Javier Pascual

Javier Pascual holds a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, with postgraduate studies in Automation and Robotics at EOI. His career has covered electrical engineering and industrial control, technology and innovation management, and business management, and he has taken numerous courses in these areas along the way. From the outset he has worked internationally, holding several executive positions in multinational companies.

In 1981 he began his career at INITEC (Empresa Nacional de Ingeniería y Tecnología), at the time the national leader in its field. There he held several management positions in the technical area, working on the Spanish nuclear power plants of Ascó and Vandellós together with the multinational Westinghouse, which owned the technology and supplied the main systems. He then held several executive positions in Technology and R&D, Marketing and European project management. During this period he also worked for the European Commission auditing European projects and as an expert. He contributed actively to improving the company's efficiency and processes and to its later privatisation, in close collaboration with SEPI (Sociedad Española de Participaciones Industriales), which managed the public holding INITEC then belonged to.

In 1999 he continued his career at the multinational Schneider Electric, holding several executive positions in Spain and, from 2009, at its corporate headquarters. He contributed actively to the company's growth, which in recent years went from 80,000 to nearly 200,000 employees and to revenues of nearly 27 billion euros, integrating many companies acquired during this period. In this stage his work focused on developing solutions and services and on bringing the company closer to the end user, as a complement to its traditional channel approach. He started in Spain as Sales Director for end-user customers and then joined the management committee of its new Global Renewables Business Unit as Vice President of Sales for the EMEAS region. Before leaving the company he was Vice President of Sales for Services Development in the Middle East, Russia and the CIS, and the Nordic countries.

From November 2014 to June 2021 he worked for Yokogawa, the multinational leader in industrial process control, as Managing Director for Spain and Portugal, reporting to the President for Europe. During this period the company went through a deep transformation and modernisation that placed it at the forefront of control and consulting for production. It also set up in Spain its process analyser integration business, supporting the whole European area, and increased its capacity in advanced services and solutions in Spain. Today, after acquiring KBC and Soteica, consulting leaders established in Spain, the company provides consulting in cybersecurity, operational excellence and digitalisation to a range of clients, strengthening its market position and future growth.

Javier Pascual currently works as an independent consultant and is Honorary Chairman of Singular Beacon, contributing his experience both to companies that need it and by teaching courses, masterclasses and lectures in executive and business education.