FOR GROWING BUSINESSES · AI-FIRST EXECUTION

Your AI pilots aren't moving the P&L. I make them.

Former CTIO & Chief Product Officer, Hotelbeds Group (HBX) · Operator in Cinven, CPPIB & Platinum Equity portfolios · CIO of the Year — CIONET 2018

Most companies are stuck in AI experiments that never reach the bottom line. I deploy senior technology leadership in under two weeks and turn AI ambition into operating reality — backed by platforms run at scale, carve-outs and real cost take-out.

€20M+

Annual savings delivered

50%

Platform cost reduction

< 2 wk

Time to deploy

What I Do

From AI Ambition to Operating Reality

Clear scope. Defined timeline. Measurable outcomes.

AI Strategy → P&L Impact

Move AI out of scattered pilots and into measurable profit — a 30/60/90 plan with SDLC guardrails and a clear value case, deployed within two weeks, not slideware.

Agentic Delivery & Productivity

Agentic SDLC that lifts developer output and time-to-market while keeping cost, security and vendor lock-in firmly under control.

The Foundation Growth Needs

Cloud modernisation and operating-model redesign so the platform can actually carry AI and scale with you — €8B+ of platform revenue says it works.

I also work with Revamp Advisors, a boutique advisory company alongside other high-profile ex-CIOs.

Operator-Proven at Scale

What Operating It Actually Looks Like

AI ambition is easy to declare. The proof is in the operating layer underneath it — the workforce redesigns, platform migrations, carve-outs and cost take-outs I have actually delivered at scale.

Technology Stack

GenAI & LLMs Agentic AI / Multi-Agent RAG & Vector DBs LangChain / LlamaIndex Model Context Protocol (MCP) Fine-tuning & RLHF MLOps / LLMOps AI Evals & Guardrails Agentic SDLC / AI Copilots AWS · Azure · GCP Databricks & Snowflake Kubernetes Python DevSecOps

Sectors

Travel & Hospitality

Hotelbeds Group, Awaze/TUI

Financial Services

Lloyds Banking Group

Media & Broadcasting

BT Sport

Industrial & Testing

SGS

Engagement Models

Three Ways to Work Together

Fractional / Interim Executive

Part-time or full-time technology leadership for 3–9 months.

Advisory Project

Focused 4–12 week engagement with defined scope and deliverables.

Leadership Coaching

One-to-one coaching for technology leaders navigating transformation.

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Álvaro de Nicolás

Álvaro de Nicolás

Private equity-grade technology execution. Carve-outs, post-merger integrations, and AI-enabled operating models.

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