TAURUM Technologies is an innovative and long-term visionary firm dedicated to the conception, development, international protection, and commercialisation of highly valuable world-changing inventions. Taurum & sister companies own and manage 3 international patent families.
Inventions patented
SpinSwitch®
the Rotary Rail Switch
A new fast and widely applicable rail/track switching mechanism to improve traditional railway switching, to boost passenger capacities in roller coasters, and to facilitates the definitive implementation of revolutionary transport solutions.
www.spinswitch.tech
ThumbRay®
the Skin-touching EM Sensing Wearable
A novel skin-touching electromagnetic sensing wearable data-input device to allow full-range texting and screen-selecting with only one hand, integration of keyboard, mouse and keypad into one single device, elimination of on-screen keyboards in mobile phones, and biometrical user customization.
www.thumbray.tech
Bindu®
the Bindi Holder
A simple device arranged on a supporting object (e.g. eyewear) to facilitate convenient, harmless and customizable sporting of a wide range of interchangeable inwards / outwards oriented bindis for beutification, social identification and/or healing purposes.
Intellectual Property
IP Portfolio
Intellectual Property rights held and managed by Taurum Technologies and sister companies comprise 4 trademarks and a substantial patent portfolio of 3 granted European Patents, 3 positive PCTs, and several dozens of national patents granted:
About our IP assets
All regional patents (European Patents) and global patenting procedures (PCT) have been examined by the EPO (European Patent Office). Our patents are regularly maintained (annuities paid every year) and have a validity period of 20 years since first filing. A majority of our patents, patent rights and trademarks are owned by Taurum Technologies and/or one of its sister companies.
About patents in general
The Company
an innovative and long-term visionary firm committed to the creation of world-changing inventions
Taurum Technologies provides support in the creation, funding, and managing of diverse innovation entrepreneurship based on patented innovations. It is currently parenting startups Spinswitch Technologies and Thumbray Technologies.
Talent Force
This innovation venture has become a reality thanks to the excellent work of a smart international team of talent: a selective worldwide spread set of independent lawyers, engineers, accountants and creative professionals which have been coordinated by the firm’s CEO, in turn supported and guided by a solid advisory board.
Daniel has been a multinational executive for around two decades, leading as CEO / Managing Director complex turnaround transformations of fairly sized building-materials and industrial-services businesses located in Europe, Asia and South America. He has worked with permanent residency in countries with highly diverse cultures, religions, languages, and levels of macroeconomic maturity such as Spain, France, Bangladesh, Germany, Malaysia and Peru. His global professional experience has been complemented with a demanding academic trajectory (Engineering Degree, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, MBA at INSEAD, PhD studies, …), an intense top-competitive sports life (24 caps with Spain’s National Senior Rugby team), and a strong interest in envisioning the future and seeking disruptive innovations (inventor behind 3 patent families comprising 80 national patents). As of today, apart from managing some investment projects in Latin America and casual teaching of strategic and business management as master’s university professor, Daniel is fundamentally engaged with his innovation ventures Taurum, Spinswitch, and Thumbray Technologies.
Advisory Board
We are endorsed and counselled by a solid international panel of non-executive advisors comprising relevant strategists, executives, entrepreneurs, scientists and academics.
The joint expertise of this extraordinary board covers not only a wide and rich span of wisdom but also an extensive worldwide footprint of influence.
Mr. José Luis Sáenz de Miera
Former Board Member at global headquarters of CEMEX, one of the largest building materials companies in the world and where he held the positions of President & CEO of Cemex Southern Europe, Africa, Middle East & Asia, CEO of Cemex Spain and Vice-President of Finance & Administration at Valenciana de Cementos. Along his intense professional life, he also became Chairman and CEO of Group Cementos Portland Valderrivas, Board Member of Nueva Pescanova, and Partner – in charge of Audit – at KPMG Spain. He holds a degree in Economic Sciences by the Complutense University of Madrid. Nowadays, he makes use of his vast international executive experience and wisdom to provide consulting and advisory services to miscellaneous businesses, institutions, investors and entrepreneurs.
Dr. Kimio Kase
Ex-President and Professor Emeritus at the International University of Japan (IUJ). Former professor at Chinese Beijing Normal University, at Japanese Ritsumeikan University, and faculty member (on leave) at Spanish IESE Business School. He earned his DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) from Manchester University, and his MBA from IESE Business School. With extensive corporate experience in the fields of Global Trade and Management, he initiated his international career working for a Japanese global trading house, where he specialized in Industrial Marketing. He later took top executive positions in Spain as Director of Price Waterhouse Coopers Europe, and as Partner in a headhunting firm. He also served the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. Professor Kase has written and published – in English, Spanish and Japanese – numerous scientific articles and books on strategy and management. One recent solid success is his co-authorship of “The Nonaka Series of Knowledge and Innovation” (Ed. Palgrave Macmillan). Currently, his major areas of academic interest are Corporate-level Strategy, Strategic Management, Strategic Planning, Knowledge Management, and Sports Management.
Amb. José Ramón Barañano
He has served abroad as Ambassador of Spain to India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, and as Head of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassies in Morocco, Austria and Ecuador. At the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was Ambassador for International Environmental Affairs, Inspector General and Deputy Director-General for Bilateral Economic Relations. He was also Director-General of Fisheries at the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and was board member of several companies such as CESCE (Spanish Export Insurance Company), MERCASA (Spanish Food Wholesaler), DEFEX (Defense Promotion and Export) and CETARSA (Tobacco processing and commercialisation). He holds a degree in International Studies from the Spanish Diplomatic School, a Postgraduate Certificate in High European Studies from the Belgian College of Europe, and a BA (with Hons) in Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Currently, he is international business advisor at miscellaneous American, European and Asian industrial and technological firms.
PhD. Aynur Ünal
Highly reputed scientist, educator, academician and innovation booster. Fulbright Scholar and price-winning Engineering professor at STANFORD University, where she earned her PhD in Engineering & Applied Mathematics, where she founded and created the curricula for Stanford’s Acoustics Institute using research funds from NASA Ames, and where, at Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health in collaboration with UCLA Medical School and IIT Guwahati’s Centre for Nanotechnology, led relevant research projects using AI in bio-sensing and early-health diagnostics to prevent Salmonella infections, lung diseases, gastric cancers, autism and Alzheimer. Former Dean of Engineering & Technology at ANSAL/Sushant University in India. Assignee and inventor of several patents on collaborative planning, field where her works are considered to have been crucial in the creation of instant secure encrypted communication and collaboration software using internet protocols for B2B applications and complex supply chains. Co-founder (and current technological leader) of Digital Monozukuri, an engine for open innovation focused on Smart Systems and e-Services based on AI, AR-VR & Gamification. Along her career, she has taken executive design/manufacturing and IT management roles at Siemens, LSI Logic and Flextronics and has co-founded, developed and directed several American and British startups (E2OPEN, Saqqara Systems, Data Reliability, Imjack/Amteus..). Currently, she completes her intense innovation activities focused, among others, on revolutionary sustainable health-caring digital systems, wearable devices and bio materials, with works as strategic advisor to universities in USA, India and Japan and to technological ventures InfoSec Global, NaquiLogix and Taurum Technologies.
Eduardo G. Hernández
Board Member Director / Advisor in FMCG, Finance, Marketing and NGO sectors. Current COO of Latin America at Coca-Cola FEMSA (publicly traded KOF, largest franchise Coca-Cola bottler in the world), with full responsibility over the results of operations in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina. Within KOF, he also took the positions of Strategy Director and of Director of New Businesses, being instrumental in the successful creation and development of emerging product categories and in the significant M&A growth of the group. He was also CEO of the Food, Beverage & Dairy Division of multinational Grupo Gloria where he led more than 10’000 employees and managed a complex worldwide exporting conglomerate that comprised operations in 7 countries of North America and South America and generated over $ 2B of revenues. Before Grupo Gloria, he served Empresas Polar taking several top executive positions such as Marketing Director Malt Beverage, International Business Director Beer & Malt Beverage, Business Director Beer & Wine, and Business Unit Manager Corn Flour, Oats & Powder Beverage. In sum, Eduardo accumulates 30 years of executive positions within FMCG Industries based in LATAM and US, period during which he has led and executed 2 crucial turnarounds and 4 major acquisitions. He also holds an MBA by Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), a Certificate in Marketing, Administration & Management by Harvard University, and a B.A. by Universidad Metropolitana.
Jorge Pérez de Leza
Jorge is CEO of Metrovacesa since 2016. With over €2.5 billion of assets under management, Metrovacesa is a leading real estate developer in Spain, representing one of the highest valued and most attractive land banks in the country. Jorge joined Metrovacesa to reorganise the company and relaunch its property development activity after the economic crisis in Spain, leading the company’s IPO in 2018. Previously, he worked 12 years as top executive director at Grupo LAR, first as Head of Europe (managing all European operations including Germany, France, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Hungary and the Baltic States) and then as Head of Spain, holding full responsibility over €1’000 million of assets under management and assuming a key role in the IPO and subsequent growth of LAR España REIT. Before Grupo Lar, he was COO of Excite@Home Europe (broadband internet access and multimedia content creation), Managing Director & Partner of Fun & Basics (fashion clothing, footwear and accessories), and Manager at Boston Consulting Group (BCG, global management consulting). Jorge has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management from ICAI Engineering School, at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. He is also Founder and President of Fundación Deporte y Desafío (NGO Sport & Challenge Foundation).
Arch. Guillermo García de Polavieja
Partner and Technical Director at TMA, Head for Sustainable Transport at SBA Consultores, and Co-founder & Chairman of consulting group G5 Expertos Ambientales. His experience comprises two decades of professional practice as environmental consultant in Transportation, Acoustics and Sustainable Planning. Worked as environmental expert for the European Union and consulted for the Madrid Municipality taking responsibility for the Madrid 2nd Strategic Plan for Noise Abatement. Committee Member at Rugby Europe and Directive Executive at the Spanish Rugby Federation. Licensed Architect and Urban Planner by the Madrid School of Architecture, with degrees in Conservation and Restoration of Architectural and Urban Heritage, Building Acoustics, Urban Environment and Airport Planning. Author of multiple technical articles and papers related to environmental noise, impact assessment and environmental planning. Lecturer at various regular graduate and professional courses. Earner of a Career Discovery Scholarship at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
JD. Cristina Cazorla
Ms. Cazorla has been serving the U.S. Department of Commerce in Spain for over two decades, where she currently holds the role of International Commercial Trade Specialist, controller and budgeting expert. She has a degree in Law by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Before joining the Embassy of the United States of America in Madrid, she spent six years intensively working at the historical and highly reputed Díaz-Arias Spanish law firm, where she ended up taking full responsibility over the editorial coordination and general management of “Gaceta Fiscal“, the Spanish Tax & Legal magazine with the largest print run in the country.
