Mobile World Capital Barcelona adds three new recruits to boost its industrial project

April 8, 2013

Mobile World Capital Barcelona has added three new people to its team with the aim of boosting its industrial programme, named Mobile World Hub. These three people will hold key positions in the Hub projects in the fields of health (mHealth), the economic impact on the territory (Cluster), and the social inclusion of mobile technologies (m4all).

The Hub’s mission is to develop a new industrial sector around mobility and transform Barcelona into the world’s leading mobile city.

Joan Cornet, at the head of mHealth

Joan Cornet (@jcornetp) will be the new Director of the mHealth competence centre and, therefore, of all its initiatives. Cornet has had a long career in healthcare. For the last six years, he has been Executive President of the TicSalut Foundation. He was Secretary General of the Generalitat’s Department of Health, the first President of the Hospital Consortium of Catalonia, and also a high-ranking official of the European Commission with various responsibilities in the areas of cooperation and aid to developing countries. He is an industrial engineer, has a degree in Psychology, and was Mayor of Manresa between 1979 and 1987.

Cornet’s main objective will be the growth of the mHealth competence centre. This centre is one of the pillars of the Hub, Mobile World Capital Barcelona’s industrial project, in which various lines of work have been set in motion: the creation of personal health folders allowing personal access to the portability and internationalisation of patient data; the promotion of health and healthy habits by means of mobile devices and the improvement of medical treatment of chronic patients, whereby a two-way channel between patients and the healthcare system is made possible.

Since its creation, mHealth has brought together over 40 participants from the medical field (including mobile phone operators, institutions, medical services, technology, and companies related to safety and personal data protection services).

The m4all and mCluster projects are launched

Mobile World Capital Barcelona has also appointed, as head of mCluster, Ernest Pérez-Mas (@eperezmas), telecommunications engineer with broad experience in sectors related to technology. Pérez-Mas has been Director for Southern Europe of Shoretel and held positions of responsibility in companies such as Avaya Communications, Lucent Technologies, Witness Systems and Alcatel.

Pérez-Mas’s incorporation marks the start of the mCluster project, included in the Hub. mCluster is one of the various services that, from the Hub, will be provided in the different competence centres, in order for them to have an impact on the territory. The goal of mCluster is to detect different types of agents from industry, academia, and professional associations related to the mobile sector to promote alliances between companies and the creation of mobile solutions.

Another addition to the Mobile World Capital Barcelona team is Lluís Miret (@lluismiret), who will head up the m4all Centre. This initiative is committed to making mobile technologies and solutions available to people and will act as a cross-over platform for all of the Hub’s competence centres.

Lluís Miret is an industrial engineer with broad experience in management and development of non-profit organisations. Since 2009, Miret has been Director of the Foundation for the Dignity of Africa and had previously collaborated with the UBUNTU Foundation, chaired by Federico Mayor Zaragoza, ex-general director of UNESCO.

Mobile World Hub

The Hub is a physical space that incorporates all the capabilities and infrastructures related to the development of Mobile World Capital mobile solutions. The Hub will be situated in the MediaTIC building in the 22@ Barcelona technological district and will be the headquarters of the Mobile World Capital, as well as GSMA in Barcelona from the second quarter of 2013.