Board of Directors

Mr. Valles joined Scytl in March 2004 after spending most of his professional career in the United States. Prior to joining Scytl, Mr. Valles was Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of GlobalNet, a NASDAQ publicly-traded telecommunications company headquartered in Chicago. Mr. Valles assisted GlobalNet in becoming one of the leading providers of Voice-over-IP in the world and was instrumental in the successful sale of the company to the Titan Corporation, a NYSE defense company.

At GlobalNet, Mr. Valles was responsible for designing and executing the strategic plan that led to an increase in revenues from US$ 25 million to over US$ 100 million and brought the company to profitability. Previously, Mr. Valles had worked as Senior Manager for KPMG's Mergers & Acquisitions group in Los Angeles and Miami providing financial and strategic consulting services to private equity groups and corporations involved in acquisitions in the United States, Latin America and Europe. During his career at KPMG, Mr. Valles actively participated in more than 20 transactions in the telecommunications and technology areas.

Mr. Valles has a bachelor degree in Economics and a bachelor degree in Law from the University of Barcelona and a MBA (summa cum laude) from Indiana University.

Mr. Sarrias joined Scytl as EVP of Sales & Marketing in May 2006, after having spent most of his professional career in Germany. Prior to joining Scytl, Mr. Sarrias was Business Manager at Hewlett-Packard, having responsibility over the OpenView Telecommunications family of software products in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

At Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Sarrias was responsible for designing and executing an international go-to-market plan that led to a sustained increase in revenues of over 30% year over year, being the largest growth ever experienced by this product line.

Previously, Mr. Sarrias worked as Senior Solution Architect at Hewlett-Packard and DaimlerChrysler Information Services, and as Senior Network Project Planner at Amadeus Data Processing, the leading travel reservation provider. Mr. Sarrias has a Masters degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and a MBA from the EAE Business School and the University of Barcelona (UB).

Marc Fratello joined Scytl as part of the acquisition by Scytl of SOE Software where he was the founder, CEO and President.  SOE Software is the leading provider of election management and productivity software solutions in the world.  Marc helped create this industry that brought software productivity systems to election departments to enable them to be more productive and efficient in running elections.  Under his leadership SOE grew from inception to a company with over 1,400 US customers in 30 states in approximately 8 years.

Prior to founding SOE, Marc was founder and CEO of PowerCerv Corporation, an ERP/CRM software company that was the first to integrate both front and back office management systems and provide those solutions to manufacturers worldwide.  Marc took PowerCerv public (Nasdaq) in 1996 and raised $52,000,000 in a very successful and oversubscribed public offering.  PCRV was later sold in 2002.

Marc received accolades from Inc. Magazine as Entrepreneur of the Year for Florida in 1996 and from Deloitte and Touche for having the second fastest growing company in Florida over a 5 year period.   Marc received a BS degree from Franklin and Marshall College and a MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Carles leads the Enterprise Software/Security investment vertical for Nauta. Carles is based in London. Carles has extensive Venture Capital experience, having actively managed different VC funds since year 2000. Carles’ areas of interest include Security, SaaS, Marketing/Social Analytics/Intelligence and Critical-data driven companies. Carles was previously Director of Riva y Garcia’s Venture Capital Division where he led a portfolio buy-out of the Security software investments.
His previous experience includes also management positions in corporate strategy and planning/finance divisions with blue chip companies in the telecommunications, defence/SW/auto spaces and financial services, such as TRW (acquired by Northrop Grumman), Auna Group/Retevision (acquired by France Telecom and ONO) and Ernst & Young.
Carles is very much present in the entrepreneurial/VC ecosystem as active Board member, judge or panelist in leading events such as the Global Security Challenge, The European Tech Tour, The European Venture Contest, SeedCamp, and the IBM SmartCamp, among others.
He holds a Business Administration degree from Universitat de Barcelona, Graduate Programme in International Management from Harvard University and an MBA from SDA Bocconi (Milan, Italy). Carles sits in the board of leading young technology companies as Scytl (Secure Electronic Voting), Brandwatch (Social media monitoring), Agnitio (Voice Biometrics), Abiquo (Cloud Management), Getapp (Workspace for SaaS applications), iJento (Multichannel Customer Intelligence) and Basekit (Saas web builder for SMEs).

Bernard Liautaud founded Business Objects in 1990 and was CEO for 15 years then Chairman until January 2008. With 6,700 employees, 45,000 customers and $1.5 billion of revenue in 2007, Business Objects was the world leader in Business Intelligence and one of the 15 largest software companies in the world. Business Objects was the first European software IPO on Nasdaq in 1994. In January 2008, Business Objects was acquired by SAP for $6.8 billion, making it the third largest software acquisition at the time. Bernard is now a member of the SAP Supervisory Board and its strategy committee. He is also a member of Cap Gemini’s board and its strategy committee. He has received a number of distinctions including “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2007 in France, Time Magazine Europe’s Digital Top 25 and BusinessWeek Stars of Europe of 2002, Top 10 CEOs in North America by Chief Executive Magazine in 2001. Education: Diplôme d’Ingénieur, Ecole Centrale de Paris, and Master of Science, Engineering Management, Stanford University.

Graduate in Business Administration and Management and MBA from ESADE Business School, CEMS (Community of European Management Schools) Master’s Degree in Management from the HEC – Hautes Études Commerciales (Paris, France). He joined RIVA Y GARCÍA in March 2001. Prior to this he worked in the financial department of Inlander Communications, an Internet provider company and consultancy firm in new technologies. He has also worked in the marketing department of various companies, such as Hilti and Antonio Puig. Since joining Riva y García he has worked on the analysis and evaluation of business projects in various sectors, with particular emphasis on the audiovisual and entertainment industry, in wholesale/retail sectors and in traditional industrial companies. He has been directly involved in investment operations and in monitoring different investee companies as a member of their Board of Directors.

Peter Holmes joined Scytl’s Board of Directors as an independent director after retiring from a successful career with Accenture. He spent the last 12 years with Accenture where he was Managing Director for Public Service – Europe, Africa & Latin America in which he was responsible for overseeing 17 countries with revenues in excess of $1 billion and over 5,000 professionals. Prior to Accenture, Mr. Holmes spent 19 years with Sema Group (now Atos) in which he became Managing Director of their UK systems integration and consulting business and a board director of their global outsourcing business.

Peter is a director of Intellect, the UK trade association representing 750 member companies in the information technology, telecommunications and electronics sector. Since April 2008 he is also the chair of its Operations Board. He is a Non-Executive Member of the Insolvency Service Executive Agency Board in the United Kingdom and a trustee of Shaw Trust a charity which supports disabled and disadvantaged people.