began her career at McKinsey & Company and Danone, and holds a BBA and MBA from ESADE and a PDD from IESE.
Josep Lluís Ferrer
Director of Engineering and Operations
Josep Lluís leads engineering, delivery and platform operations at Nearby Computing, which he joined in February 2025. He pairs deep technical expertise with proven leadership of globally distributed teams. His 20 years of experience building software in the networking and orchestration domains include roles as Engineering Manager in IBM's Networking group and, before that, as Principal Engineer for cloud orchestration at Volta Networks, acquired by IBM in 2021. Earlier he held engineering and technical roles at the i2CAT Foundation and UPC's Wireless Network Research Group. He holds telecommunication and electronic engineering degrees from UPC.
Angelos Antonopoulos
Research and Innovation Director
Angelos leads Nearby Computing's research and innovation activities, coordinating its participation in European and national R&D programmes and connecting research on 5G/6G, edge computing, agentic AI and AI-driven network and service management with the company's technology roadmap. He has held technical leadership and project management roles across European and national research projects. Before joining Nearby Computing in 2020, he was a Senior Researcher at CTTC. He holds a PhD from UPC, awarded Best UPC Thesis in ICT, has authored more than 160 scientific publications and is an IEEE Senior Member. Each year since 2024 he has been ranked by Research.com among the top 1% of computer science researchers worldwide.