Carlos Bello

Director of Innovation and Technology at ILUNION Hotels where he leads the company’s disruptive transformation, through the identification of new business models, products, processes, and services. He also implements a culture of open and interdisciplinary innovation with ILUNION Hotels’ stakeholders. He leads business Innovation with Purpose (#InnovACTION) in order to “Build a better world with everyone included”. Senior executive with an international strategic approach, expert in combining innovation management with business knowledge to enable the transformation of companies. He joins ILUNION Hotels after holding the positions of Director of Innovation and Sustainability at Iberdrola Inmobiliaria, and Head of European R+D+i Projects at Iberdrola. He was also Director of Innovation at LEAD Innovation, a leading innovation management consultancy. He is currently an expert advisor on innovation to the European Commission and certified mentor for european startups. Architect from the UPM (Spain), he enlarged his management and innovation training at Instituto de Empresa, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), University of Oslo and ESADE.