Management Committee

Gradute in Electronic Engineering and Doctor of Telecommunications (Polytechnic University in Valencia, UPV). From 1974 he worked in Biomedical Engineering R&D, focusing on medical instrument design. In 1987, he joined the R&D department at ETRA. In 1998, he created the TSB Reseach Group, "Tecnologías para la Salud y el Bienestar" (Health & Well-being Technologies) at the UPV in order to develop ICT solutions for the fields of health and social integration. In 2000, he co-founded the ITACA Institute within the UPV which later incorporated TSB. As a scientific researcher, he has participated in more than 50 international R&D projects, taking on roles as Project Coordinator and Technical Manager on numerous occasions. He has had more than 80 papers published in Spanish and international journals and lectures at national and international seminars, meetings and conferences. As an entrepreneur, in 1992 he created and, from 1992-1998, was Director of, On Campus Tecnology, a R&D company within the mobile telecommunications sector.
In 2001, he created the company Telehealth, the first technological spin-off company for the Health sector and still in operation today. He is currently Executive Director of Weartech, a company which he founded in 2007 operating in the field of smart textiles and biomedical monitoring. In early 2008, he founded the company TSB, spin-off of the ITACA-TSB group. At present, he is Chief Executive Officer of TSB and coordinator for TSB GROUP, formed by the companies and the Research & Design centre.

Manager and Finanical Director of TSB since its foundation in March 2008.

Master in Design, Manufacture and Management of Industrial Projects and Technical Industrial Engineer (Polytechnic University, Valencia). He also holds a Master’s degree in Electronics, Electrics and Automatics Engineering (Maîtrise d’Electronique Electrotechnique et Automatique) from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris. He has 8 years of experience in project, work-group and financial management in various enterprises. He formed part of the Innova Foundation management team for the Polytechnic University in Valencia, was Financial Coordinator for the Health Area of the ITACA Association as well as an idependent consultant for several companies.

In July 2008, after more than nine years experience in international telecommunication industry and new technologies, Serafín joined TSB as Marketing and Sales Director.

He graduated from the University of Granada in Electronic Engineering and wrote his thesis at the Tecnical University of Vienna, Austria. He also has an Executive Master’s in Business Administration. As regards his professional experience, he spent six years working for Siemens AG in Austria, participating in many international projects and forums on communications technology, localisation and multimedia. He then went on to represent DS2 (Design of Systems on Silicon), chip vendor leader on powerline comunications, for three years at international organisations and events relating to the telecommunications industry, operators and consumer electricals, forming part of its marketing team and above all, chairing the standardisation group. He has also been a member of and collaborated with several standardisation groups, including the IEEE, ETSI, ITU, CENELEC and IEC, EMC expert at Spanish national committee and with industry forums (DSL-Forum, OMA, GSMA, UPnP, HGI, etc.)

Production Manager at TSB since its foundation in March 2008.

He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). He then spent over a year working for ONO, the cable operator, in Valencia, in the deployment of pilot applications relating to telemedicine, tele-education and teleadministration over the operator’s broadband network. In September 2001 he joined Tecnologías para la Salud y el Bienestar (TSB), part of the UPV's ITACA Institute, where he worked as coordinator of the Wireless Tecnologies Department. His work focused on the application of wireless communications technologies and mobile devices within the health sector, as well as participating in national and international R&D projects, both publicly funded and in collaboration with private businesses and hospitals.

He joined TSB in March 2008 as Quality Manager.

He is an IT Engineer and University Specialist in Declarative Programming and Software Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Since 1998, he has worked as a software analyst at several companies (ACERALIA, INGELECTRIC TM) and, in 2002, joined the ITACA Institute’s Health & Well-being Technologies Department. Here he worked on European projects within the Fifth and Sixth Framework Programmes, as well as on some national projects. From 2003 to 2006 he coordinated the Knowledge Management research area and focused on such technologies as Ontolgies, Intelligent Agents, Business Process Management, etc., and their application as health and well-being solutions. From 2006 to 2008, he oversaw the Software Development branch, applying methodolgies that would ensure the quality of each process.

Telecommunication Engineer (2002) and PhD candidate on Communications by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. He held in 2005 one of the prestigious Torres Quevedo grants offered by the Education and Science Ministry of Spain to young researchers. He has participated in different EU projects in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Program in the European VI Framework Program. He has a lot of experience in national projects related to the transference of research background into real products in the field of ICT's applied to social services and health care. His research in focused on the development of the paradigm of Ambient Intelligence, through the definition of standard architectures, seamless integration of devices, communications and intelligent software, in particular focused on the development of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) concept. It is worth to mention his deep involvement in the technical management of PERSONA European project and the Coordination of CIAMI eInclusion Living Lab in Valencia.

Riccardo Serafin received the M.S. degree from Politecnico di Milano (IT) in Computer Engineering, and from University of Illinois (USA) in Computer Science, both in 2003. In 2004 he specialized in Software Engineer and software development methodologies, receiving a 2nd level Master degree in ITC from Cefriel – Politecnico di Milano. Since 1997 he has been working for and with healthcare companies, like Laboraf, the clinical analysis laboratory of San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, one of the leading private hospital in Italy. From 2005 to 2008 he was a Researcher at the Scientific Institute H. San Raffaele, IT (HSR), where he participated to the FP6 PIPS Project with the role of technical coordinator for HSR. He also contributed to several others FP6 and FP7 EU Project focusing on the study of novel approaches to the use of ICT in e-health applications. At HSR he acquired detailed knowledge of healthcare information system, focusing on architectures and integration, both in the context of clinical process management and remote patient monitoring. Since September 2008, he is Senior Software Architect at TSB Tecnologias (ES), where is leading the software department in the design and development of e-health applications.

Production and installation responsible at TSB since its foundation in March 2008 and recently designated Supply Chain Manager since July 2011. He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in 2003 at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). He then spent 6 months working for the company Azahar Ingenieria in Valencia, in the development of infrastructure projects both in apartment buildings as in singular buildings as hospitals, hotels, offices, etc. In July 2004 he joined Digital Systems Design Group, and later Health and Wellness Technologies Group both of the UPV's ITACA Institute, where he worked as developer in the Wireless Technologies Department designing and developing electronic systems based in wireless technologies and microcontrollers. In November 2006 he moved to Grenoble to work in the company Microvitae Technologies where he developed several mobile wireless devices for the acquisition of medical signals. At the same time he was co-founder of the company Aversia C.B. where he was in charge of the coordination of installation projects. His work focused in the development, production management and installation of wireless communication technologies and mobile devices within the health sector, as well as participating in national and international R&D projects, both publicly funded and in collaboration with private business and hospitals.