José Montañés
Founder at Fatilum Mnopi M&A
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJosé Montañés is a veteran technology entrepreneur and M&A founder with nine years of formal experience and a 30+ year career building and scaling telecom and digital businesses. As founder of Fatilum and former CEO of Mnopi, he combines deep product and R&D chops (from engineering roots at Ericsson and Lucent Bell Labs) with proven commercial leadership that delivered multi‑million revenues, device launches and large-scale partnerships across EMEA and LATAM. He has led turnarounds and strategy at high‑growth companies—raising institutional funding, creating R&D labs of 100+ engineers, and generating tens of millions in revenue through open connected ecosystems. Notably, he built Mnopi as an independent privacy‑first OS and sold 10K Phonopi devices while growing media and location businesses that produced steady revenue to fund the core vision. Based in Madrid with an MBA from IESE and an engineering background from UPM, José brings a rare blend of hands‑on engineering, product innovation and M&A expertise focused on value creation for B2B IT SMEs.
9 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at IESE Business SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
python9
temp8
nexus7
discounts6
ansible-role5
sonatype4
groovy4
ansible4
storage3
devops2
bash1
Programming languages (7)
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