Senior executive and passionate entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience successfully building and managing businesses within technology applied to the improvement of health systems, he has focused in the past decade on driving technology to change healthcare and improve the overall patient experience across the globe, leveraging cross-border investment & development initiatives in North America, Europe, Latam Middle East, and APAC. Ricardo has proven strength in leading operations of complex enterprise software and service businesses within Fortune 500 companies among other successful technology market leaders.

He has been involved in medical informatics research for over 15 years. He has published more than 120 scientific publications, cited 2048 times and has H-index 23, and he has been reviewer and editor for several scientific journals. Dr. Fernandez-Luque has been leading dozens of digital health projects and implementations across the globe, including collaborations with research institutions such as Norut (Norway), Tech University of Valencia (Spain), Harvard Medical School (USA) and Qatar Computing Research Institute, and has supervised international students and research visitors.

Industrial Engineer (University of Seville, Spain) with a specialization in Industry Organization, at the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería in Seville (Spain) and two years at Technische Universität Graz (Austria). Executive MBA in one and a half-year program and a Marie Curie PhD. in the field of Commercialization of service innovation in the University of Southern Denmark in the context of Cancer Connected Healt