Santiago has held executive positions in general management, strategy, operations, project finance and M&A at some of the largest European energy firms, having built business from the ground up and developed project pipelines worth $1B+ in multiple countries across the Americas and Europe. He has subsequently developed his career in the AI and Digital Transformation spaces, having spent two years as a researcher in AI at MIT CSAIL and having founded two disruptive startups incubated at MIT. He was an active member of the Blockchain Innovation Group at MIT. 

Santiago holds a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, an MBA from IE Business School, a M.Sc. in Management of Technology from MIT, and a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Madrid. He is an associate professor at graduate courses at the Comillas Pontifical University, EOI and EAFIT and is also a startup mentor at MIT, Yale University and Techstars Boston.